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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Trump’s Battle With The WSJ Over Epstein Issue Might Be Prolonged
By Sushil Kutty Scandals and US President Donald Trump are buddies. Problem is, if only Trump didn’t have so many skeletons! One or the other skeleton keeps tumbling out of a Trump cupboard. And most if not all involve trouble with ‘woman’ or ‘woman trouble’. Who doesn’t know of...
PM Narendra Modi’s Durgapur Rally Failed To Energise Bengal BJP
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi sounding poll bugle for 2026 Assembly polls in West Bengal at his Durgapur rally on Friday turned out to be a feeble call. While he spoke of Bengali “asmita” (pride) in his 34-minute address to stoke the Bengali sentiment for BJP,...
Gulf States In Central Asia And The Caucasus: Pragmatism Redrawing The Map
By M A Hossain It is easy to overlook the quiet revolutions in geopolitics, especially when the headlines are dominated by wars in Ukraine and Gaza, tensions in the Indo-Pacific, or the perennial drama of U.S.-China rivalry. Yet, beneath the surface of global power struggles, there is a subtler...
INDIA Bloc Has To Give Sole Focus On Assembly Polls In Bihar By Year End
By Nitya Chakraborty The INDIA Bloc constituents are finally meeting in New Delhi on Saturday, July 19 to discuss the strategy for the monsoon session of the Parliament beginning on July 21 as also an assessment of the developments in the country including increasing threat to the electoral democracy...
BRICS Bloc Members Have To Jointly Challenge Trump’s Tariff Threat On Them
By Prakash Karat The 17th BRICS Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro on July 6-7, the first summit with the expanded membership of eleven countries. Soon after, US President Trump threatened to impose 10 per cent tariffs on those countries that align with BRICS. Earlier too, Trump had...
Politics Hots Up In West Bengal Over Bangladeshi And Bengali Muslims
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election Commission of India’s ongoing voter list clean-up drive in Bihar coupled with rounding up of Bengali speaking Muslims by BJP ruled states and locking them up in detention centres or pushing them into Bangladesh at gunpoint has generated a considerable political heat in West...
Why Modi Govt’s Boasting About Income Equality In India Is Erroneous?
By Prabhat Patnaik The World Bank has recently published a list of Gini coefficients for 61 countries relating in some cases to income distribution and in others to consumption expenditure distribution. In that list India had the fourth lowest Gini coefficient in 2022, on the basis of which the...
Tamil Nadu Politics Is Hotting Up With AIADMK-BJP Challenging DMK Led Front
By Sushil Kutty For the time being Tamil Nadu has set aside the issues of ‘three-language’ and ‘delimitation’ on the backburner. The focus is on alliances or the lack thereof. But with the 2026 assembly elections up for grabs, the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is weighed down by anti-incumbency,...
After 20 Years As CM, Nitish Kumar Is Being Called The King Of Jungle Raj
By Arun Srivastava A change of power is yet to take place, a mahagathbandhan government is still waiting in the wings to occupy the centre stage, but to the chagrin of the people of the state, jungle raj has already descended in Nitish Kumar’s Bihar. This negates the myth...
LJP Leader Chirag Paswan Meets J P Nadda And Discusses Bihar Situation
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political activity in Bihar is soaring high as Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan met BJP president J P Nadda on 17 July and discussed the current political situation in the poll-bound Bihar. In a post on X, Paswan...
Not Legislation, But Harmony And Secularism Can Prevent Blasphemy
By Dr. Arun Mitra Blasphemy means making statements that oppose or insult God, deities, religious symbols, sacred things, or beliefs—statements which are generally considered wrong according to religious norms. Historically, every religion has defined blasphemy in its own way. Incidents of blasphemy have always occurred, but in recent years,...
South African Communist Party Will Contest Solo In 2026 National Elections
By Sabina Price LONDON: Deeming the African National Congress’s electoral strategies as beyond the pale, the South African Communist Party has committed itself to a new strategy. The Tripartite Alliance, born out of the struggle for national liberation which saw the alliance members fight side by side to end...
U.S. Supreme Court Is Being Used By Trump To Implement His MAGA Agenda
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: In a landmark but largely silent move, the U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for former President Donald Trump to dismantle the Department of Education, terminate thousands of federal employees, and slash funding to states — all without providing a single word of...
World Organization Against Torture Flags India As “High Risk” Country
By Edgar Kaiser, Grace Anu Backia This year has proven to be a sobering one for the Indian police with several reports revealing their unconstitutional and torturous attitude. The Status of Policing in India report 2025 put forth an alarming data about the police officers’ stand on torture. As...
Latest PLFS Data For June 2025 Shows Worsening Labour Market
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s labour market has undergone deterioration in June 2025. Unemployment rate in current weekly status (CWS) for the person above the age of 15 years was shown in the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of the government of India at 5.6 per cent, Labour Force...
Dark Clouds Hover Over The Future Of Electoral Democracy In India
By P. Sudhir ‘Foreigners Found on Bihar Rolls, Says EC; INDIA Questions Data’ – screamed the lead headline on the front page of a major national daily. It appeared to be simply unbelievable. The timeline for the Special Intensive Revision, as laid out by the Election Commission of India...
The Illusion Of Inclusion: What India’s Fintech Revolution Leaves Behind
By R. Suryamurthy India has long been celebrated as a global trailblazer in financial inclusion. From biometric identity systems to mobile-enabled digital payments, we’ve built infrastructure at a scale and speed that few countries can rival. According to the World Bank’s Global Findex Database 2021, 78 percent of Indian...
British PM Keir Starmer Plunges Labour Party Into Crisis As He Axes Four Rebels
By Andrew Murray LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer suspended four left Labour MPs from the party whip on Tuesday night in a desperate attempt to restore his floundering and diminished authority. Brian Leishman, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Rachael Maskell and Chris Hinchcliffe will now sit as independent MPs. Left MP...
