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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.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Balancing Of QUAD And SCO Summits In September Will Be A Tricky Task
By Nitya Chakraborty India-China bilateral relations have started showing cautious improvement with the signals from both the leaderships of the two biggest countries of Asia that they are keen to restore normal political and economic ties. Indian external affairs minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s meeting with the Chinese President Xi...
Trump Message To New Delhi As Trade Talks Progress: Bend Or Be Broken
By K Raveendran The Trump administration’s twin-pronged approach to force India into granting greater trade concessions marks a new and particularly aggressive phase in the ongoing trade talks. It combines the threat of punitive economic measures with geopolitical pressure, making the situation deeply precarious for New Delhi. At the...
India’s Crucial Oil Imports From Russia Can Now Be Hit By Widening Ukraine War
By Anjan Roy India will in all possibility face a new tariff from the United States of as high as 100% as Trump’s new policy to stop Russia’s Ukraine war. An economic tool, tariffs are now caught up in Donald Trump’s geo-economics. Countries buying oil from Russia are now...
India Ranks 99th In The UN SDG Index 2025, Not On Track On 15 Out Of 17 Targets
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Against the boasting of the ruling establishment of India led by PM Narendra Modi about its world ranking in wealth and equality fourth in each, the SDG Index 2025 of the United Nations ranks this country as 99th in the World, and is out of...
Grand Mufti Of India Musliyar Stops Execution Of Nimisha Priya For The Time Being
By Sushil Kutty Two stories hit the news cycle on July 16. Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya’s execution in Yemen, scheduled for July 16, has been postponed. And the newly released NCERT history book for Class 8 has nothing good to say about the ‘Delhi Sultanate’ and the ‘Mughal’. Both...
Trump’s 50-Day Ultimatum: Ukraine Ceasefire Or A New Trap?
By M A Hossain Donald Trump once campaigned on ending the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. He promised to bring an end to the proxy war with Russia, leveraging his self-proclaimed ‘Dealmaking’ skills. Yet, halfway into July, what we see instead is a new escalation dressed up as...
On The Voter List Revision In Bihar, Has The ECI Forgotten Its Duty?
By Prakruthi Jain Bihar is gearing up for the State Assembly elections to be held in November 2025. The Election Commission of India’s (‘ECI’) move to revise the voter list at the eleventh hour raises serious concerns about the accessibility of participation in the upcoming polls for the ordinary...
Britain’s New Left Party’s Polling Data Is A Wake-Up Call For Ruling Labour
By Ben Chacko LONDON: If Keir Starmer’s stumbling government needed a further wake-up call, the latest opinion poll should provide it. It shows Labour’s support at a historic low of just 15 per cent. That is no more than the share secured by the as-yet unlaunched new party of...
Centre’s Contempt For Federalism Is Evident From Treatment By Police Of J&K Chief Minister
By Dr. Gyan Pathak One day after the “locking down” of the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir Omar Abdullah, his cabinet ministers, his party National Conference legislators, along with leader from the PDP, People’s Conference, and J&K Apni Party in their homes to prevent them from paying homage...
Assam’s BJP Chief Minister Has Launched A Communal Crusade In North East
By Krishna Jha There is little doubt the Bharatiya Janata Party government led by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is determined to turn Assam into a communally torn state. The state has been witnessing a systematic persecution of Muslims. Although the attack and harassment of minorities has become a...
Journalist Framed In Bihar For Exposing The Dubious Designs Of The ECI
By Arun Srivastava Election Commission of India, the constitutional body, will not tolerate any kind of rationale criticism of its erratic functioning and non-conforming approach to the constitutional provisions would not be tolerated by it. A strong message to this effect was conveyed to the journalists on Monday by...
Beleaguered Democratic Party Regrouping Again To Take On Trump In Local Elections
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Why are democrats in USA still sulking in the shadows whining and not gotten over the shock defeat of Ms. Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential elections when her rival Trump stole the democrats’ voter bases and not satiated them yet on their...
Islamophobic And Capitalist Diatribe Against Mamdani Underline His Challenge In November Polls
By Asad Mirza Zohran Mamdani’s candidature as the Democratic candidate for the New York City’s next mayor has surely ruffled feathers and has also exposed the Islamophobic and capitalist nature of the establishment, and its influence on the American society. Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in the Democratic mayoral primary...
India’s Aluminium Producing Units To Invest US$ 5 Billion To Build 20gw Renewable Energy Capacity By 2030
By Kunal Bose India, the world’s second largest aluminium maker with production in 2024 rising marginally to 4.2m tonnes from 4.16m tonnes in the previous year, is already a big producer of hydropower with large new capacity periodically getting commissioned. But for logistical reasons that renewable energy is not...
BJP’s Woo-Christians Strategy Falls Flat In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s much-hyped political strategy to woo the Christian population in Kerala has fallen flat in the face of strong opposition from within the community. That the opportunistic strategy has not been to the liking of the community was clear from the very...
Centrism In Democratic Party Establishment Is Too Weak A Weapon Now To Fight Trump’s Actions
By Brandon Chew NEW YORK: The reaction from many to Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary has been hyperbolic to say the least. Mamdani, a member of Democratic Socialists of America, has promised a 2% tax on the wealthiest 1% of New Yorkers, an...
How To Revisit The Human Angle In Data Driven Space Governance?
By Harsh Gour A recent academic paper in Acta Astronautica, “The protection of AI-based space systems from a data-driven governance perspective,” authored by Giovanni Tricco and eleven others attempts to tackle a complex and timely topic: how our existing legal frameworks must adapt to be more autonomous, when it...
Indian Trade Unions Need To Reform Themselves To Remain Relevant
By Nantoo Banerjee Trade unionism seems to have lost focus in India. It has failed to reform itself to keep pace with economic reforms and globalisation, and changing job scenarios. It is also facing the biggest leadership crisis. The poor public and industry response to the nationwide strike call...
