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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.Rahul Gandhi Has Emerged As An Effective Leader Of Opposition In Last One Year
By Kalyani Shankar Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been the Leader of the Opposition (LOP) for one year now. In this role, he plays a significant part in India’s Parliament. He holds the government accountable and speaks for the people’s views. Although the LOP role is not in the...
Narendra Modi Government And Election Commission Working In Tandem
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All circumstanced and the manner in which the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Roll in Bihar is being carried out suggest that the Union Government led by PM Narendra Modi and the Election Commission of India (ECI) are aligning together. BJP has been claiming...
Trump Faces Revolt From His Young MAGA Supporters Of Florida Over Epstein Files
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump faces a revolt from a MAGA base he created in Tampa in Florida. The ghost of the Jeffrey Epstein files and Clients list has come back to haunt him. The weekend was dominated by news of FBI number 02...
Election Commission Giving No Credence To Supreme Court Request For Accepting Aadhaar
By Arun Srivastava Apprehensions have come true. Supreme Court not staying further execution of SIR in Bihar and reluctant to direct the ECI to include Aadhaar, EPIC (Electoral Photo Identity Card) and the ration card as voter IDs has conjured it go ahead with its beseeched design to disenfranchise...
Who Is Responsible For The Proposed Hanging Of Nimisha Priya In Yemeni Jail?
By Sushil Kutty Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya has lost her tryst with life. There’s “nothing much India can do”, the Modi government told the Supreme Court of India on July 14 at the risk of one more “surrender” laid at the door of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is...
China Ready To Meet Trump’s Tariff Threat Through Tech Driven Aluminium Production
By Kunal Bose China whose annual production of primary aluminium routinely well exceeds the metal’s combined output in the rest of the world has in place a comprehensive ‘Action Plan’ for the white metal covering 2025-27. But in order to support production, the country is required to import large...
BRICS 2025 Declaration Expressed Concern Over Growing Nuclear Threat And Conflict
By Dr Arun Mitra Several important developments have emerged from the recently concluded BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On July 6 and 7.Although U.S. President Donald Trump expressed strong displeasure over the summit — even calling it a conspiracy to end the dominance of the U.S. dollar....
Election Commission’s Constitutional Mandate Is Not All-Pervasive
By K Raveendran The most important takeaway from the Supreme Court’s stand on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar’s electoral rolls is a reminder that while the Election Commission of India (ECI) has the constitutional authority to take all necessary steps to ensure free and fair elections, it...
Bhagwat Not In Mood To Spare Modi Sangh’s ‘Retirement At 75’ Policy
By Arun Srivastava One of the worst-kept secrets in Indian politics, the crack that has jolted the saffron ecosystem, that of the war of supremacy between RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which has been the source of an existential crisis for the Sangh Parivar, has...
Union Home Ministry Is Carrying A Witch Hunt Against Bengali Speaking Muslims
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India has been struggling with the issues of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar for years. Most desirable solution is that the illegal immigrants should be sent back to their countries. It is the national perspective. There is nothing wrong in it. However, there are...
Mohan Bhagwat’s Suggestion On Retirement At 75 Will Have No Impact On Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat turning 75 is dogging Prime Minister Narendra Modi turning 75 except that if anybody’s dogging anybody, it is Prime Minister Modi who is younger than Bhagwat by a few days apart. But if anybody’s dogging anybody then it is Bhagwat for whom...
Trump’s Justice Department Plans To Denaturalise 20 Million Citizens
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DoJ) plans to denaturalize citizens on grounds of fraud in acquiring citizenship, criminal acts or such background and hiding facts in filing papers has led to uncertainties of residency permanency in over 20 million naturalized citizens’, while legal...
Donald Trump Ups Global Mineral Arms Race With Africa Summit
By Green Nigel Donald Trump’s summit with leaders of mineral-rich African nations this week marks a dramatic escalation in the global race for rare and critical minerals — a shift that carries major consequences for investors. The US president’s move to recast relations as “aid to trade” highlights a...
Chin Refugees Fleeing From Myanmar Create Security Risk In Mizoram Border
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Mizoram has received a flood of Chin refugees. It is a reminder that India’s eastern borders can no longer be left to the whims of foreign instability. Intense clashes between two armed groups namely People’s Defence Forces (PDF) and Chin National Defence Forces (CNDF) in...
Indian Foreign Policy Under Narendra Modi Is In Shambles
By Prakash Karat The infamy that the Narendra Modi government’s foreign policy has earned in the recent period, is something that cannot be understated. On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution moved by Spain calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution...
ECI Has To Follow The Procedure, Cannot Have Intent To Exclude Electors
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The crux of the observations and suggestions made by the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Roll in Bihar is that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has to follow the well laid procedure under the law, and...
Donald Trump, Brazilian President Lula, Jair Bolsonaro And Trade War
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Just when you thought booming guns went into silence on the tariffs front in the wake of controversies over ending birthright citizenship and stripping citizenship for certain categories of residents, the war on tariffs has come back center stage with the new steep...
Even After Supreme Court Bench Comments, Bihar Dalits And Muslims Are Apprehensive
By Arun Srivastava Supreme Court of India while allowing the Election Commission to continue with the Special Intensive Revision of Bihar electoral rolls, suggested to include three documents Aadhaar, EC voter ID, and ration card for inclusion of the names in the voters’ list. The SC did not issue...
