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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.US-China Hybrid Deal On AI Chip Sales Has Major Trade-Security Aspects
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In a startling move with far reaching consequences, the United States government has brokered a deal under which Nvidia and AMD will remit 15% of their revenue from certain AI chip sales to China directly to Washington. The unprecedented agreement in cross border...
Congressmen In Karnataka Have Landed The Party Functioning In A Total Mess
By Sushil Kutty The Congress in Karnataka is in a mess. The Congress high command is also in a mess when dealing with the mess in the Karnataka state unit of the Congress. There is also LoP in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi whose functioning style cannot be challenged....
Bangladesh Turmoil Adversely Affects Eateries And Hotel Industry In Kolkata
By Kunal Bose KOLKATA: People in this subcontinent, except for a miniscule, will be pining for the food they are eating all the time at home as they make a trip abroad instead of trying the local fare. Take the case of Bangladeshis, who before prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
Bengal Congress Is Waiting For Central Directive On Electoral Alliance In 2026 Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: With 2026 Assembly elections scheduled for March/April, West Bengal unit of Congress finds itself at a crossroads. It has to make a choice between going for an electoral alliance with the state’s ruling dispensation Trinamool Congress or revive its poll pact with the CPI(M)-led Left...
Samajwadi Party Supremo Akhilesh Yadav Launches Big Movement Against Up Govt Order
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: By jumping over police barricading in Delhi to protest against the Election Commission on Monday, Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav attracted nation-wide attention and made it clear the he would hit the road to take on Modi government at the centre and Yogi government...
ED Probe Into Anil Ambani Group Is Creating Loathsome Sensation
By Nantoo Banerjee The regular news feed by India’s Enforcement Directorate on alleged massive money laundering by the Reliance Anil Ambani Group (RAAG), which is also known as the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), seems to have been designed more to create an abominable sensation around the flamboyant entrepreneur...
Zelensky’s Final Position Is Still Crucial For Success Of Alaska Summit
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The upcoming August 15 summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, has become the hot topic of world leaders and the media, for its potential to reshape the trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine war. But the conspicuous absence of Ukrainian...
Issues Of Vote Theft And SIR Acquire All India Dimension
By Dr. Gyan Pathak INDIA bloc MP’s protest march against “vote theft” by the ruling establishment in India led by PM Narendra Modi with connivance of the Election Commission of India (ECI) through voter list manipulation has just escalated the issues to acquire a national dimension. Leader of the...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Set To Play A Major Role In Future Indian Elections
By Kalyani Shankar Last year was a high-profile election year with 60 countries going to the polls. This included India. Artificial Intelligence played a prominent role in predicting voter turnout, identifying potential swing voters, voter preferences, and optimising campaign schedules for maximum impact. It was hailed as the AI...
ECI Is Having Big Resistance From Opposition In Bihar To Go Ahead With SIR
By Arun Srivastava Majoritarianism, a political philosophy has always been striving for a permanent majority. Saffron ecosystem through the SIR has been trying to experiment with this. Majoritarianism basically is totalitarian in character and nature and intends to govern and make decisions, potentially at the expense of minority communities’...
The Great INDIA Bloc Opera Was In Full Glare On Monday At Sansad Marg
By Sushil Kutty MPs fainted. Probably no breakfast! Not even a glass of water. Doctors would recommend orange or mausambi juice. Avocado would have done the trick. Any number of smoothies. The best would have been an upma breakfast; perhaps a boiled egg along with butter-toast! Yummy! But no,...
Satyajit Ray’s Socially Relevant Film Jana Aranya Is Now 50 Years Old
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Jana Aranya (The Middleman) inarguably one of the leading social oriented films of Satyajit Ray is five decades old. Looking back on its turning 50, the director shows he was in pace with the prevailing times as his anguish bursts into almost every frame of...
Trump-Putin Meeting In Alaska On August 15 Can Be A Gamechanger In Geopolitics
By Nitya Chakraborty The stage is finally set. U.S. President Donald Trump will be meeting the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska in USA on August 15 to discuss the Ukraine war issue and bring about a settlement for facilitating a long term solution. If a framework of a...
Trump’s Tariff Barrage: A Real Gun In A Child’s Hands
By K Raveendran Donald Trump’s announcement of a 50 percent tariff against India is the latest in his string of economic pronouncements that ripple across borders with unpredictable force. While the White House may frame it as a move to “protect American interests,” the reality is that the decision...
From 2017 To August 2025 – The Bizarre Trump-Modi Relations From Hugs To Bluster
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In the summer of 2017, when U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the White House Rose Garden, the atmosphere was charged with warmth. The two leaders clasped hands, exchanged bear hugs, and spoke of a shared vision —...
Rahul Gandhi Wins The Perception Battle Against Election Commission Over Electoral Fraud
By Sushil Kutty Congress’ all-in-all Rahul Gandhi is no easy meat and from the looks of Rahul, the Leader of Opposition, in his trademark muscle-bound white t-shirt, is all grit, a tough cookie to boot. The treasury bench have tried every trick in the book but haven’t succeeded in...
High Court Order Failed To Get MGNREGA Started From August 1 In West Bengal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Calcutta High Court order has miserably failed to get Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme started from August 1, 2025. The Centre has stopped releasing funds to the state under this scheme since 2022, though it is the only employment guarantee...
India-US Tariff Dispute Now Morphs Into Diplomatic And Security Row Between Two Countries
By Anjan Roy TORONTO: Indo-US trade dispute has now quickly morphed into a full scale diplomatic and security row. Both sides are digging in and refusing to budge from their respective positions as apparent from the statements from even the highest levels. This is clearly an escalation set in...
