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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.Capitalist Countries Are Rolling Back Spending On Welfare Programmes
By Prabhat Patnaik Immediately after the war when capitalism had faced a serious existential crisis, it had adopted a dual strategy to cope with it. First, it whipped up the “red scare” which was absolutely without any justification, in order to terrorise the domestic working class into acquiescing with...
Congress High Command To Decide On Karnataka CM Issue Only After Bihar Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Karnataka Congress is seeing challenges amidst power struggle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar. However, Siddaramaiah announced that there is no vacancy for the CM’s post. To support his claim, he said that DK Sivakumar who is an claimant...
Can India Emerge As The Trusted Leader Of Global South Like Earlier Years?
By Nitya Chakraborty The 17th BRICS summit held in Brazil on July 6 and 7 has helped in partially restoring the image of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the defender of the interests of Global South against the increasing attacks on the political and economic interests of...
Big Success Of All India Strike By Workers Is A Wake Up Call For Modi Govt
By P. Sudhir Crores of working people hit the streets in the historic strike on July 9. Originally scheduled earlier, the strike had to be postponed by nearly a month and a half following the dastardly attack on innocent civilian tourists in Pahalgam. Yet, the spirit of resistance against...
ECI Steps Beyond Its Constitutional Power In Determining Citizenship
By Dr. Gyan Pathak During the hearing of the bunch of petitions on Thursday July 10, 2025 challenging the Election Commission of India’s (ECI’s) order of June 24, 2025 for conducting Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls in Bihar, the Supreme Court said that citizenship is an issue...
Expenditure Capacity Of Indian Households Is Shrinking In Recent Years
By Krishna Jha Industrial growth, the stock market and the rupee have already been sinking. Now more and more reports show a constant fall in Indian households’ rapidly shrinking expenditure capacity. According to the latest data released by the National Accounts Statistics, Indians have significantly reduced their spending on...
Election Commission’s Special Revision Of Electoral Rolls Has Led To Both Fear And Confusion
By Sushil Kutty Election officials have been on the SIR job for months, the entire 2024, in fact, and into 2025. The ‘job’ included deleting the names from the voters’ list of people who had passed away. This could be done only when informed by a close relative. What...
Trump’s Continuous Shifting Of Eco-Political Positions Flummox World Leaders
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON DC: The US President Donald Trump has flummoxed political leaders all over the world including his buddies as also leaders of Russia, India, China and Israel by constantly shifting his political stance day to day. The unpredictable nature of a man who keeps shifting...
Why The RSS Is Against Inclusion Of Secular And Socialist In Indian Constitution
By Dr. Ram Puniyani The RSS General Secretary, Dattatreya Hosabale, second in the RSS leadership hierarchy, on the eve of imposition of Emergency in 1975; stated that it was during the emergency that words Secularism and socialism were inserted in the preamble of Indian Constitution. And that these words...
India Witnesses Largest Ever General Strike Of Workers On July 9
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though on the eve of the workers’ all India general strike on July 9, 2025, Union Ministry of Labour, Government of India, tried to downplay the strike action by claiming that213 unions had informed of their staying away from the strike, India actually witnessed on...
Yet Another Instance Of Modi’s Friendship With Trump Turning Out As A Liability For India
By K Raveendran All theories of probabilities, intuition and a cursory glance at the balance sheets of past trade negotiations point in one direction: any trade deal between the United States and India under the Trump presidency is far more likely to tilt in favour of the US. This...
Bharat Bandh Called By Central Trade Unions Got Massive Response From People In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Reminiscent of the three-day Bihar bandh in 1974, observed at the call of Jayprakash Narayan, after fifty years, Bihar on July 9 witnessed unprecedented bandh in the form of Chakkabandh, at the call of INDIA bloc against the designs of the Election Commission to declare the...
Elon Musk May Have Left DOGE But Mass Federal Layoffs To Continue
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON DC: Tech billionaire may have left DOGE, but his work was never discontinued. It got a shot in the arm as the US Supreme Court ruled that President Trump could resume mass federal layoffs for now. Musk parted company with Trump and launched a...
Xi’s BRICS No-Show: Strategic Shift Or Silent Warning?
By M A Hossain In the realm of global politics, symbolism matters almost as much as substance. President Xi Jinping of China has decided not to attend this year’s BRICS summit which will be held in Rio de Janeiro. This is the first time President Xi will not be...
The ‘Economy Of Genocide’ Report Exposes The Role Of Global Companies Behind War By Israel
By Ramzy Baroud LONDON: Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in occupied Palestine, stands as a testament to the notion of speaking truth to power. This “power” is not solely embodied by Israel or even the United States, but by an international...
Palestinians Have Been Given No Rights In Trump-Netanyahu Gaza Deal
By John Wojcik NEW YORK: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump were closer together on key issues more than ever at their White House meeting on Gaza this Monday, as the Israeli warmaker nominated the American warmaker for the Nobel Peace Prize. After the meeting, they...
Election Commission Violates Its Core Constitutional Responsibility, Acts Whimsically
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election Commission of India’s order of June 24, 2025 for conducting Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls in Bihar violates its core constitutional responsibility, and is contrary to the well-defined protocol and procedure, and hence whimsical. In the note explaining the process of annual revision/updation...
Dalits And Minorities Unite To Fight Back Disenfranchisement Bid In Bihar Polls
By Arun Srivastava Exactly sixty years ago, the Dalits and proletariats of Ekwari in Bhojpur of Bihar had fought a protracted armed struggle against the political hegemony of the feudal lords and upper caste goons for exercising their right to franchise; the rights to elect their representatives. Once again...
