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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 Tariff Rate For Japan Is Helpful For Larger Japanese Investment In India
By Subrata Majumder Caught in the crossfire between Japan’s submission to Trump’s tariff war linking with investment and incentivizing Japanese investors to quite China , India is opened with a new opportunity to combat Trump’s threat of tariff war, which is linked with scrapping of oil and defence deal...
People’s Power Can Shatter Israel Government’s Sense Of Impunity On Gaza
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Reckless and genocidal, Israel’s government is now bent on an impossible-seeming intensification of its Gaza atrocities nearly 22 months into the invasion. Plans to occupy Gaza City will inevitably lead to thousands more deaths. Not as “collateral damage,” the cynical term for bystanders blown up...
Bengal’s 100-Day Job Scheme Impasse Continues Despite High Court Order To Resume
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Applications for jobs under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 are being submitted by card holders in West Bengal districts but applicants do not have the slightest idea when the authorities will, if at all, allot them work. MNREGA job remains...
Kerala Boasts The Country’s First Integrated Land Records Digital System
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The country’s first comprehensive land records digital system, launched in October last year, has attracted attention from many States and Union Territories. Among the States which have consulted Kerala to learn from the system, named “Ente Bhoomi”, was Assam. Kerala has agreed to provide software...
Pro-BJP Hindutva-Corporate Nexus Vertically Split On Strategy To Deal With Trump’s Tariff War
By Nitya Chakraborty The additional 25 per cent tariff on Indian exports to the USA announced by President Donald Trump to be effective from August 27, has led to an intense ideological and political battle within RSS, the BJP as also among the industrialist friends of Prime Minister Narendra...
ED’s Neutrality As Central Investigating Agency At Its Lowest
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Enforcement Directorate’s (ED’s) neutrality as a central investigating agency under the Union Government led by PM Narendra Modi has plummeted to its lowest since its inception in 1956, when a bench of the Supreme Court of India has to ask it on August 7, 2025...
Rahul Gandhi’s Exposure Of Electoral Fraud Unites INDIA Bloc Parties
By Arun Srivastava Undeterred of the innuendos and jibes by the second rung BJP leaders, describing him as destroyer of the democratic system and having some brain problem, which are being hurled against him certainly at the behest of Narendra Modi, for his expose of the Chief Election Commissioner’s...
Trump’s Tariff Threats Have Opened Up Possibilities Of A Viable Alternative
By Dr. Soma Marla President Trump’s imposition of 25 percent tariffs on Indian exports, effective August 1, 2025, is beyond mere commercial friction. Mr. Trump, is now attempting to pressure India by imposing various measures aimed at weakening our economy. USA now is weaponizing tariffs as a political leverage...
Rahul Gandhi’s Presentation On Electoral Fraud Enthuses INDIA Bloc
By Rahil Nora Chopra Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hosted a dinner for leaders of 25 INDIA bloc parties at his Sunehri Bagh residence in Delhi, where he showed them a presentation alleging fraud in the Lok Sabha voter rolls in a...
Rahul Gandhi Is Going All Out Against The Prime Minister Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty The whole thing about Trump’s tariffs bringing all sorts of Indians on to the same platter is a chimera, a lie told in the flush of the moment; in times of adversity when people comfort themselves with dreams and lies, which is what has happened and...
BNP Wooing Jamaat-e-Islami For Alliance In Bangladesh Polls In February
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) the strongest political party in Bangladesh that had fought a running battle against the ruling Awami League (AL)-run Governments for over a decade, has appealed to the Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) to contest the coming elections in February next year. Mr Shamsuzzaman Dudu,...
Need For Strong Peace Movement To Harness Nuclear Weapons Abolition
By Dr Arun Mitra Everyone by now knows the dreadful effects of the atomic bombs used by the US on human population at Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August 1945 respectively. Testimonies by the survivors, the Hibakusha and the reports by the Red Cross speak effectively of...
From ‘Howdy Modi’ To 50 Per Cent Tariffs On Indian Exports: The End Of An Illusion
By R. Suryamurthy Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s declaration that he is willing to “pay a heavy price” to stand by Indian farmers in the face of escalating U.S. trade tariffs has captured headlines—but not necessarily for the right reasons. It is a speech crafted more for the political stage...
Trump’s 50% Tariff Gives A Big Jolt To The India-US Trade Target Of $530 Billion By 2030
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Indo-U.S. trade tensions escalated to a flashpoint, on Wednesday as U.S. President Donald Trump doubled down on a defiant India with 50% tariffs on Indian imports, raising it from 25%, citing its continued purchases of Russian oil as a blatant violation of Washington’s...
Trump’s Imposition Of Highest Tariffs On India Is Now A Real Threat To Economy
By Anjan Roy TORONTO: US president, Donald Trump, has implemented his threatened additional tariffs on Indian exports of 25 per cent on August 6. This tariff will be loaded on the earlier “reciprocal tariffs” of 25%, taking the overall tariff to 50% in just 21 days from now. With...
ECI’s Latest Blitz Of Advertisement On SIR Is A Big Example Of Hypocrisy
By P Sudhir The latest blitz of advertisements by the Election Commission (EC) is a textbook example of hypocrisy. In order to establish that Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls for the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls is inclusive, the text of the advertisement claims that it is...
Low Quality Of Rural Roads Under PMGSY Remains A Worrying Issue
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The rural roads being constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) are found to be of low quality, their maintenance is poor, and their linkage to actual villages are unsatisfactory, finds the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development and Panchayati Raj. In its...
Divided Ruling Bolivian Left Facing Tough Fight In August 17 Presidential Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty Bolivia, a small nation of 7.9 million voters in Latin America is going to the Presidential elections on August 17 this year with the ruling left wing Movement for Socialism(MAS) vertically split giving a big opportunity to the right wing opposition forces to defeat the ruling...
