Opinion
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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.Farmers In India At A Turning Point With Their Protest Sites In Punjab Bulldozed
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Just after the seventh round of talks between agitating farmers representatives of Punjab and the central delegation ended inconclusively on March 19, 2025, the Punjab Police came into action, arrested hundreds of protesting farmers from various places including from the protest sites at Shambu and...
What Does Elon Musk’s Starlink Entry Into Indian Telecom Market Mean?
By Prabir Purkayastha The announcements of Musk’s SpaceX-Starlink’s tie-up with Jio Reliance (Jio is a trademark of Reliance Industries) and Bharti Airtel, the two dominant players, raise a number of questions. The two key questions are: i) Will it mean a greater monopolization in telecom services? ii) Will satellite...
Violence In Nagpur Reveals Utter Confusion Amongst Sangh Parivar Units
By Sushil Kutty The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is confused. Confusing ‘glorification’ with ‘irrelevant’ and vice versa, leaving everybody in the Sangh Parivar confused. RSS’ top spokesperson Sunil Ambekar couldn’t clearly enunciate who are the glorifiers of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb or why “glorification of Aurangzeb” is “irrelevant” to present times?...
Narendra Modi’s Meeting With RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat At Nagpur Is Crucial
By Arun Srivastava “Sangh Saranam Gachchami”. Yes, after a long eleven years’ of insolence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the RSS headquarters at Nagpur on March 30 for meeting the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and paying his obeisance. In recent months Modi has been trying to send...
Maruti Workers’ Protest Demanding ‘Equal Pay For Equal Work’ Has Big Significance
By Dr. Kingshuk Sarkar A section of the former and current workers of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (MSIL) has been agitating against the carmaker’s alleged illegal and unethical labour practices for the last five months. Rallying under the aegis of the Maruti Suzuki Struggle Committee, the workers had been...
Indian Pharmaceutical Industry Is Tense As Trump’s April 2 Deadline Approaches
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Can India follow the Chinese model with retaliatory tariffs against the US duties on Indian goods as US president Donald Trump, despite his bonhomie with Indian premier Narendra Modi, publicly declared that Indian tariffs on US products were among the highest and so...
Trump Administration Making Good Work Of Cuban Doctors Difficult In Other Countries
By W. T. Whitney Jr. NEW YORK: The U.S. government is at war with Cuban doctors working in other countries. Currently, 24,180 Cuban healthcare providers, mostly doctors, perform duties in 56 countries. On Feb. 17, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced sanctions directed at people associated with Cuba’s...
There Is Good Scope Of A Viable Left Alternative Outside Starmer’s Labour
By Andrew Murray LONDON: “The centrists in Labour are worried that an authentically left-wing rival party could emerge.”Thus the usually interesting Telegraph columnist Sherelle Jacobs, apparently channelling the apprehensions of Downing Street. Have the centrists — generous term by now — anything to be worried about? “Yes” would be...
Narendra Modi’s Latest Comments On Relations With China Mark His Maturity And Vision
By Nitya Chakraborty Narendra Modi has been heading the Indian government as the Prime Minister since 2014. He has made so far many observations about the delicate India-China relations in the last nearly eleven years, but his observations on this issue made to the American journalist cum researcher Lex...
Supreme Court Judges’ Manipur Visit Sets A New Precedent Of Great Import
By K Raveendran ‘The planned visit of a six-member team of Supreme Court judges to Manipur this weekend to provide legal and humanitarian support to the victims of the ongoing violence sets a new precedent. Coordinated by the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), the visit marks a rare instance...
Sonia Gandhi’s Accusation Of Systematically Undermining MGNREGA Justified
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi was accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government during Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha on March 18, 2025 of systematically undermining MGNREGA scheme, she was speaking an irrefutable truth. PM Modi, in fact, does not strengthen this...
Decoding Martyrdom Of 24 Year Old Bhagat Singh On March 23, 1931
By Krishna Jha “Revolution is the inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is the birthright of all. The labour is the real sustainer of the society. …To the altar of this revolution, we have brought our youth as incense, for no sacrifice is too great for so magnificent a cause....
U.S. Economy Hit By Recessionary Fears In 2025 As Tariff War Of Trump Impacting
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday declined to rule out the possibility of recession hitting the US economy shortly. “There are no guarantees” when it comes to a potential recession hitting the United States. “Like who would have predicted COVID?” Bessent told NBC’s...
Pakistan’s Ailing Economy Getting Big Boost From Russian Assistance
By Ashis Biswas Pakistan is urgently seeking financial and other help from Russia and China, even as it faces a double-edged threat to its own territorial security from the Balochistan Liberation Army and Afghanistan-based Talibans. Present indications suggest that the response from Russia has been more encouraging in recent...
Sunita Williams Makes A Huge Splash In India On Her Return To Earth
By Sushil Kutty NASA astronaut, Indian-American Sunita Williams, smiled and waved on returning to Earth from somewhere in Space where she was stranded for 286 days. No, Sunita Williams didn’t stop in Space to gaze at the sky all around her but because she didn’t have control of the...
Israeli Massacre In Gaza Has Exposed Once Again The Dark Side Of Netanyahu
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Words wilt in the face of the fresh murderous horrors being unleashed on the people of Gaza by the depraved state of Israel once more. Cynically breaking a ceasefire agreement it had itself signed up to, Netanyahu and his cohorts massacred more than four hundred...
Remembering Dedicated Communist Indrajit Gupta On His 106th Birth Anniversary
By Nitya Chakraborty Indrajit Gupta, the dedicated Communist leader of India in the last century and an outstanding Parliamentarian dominated the country’s trade union movement and the Left movement for the last sixty years of the 20th century. He belonged to that generation of leaders from undivided Bengal whose...
Primary Agricultural Credit Societies Getting Ready For Transformation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak One lakh Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) connecting around 13 crore small and marginal farmers are getting big boost to be ultimately transformed under the new Union Ministry of Cooperation created in July 2021, though the performance of the ministry has been dismal so far,...
