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.On 80th Anniversary Of Hiroshima, New Questions Arise About ‘The Bomb’
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON DC: On the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Atomic Age, with the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August . 6, 1945, new questions are arising about the U.S. government’s decision to initiate that fatal blast and the following...
Decoding US Bombing Of Hiroshima On August 6, 1945 After 80 Years
By Ben Chacko LONDON: At first impression, Hiroshima is a busy, hyper-clean and efficient city with a backdrop of hills and a river running through the centre. A short walk from the station, where a very impressive super fast train from Tokyo pulls up exactly on time, will tell...
Bangladesh To Witness A Fierce Battle Between BNP And NCP In General Elections In February 26
By Nitya Chakraborty Bangladesh is finally going for national elections in February 2026 ending all speculations in the political circles in Dhaka in the last one year since the abdication of the earlier Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power on August 5, 2024. Chief Adviser of the interim government...
Scope For A Middle Path In Trump’s Russian Oil-Linked Tariff Threat Against India
By K Raveendran The escalating tension between the United States and India over the import of Russian oil has the potential to reshape not just India’s economic stability but also the global oil market. India, the world’s third-largest importer of crude oil has refused to toe the American line...
India’s IT Industry Showing Signs Of Tough Days Ahead
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Announcement by Tata Consultancy Service (TCS), India’s largest private sector employer employing about 600,000, to lay off its 12,000 employees, has instilled a grave insecurity feeling not only among the workers, but has also raised serious concern in the entire IT sector. TATA is known...
Trump’s Policies Are Uniting The Indian Citizens Against U.S. Government
By Sushil Kutty There was a time when lots of Indians got along with the thought of Donald Trump, who came down the elevator and became President of the United States in 2016. Year 2020 and a second term went begging because Trump burned bridges and set himself up...
Trump, Tariffs, And The Tightrope Of U.S.-India Relations
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In a dramatic shift that threatens to upend years of growing U.S.-India strategic convergence, President Donald Trump has announced a substantial tariff escalation against Indian exports, targeting what he calls “India’s defiance” in continuing to buy Russian oil. The proposed increase—raising already-high tariffs...
TMC Second In Command Abhishek Banerjee Charts Out Booth Level Strategy For 2026 Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: New brooms sweep clean. And after being made the leader of All India Trinamool Congress in the Lok Sabha, Abhishek Banerjee has turned his sights on the polling booths of West Bengal for a triumphant result in 2026 Assembly elections in the state. Mamata Banerjee-led...
Trump Plan To End Free Elections In 2026 Midterm And 2028 Presidential Revealed
By Mark Gruenberg NEW YORK—The Trump administration and its radical right foot-soldiers in the federal government and in the states are undertaking a comprehensive scheme to undermine future state and federal elections, in effect rigging the rolls to keep themselves in power no matter what the voters decide. So...
Supreme Court Bench Comment On Rahul Gandhi Is A Sort Of Judicial Overreach
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A citizen’s right to criticise the government is protected under the Constitution of India. Nevertheless, a Bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Mahish questioned the patriotism of India’s leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi on August 4,...
NCERT Is Distorting The Class VIII History Books To Suit RSS Agenda
By Krishna Jha The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has been aggressively pursuing the task of distorting our past. It is trying to rewrite it according to its subjective interpretations which amount to primacy of bias against the fact. Times are with them and distortion goes...
Private Equity Infusion In Health Care Hikes Costs Of Treatment In Both India And US
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Over the past decade Private Equity (PE) firms have invested over $1 trillion in U.S. healthcare, acquiring hundreds of hospitals as for-profit assets. In India private equity, both domestic and overseas, and venture capital investments in Indian health care systems and hospitals has jumped...
Dishom Guru Shibu Soren Pioneered The Adivasi Movement In Eastern India For Five Decades
By Arun Srivastava For Adivasis of India, Shibu Soren was their second Bhagwan (God) after their first Bhagwan Birsa Munda. In the initial years of his struggle for emancipation of adivasis from the grip of non-adivasi money lenders and landlord nexus, he followed the line of political reform. But...
First Time Rajya Sabha Member Kamal Haasan Is Making Waves Through His Comments
By Sushil Kutty It did not take long for actor-politician Kamal Haasan to reveal his true colours. It isn’t ‘saffron’, though. ‘Kamal Saar’ is a time-tested disruptor. He is grateful to Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin for the Rajya Sabha seat and whose thoughts on ‘Sanatan Dharma’...
Why The Supreme Court Must Strike Down Bihar’s Voter Verification Drive?
By Jhuma Sen In the name of “purifying” the electoral rolls, the Election Commission of India (‘ECI’) has launched a bureaucratic assault on the right to vote in Bihar. The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (‘SIR’), now under challenge before the Supreme Court in Association for Democratic Reforms v. ECI,...
Democratic Party Leadership Still Lacking A Coherent Strategy To Fight Trump
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The 2024 U.S. presidential election marked a decisive and humiliating blow to the Democratic Party. Donald Trump, once impeached, twice indicted, returned to the White House with renewed authority and an emboldened political machine, bulldozing every democratic institution in his path. The Democrats,...
India Must Ignore Trump’s Trade Tariff Trap
By Nantoo Banerjee US President Donald Trump is becoming increasingly unpredictable, if not crazy, with his freakish combination of styles to deal with countries and issues – from trade to diplomacy. The 25 percent import tariff on India since last Friday may not considerably hurt India’s export trade with...
India’s 2000 Sq Km Land To China Will Remain In Public And Political Discourse
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In spite of Supreme Court of India’s bench comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih’s poser on August 4, 2025 on Rahul Gandhi’s remark on India’s 2000 sq km land gone to China saying that a true Indian will not say this, the issue...
