Opinion
Appeal
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.India’s Electric Vehicle Future Depends On Availability Of Rare Minerals
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik There’s a blind spot in India’s electric vehicle ambitions, which sits deep inside the battery. Lithium, neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium are rare earth elements. Laboratory processing of these rare earth materials yields permanent magnets, which have applications spanning dental, aerospace, defense, electronics, batteries, and automotive sectors....
Present Police Witchhunt Of Bengali Speaking Muslims Is A Part Of RSS Programme
By P. Sudhir For some time now, shock waves have been raging across the country. The issue at hand concerns the large number of Bengali-speaking migrant workers being labelled as Bangladeshis. The combination of being Bengali-speaking and Muslim is perceived as a “lethal” marker, almost automatically branding one as...
U.S. Has Gained Major Access In Japanese Rice Market Through Massive Trade Deal
By Anjan Roy TORONTO: The United States has announced a trade deal with Japan on Tuesday night. In his characteristic hyperbole, Donald Trump announced a “massive trade deal with Japan”. This might be said to the first trade deal that United States has done with any country since Donald...
Jagdeep Dhankar’s Parting Has Lessons For Narendra Modi And BJP Leadership
By Sushil Kutty As it happens more vice is being foisted upon ousted Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar than if he hadn’t stood his ground and posed problems for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authority. VP Dhankar cited “medical advice” for his “resignation”. But was it resignation or more like quit...
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories’s Weightloss Drug Has Potential To Sweep U.S. Market
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: India’s pharma heavyweight Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (NSE: REDY) , based out of the Southern city of Hyderabad, announced its audacious plan to launch a generic version of Novo Nordisk’s wildly successful weight-loss drug Wegovy in 87 countries next year, joining the global gold...
Trump Supporters Want To Debar Zohran Mamdani From November Mayoral Polls
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: Democratic Nominee for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is under fire from nervous Republican Party leaders as also Democratic establishment. Republicans want to weaponize the citizenship denaturalisation process to knock him out of the race slated for November this year. Incumbent Eric Roberts,...
India’s Agri-Future Is Burning But Govt Holding A Hose With No Water
By R. Suryamurthy The 2024–25 Estimates Committee report on “Promotion of Climate Resilient Agriculture, Natural and Organic Farming through Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs)” lands with the weight of over a decade of accumulated failures. While it offers dozens of recommendations and shines light on key gaps in policy execution,...
Bengal’s Matinee Idol Uttam Kumar Is Still Popular 45 Years After His Death
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Forty five years have gone by since Bengal’s matinee idol Uttam Kumar’s passing away. And yet July 24, when he journeyed to the land of shadows remains a day of mourning among his fans, a tribe which is increasing though many of it were born...
More Than 97 Percent ‘Untouchability’ Cases Remain Pending In Courts
By Simran Kaur A recent report made public by the Ministry of Social Justice and Development reveals that more than 97 percent of offences related to “untouchability” under the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (‘PCR Act’) remained pending before Indian courts as of 2022. What is more concerning...
For India, This Is The Right Time To Mend Fences With Struggling Bangladesh
By Nitya Chakraborty After nearly a year of frosty relations between the two neighbours India and Bangladesh, signs are there of a breakthrough as India is sending a team of burn doctors and nurses to Dhaka to treat the victims of the Monday’s devastating crash of a fighter jet...
Air India Has A Systemic Safety Culture Problem Requiring Immediate Attention
By K Raveendran Incidents of safety concerns surrounding Air India have become as routine as the weather snippet in a newspaper. What should have been extraordinary events meriting immediate and serious introspection have now assumed the quality of the mundane, the familiar, and the tragically predictable. The most recent...
Chaos In Parliament And Bihar Assembly Over SIR Is Just The Beginning
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Both the Houses of the Parliament of India – Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha – and the Legislative Assembly of Bihar witnessed total chaos on Wednesday July 23 due to which they had to be adjourned. The Opposition members in the Parliament of India were...
Trump’s $10 Billion Lawsuit Against The Wall Street Journal Starts A Media War
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: America’s historical publication, the Wall Street Journal, is unfazed by President Trump’s $10bn defamation suit and says it will defend itself on its story of the Trump letter to Epstein as the British Editor Emma Tucker, who changed the landscape of political reporting...
India’s Macro Fundamentals Are Strong Enough To Deal With Any U.S. Tariff Hike
By Subrata Majumder Notwithstanding COVID 19 pandemic escalating geo-economic turmoil, India continued to float on high growth. It pitched 9.2 percent growth in 2023-24 and 6.5 percent growth in 2024-25 (over and above high growth in the preceding year), which raised several eyebrows in the world. This compares well...
Chief Justice Gavai Just Spoke The Truth, Legal Education Was Never Equal
By Sahil Hussain Choudhury When Chief Justice B.R. Gavai stood before graduating students at NALSAR and told them not to pursue a foreign LLM by taking on a Rs 60-lakh loan, it may have sounded to some only as a cautious financial advice. But for those of us who...
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s Resignation Has A Political Context
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Health issue is the officially stated reason for the Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar’s resignation, but it has a political context. It was only in December 2024, Dhankhar had rebuked its own government led by PM Narendra Modi over not talking to agitating farmers...
Why Is Not Prime Minister Clearing The Air Over Trump’s Claim On Jets Down And Ceasefire?
By Sushil Kutty There are media which dismiss the “4-day war” between India and Pakistan as a “skirmish”. US President Donald Trump claims five fighter-jets were shot down, which makes it a full-fledged war. Trump also claims he forced a ceasefire between the two “nuclear-powered neighbours”. Pakistan hasn’t denied...
Will Mohan Bhagwat Step Down In September After Completing 75 Years?
By Arun Srivastava As September 11 is approaching the day RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat will turn 75- the retirement deadline set by the RSS, there is a big commotion and also excitement in the RSS ecosystem. They are all eager to know whether Bhagwat will finally end his term...
