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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.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,...
Why Is Dr. Muhammad Yunus So Worried At Tulsi Gabbard’s Comments On Attacks Against Hindus?
By Sushil Kutty United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard spoke for the Hindu against perpetrators of wrongs against the community and the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of Bangladesh reacted almost immediately, challenging Gabbard to provide “evidence”. “This statement is both misleading and damaging to the image and...
BJP In Uttar Pradesh Undertaking Major Changes Focusing On State Polls In 2027
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The BJP in Uttar Pradesh is facing tough time to maintain caste balance in the selection of district presidents and state president to make the organisation strong enough to face state Assembly polls in 2027 and panchayat polls. Instead of going for election, the party...
From Mahmoud Khalil To Umar Khalid, Dissent Is Suppressed By Authoritarian Regimes
By Deeksha Dwivedi The recent arrest of Mahmoud Khalil in the United States, an active member of Columbia University’s protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, takes me back to 2016 when student political leaders Umar Khalid, Kanhaiya Kumar and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested by the Delhi Police on...
Greenland Election Results Give No Relief To Trump In Realising His Ambition
By Huw Paige NEW YORK: In the last few months, the phenomenon of fake news has come to Greenland. Ads posted on Facebook, Greenland’s main social network, variously suggested that two prominent politicians had either been sued by the Bank of Greenland or physically attacked, or that Elon Musk...
Bangladesh Opts For China-Pak Axis To Boost Its Economy By Reducing Dependence On India
By Nitya Chakraborty Sidelined by the Trump 2.0 administration and rebuffed by India, Bangladesh interim government is exploring all avenues to rejuvenate the country’s ailing economy by expanding its trade and investment relationship with Pakistan and China. The objective is to reduce the dependence on India in major areas...
Mutual Funds May Not Be The Right Choice For Investment Now
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s popular brand ambassadors Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni engaged to promote the “Mutual Funds Sahi Hai” campaign by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) may soon lose their own brand image substantially as recent investors in mutual funds are losing heavily with...
Tamil Nadu’s Confrontation With Centre On Language Issue Is Spreading Too Far
By Kalyani Shankar On Thursday, Tamil Nadu underwent a significant cultural transformation by replacing the official rupee symbol with the Tamil letter ‘ரூ’ in its budget document. Pronounced ‘roo,’ this letter represents the Indian currency in the Tamil language and also embodies the region’s rich cultural heritage. Chief Minister...
BJP’s Win In Haryana Local Body Elections Raises Political Concerns For Congress
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP’s winning 9 of the 10 mayoral seats has raised significant political concerns for the Congress. One seat was even won by an Independent, which is even more concerning for the Congress necessitating the party to review the loss critically and impartially to know why...
In The Name Of Hinduism, RSS And BJP Are Spreading Communalism And Superstitions
By Dr Arun Mitra In our country with diverse beliefs and traditions coexisting, the promotion of rational thinking and scientific temper is extremely important. Superstitious beliefs, blind practices and rituals are an impediment to the path of development. Scientific temper is not merely knowledge of science, but it is...
Russian Goods Flood The Chinese Markets Giving Boost To Moscow’s Exports
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: It’s a paradox of sorts. While Chinese goods flood the markets globally from watches to pens to electronic gadgets and EVs and luxury goods, China is facing a deluge of Russia made goods in its markets taking the local citizens by craze. Reports...
Ranjini Srinivasan Is A Symbol Of Student Power In U.S. Against Trump’s Diktat
By Sushil Kutty Ranjini Srinivasan was the Indian face of anti-Trumpism and anti-Israel in Columbia University where she was a doctoral student of Urban Planning till she had to “self-deport” after the Trump administration revoked her US visa. Srinivasan fled to “friendly Canada” from the “unfriendly shores” of Trump’s...
Barbaric American Attacks On Yemen Risk A Major Middle Eastern War
By Ben Chacko LONDON: US bombers killed at least 31 people in Yemen at the weekend, mainly women and children in residential areas. With Donald Trump, there is none of the pretence affected by previous presidents that strikes seek to avoid civilian casualties. “We will use overwhelming lethal force...
Europe’s ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ Risks Catastrophic Escalation In Conflict
By Sophie Bolt LONDON: As Trump brutally hammers out a settlement for Ukraine and Russia, he’s also been hammering Europe for vast, cold-war levels of military spending. And European leaders seem very keen to oblige. Along with Keir Starmer’s so-called peace plan for a 30,000-strong European army, France’s Emmanuel...
