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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.CPI(ML)-Liberation’s Patna Rally On March 2 Put A New National Agenda For Change
By Arun Srivastava PATNA: Though the “Badlo Bihar Mahajutan (Change Bihar Maha-Rally)” organised by the CPI (ML) Liberation on March 2 appeared to be a Bihar centric event, in reality, it carried a pan-India message which will have critical impact on the ideological and philosophical subtleties of the political...
Congress Spokesperson Shama Mohamed’s Remark On Fat Shaming Is Uncalled For
By Sushil Kutty Fat-shaming is the new normal in Congress party political circles these days. Congress spokespersons use it with critical remarks regarding the cricketing performances of top Indian cricketing icons. And if you’re Malayali with almost zero cricketing knowledge you’re best at the game. Ask Shama Mohamed, the...
Bizarre Polemics In Madhya Pradesh Politics Over Granting Of Freebies
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Strange things happen in Madhya Pradesh. Latest in this is the open condemnation of the habit of demanding freebies by the people and leaders, readily giving them liberally. This remark of Minister Prahlad Patel drew sharp criticism from Congress. But Patel forgot that his...
Ocalan’s Call To Dissolve PKK Is A Golden Opportunity For Turks
By Manish Rai Abdullah Ocalan, founder leader of The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) made a historic call from İmralı prison where he is being held in near total isolation since 1999 to his party to lay down its arms, dissolve itself and end its decades-long conflict with the Turkish...
On International Women’s Day, The Task Is To Accelerate The Process Of Gender Equality
By Mahalakshmi Pavani The upcoming International Women’s Day, 2025 seeks to ‘Accelerate Action’, to amplify and expedite the sedated movement towards gender equality across the globe. While the global movement for gender parity continues to claim and reclaim spaces, the Indian Judiciary struggles to move beyond its predominantly ‘Male,...
The Left Can Win Elections In Europe Without Immigration Restrictionism
By Daniel Finn LONDON: David Leonhardt has written a detailed article for the New York Times arguing that the Danish Social Democrats and their leader, Mette Frederiksen, could be a model for the center left throughout Europe and North America: “Over the past several years, there is arguably not...
Trump Throws A Challenge To Europe – Accept My Peace Deal Or Get Lost
By Nitya Chakraborty The U.S. President Donald Trump has fired his missile on Europe, especially, France, UK and Germany by suspending arms aid to Ukraine after categorically making it clear that President Zelensky has to agree to the peace and security deal proposed by Trump on Friday in the...
Electoral Roll Manipulation In State Elections Is Prima Facie True
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The evidence brought forward by Trinamool Congress (TMC) from Bengal is just another in a series of evidences of electoral roll manipulation that invariably favours BJP and its allies, as it has recently been witnessed in the recent Maharashtra and Delhi Vidhan Sabha election. Opposition...
Mayawati Fights Family & Foes For Retaining The BSP Supremo Position
By Sushil Kutty Behan Mayawati is anything but a confused aunt. Consumed by her all-powering and unflagging need to stay in power and suspicious of the barest of darkness descending on her, Mayawati sees danger to her throne from all corners of the Bahujan Samaj Party’s Diwan-e-Khas knowing that...
Bathing In Polluted Water Of Ganges For Celestial Gains Negation Of Science
By Dr Arun Mitra After the reports of high-level pollution in the river water at the Kumbh site now the Bihar economic Survey has come out with a report that the water in Ganges river is not fit for bathing at most places in Bihar because of high bacteriological...
Trump’s Gamble: US Policies Could Reshape Europe & Zelenskyy’s Fate
By Girish Linganna Sometimes, history changes little by little, almost imperceptibly. Deep beneath the surface, major forces are at work, slowly shaping the future. But, on the surface, everything seems stable, as if nothing is changing. And, sometimes, it moves very fast, almost like a sudden Nor’wester. Pressure builds...
Israel Seeks To Scrap Existing Gaza Truce Deal To Impose U.S. Plan
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: Israel moved on Monday to scrap the existing ceasefire deal in Gaza and replace it with what it described as a new United States ceasefire plan. Tel Aviv is trying to force the new plan on Hamas by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip....
Zelensky’s Humiliation Was Trump’s Ukraine Off-Ramp To Focus On China
By C.J. Atkins and John Wojcik NEW YORK: While many people were shocked by the bullying treatment meted out to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in the Oval Office Friday, the whole humiliating show should have come as no surprise. Though “surrender to Putin”...
Indo-US Commerce Deal May Help India Escape From Chinese Trade Trap
By Nantoo Banerjee If the United States of America is the provider of the largest trade surplus to India year after year, there is no reason for India to impose unreasonable tariffs on merchandise imported from its best trading partner. In fact, the import tariff should not be allowed...
India Will Have To Work Very Hard To Increase Its Growth Rate
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s growth rate has decelerated to four years low in 2024-25, and the quarter four performance of the economy would be key to achieve the projected 6.5 per cent of GDP growth rate. More serious concern lies ahead. Even International Monetary Fund (IMF) sees India’s...
Bengal Saffron Ecosystem Aims To Evolve For Winning Assembly Polls
By Arun Srivastava Threat perception of electoral dissipation in the 2026 assembly election and the resolve of the RSS cadres and leaders not to undertake electioneering in West Bengal unless the party president J P Nadda apologises for his Lok Sabha election eve remarks against the RSS, has finally...
Hopes For A Truce Between Kurdish Militants And Turkiye Brighten
By Asad Mirza It appears that one of the Middle East’s most intractable conflicts might be nearing its end, and its ramifications will be felt far and wide, following the call for peace by PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. For half a century, Kurdish militants have fought Türkiye for independence...
A Dense Fog Has Descended Over Atlantic Disrupting 80 Year Old Ties
By Anjan Roy If you wanted to know the exact meaning of the English proverb “bearding the lion in its lair”, you should have seen the Oval Office meeting when an embattled president from a small, beleaguered country fought up to the grimaces and attacks from an immeasurably more...
