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.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...
Mayawati Is Apprehensive At Her Nephew Akash Anand’s Personal Popularity
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Rising popularity within the party and dalit youth and anti-BJP stance forced BSP national President Mayawati to remove her nephew and successor Akash Anand from all party posts. Mayawati is so shaken by the emerging powerful group of Akash Anand and his father-in- law Ashok...
State Governors In India Are Forgetting Primary Constitutional Duties
By Rishika & Raj Krishna “The Good Governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.” — Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes’s words best capture a governor’s expected role within a parliamentary democracy. The governor’s primary duties are consultation, encouragement, and advice. It is also expected that...
British Prime Minister’s Dangerous Delusions On Trump And Ukraine
By Ben Chacko LONDON: On the one hand, Keir Starmer hosts European and Canadian leaders for a summit on militarisation in response to the abrupt US policy shift on Ukraine. On the other Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu blocks all humanitarian aid to Gaza, threatening to derail the second phase of...
Is Europe Looking For A New Leader Of Free World After Trump-Zelenskyy Spat?
By Nitya Chakraborty Is the global geopolitics moving a full circle after 80 years since the end of the Second World War in 1945? The question is now extremely relevant after the world saw on Friday in TV channels the unprecedented spat between the United States president Donald Trump...
Darkest Phase Of India’s Capital Market Regulation History Ends With Buch’s Exit
By K Raveendran The departure of Madhabi Puri Buch from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) marks the end of what many consider the darkest period in the history of India’s market regulator. SEBI, the institution responsible for ensuring transparency, fairness, and accountability in India’s financial markets,...
Struggle For Supremacy Between Modi And Bhagwat Intensifies
By Arun Srivastava Bonhomie between RSS and BJP that enabled the BJP to win the Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi assembly elections, notwithstanding bitter acrimony between Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, appears to have been overshadowed by the fraternal rancour. The situation has acquired such heat...
Issue Of Wages To ASHA And Anganwadi Workers Is Again In Sharp Focus
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The issue of giving wages to Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and Anganwadi workers has again in sharp focus. Union Budget 2025-26 neither promised them to give status of the workers preventing them from getting even minimum wages, nor increased the little amount of honourariums...
Sambhal’s Shahi Jama Masjid Is Now A Disputed Structure As Per Allahabad Court
By Sushil Kutty Things are not happening along planned and expected lines for Sambhal’s Shahi Jama Masjid, i.e., as expected by the mosque’s Masjid Management Committee and “protector”, the Samajwadi Party. For example, is this Masjid also going the way of the Babri Masjid? The Allahabad High Court on...
A Woman Chief Minister Of BJP In Delhi Is Welcome, But What About Reservation Bill?
By Harsh Bodwal Rekha Gupta’s appointment as the Chief Minister of Delhi marks a significant political moment, not just for the Bharatiya Janata Party (‘BJP’), which has returned to power in the national capital after 27 years, but also for the broader discourse on women’s representation in Indian politics....
Gene Hackman Became A Great Hollywood Actor With His Working Class Background
By Eileen Jones NEW YORK: The late, great Gene Hackman was a working-class guy from Danville, Illinois, the son of a waitress and a pressman for a local newspaper who deserted the family when young Hackman was just thirteen. An avid moviegoer from childhood and a big fan of...
How The Opposition Combo INDIA Bloc Has Been Failing The Country’s People?
By Nitya Chakraborty Democratic rights activist Jagdeep S. Chhokar in his recent piece in the news portal The Wire mentions of his four conclusions on the state of Indian polity in the present stage after the BJP sweep in Delhi assembly polls. His four concluding points are- first, the...
IMF Paper Foresees Growth Momentum In Second Half Of 2025-26
By Anjan Roy The latest article four consultation papers of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) gives a unique peep into the state of the Indian economy from an outsiders’ point of view, tampered with inputs and interactions with the national economic managers. India’s latest review was released yesterday at...
Politics On Enforcement Of Hindi And Sidelining State Languages Turns Bitter
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The politics on enforcement of Hindi through multiple ways across the country and sidelining the languages of the states has turned bitter, first in Tamil Nadu, and now in Punjab. Both the states have objected to Modi government’s attitude on three language formula under National...
Trump’s AI Generated Video On Gaza Shows His Business Acumen As A Real Estate Developer
By Sushil Kutty US President Donald Trump’s AI-generated video on Gaza, which he uploaded on self-owned ‘Truth Social’, stumped the majority who sat down to watch it. They didn’t think Ai could have been more realistic than the works of celebrity filmmakers like James Cameron with their creative imaginations....
