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.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Facing Revolt In His Party Over Big Loss In Council Polls
By Arun Srivastava Conservatives have been the biggest loser in the local council elections in Britain held on last Thursday but it is the looming threat perception of ultra-rightist forces taking control of the destiny of the Britons that has forced the Labour leaders and its cadres to rebel...
Madhya Pradesh Congress Plans Big Party Conclave In Jabalpur In August
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: While the Madhya Pradesh Congress is making all out efforts to strengthen party organization, the state government is facing serious financial crisis. The Congress has decided to hold a huge party conclave at Jabalpur. Jabalpur has a history. It was here that during freedom...
To Strike Or Not To Strike Pakistan Is The Big Question Before India
By Nantoo Banerjee Amazing are the ways of the Indian government and the country’s political satraps to deal with frequent Islamist terror attacks on India’s innocent citizens. In the last one month or so, the organized Islamist terror in West Bengal’s Muslim-majority Murshidabad district had led to massive destruction...
Indus Waters Diversion Can Catch Fire And Engulf The Entire Continent
By Anjan Roy Water can catch fire easily. When it comes to the Indus waters, we are seeing how combustible it could be —at least verbally for now. It might even be the flashpoint for a wider conflagration, an armed conflict. But there are sobering thoughts as well. It...
Karl Marx’s Teachings Had Big Impact Amongst Indians In 19th Century
By Pradip Bakshi KOLKATA: Karl Marx was born in Germany on May 5, 1818. He died in 1883 in London. India appeared in the writings of Marx and Engels over a period of about four decades: from the 1840s to the 1880s. The first reference to India — to...
Mamata Banerjee Has Outsmarted The Bengal BJP Through Temple Building At Digha
By Kalyani Shankar There is a growing conflict and temple war in West Bengal surrounding the inauguration of the Jagannath temple in Digha, a significant event that opened on April 30 during the auspicious occasion of Akshaya Tritiya. The Bengal’s Jagannath Dham mirrors the renowned Puri Jagannath Temple, and...
Jagannath Dham Controversy Has A Lesson For Non-BJP Hindus
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Jagannath Dham literally means the “Abode of the Lord of the World”. Sri Jagannatha Temple at Puri is called Jagannath Dham, since it is abode of Jagannath, Krishna, who was one of the ten incarnations of Vishnu in Hindu mythology.BJP led government of Odisha has...
INDIA Bloc Constituents Determined To Defeat NDA In Next Assembly Polls In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Well before RSS could strike at the fundamentals of the INDIA bloc and make it dysfunctional at the block level before the assembly elections in Bihar by th3 end of 2025,, the INDIA bloc retaliated and stuck hard at the saffron ecosystem at its third coordination...
Pakistani Actor Fawad Khan’s ‘Äbir Gulaal’ Release On May 9 In India In Doubt
By Sushil Kutty ‘Abir Gulaal’ was Indian actress Vaani Kapoor’s film till Pahalgam became a terrorist blockbuster. Paired with Pakistani actor Fawad Khan, Vaani was looking forward to a block-buster release for ‘Abir Gulaal’, but it didn’t play out quite like she thought, indicating that there’s more to India-Pakistan...
Strident Meitei Resolution Blames Home Ministry For Manipur Crisis
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Anger against and blaming it all on the Union home ministry are conspicuous in the resolution adopted by Meitei organisations on Saturday May 3 to mark the second anniversary of the widespread Manipur ethnic violence that broke out on May 3, 2023on the issue...
Taliban Regime Of Afghanistan Gaining International Support
By Asad Mirza Since 2021, seizing power yet again after a gap of 20 years, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers were termed as ‘pariahs’ and shunned by the international community, but recently the hard-line militants have notched up some big wins in their diplomatic efforts to forge international ties. Coming back...
Dilip Ghosh’s Meeting With Mamata At Digha Intensifies BJP’s Factional Wars
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: It is an open secret that West Bengal unit of BJP is a divided house. Another yawning crack in it is discernible post former state chief Dilip Ghosh’s visit to the inauguration ceremony of Jagannath temple in Digha at chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s invitation. Senior...
India Has Stronger Case To Get Pakistan Back On The FATF Grey List
By K Raveendran India is intensifying its diplomatic offensive against Pakistan, with efforts now underway to push for Islamabad’s re-listing on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list. This renewed push, backed by an unusually strong expression of support from the Trump-led U.S. administration, marks a strategic escalation...
Call For May 20 All India Workers’ Strike Getting Wider Support
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The two-months workers’ campaign against the new labour codes and privatization of public sector undertakings, that began on March 18, 2025 at the National Convention of workers in New Delhi with a call for an all India workers strike on May 20, has been getting...
British Far Right Reform Party’s Big Win In Local Elections Is Ominous For Both Tories And Labour
By Satyaki Chakraborty Britain’s politics witnessed a shakeout leaning towards far right as the pro-Trump Nikel Farage’s Reform Party UK trounced both the entrenched Tories and the Labour Party in the local council elections held on Thursday signalling the arrival of new leader Nikel Farage who triumphantly announced after...
The Story Of Minal Khan, A Pakistani Wife Of An Indian CRPF Staff
By Sushil Kutty Munir Ahmed is the fifth happiest man in Jammu & Kashmir. The four others are the ones who have escaped the dragnet. The four (five?) who shot dead 26 Indians and a Nepal national in the Pahalgam meadow. These terrorists continue to elude security including CRPF...
Vizhinjam Port Commissioning: A Dream Comes True In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It should have been a momentous occasion in the annals of not only Kerala’s history but also that of the whole country. But the solemnity of the occasion was marred by the ugly display of petty politics. The reference is to the commissioning of the...
The War Frenzy Against Pakistan Must Cool Down – Extreme Caution Is Needed
By Dr Arun Mitra Reaction to the killing of innocent tourists by the terrorists in Pahalgam has been full of grief, resentment, anger and revenge. This is on expected lines when any such incident occurs. But good thing is that the people of Kashmir have out rightly rejected the...
