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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.RSS Leadership Finally Leaves The Choice Of New BJP President To Narendra Modi
By Arun Srivastava Once again Narendra Modi prevailed upon the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat not to force their decision upon the BJP leadership to replace the current incumbent J P Nadda with a new chief of their choice. Though the general opinion of the delegates, prant pracharaks, which got...
Tax Structure Under New Trump Act Disfavours Salaried American People
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The commonly held belief that the middle class in the U.S. pays more taxes than wealthy millionaires on average is not absolutely incorrect if one looks at the way the tax is structured in favour of investors and against fixed income groups. The...
New Bengal BJP President’s Soft Line For Muslims Angers Party Cadres
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Samik Bhattacharya, the newly nominated President of West Bengal unit of BJP is between a rock and a hard place. Fissures threaten to turn into cracks as his maiden address as state party chief pacifying Muslims about his party’s intent towards this community sounded hollow...
India Is Eating More, But Not Better — Why Our Nutrition Crisis Persists
By R. Suryamurthy India has long prided itself on achieving self-sufficiency in food production. We have warehouses overflowing with grain, a sprawling public distribution system, and a catalogue of welfare schemes promising to end hunger. But behind the façade of abundance lies a quieter, more insidious crisis — one...
Discussions On Draft Joint Declaration At BRICS Summit Showing Sharp Divide
By Nitya Chakraborty On the eve of the 17th BRICS Summit scheduled at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on July 6 and 7, the ongoing discussions among the senior officials of the member countries for the preparation of the draft joint declaration from the Summit, are showing big divergence...
Oil Cartel Shedding Its Price Hawk Role In Favour Of Market-Driven Strategies
By K Raveendran OPEC+ appears to be navigating one of its most intricate balancing acts in recent years as it prepares to announce a fourth consecutive production hike. The move, at first glance, seems at odds with its long-standing goal of stabilizing and supporting oil prices. The geopolitical volatility...
All India Workers’ Strike On July 9 Will Be A Time Of Reckoning
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All indications emanating from the industrial belts across the country suggest that the All India Workers’ Strike on July 9, 2025 will be a time of reckoning, the consequences of which, whether good or bad, must be faced and dealt with, both by the workers’...
Why The World Is Not Leaving China Despite Western Narratives?
By Imran Khalid In a global economic environment that remains shaky and uneven, China’s ability to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) is more than just a bright spot – it’s a quiet vindication of long-term planning, policy stability, and a commitment to innovation-led growth. Contrary to Western narratives of...
Fifteen Comrades Of Fr. Stan Swamy Resolve To Carry Forward His Struggle For Adivasi Rights
By Indrani Chakraborty Exactly four years ago on July 5, 2021 Fr. Stan Swamy died in judicial custody due to medical negligence in what many objectively term as an ‘institutional killing.’ Recalling his life and legacy dedicated to the Dalit and Adivasi rights movements, fifteen friends, warped themselves in...
Jeremy Corbyn’s New Party Of Pro-Left Labour In Britain Is Now A Reality
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Zarah Sultana’s announcement on co-leading the founding of a new party with Jeremy Corbyn will be welcomed across much of the left. It does not come out of the blue. Work to bring together a socialist election-fighting machine around the former Labour leader has proceeded...
India Off The Track In Several SDG Goals, Significant Challenges Persist
By Dr. Gyan Pathak One decade has passed of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), yet India is off the track in several of them which require intensified and focused interventions to achieve the targets by 2030. While notable progress has been made in several sectors, significant...
After The Passing Of Big Beautiful Bill In The House, Trump May Be More Autocratic
By Sushil Kutty July 4, big day for the United States, and President Donald Trump’s “signature piece of legislation”, his ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is on his desk in the ‘Oval’ for his sprawling signature. ‘BBB’ was passed on Thursday and includes trillions of dollars in tax and spending cuts....
Ruling BJP’s Attack On Nehru-Mahalanobis Model Of Development Has Ulterior Motives
By Prabhat Patnaik The Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy which broadly underlay the entire dirigiste period is now being intensely vilified, not just by the Modi crowd, but even by neoliberal elements within the Congress and outside. As neoliberalism gets deeper into crisis and as disillusionment with it becomes more pervasive, its...
NDA Partner Apna Dal(S) Facing Split In Uttar Pradesh, Two Years Before State Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: NDA partner Apna Dal (S) headed by Union Minister Anupriya Patel and her husband Asheesh Patel is heading for a split two years before assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh scheduled in 2027.On the occasion of birth anniversary of the founder of Apna Dal Dr Sonelal...
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Is Currently Favourite As New BJP National President
By Rahil Nora Chopra With organisational elections which have been completed in over a dozen states, there is a assured possibility that the BJP will announce the name of a consensus candidate as its next national president after Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns from his foreign tour. As per...
RSS and BJP Did Never Fight Against Emergency Imposed By Indira Gandhi In 1975
By Dr. Ram Puniyani This June (2025), the country did observe the 50th year of the Emergency which was imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1975. Lots have been written about this period when many democratic liberties stood suspended, thousands were jailed and the media was muzzled. This period is...
Mexico Is Showing The World How To Stand Up To Donald Trump’s Bullying
By Kurt Hackbarth MEXICO CITY: On Sunday, March 9, over 350,000 people crammed into Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo, in repudiation of US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Just days before, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the reaching of an agreement which, under the cover of the United States–Mexico–Canada...
Congolese Leader Patrice Lumumba Is Still Remembered On His Centenary
By Keith Barlow LONDON: July 2 marked the centenary of the birth of the Congolese independence leader, Patrice Emery Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and icon of the anti-colonial struggle in Africa. Alongside independence leaders like Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana,...
