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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 Chief Mohan Bhagwat Declares ‘True Independence Day’ Of India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On January 14, 2025, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat declared that India achieved its ‘True Independence’ on Ram Mandir’s consecration day in Ayodhya, that he called ‘Partishtha Dwadashi’. Ram Mandir was consecrated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22, 2024, but Bhagwat denied...
Donald Trump To Set The Agenda For Deliberations At World Economic Forum Meet
By Nitya Chakraborty The global body of the multinational CEOs World Economic Forum (WEF) meets annually in January end at Davos in Switzerland to discuss the global issues of development and technology but this year the 2025 conclave of WEF is going to witness an unusual affair of Donald...
Five European Countries Oppose Trump’s Formula For Defence Spending
By Satyaki Chakraborty Only a week before Donald Trump taking over as U.S. President on January 20, defence ministers of five European NATO member nations came out officially against U.S. President elect Donald Trump’s suggestion for raising defence spending to 5 per cent of the country’s GDP. The countries...
Cow Vigilantism Is Still Rampant Threatening Innocent People Of Minority Community
By Krishna Jha It is not the carnage yet, but horror keeps unfolding in various ways. One among them is cow vigilantism. The attack is real and fetal, and as usual the justification is irrational and horrific. A decade and more have gone by, but there has been no...
West Bengal BJP Is Still In Doldrums, No Breakthrough In Expansion
By Tirthankar Mitra Riven with factionalism made worse by a rank and file lowering in morale, West Bengal unit of BJP is not a political outfit which has some reasons to fulfil its promise to emerge as the ruling dispensation of the state post 2026 Assembly elections. Nowhere matching...
Delhi Slums And Unauthorised Colonies Possess The Key To Winning Delhi
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The way AAP, BJP and the Congress have been trying to woo the electorates living in Delhi’s slums, unauthorized colonies, and less developed areas, it is increasingly becoming clear that the key to winning the legislative elections lies with them. Over 50 per cent of...
President Zoran Milanovic’s Reelection In Croatia Is A Big Rebuff To Trump-Musk Far Right Threat To Europe
By Satyaki Chakraborty Is Europe finally giving a rebuff to the far right offensive to its democratic functioning by the Donald Trump-Elon Musk combination? The issue is now being discussed widely in European political circles after the resounding victory of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate Zoran Milanovic in...
Talk Of ‘Hindu Sherni’ Nupur Sharma Contesting As BJP Candidate Has No Basis
By Sushil Kutty A video of the castaway BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma taking part in a ‘Jan Jagran Yatra’ ahead of the Ayodhya Ram Mandir ‘pran pratishta’ claiming that this was Nupur Sharma campaigning for the upcoming Delhi assembly elections was fact-checked and found wrong. Unlike ‘Meta’, Facebook’s parent-body,...
Industrial Investment Climate In West Bengal Is Showing Some Positive Signs
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: It is time to say with a degree of confidence that an investment drought that has afflicted West Bengal all these years has started disappearing and the first signs of a sustainable improvement have become visible. The situation had turned worse after the Tatas...
Strict Regulation Of Private Healthcare System Is An Immediate Imperative For India
By Dr Abhay Shukla In December 2024, another shocking case of violation of patients’ rights and huge financial demand by a private hospital sparked public outrage and media attention. During this incident in Pune, the family of 35-year-old Tejaswini, who passed away on December 9, 2024, was forced to...
Trumpeting A US Annexation Of Canada, Greenland May Not Be A Wishful Thinking
By Nantoo Banerjee There seems to exist a method in US President-elect Donald Trump’s madness when he talks about his desire to annex Canada and Greenland, and renaming the Gulf of Mexico among others. A US annexation of Canada is possible through a treaty between the two countries involving...
Vatican Appointing Simona Brambilla As Prefect Is Of Historic Significance
By Kalyani Shankar Two dramatic announcements were made last month that could significantly advance women’s empowerment worldwide. The first was a historic decision from the Vatican, which saw Pope Francis appoint Sister Simona Brambilla as the Prefect for the first time. This 59-year-old Consolata Missionary, previously the second-in-command of...
Home Minister Amit Shah’s End Of ‘Politics Of Betrayal’ Reference Has Twin Targets
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It is only after a week of Uddhav Thackeray’s ‘Saamana’ praising its political adversary BJP leader and Chief Minister of the state Devendra Fadnavis and a reported reunion efforts between the NCP factions led by Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar, Union Minister of Home Amit...
Greenland Can Be Another Mara-A-Lago Of Donald Trump Family
By Sushil Kutty Is Donald Trump Jr behind President-elect Donald Trump’s wish to buy, occupy Greenland? Donald Trump, the real-estate hobo, probably got influenced by Trump Jr and wants to humour his eldest. Donald Trump Jr was recently in Greenland, what’s the hurry? Trump sought to buy Greenland in...
Latest U.S. Study Debunks MAGA Hawks Claims About US Youth Losing Jobs Due To Immigrants
By Kunal Bose What is brain waste? The term is used in reference to immigrants in developed countries whose educational achievements, professional distinction, language skills and legal status are often undervalued leading to their underemployment or unemployment. It is not that their native born peers are never victims of...
Growing High Tech Deepening The Divide Between Developed And Emerging Economies
By Satyaki Chakraborty The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 report released in Geneva on January 13 highlights the increasing complexity in the cyber landscape, which has significant implications for organizations and nations. This complexity arises from the rapid growth of emerging technologies, prevailing geopolitical uncertainty, the evolution...
India-Afghanistan Cordial Relations Is A Win-Win Situation For Both
By Asad Mirza The pragmatic Indian move to court Taliban 2.0 has sent ripples in the region, particularly in Pakistan, their common foe. This bold Indian move will definitely serve well to safeguard its regional security concerns besides helping boost its aim to emerge as a regional leader. Last...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Surrenders To Trump By Doing Away With Fact Checking
By Chauncey K. Robinson NEW YORK: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a video this week announcing that all of his company’s platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc.) will do away with their fact-checking programs. Although the tech CEO framed his new policies as a defense of free speech against excessive...
