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.Haryana’s New Procurement Policy: To Ease Or To Tease The Farmers?
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Why are the Farmers agitating and sloganeering against the Haryana government and its administration? Why are they worried about procurement of their crop produce despite the government’s assurances? Why are the opposition parties of the state slamming the government and supporting the farmers? Why...
On The Occasion Of Birth Anniversary Of Ambedkar, The Fight Against RSS Is Relevant
By Dr. Ram Puniyani As we will celebrate Babasaheb Ambedkar’s birth anniversary on 14th April (2026), it is also time to think as to what is the status of major teaching of Babasaheb about ‘annihilation of caste’. Caste-Varna system has been central to the practices of Hindu society, even...
Irrespective Of Two Week Ceasefire, Demand For Impeachment Of Trump Grows In U.S. Congress
By Asad Mirza It seems that President Trump’s Tuesday morning Truth Social post, which threatened “a whole civilisation will die tonight” and raised the spectre of nuclear war, has jolted the American lawmakers, and it has begun a chorus of calls either for Trump’s impeachment or for his removal...
Oil’s Relief Movement Due To Ceasefire Masks Deeper Market Risks
By K Raveendran Oil markets have responded to the Iran ceasefire in the way they often react to any pause in conflict near a critical supply artery: with visible relief, but not full conviction. Prices have pulled back sharply from their war-risk peaks as traders moved to price in...
West Bengal SIR An ‘Electoral Purge’, With 91 Lakh Excluded From Voting
By Arun Srivastava The rightist saffron ecosystem has launched a blitzkrieg on Mamata Banerjee in its bid to severely dent her political image on the eve of the West Bengal Assembly elections. In order to accomplish its objective of demolishing the West Bengal CM’s political career, the saffron brigade...
The BJP’s Three Phase Rephasing Of Indian State Is Steadily Taking Shape
By T N Ashok NEW DELHI: In the grand, triangular corridors of India’s Parliament, power has long been a game of two speeds. The Lok Sabha, or Lower House, is a theatre of populist surges and “brute” majorities. But the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House, has traditionally served as...
BJP State Chief, CPI(M)’s Sivankutty Locked In A Grim Battle In Nemom
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will Nemom, known as ‘Kerala’s Gujarat’, favour the BJP candidate and the party’s state chief Rajiv Chandrasekhar? That is the question doing the rounds in the State’s political corridors. While the BJP camp is ‘confident’ of wresting the seat from CPI(M) candidate V. Sivankutty, the...
Big Rise In School Dropouts During The Modi Regime Is A Matter Of Big Concern
By Krishna Jha Between 2015 and 2025, the country witnessed the closure of about 93000 government schools. It was simply denial of light, light of knowledge. Vast masses from the lower depths were stopped from crossing the barrier, without any explanation. Obviously the system had refused them the freedom...
Global Waste Generation Is Faster Than We Are Able To Handle
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global waste generation is faster than we are able to handle. It reached 2.56 billion tonnes in 2022, according to the new World Bank report “What a Waste 3.0” as against projected 2.59 billion tonnes by 2030 by “What a Waste 2.0” of 2018. Under...
Insider Trading On Iran Takes War Profiteering To A New Level In Last Five Weeks
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: While ordinary Americans watch gas prices climb, someone with a lot of money—and apparently the right connections—appears to have made a fortune in a single minute. On the morning of March 22, just before 7 a.m. Eastern time, oil futures markets lit up. In...
Fitness, Therapy And Confidence — The New Identity Of Swimming
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: Swimming has a very old relationship with human society. For communities living near rivers and ponds, it was once a life-saving skill. Over time, it became a sport, and gradually it started becoming a part of lifestyle. The growing number of swimming pools in cities...
China Goes All Out To Boost The New President Of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing
By Nitya Chakraborty China and Russia are the two major countries which are going the wholehog in boosting the Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing who has just been elected as the new President following national elections which were rigged, according to the international poll observers. India also exercised...
PM Narendra Modi And CM Mamata Engaged In A Fierce Confrontation In Bengal Poll Campaign
By T N Ashok On the campaign trail in Nadia, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee issued what amounted to one of the most extraordinary statements in recent Indian electoral history. She did not merely criticize Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She accused him, with remarkable specificity, of strategic silence...
South Asia’s Energy Crisis Exposes Its Import Dependent Fault Lines
By R. Suryamurthy The energy crisis gripping South Asia in 2026 is not simply the fallout of a distant geopolitical confrontation; it is the clearest evidence yet of a systemic fragility that policymakers have long acknowledged but persistently under-addressed. The disruption of the Strait of Hormuz—through which roughly 20...
Paravur: No Walkover For LoP VD Satheesan
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Paravur Assembly constituency, represented by Leader of the Opposition V. D. Satheesan, is witnessing a three-cornered contest. Satheesan’s main rival is CPI’s Tyson Master, who is a sitting MLA from Kaipamangalam. The candidature of Tyson will ensure that there is no walkover for Satheesan, who...
Barak Valley Bengalis Are Not Happy At CM Himanta Biswa Sharma’s Stance On Their Demands
By Rabindra Nath Sinha Has Himanta Biswa Sarma, who became chief minister of Assam on May 10, 2021 and is hoping for a repeat term, been fair with the Bengalis in the Barak Valley? The Barak Valley which is a prominent geographical and administrative region of the southernmost part...
India To Cross 300 Million Tonnes Steel Production Target By 2030
By Kunal Bose China, no doubt, is having success in restraining production and capacity management, an important aspect of which is to progressively increase the share of electric arc furnaces (EAF) in the country’s steel production. The rapid promotion of EAF based steel production will help the country in...
Dubai’s Gilded Gateway Loses Its Luster As The West Asian War Hits Big
By T N Ashok For six decades, Dubai International Airport was the ultimate proof of concept: that a city conjured from desert sand could outshine every rival simply by wanting it more. Sheikhs poured billions into terminals before demand materialized, groomed Emirates into a flying empire, and draped the...
