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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 Is Staking Lives At Risk By Committing Troops To Ukraine
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The geopolitics of Europe are moving. The least we should demand of our elected representatives in Parliament is a frank discussion of that. We have been denied one. When Russia launched its illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Labour MPs who signed a Stop...
Government Stake Dilution In PSE Should Aim At Their Faster Growth
By Nantoo Banerjee The government disinvestment in India’s state-controlled enterprises is always welcome if it is aimed to make them professionally managed entities for faster growth. Unfortunately, the haphazard disinvestments in public sector enterprises (PSE) by the government seem to have only a single purpose — financing part of...
Student Body To Float New Political Party In Bangladesh By Month End
By Satyaki Chakraborty The anti-discrimination students body which pioneered the massive upsurge in Bangladesh last year leading to the fall of the Awami League government on August 5 and abdication of the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India, is set to float their new political party with specific...
Trump’s Unilateral Tariff Hike Is A Challenge To International Trade Order
By Kunal Bose The world, much to its disappointment, is seeing the United States of America, which is the world largest economy and mightiest military power, rapidly embracing raw, unrestrained capitalism under the newly inaugurated second-term Presidency of Donald John Trump abandoning all traces of egalitarianism. Induction of Tesla...
Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu’s Two-Child Minimum Policy Is Puzzling
By Shanil Yakoob Almost a month to this day, on January 16, 2025, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu made a startling proposal. Individuals with fewer than two children, he suggested, should be disqualified from contesting local body elections. This announcement came just two months after his government...
Madhya Pradesh Government Holding Global Summit For Investing In The State
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Bhopal is decorating itself to accord warn welcome to over 100 big industrial magnets who will be in the capital city to attend Madhya Pradesh government sponsored Industrial Summit. The Summit will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 24. Nearly...
Trump’s Gaza Plan May Mark The End Of The Post Second World War Order
By A. Dirk Moses NEW YORK: US president Donald Trump’s proposal to annex the Gaza Strip and transfer its two million Palestinian inhabitants to Egypt and Jordan has provoked a predictable outcry. Virtually all Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia, oppose the idea. Human rights organizations and international lawyers...
Why Did The Prime Minister Lose His Cool When Asked A Question About Adani?
By Sushil Kutty The only time Prime Minister Narendra Modi lost his equilibrium at the joint press conference with President Donald Trump was when a journalist asked Modi if “Adani” had come up for discussion in the talks with President Trump. Visibly disturbed, Prime Minister told the journalist tersely...
Will Interim Govt In Bangladesh Soften Its Stance On India Following Trump-Modi Talks?
By Nitya Chakraborty The outcome of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with the U.S. President Donald Trump in White House on February 13 may have its impact on the interim government of Bangladesh headed by Dr. Mohammad Yunus, who is in power since August 8, 2024 in the wake...
Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ Has Modi’s India A Distant Second By Far
By K Raveendran The Indo-US joint declaration presents a striking imbalance, appearing more as a dictated statement than a mutually crafted agreement. The document is overwhelmingly skewed in favour of the United States, particularly in the domain of defence procurement, where it reads less like a diplomatic understanding and...
ILO Expert Committee Asks India To Amend Definition Of Wage
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In pursuance of Equality of opportunity and treatment, an ILO Committee of Experts has asked India again to amend the definition of wage, ensure job evaluation, equal remuneration for the same job to male and female workers, and end discrimination on religious or caste basis...
Prince Karim Aga Khan Was A Beacon Of Hope For The World’s Poor
By Matein Khalid V.S. Naipaul once said that ancestral memories are like “trap doors to a bottomless past”. This was my first thought when I heard about the death of HH Prince Karim Aga Khan, the 49th Imam Zaman of Islam’s Ismaili sect and unquestionably the world leader who...
British Marxist Sociologist Michael Burawoy Has Left A Rich Legacy
By Ruth Milkman LONDON: Michael Burawoy had three lifelong passions. The first was English football, specifically Manchester United, the team he supported from childhood and to which he remained loyal for the rest of his life. The other two were Marxism and sociology, into which he poured his prodigious...
Donald Trump Walked Away With All He Wanted At Bilateral Meet With Narendra Modi
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit the United States is more significant than ever at a time when the geo-political situation is fast changing, and new leaders take over in many countries. Modi’s scheduled meeting with US President Donald Trump on Thursday in White...
It Was A Mutual Admiration Show At White House During Donald Trump-Narendra Modi Meet
By Arun Srivastava US President Donald Trump welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a warm hug at his Oval Office in the White House on Thursday while describing Modi as a “great friend” for a long time and saying that they decided to take a big leap in broad-basing...
Who Is The Better Deal Maker – Donald Trump Or Narendra Modi?
By Sushil Kutty Watch out for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swag when he returns from the United States after his meeting with President Donald Trump. That is, if Prime Minister Modi doesn’t do a mid-air transfer to an F-35, which President Donald Trump agreed to give to India in...
Qualified Welcome For President’s Rule In Manipur
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s top leadership failed to see the writing on the wall last year when the Congress bagged both the Lok Sabha seats in Manipur, defeating BJP’s candidate for the Inner Manipur constituency and its ally Naga People’s Front’s nominee for the...
A Step Closer To Political Solution, But Uncertainty Looms Large In Manipur
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The President of India was obliged to impose President’s Rule in Manipur on February 13, 2025, for the 11th time in the last 57 years. It is in itself a manifestation of the political uncertainties under which the strife-torn Manipur has been suffering. President’s Rule...
