Opinion
Appeal
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.Many Nepalese Gorkhas Joining Foreign Mercenary Groups Including China
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Recent reports about the number of Nepalese Gorkhas joining mercenary groups like Wagner army of Russia may be exaggerated, but Indian government is still concerned about China making a fresh attempt to recruit them as soldiers. For some time, news of Nepalese Gorkhas...
Fitch downgrade of U.S. Debt hastens Dollar’s Displacement as Default Global Currency
By K Raveendran When empires fall, they don’t exactly come crashing down. It is a process that takes time to complete. So when rating agency Fitch decided to lower the credit rating of the United States triple A to AA+, the market was not expecting the heavens to fall....
Challenges From Modi Awaiting Rahul On His Way To Parliament
By Arun Srivastava Notwithstanding Rahul Gandhi reiterating his absolute belief that ultimately truth had prevailed, as Supreme Court suspended his defamation conviction allowing him to return to Parliament, it would be sheer naiveté to believe that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would accept this humiliation lying low. The...
Rahul Gandhi Is Emerging As The Defacto Congress Face Of Prime Minister In 2024 Polls
By Sushil Kutty Lalu Prasad Yadav fed him Champaran-style mutton curry and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said Rahul Gandhi is the only opposition leader who can trounce Narendra Modi and become the Prime Minister of 2024 India. “He is the Congress party’s Prime Ministerial Face,” Gehlot...
Nitin Gadkari Is The Best Performing Minister In Narendra Modi Cabinet
By Harihar Swarup India is on the move, on the fast lane. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focus on boosting infrastructure as an engine of growth, the country added more than 50,000 lane kilometers (length of each new lane built) to its highway system in the past nine...
Adani Group’s Ride In Sri Lanka’s Energy Sector Raises Concerns In Colombo
By Girish Linganna India’s recent actions in Sri Lanka are seen as a part of its strategy to increase its influence and presence in South Asia. India aims to establish itself as the dominant player in the region. However, experts warn that the differing power dynamics between...
Ignoring SDG8 Will Lock Humanity In Cycle Of Crisis And Conflict
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The World is observing August as the month of SDG8, one of the 17 goals that were agreed upon by the global community in 2015 to improve the lives of all people by 2030 and to protect the planet we live in. Unfortunately, the...
Poking The Americans In The Eye Appears To Be A Saudi Pastime
By James M Dorsey In the latest incident, Saudi Arabia detained five relatives of a US resident whose family in 2020 filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania against the Saudi government in a long-standing commercial dispute involving an oil refinery on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, according...
Military Coup In West African Nation Niger Is A Sort Of Outburst Against US Domination
By Matthew Hunter News of a military coup in the West African country of Niger has reignited condemnations of the colonial West, and marks at least the 10th coup in the Sahel region since 2008: Burkina Faso (2014, 2015, 2022), Mali (2012, 2020, 2021), Mauritania (2008), Gambia...
Yes, We Got It Right: IPA Predicted Supreme Court Stay On Rahul’s Conviction
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has stayed Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in the Modi defamation case and restored his Lok Sabha membership. The apex court also questioned the wisdom of the trial judge and the higher court in awarding the maximum punishment in the alleged offence, which made...
Supreme Court Verdict Staying Rahul Gandhi’s Conviction Has Shaken BJP, RSS
By Arun Srivastava For andha bhakts (blind disciples) of Narendra Modi, Supreme Court staying the conviction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a 2019 defamation case over his Modi surname remark and restoring his status as an MP must have come as a rude shock to the...
Morgan Stanley Upgrading India Is A Good Signal For Foreign Investors
By Anjan Roy Morgan Stanley, a widely respected global investment bank, has upgraded India’s rating. This essentially means the bank now is now arguing it is worthwhile investing in India on the basis of the macro-economic data on the performance of the Indian economy. At the same time,...
The Very Foundation Of Our Great Nation Is At Stake Under BJP Rule
By D Raja More than seven decades back, Dr Ambedkar had warned that “on the 26th of January, 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality.” In our times...
The Introduction Of ’Universal Basic Income’ In India Has To Face A Lot Of Problems
By Prabhat Patnaik Many economists have been advocating a universal basic income for India, an idea that was mooted even in the official Economic Survey for 2016-17. Of course the practical proposals towards this end have varied, some suggesting a common universal transfer to all persons below a...
Politics Of Communalism Spreading On The Eve Of 2024 Polls
By Gyan Pathak Communal Violence between religious groups has almost nothing to do with religion, but to politics. This is true even with incidents of communal violence between the Majority Hindu community and the minority communities especially Muslims and Christians in India. As we are approaching closer to...
Communal Incidents Become More Frequent Before Impendng Elections
By Sushil Kutty Monu Manesar and MLA Mamman Khan. Cow vigilante and cow smuggler. Temple and Mosque. Guns, rifles, stones, arson and beatings… ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ and assorted other violence – that is the Nuh region of Mewat in Haryana, bordering the National Capital Region of...
Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi Is MP Again After Conviction Stayed By SC
By Rahil Nora Chopra Post Karnataka victory and the success of Bharat Jodo Yatra, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s personal stature has grown remarkably and he emerged as the opposition face against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Bharat Jodo Yatra’s message of love and fraternity has emerged as...
India And China Can Start The Process Of Active Engagement In Geopolitics
By Tirthankar Mitra In the aftermath of Wagner rebellion Sino-Russian relations is not what it used to be earlier.. It was a “bromance” between two most powerful authoritarians, President Xi Jingping of China and President Vladimir Putin of Russia and the uprising was the most significant to the...
