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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.Strengthening National Security Gets Big Focus In 2025-26 Defence Budget
By Girish Linganna India has allocated Rs 6.81 lakh crore (approximately US$82.6 billion) for defence in the financial year (FY) 2025-26, marking a 9.53 per cent increase from the previous year’s Budget of Rs 6.22 lakh crore. This increase highlights the country’s focus on modernizing the military and strengthening...
U.S. President Donald Trump Is Aiming At A New Palestine Free Of Palestinians
By Asad Mirza Like many of his recent illogical Presidential orders or statements, President Trump is trying to drive out Palestinians from the occupied territories, into other Arab nations. But the story has a twist, as it has emerged that the Palestinian land in the West Bank is being...
Budget 2025-26 Gives No Guarantee For Generating Enough Jobs To Meet Present Crisis
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman has emphasized on 100 per cent skilled labour with meaningful employment; 100 per cent quality, good school education; and access to quality, affordable and comprehensive healthcare as part of Vikasit Bharat initiative in her speech while presenting Union Budget...
Just Tax Relief For Lower And Middle Class Not Adequate To Pep Up Demand
By Anjan Roy The only big idea about the eighth budget of finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, is an announcement of an income tax exemption of upto Rs 12 lakhs. It is a big jump no doubt, from the exemption level of Rs 7 lakh earlier. There is a political...
Will Income Tax Relief In Budget Before February 5 Delhi Polls Help BJP?
By Sushil Kutty All those with a salary upto Rs 12 lakh per annum can tell Income Tax sharks to get the hell out to sea and not return. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman read out her eighth straight budget speech and beat Morarji Desai’s six-in-a-row record. More importantly, Prime...
Time For India To Combine ‘Jugaad’ Culture With Ai To Catch Up With China
By K Raveendran Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget announcement to establish five national Centres of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education, with an allocation of Rs 500 crore, marks a significant step in India’s AI ambitions. These centres, developed through global partnerships and integrated into premier institutions like...
Hindu Saints To Unveil Constitution Of Akhand Hindu Rashtra On February 2
By Arun Srivastava Foreboding that the Hindutva fanatics and saffron ecosystem would convert India into a theocratic state and christen it as the Hindu Rashtra in 2025 appears to be taking a realistic shape and character with the Hindu saints and rightist forces unveiling the “Constitution of Akhand Hindu...
Eastern States Like Bengal, Odisha Pitching For More Large Investments For Industry
By Kunal Bose One state may call it business summit and another investor meet. But the commonalities in the publicity campaign preceding such conclaves – some states do it annually and some others like West Bengal have opted for once in two years – are striking. States big and...
TROPEX-25 Exercises Signal The Mighty Unified Strength Of Indian Navy
By Aritra Banerjee In a rare and powerful display of naval strength, India’s two major naval forces—the Western and Eastern Fleets—came together during the ongoing TROPEX-25 exercise. This marks a major shift in India’s approach to maritime security, showing that the country is prepared to respond to threats in...
Damascus Should Realise That The Only Way Forward Is Talks
By Manish Rai Turkey’s proxy groups like the Syrian National Army (SNA) which is also part of a coalition of Syrian opposition groups led by Hayat Taheer Al-Sham (HTS) have been attacking the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in North Syrian since December 2024. In particular, fierce fighting along...
Complaint filed against Kejriwal for Sports University corruption
Parvesh Verma, the BJP’s candidate in the New Delhi assembly constituency, filed a complaint with the anti-corruption bureau against Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of being involved in alleged corruption linked to the Delhi Sports University. Verma, the former BJP MP, will take on Arvind Kejriwal...
Is Narendra Modi Ditching Proposed Visit Of President Putin To India At The Prodding Of Trump?
By Nitya Chakraborty What is happening to the proposed official visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to India early this year? Is the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to the Russian President to visit India given at the BRICS summit at Kazan on October 22 still valid? Doubts...
Economic Survey 2024-25 Signals Present Turmoil To Continue Next Fiscal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The key narrative of the Economic Survey 2024-25is that India’s real GDP growth in the financial year 2025-26 is expected to be between 6.3 to 6.8 per cent, suggesting a sluggish economic condition for the country in the next financial year. Since India’s GDP growth...
China’s Latest AI Model DeepSeek Poses A Challenge To Indian Developers
By Anjan Roy The sudden emergence of a Chinese AI model has upset the settled world of Western AI industry. The Chinese had released its indigenously developed AI machine in the third week of January 2025. What followed thereafter is anarchy. Technology majors of America suffered market capitalisation loss...
PM Narendra Modi Invokes Maa Lakshmi To Win Delhi Polls For The BJP
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is sucking up to the gods ahead of his government’s second budget of his third term. The god he chose, but, of course, ‘Maa Lakshmi’, the goddess of wealth and prosperity. Somebody spoke of a ‘Hindu goddess’, which is ridiculous because monotheistic...
Administrative Mismanagement And VVIP Focus Contributed To Stampede
By Arun Srivastava There is no more ambiguity. The lid on the stampede tragedy at the Mahakumbh in which more than hundred pilgrims died according to unofficial reports, though the Uttar Pradesh government put the figure at thirty, has been taken off. At least three reasons are said to...
Cross-Firing In Buffer Zones Halted – Manipur Situation “Somewhat Better”
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: “Somewhat better in recent days” is what regular Manipur watchers say, perhaps, for the first time in 21 months since the outbreak of ethnic violence in the north-eastern state on May 3, 2023 between Meiteis and Kuki tribals. The reference is obviously to the...
Will Rahul Gandhi’s Dalit-OBC-Muslim Outreach Reap Dividends In Delhi?
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the assembly elections in Delhi moving towards a triangular electoral battle, the BJP, Congress and AAP have been locking horns head-on. Meanwhile, the AAP vs. Congress battle is also heating up. Congress MP and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi...
