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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 Bhagwat Moots RSS Takeover Of Poll Management In Bengal
By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is on the ten day visit to Bengal beginning February 7 with the mission to find and project a “credible and charismatic face” who can pose a serious challenge to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and to prepare the state RSS leaders to...
Has Donald Trump Declared War Against Globalisation In His Second Term?
By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON: He’s hot, then he’s cold. He’s yes, then he’s no. He’s in, then he’s out. He’s up, then he’s down. Donald Trump appears to be all over the place when it comes to his trade war against Canada and Mexico, as well as in his...
CPI(M)’s Party Congress Draft Is Underestimating The Mamata Phenomenon In West Bengal
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has released its draft political resolution for the 24th congress of the Party to be held in Madurai in April this year. The last party congress was held in 2022 and so the coming congress held after three years, is...
Liability Of Foreign Suppliers Must Stay In Nuclear Damage Act, 2010 Provisions
By P Sudhir The Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has, in her budget speech, announced the government’s intention to amend the Atomic Energy Act and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010 (CLNDA). The amendment to the Atomic Energy Act is meant to facilitate the entry of the private...
Our Prime Minister Has His Unique Ways To Celebrate A Voting Day
By Sushil Kutty How come Prime Minister Narendra Modi always invariably makes a symbolic statement on Election Day, doesn’t matter where and when the election. Once, he sat in a cave in Kedarnath and meditated with eyes shut to what people thought of the gimmick as long as they...
Donald Trump’s Gaza Fantasy Is Pure Loco!
By Matein Khalid Trump’s vision of Gaza as a “riviera of the Middle East” at his press conference with Netanyahu, whose IDF warplanes, drones and tanks just butchered 45,000 Gazans is as deranged as it is surreal. Trump views Gaza as a New York real estate development opportunity as...
Sending By U.S. Illegal Immigrants Handcupped And Chained Is A Big Insult To India
By Arun Srivastava Trump administration finally accomplished its threat and sent back 104 illegal Indian immigrants through its army aircraft which landed in Amritsar on Wednesday. US could not be faulted for deporting the illegal migrants. But it is the manner in which the entire exercise was executed is...
2025-26 Budget Is A Cynical Exercise In Manipulating One Group Against The Other
By Prabhat Patnaik No budget in post-independence India had been as openly cynical about the lives of the vast masses of the working people as the one presented on February 1, 2025. All pundits, from the finance minister downwards, agree that the strategy of the budget is to stimulate...
2025-26 Budget Miserably Fails In Dealing With Present Job Crisis In The Country
By Krishna Jha Immediately after the happy moments of celebrating our Constitution on January 26 for completing its 75 years, came the budget. The pointers were many but the darkest was the slowdown, continuing and worsening, since last year. The budget estimated a nominal GDP growth rate of 10.1...
Donald Trump’s Announcement On Gaza Strip Is The Voice Of Real Estate Developer
By Anjan Roy Donald Trump, now used to roiling the world of politics and diplomacy on a daily basis, has turned his attention to strife-torn Gaza Strip. He now promises the US Imperialist Eagle to fly over the disputed area. The Trumpian proposal for Gaza however scarcely hide his...
Centrist Parties In Europe Are Flirting With Far Right In Govt Formation
By Francesca De Benedetti LONDON: Last month, the world’s richest man offered the leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) — a former member of the Hayek Society, a financial consultant, and still a staunch neoliberal — a global stage to say obscenities such as “Hitler was a...
Trump Tariffs Have Profound Impact On Global Oil Trade, OPEC Strategies
By K Raveendran OPEC+ is once again at the centre of a global energy crisis as it grapples with a new challenge posed by President Donald Trump’s tariffs on major crude oil suppliers. The tariffs, which include a 10 percent levy on Canadian oil and 25 percent on US...
RSS Cadres Were In Charge Of BJP’s Booth Management For Delhi Polls On February 5
By Arun Srivastava BJP winning Delhi assembly elections held on Wednesday with massive RSS pracharak’s participation in the poll battle is entwined with the basic issue of RSS’s existence and accomplishing its mission of Hindu Rashtra, more than Narendra Modi using the victory to showcase his supremacy. It also...
H-1B Visa For Indians Will Be The Major Issue For Discussion Between Trump And Modi
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: US planes destined for Punjab’s Amritsar landed on Wednesday noon with 205 undocumented Indians as part of President Donald Trump’s deportation plans as India confirmed their identities without comment and six more planes are due to land in the country shortly. Over 18,000...
Kejriwal Had Anxious Moments In His New Delhi Constituency On D-Day
By Sushil Kutty Did people vote for change in Delhi? The word reverberated the most in the New Delhi assembly constituency, which had the honour of being represented by AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal since before 2015. The former Delhi Chief Minister on the polling day on February 5 had...
Outlay For India’s MSME Sector For 2025-26 Is Still Less Than 2022-23 Amount
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman labelled MSMEs of India in her budget speech as the second engine in the growth story of India, boasted of significantly helping the sector under PM Narendra Modi led government, and announced several new schemes for them. However, in...
How International Law Sustains Climate Action Following U.S. Withdrawal
By Eklavya Vasudev In a move emblematic of his administration’s climate scepticism, President Trump signed the Executive Order Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements, signalling the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. While the procedural realities delay full disengagement until early 2026, the symbolic impact is immediate,...
Elon Musk’s Onslaught Against Federal Employees Facing Massive Protests
By John Wojcik and Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: Workers, unionized with AFGE and the Treasurers’ union, joined by their non-union colleagues, literally put their bodies on the line on Monday to block entrances into government buildings by operatives of Elon Musk who moved quickly to take over government servers in...
