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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.Assam Assembly Polls: Congress-Led Combine Getting Its Act Together
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: The Congress-led opposition, despite intra- and inter-party dissentions, is slowly but steadily getting its act together to unseat the BJP-led NDA coalition, which is in power for the second term in Assam, where elections for the 126-member Assembly are expected to be held between...
Trump’s Defeat In Supreme Court On Tariffs Has Now Turned From Legal Battle To Political
By Rohit Tripathi The now famous tariffs case, known as the Learning Resources case (named after the plaintiffs), is now in the books. The tumultuous second term of President Donald Trump anchored its economic renewal strategy on an unprecedented tariff strategy that was bound to find its way to...
Caste Based Smaller Groups Gear Up For Bargaining With BJP And SP Before Up Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh is witnessing intense fight by major political parties to win over caste based parties and various caste groups 11 months before crucial 2027 assembly polls. On the other hand the caste based parties and various groups are now asserting to bargain in term...
Just Released Nuremberg Film Is A Psychological Thriller On Hitler Aide Goering
By T N Ashok Eighty years after Hermann Goering smuggled cyanide past his guards and cheated the hangman, Hollywood has returned to Nuremberg — not to replay the verdict, but to probe the mind behind the crime. The 2025 film Nuremberg, directed with deliberate restraint and anchored by Russell...
India Should Adopt ‘Trustworthy’ AI Tools To Stay Safe And Transparent
By Nantoo Banerjee The global AI impact summit 2026 in Delhi, last week, couldn’t have come at a more appropriate time when the world continues to be somewhat skeptical about adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), its limitations and potential consequences. Thanks to the pioneering effort by firms such as...
How U.S. Deals With Dhaka And Delhi Are Redrawing The Region’s Economic Map
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Within the span of seventy-two hours in early February 2026, the United States signed two agreements that, taken together, may do more to reshape South Asian trade dynamics than anything since the formation of SAFTA. Even though following Supreme Court verdict nullifying Trump’s...
Indian Exporters Still Can Extract Benefits In U.S. Market In Some Key Industries
By Subrata Majumder Amid concern over Trump’s high tariff, a new ray of hope beckons for a new face of India’s export basket, which will yield higher value addition and manufacturing excellence. Hitherto, traditional industries were dominant in the export basket, prioritizing labour intensive industries and agricultural products, but...
Indian Exporters Are In Total Confusion About On Tariff After U.S. Supreme Court Verdict
By Anjan Roy The US Supreme Court’s striking the Donald Trump’s tariffs has pulverised the president in more ways than one. Trump had sworn by tariffs as the ultimate tool in his hands; the judgement has shown Trump his place —he is not supreme. Politically, it could not have...
Pakistan Bombs Afghan Terrorists While Nurturing Its Own Against India
By T.N. Ashok In the same week that Pakistan’s air force struck seven militant hideouts inside Afghanistan, killing 70 suspected Tehrik-e-Taliban fighters in retaliation for suicide bombings in Islamabad, Bajaur and Bannu, Delhi Police and the National Investigation Agency were quietly rolling up a very different kind of network...
New Delhi Declaration On AI Summit Is A Global Vision On Effective Collaboration
By Kalyani Shankar India’s recent AI summit concluded with the New Delhi Declaration, engaging 88 nations and marking a major milestone in global AI regulatory efforts, highlighting India’s growing influence on the international stage. The declaration presents a global vision for “collaborative, trusted, resilient, and efficient” artificial Intelligence, highlighting...
Deaths Of People Due To Contaminated Water Increasing In BJP Ruled States
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Hardly any quarter of time goes when no news of death caused by contaminated water gets the highlight in the media, but who cares? Even after eight decades of India’s independence, why are our own rulers failing to provide sufficient and potable water? Why...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz Challenges Trump Version Of Europe
By Asad Mirza In the backdrop of a continuous barrage of new American interpretations of the global law, threats and actions against unfriendly states, at least one leader has tried to show a mirror to the American President Donald Trump. Under Trump’s rule in the last 13 months most...
How A Supreme Court Ruling And A Russian Oil Gambit Rewrote India’s Trade Destiny
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: When the Supreme Court of the United States struck down Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs on February 20, delivering a 6–3 verdict that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 confers no authority to impose broad-spectrum duties without Congressional approval, the most...
Learning To Live With ‘Shirtless Protest’ At India AI Summit
By K Raveendran Global summits have long offered a global stage not only for heads of government and corporate leaders but also for those who oppose them. Protest movements have learnt to converge where television cameras, diplomats and policy makers gather, turning high-profile meetings into arenas of dissent as...
Gujarat Govt’s Latest Marriage Notification Order Has Ominous Consequences
By T N Ashok Last Friday, in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi rose to announce what the BJP government described as a measured administrative reform. Couples who elope and wish to register their marriage, Sanghavi explained, would henceforth be required to submit...
Why Madras High Court Ruling On Cryptocurrency As Property Sets A Critical Precedence
By Harsh Gour In October 2025, the Madras High Court took a noteworthy step in India’s crypto framework. The High Court had to decide on whether a digital token – bought on a Mumbai-based exchange and lost in a cyber-attack – could be treated as “property” under Indian law....
Iconic Bengali Writer Shankar’s Death Leaves A Void In Literary Arena
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Mani Shankar Mukherjee, better named as Shankar, passed away in Kolkata on Friday, February 20 imparting grief to thousands of his readers who enjoyed his story telling power portrayed through hundreds of his works. He was 92. One hardly comes across a person who is...
Why Communist Manifesto Written By Marx And Engels In 1848 Is Relevant Now
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Saturday February 21 is the anniversary of the 1848 publication of The Manifesto of the Communist Party drafted by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and adopted by the International Working Man’s Association in 1864. We mark this event each year with Red Books Day in...
