Opinion
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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.Political Leadership Takes Final Decision On War, Not Army Chiefs
By Sushil Kutty The more the three armed forces’ chiefs sit on a decision to strike at Pakistan with uncommon force, the more the chance Pakistan will escape with inconsequential punishment. Point being made is that in the Indian context, a decision on whether or not to go to...
Recessionary Fears Haunt U.S. Economy Once Again As GDP Contracts In First Quarter
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta forecast a sharp decline of 2.7% for US GDP in the first quarter of 2025. That would mark the worst quarter since the Covid era in mid-2020. The US economy has just witnessed its worst quarter since...
Pahalgam Tragedy: What Is The Best Way Ahead For Peace In Kashmir?
By Dr. Ram Puniyani The killing of 26 tourists and injuring of many more tourists in Baisaran in Kashmir was a tragedy beyond words. The terrorists claimed to be part of Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’s front ‘The Resistance Front’, who have taken the responsibility for this dastardly act. They identified...
Will The Latin American Nations Jointly Challenge Trump On Tariff War?
By Pablo Castaño NEW YORK: On December 2, 1823, US president James Monroe declared that the American continent “was no longer to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” With these apparently well-intended words, the “Monroe Doctrine” was born, which eventually became synonymous with US...
Next Presidential Elections In Bolivia On August 17 This Year Will Be A Stormy One
By W. T. Whitney Jr. NEW YORK: In advance of presidential elections on August 17, 2025, Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Council on April 17 registered 11 political parties and five electoral coalitions. It will soon announce the final list of presidential candidates. Incumbent President Luis Arce, elected in 2020, candidate...
Pahalgam Aftermath: Need To Juggle Economic Interests And Strategic Calculus
By K Raveendran Trump’s aggressive tariff war with China – built on a throwback protectionist logic more suited to the 1800s than today’s intertwined economy – has driven Chinese firms to redeploy their strategies. Major Chinese exporters, now facing punitive U.S. tariffs as high as 145 percent, are desperately...
Politics Over Gayab In A Period Of Intensive Preparations For War
By Sushil Kutty We have heard of the headless chicken flopping about. And of those days of ‘Jhatka’ when headless bled in plain sight. On Tuesday, April 29, a sketch of a headless torso in a kurta-churidar ensemble of rare finish and finery hit the scene. Whose headless torso...
Asian Countries Require Significant Efforts To Close Energy Transition Gap
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Asia and Pacific region’s energy mix is central to achieving global net-zero targets, but it has a 20 per cent higher emission intensity than the global average. The rising energy demand, reliance on coal power generation, energy import dependence, and depth of energy-intensive manufacturing, and...
Despite Setback To Trump, Canadian Election Results Give A Major Relief To India
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The victory of the Liberal Party in the Canadian general elections held on April 28 is a big relief to India and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the NDP led by the Sikh extremist Jagmeet Singh suffered a big defeat losing its...
Kuki-Zos Plan Events In Delhi, Guwahati And Manipur To Mark May 3, 2023
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Two dates – May 1 and May 3 – have assumed significance this time round in Manipur as organisations working for promoting the cause of Kukis, Zomis, Hmars and several others, which together work to realise shared objectives, have chalked out programmes that are...
After A Year Of Stagnation, Indian Cement Industry Poised For High Growth In 2025-26
By Kunal Bose Cement along with some other big polluting industries is being included in the national emissions trading system (ETS). A leading Indian cement producer says: “We are closely watching carbon capturing work by our counterpart in China and other pollution mitigating work done there. The common goal...
BJP’s Christian-Outreach Plan In Kerala Suffers A Setback
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The much-hyped BJP’s Christian outreach programme in Kerala has suffered a severe setback, thanks to a self-goal scored by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). In the wake of the passage of the Wakf (Amendment) Bill by Parliament, the BJP appeared to have succeeded in making...
Trump’s Second Term’s ‘First 100 Days’: Tariff Chaos, Lower Popularity
By Nitya Chakraborty The United States of America President Donald J. Trump has completed his first one hundred days in office in his second non-consecutive term on April 29, Tuesday amidst continuing global disorder over his chaotic policies — unilateral tariffs hike, failure to establish peace in Gaza with...
India Needs Internal Harmony In Overcoming Terrorist, Pak Threats
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The politics in India in the week past in the aftermath of Pahalgam terror attack has laid bare a troublesome political and social Faultline. Internal harmony in the country, which is a prerequisite in overcoming the threats and challenges offered to us by the terrorists...
India After Pahalgam: More Excuse For Formalising Hindu Rashtra?
By Sushil Kutty ‘India that is Bharat’ has never been more ‘Hindu’ than at this point in time. The signs of the elusive ‘Hindu Rashtra’ are showing, starting with the India-Pakistan ‘Mahabharata’ in the offing. The war will be fought on Hindu-Muslim lines and is the direct fallout of...
High Time We Rediscover Marx, The Peerless Materialist Philosopher
By Krishna Jha From 1836 to 1844, the Chartist movement started in England. It helped the working class to take a political role. It was also a time when in 1847-48, Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto came out interpreting the role of the working class, concretising it in a...
Remembering Sanjay Singhvi, A Dedicated, Thinking Trade Unionist
Dr K R Shyam Sundar I first met Sanjay in 2010 when I was doing a project on the theme of non-standard workers and social dialogue practices in India (the first ever project initiated by the International Labour Organisation in the world at that time). His “office” was situated...
China Sees U.S. As Biggest Destabilizer Of Global Economic Order
By Charubrata Roy The US has become the biggest destabilizing factor in stoking global economic and trade frictions, severely undermining the international economic and trade order, a spokesperson from the China Council for The Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) said on Monday. The US has topped the list in...
