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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.Narendra Modi’s Bihar Visit Outcome Belies Expectation Of State BJP Leadership
By Arun Srivastava It was a failed mission. Before embarking on his three-day mission to Bihar and Bengal beginning May 28, Narendra Modi had nursed the view that his mission Operation Sindoor, under which he had envisaged to offer Sindoor to every household, would arouse the nationalist passion of...
Unemployment Rates In Early 2025 Remain At Historic Low
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global Labour market outlook for 2025 is increasingly fragile. One the one hand, slower economic growth is expected to reduce global employment growth rate, and on the other unemployment rates in the countries with early 2025 data remain at historic low. Job vacancies are slightly...
Narendra Modi Government Has Bolstered Its Relations With Israel At The Cost Of Palestine
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: National governments do not have feelings. They have only interests. It’s by following these interests that we can begin to understand why the world is as it is. One of the major interests is in securing the necessary resources — mineral or otherwise — to...
Mamata Is Right – PM Is Using Operation Sindoor To Further BJP’s Interests
By Nitya Chakraborty West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was right when she said on Thursday replying to the Prime Minister’s vicious attacks against her and her government that Narendra Modi was making use of the Operation Sindoor to achieve cheap political gains for the...
Can Donald Trump Stick To His Tariff War After Getting Big Jolt From Court?
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Days of pressure from fellow Republicans, business executives, and even close friends had not moved Donald Trump. On April 2, 2025—his self-styled “Liberation Day”—the former President insisted: “MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE.” Yet just over a week later, on April 10, Trump backtracked, announcing a...
Varying Indian Voices Against Pakistan Will Have Its Toll
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Number of voices being made by several people in the helm of affairs simultaneously are creating Babel, a confusing noise, especially in respect of Pakistan. While Multi-party Joint Parliamentary delegations currently visiting various countries are at pain while explaining India’s position using a language of...
CPI(Maoist) Leaders Alleging That Sick Basavaraju Was Picked Up And Killed In Fake Encounter
By Arun Srivastava Home Minister Amit Shah is in a ravishing mood for his achievement of killing CPI(Maoist) general secretary Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju along with some 30 odd Maoist cadres and leaders in the Narayanpur massacre on May 21. His claim that “it is a landmark achievement...
China, Canada, Mexico Eagerly Waiting For New York Court Verdict On Trump’s Tariff War
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The war of attrition has begun on Trumps unilateral global tariffs on some 160 countries primarily China, Canada and Mexico as a three-judge bench of New York court blocked on Wednesday the measure saying the US President has no unilateral powers to impose...
Congress Lok Sabha Mp Imran Masood Lobbies For Alliance With BSP In Up Assembly Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political activity in Uttar Pradesh is gearing up as Imran Masood, the Congress MP from Saharanpur, has led a stir in political circles in Uttar Pradesh by stating that an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) would benefit the Congress more than its...
The ‘Father-Son’ Rivalry Is A Normal Feature In Many Political Parties In India
By Sushil Kutty First Lalu Prasad Yadav and his eldest son Tej Pratap Yadav, also known as ‘Teju Bhaiya’, whose wayward ways irritated Lalu so much that he disowned the son and also threw him out of the Rashtriya Janata Dal for six years, which is the average time...
Ex-Manipur CM Biren Singh Active Again, Lobbying On For Popular Ministry
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Ethnic strife-scarred Manipur’s immediate past chief minister Nongthombam Biren Singh, who has been lying low since his resignation from the post on February 9 is active again. On May 28 Biren met Governor Ajay Bhalla and submitted to him a 12 page-letter citing how...
Kerala Oil Spill Disaster Menaces Marine Species
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Keralites woke up on Saturday, May 24, 2025 to the horrifying news of a Liberian-flagged cargo ship, MSC Elsa 3, sinking just 27 km away from the State’s coast, spilling hazardous cargo of calcium carbide, diesel and furnace oil. The 184-metre-long container vessel had sailed...
NDA Partner Apna Dal Joins Race With Other Parties To Woo Dalits For Assembly Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: NDA alliance partner Apna Dal (S) is playing an aggressive dalit card to join the race with other parties to woo scheduled castes and scheduled tribes to strengthen the support base of the party in Uttar Pradesh. Union Minister Anupriya Patel appointed a dalit leader...
Israeli Genocide In Gaza Is A Reminder Of Atrocities Perpetrated By Nazis On Jews
By P. Sudhir Yaqeen Hammad, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl, was shredded into pieces by an Israeli missile attack on her residence. Yaqeen has been aptly called the Anne Frank of Gaza. Like Anne, who kept a diary in an attic in a Holocaust-ravaged, Nazi-occupied neighbourhood, Yaqeen documented the horrors...
At The End Of 130 Days Of His Rule, Donald Trump Has No Success Story
By Anjan Roy One hundred and thirty days have passed since Donald Trump took oath as the second time President of United States on January 20 this year. After arousing big expectations in the initial days, the hyperactive President is now gradually reconciling to the fact that he is...
Cracks Appear In Ties Between Donald Trump And His Buddy Elon Musk
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Cracks have begun to emerge in the Trump-Musk relationship as the latter has shown his disappointment with President Donald Trump on the recent domestic policy endorsed by the Congress. He said in a TV interview that he was “disappointed” that it would increase...
The Importance Of Being Shashi Tharoor Amidst India-Pakistan Diplomatic Battle
By Sushil Kutty Congress party’s Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor’s roar is unlikely to pierce Congress eardrums. No, but fielding a former BJP uproot to take on Tharoor’s eloquence does speak of a bankruptcy of credible leaders in the grand old party. Does Tharoor give the impression of ‘irreplaceable’? You...
Is The Global Community Prepared To Face The Next Covid Surge?
By Asad Mirza While there are reports of the dreaded Covid-19 making a reappearance in several countries, including India, the picture is not gloomy, as the world today, under the guidance of the latest WHO agreement on Covid-19 seems better equipped and coordinated to face the disease. In a...
