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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.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...
Natural Disasters Cost World A Staggering $2.3 Trillion Annually
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged USD 70–80billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to USD 180–200 billion. Now in 2025, total...
Far Right Chega Party Is Now The Official Opposition In Portugal Parliament After Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty In Portugal, the full right wing turn of the country’s politics is complete with the centre right Democratic Alliance (AD) emerging as the largest single party with 91 seats, followed by the far right Chega with 60 seats putting the Socialist Party (PS) at third position...
Rejuvenated After Elections, German Left Party Die Linke Is Working Hard
By Marc Martorell Junyent BERLIN: This month, Die Linke met for its congress in Chemnitz, under the motto “Organizing Hope.” Such a slogan would have seemed out of touch the last time it held such a meet-up in October 2024. Back then, activists were surely hopeful for Die Linke’s...
Impeachment Rarely Works As An Effective Deterrent Against Judicial Misconduct
By K Raveendran The impeachment of Allahabad High Court judge Yashwant Varma in the wake of burnt notes being discovered from his residence appears to be a certainty. However, going by past experience, impeachment has rarely functioned as an effective deterrent against judicial misconduct in India. In the history...
India And Pakistan Must Not Fall Into Unfathomable Abyss Of Hyper-Nationalism
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hyper-nationalism as a political thought is an outdated concept, since not a single country in the world has ever benefited from hyper-nationalism, since it is dehumanizing. It always brings miseries, as we have already seen in Mussolini’s fascism and Hitler’s Nazism. The most modern political...
Has Narendra Modi’s Moment Of Truth Arrived On His Good Friend Donald?
By Sushil Kutty President Donald Trump needs no introduction. Trump was the guy who came to India and attended a Modi jamboree at the ‘Modi Stadium’, where cricket is played and the ball of whichever colour, red or white, never sails out of the stadium’s perimeter, it’s that big!...
Narendra Modi Faces His First Test After Operation Sindoor In Bihar Assembly Polls
By Arun Srivastava It is wrong to construe that Narendra Modi is for reforms. Though certainly not an alien word, it nonetheless occupies the lowest slot on the doormat of his agenda. His May 30 visit to Rohtas and Bikramganj in the western Bihar is the second in last...
Amidst Fierce Battle For Getting Share Of iPhones Of Apple, China Praises Indian Expertise
By Satyaki Chakraborty Amidst the present battle between India and China over the sharing of the manufacture of American high tech company Apple’s iPhones, Chinese daily Global Times, in its latest commentary has appreciated India’s expertise in manufacturing Apple’s iPhones but at the same time said that it will...
Who Pays For Washington’s Trade War? Not China, Not U.S.
By Dr. Imran Khalid By the time Washington and Beijing released their latest joint statement on May 12 – ostensibly pressing pause on a spiralling tariff war – much of the world exhaled in cautious relief. But beneath the performative diplomacy and sterile communiqués, a quieter suffering has gone...
Crisis In Rural Employment In Indian Districts Intensifies In Last Two Years
By Krishna Jha There is hardly any opening left for employment creation. Touching the bottom level, it shows massive decline in the job availability in rural areas in last two months, indicating fresh economic strain and worsening level of deprivation. As per a report published recently in “Mint”, a...
