Opinion
Appeal
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.The Year 2025 Begins As A Dangerous Year For Probing Journalists In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The year 2025 begins with the murder of an independent journalist Mukesh Chandrakar in Bastar, a conflict zone for over three decades in Chhattisgarh in India, that witnessed many attacks and counterattacks between Maoist rebels and security forces. The incident retags India as one of...
Modi Govt Still Unconcerned About The Just Demands Of The Farmers
By Krishna Jha The newly proposed farm laws that have been released now are worse than the earlier one against which the farmers sat on path breaking Dharna on the borders of the capital in 2020-2021. Irrespective of extreme weather, they had refused to compromise. These laws were brought...
BJP Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Completes One Month With Confidence
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is the eagle soaring with a bird’s eye view of what’s happening to Maharashtra under his watch as also what should be happening and what should not? Fadnavis is the Chief Minister everybody is talking about as if there isn’t a...
Can CM Yogi Adityanath Wrest The Milkipur Seat From SP In Assembly Bypoll?
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Can Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wrest Milkipur assembly seat from Samajwadi Party for BJP in by-poll scheduled on February 5 to avenge humiliating defeat of saffron brigade in Ayodhya Lok Sabha seat. Samajwadi Party shocked BJP during Lok Sabha polls when Party candidate...
Online Education Among Children Is Causing Serious Mental Health Concerns
By Dr Arun Mitra Online education to the school children is a new phenomenon which was started during the COVID period. Since the Novel Corona Virus was highly contagious and would spread fast in the crowded places, the schools were closed to avoid students mixing in groups. However to...
South Korean Film Squid Game 2 Is An Allegory Of Capitalism Versus Democracy
By Caitlyn Clark If the debut season of the Korean Netflix series Squid Game laid bare the ails of modern capitalism, its highly anticipated second season reflects the challenges to organizing against it. Initially released in 2021, Squid Game became an overnight global phenomenon. In the dystopian survival show,...
As Trump Shockwaves Shake The West, Can The Left Take Advantage?
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Donald Trump’s return to the White House is prompting a realignment towards the hard right across the Establishment. Far more than during his first term. Then many liberals assumed a Trump presidency could be weathered until US politics got back to normal. Those prepared to...
2025 AI Boom May Not Exactly Be Celebration Time For Indians
By K Raveendran As we enter 2025, the accelerating proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to reshape the global landscape in ways akin to the transformational impact the internet had in the late 20th century. Within the first few days of the year, AI-driven technology stocks have seen...
Union Budget 2025-26 Faces Sharp Fall In Real GDP Growth To 4-Year Low
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The projection by National Statistics Office (NSO) of a sharp fall in India’s real GDP growth rate to a 4-year low to only 6.4 per cent in the current financial year 2024-25 compared to the growth rate of 8.2 per cent in 2023-24 is a...
Milkipur Assembly Bypoll In Uttar Pradesh Is A Prestige Issue For Samajwadi Party
By Sushil Kutty The Bahujan Samaj Party wouldn’t fight the Milkipur bypoll. Behan Mayawati is down with political paralysis and her nephew ‘Anand’, who is off and on her successor, isn’t up to the task. So Milkipur will go to a bypoll without the BSP—voting on February 5 and...
CPI(M) Area Conferences In Bengal Expose Dismal Organisational State
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: West Bengal unit of CPI(M)’s organisational muscle has been weakening since 2011 after Trinamool Congress replaced it as the ruling dispensation in the state through that year’s assembly elections. The party which had called Bangla Bandh often during its tenure against “step motherly attitude” of...
Congress To Begin Yatra For Protecting Constitution From Mhow On January 26
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both Congress and BJP are facing major rift while trying to solve organizational matters. While former Congress Chief Minister Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh publicly stated that they are not at all consulted while decisions are taken about organization matters. The BJP despite efforts...
78 Million New Job Opportunities By 2030 But Upskilling Of Workforce Paramount
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Future of Jobs Report 2025, just released by the World Economic Forum, reveals that job disruption will equate to 22% of jobs by 2030, with 170 million new roles set to be created and 92 million displaced, resulting in a net increase of 78 million...
Syrian Kurds Must Not Be Left To The Mercy Of Turks
By Manish Rai Since Assad’s regime fell in early December, clashes have intensified in northern Syria between the US-backed Kurdish fighters and the Turkish proxy force Syrian National Army (SNA). Following the regime change in Syria, Turkey has become the most important regional actor in the country. By providing...
Canadian Business Groups Rally To Conservative Party As Trudeau Resigns
By Dave McKee TORONTO—Three weeks after the abrupt resignation of his Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, and amid a growing chorus of Liberal Party MPs and regional party caucuses calling for him to move aside, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on January 6 that he...
For AAP And BJP, The Final Battle For Delhi Is Set For February 5
By Sushil Kutty Voting is on February 5. Results will be declared on February 8. The BJP put out a poster within minutes of the announcement that Delhi will have a BJP Chief Minister by mid-February. But the BJP was beaten to the claim by AAP spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar...
Is Justin Trudeau The First Victim Of Trump-Musk Duo’s Far Right Offensive In 2025
By Nitya Chakraborty Is the Canadian Prime Minister and the ruling Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau’s resignation marks the first success of the Donald Trump-Elon Musk duo in organising regime change as a part of far right agenda in 2025? Apparently, many might argue that this was not so...
Draft UGC Regulation 2025 Undermines Higher Education
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Draft UGC (Minimum Qualifications of Appointment & Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) Regulations, 2025 released by Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan paves the way for greater control of...
