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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.Madhya Pradesh Assembly’s Budget Session Begins Amidst Big Protests By Congress
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: The budget session of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly has begun. This time, there are several issues in the state on which the opposition is expected to corner the government. Whether it is the deaths of children linked to substandard cough syrup or the fatalities...
Rubio’s Manifesto Means Total Imperialist Subjugation Of The World
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Marco Rubio has laid down the battle lines, and it is time for every socialist and anti-racist on the planet to recognise the danger the United States poses to the world. The Donald Trump regime is imperialism unmasked: shorn of the usual guff disguising military...
Indo-US Trade Deal Has A Most Unlikely Winner: Rahul Gandhi
By K Raveendran The unfolding political narrative around the Indo-US trade treaty has done more than spark debate on tariffs, market access and diplomatic alignment: it has reshaped the contours of India’s domestic political landscape, particularly by elevating Rahul Gandhi’s stature as the principal opposition leader. The Modi government...
Growth Trajectory Of AI Is Highly Uncertain Through 2030
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As India AI Impact Summit 2026, branded as the first-ever such event in the Global South, scheduled to be held in New Delhi next week from February 16 to February 20, many claims of AI’s growth and impact, often contradictory, are making headlines. However, a...
Boasting About Big Rural Developmental Plans In Budget Has Little Basis
By R. Suryamurthy There is something almost theatrical about the rural development numbers this year. Rs 1,97,023 crore allocated for 2026–27. An expanded employment guarantee of 125 days. A near 70% jump in rural housing outlay. A 73% rise in spending for rural roads. If budgets were judged by...
Bhumjaithai Party Wins Landslide Victory In Thailand Stunning Its Rivals
By Tirthankar Mitra Dramatic turnaround of a political party is not unheard of in electoral politics. But not often does a political outfit rise from 13 per cent of national vote cast in an election to forming a government in the subsequent one as Bhumjaithai Party (BP), a pro-monarchy...
Supreme Court Calls Digital Arrest Frauds “Robbery And Dacoity”
By Akhil Yadav The Supreme Court on Monday February 9 heard the suo motu case on digital arrest scams. The Court sharply questioned banks over their failure to flag suspicious transactions and pressed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on regulatory oversight, even as it issued binding directions to...
BNP’s Landslide Victory In Bangladesh Elections Is A Good Omen
By Nitya Chakraborty The landslide win of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the national elections in Bangladesh held on February 12 is a positive development in the geopolitics of not only South Asia, but also augurs well for the bilateral relationship between India and its eastern neighbour. BNP...
When Workers Were On Strike, Government Amended Industrial Relations Code
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When the workers of India were on general strike on February 12 and protesting against the four controversial labour codes and demanding their withdrawal, the Union Government got the Industrial Relations Code (Amendment) Bill 2026 passed in both the Houses of Parliament by voice votes....
Can India’s Opposition Leader Be Expelled For Foreign Associations?
By T N Ashok NEW DELHI: India’s Parliament faces a constitutional and political confrontation after BJP MP Nishikant Dubey signalled his intent to seek the expulsion of Rahul Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition, over alleged associations with the Open Society Foundations and questions about his international travel. The controversy...
Bangladesh’s PM Designate Tarique Rahman Has To Revive A Battered Economy
By T N Ashok After 17 years in London exile, Tarique Rahman is poised to become Bangladesh’s next prime minister following his Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s decisive victory in Thursday’s elections — a watershed moment that ends nearly two decades of political tumult and sets the stage for a complex...
Why The U.S.–Bangladesh Trade Pact Demands India’s Close Attention?
By R. Suryamurthy Trade agreements are written in the language of reciprocity. They are sold as mutually beneficial, technically balanced, legally tidy. But their real consequences often unfold outside the negotiating room — in mandis, ports, supply chains and balance sheets that were never explicitly mentioned in the text....
Indo-US Trade Deal Is A One Sided Unequal Agreement
By Prabhat Patnaik The Indo-US Trade Agreement, even leaving aside specific provisions, has two unusual features that mark it out as an Unequal Treaty, of the sort that imperial powers used to impose on countries of the global south that they did not directly rule. The first is the...
Successful General Strike Sounds A Stern Warning To Modi Govt
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 24-hour nationwide general strike on February 12 called by 10 trade unions handed out a stern warning to the Union Government and hinted at stronger steps if it failed to roll back the “anti-working class and pro-corporate” Labour Codes. Expectedly, Kerala led the nation...
Majority In Britain Want Major Shift To Left – But Can The Opportunity Be Seized?
By Ben Chacko LONDON: As the Westminster political crisis unfolds, the hopes and fears of the capitalist class were spelt out plainly in two separate articles in The Telegraph, appearing on the same day this week. The first was headlined “Why bond markets may be Starmer’s closest friend.” The...
General Strike Of Workers Spread And Intensify Creating History
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India witnessed on Thursday February 12 the most intensified of all India general strike of workers in the country so far in which over 30 crores workers were estimated to have participated in about 600 districts of the country, surpassing the record of July 9,...
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Is A Rabid Communal Hate Monger
By Krishna Jha A gun is pointed at two men with skullcaps. The man holding the gun is Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. It is a video posted by the BJP’s official twitter handle in Assam. Almost an open call for ethnic cleansing and genocide. The video, uploaded...
Servile Erosion Of Autonomy Is The Hallmark Of India-U.S. Trade Deal
By Nilotpal Basu The role of US, and specifically of President Donald Trump, is assuming the spectacle of ‘bulldozer’. In India, we are now familiar with the unilateral deployment of ‘bulldozers’ to trample legitimate rights of the weak and the defenceless. In a majoritarian ambience, such display of naked...
