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.Tale Of Two Great Indian Weddings: One Fat And The Other Fast
By K Raveendran The great Indian wedding has always been a spectacle of excess, but when it comes to the nuptials of billionaires, it takes on the proportions of an Olympic event—judged on the parameters of opulence, star power, and the number of private jets idling at the nearest...
BJP’s Victory In Milkipur Assembly Bypoll Gives A Big Boost To Yogi Adityanath
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: With the victory of BJP in crucial by-election in Milkipur assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh, the saffron brigade has avenged the humiliating defeat in Ayodhya Lok Sabha seat in the 2024 elections at the hands of Samajwadi Party. The manner in which Ayodhya Lok Sabha...
US Trade Bravado Hides A Cautious Stance On China
By Matein Khalid It is significant that President Trump, despite his bluff and brinkmanship with 25 percent tariff threats against Mexico and Canada, chose only to impose a 10 percent tariff on China. China is Washington’s only real peer competitor in great power realpolitik and its preeminent rival in...
Beyond The Battlefield, Indian Army Is Playing A Big Role In Nation Building
By Aritra Banerjee From the icy frontiers of Ladakh to flood-stricken Gujarat, and from the earthquake-prone Kashmir to the remote villages of the Northeast, the Indian Army’s contributions extend far beyond national defence. Whether rescuing stranded civilians, educating the youth, developing critical infrastructure, or fostering national unity through sports,...
Under Yunus Regime In Bangladesh, Anti-Democracy, Communal Elements Thriving
By Nitya Chakraborty Exactly six months have passed since the installation of the interim government in Bangladesh on August 8, headed by Dr. Mohammad Yunus, three days after the ouster of the Awami League government led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina, daughter of the founder of the...
Draft UGC Regulation 2025 Caught Into Rough Weather
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Draft UGC Regulation 2025 seems to be caught into a rough weather. Six-opposition ruled states – Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Karnataka – have passed a joint resolution against it. Another opposition ruled state Jammu and Kashmir is also not happy with...
Mamata’s Frantic Bid To Woo Investors, May Hold BGBS Before Next Assembly Polls In April 2026
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: The two-day eighth edition of Bengal Global Business Summit, held here on February 5 and 6, betrayed chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s frantic efforts to live down the Opposition’s charge as also a widely prevalent general impression that industrialisation has...
Donald Trump Has His Own Unique Ideas On Reconstruction Of Gaza Strip
By Sushil Kutty United States President Donald Trump has doubled down on his ‘Gaza Plan’, which the United Nations says is ‘unlawful’. Trump’s ‘Gaza Plan’ is ‘loco’, said somebody else, without asking if Trump has a ‘motive’ to go with the ‘loco’, a movable plan? For one thing, the...
Lalu Asks Biharis To Pick Tejashwi, As Nitish Unveils New Infra Projects
By Rahil Nora Chopra Political activity in Bihar is getting hectic, with RJD supremo Lalu Prasad urging the people of his home state to vote for his party in the upcoming assembly elections, so that his son Tejashwi Yadav gets a chance to fulfil all his promises as the...
RSS Chief Bhagwat Moots RSS Takeover Of Poll Management In Bengal
By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is on the ten day visit to Bengal beginning February 7 with the mission to find and project a “credible and charismatic face” who can pose a serious challenge to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and to prepare the state RSS leaders to...
Has Donald Trump Declared War Against Globalisation In His Second Term?
By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON: He’s hot, then he’s cold. He’s yes, then he’s no. He’s in, then he’s out. He’s up, then he’s down. Donald Trump appears to be all over the place when it comes to his trade war against Canada and Mexico, as well as in his...
CPI(M)’s Party Congress Draft Is Underestimating The Mamata Phenomenon In West Bengal
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has released its draft political resolution for the 24th congress of the Party to be held in Madurai in April this year. The last party congress was held in 2022 and so the coming congress held after three years, is...
Liability Of Foreign Suppliers Must Stay In Nuclear Damage Act, 2010 Provisions
By P Sudhir The Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has, in her budget speech, announced the government’s intention to amend the Atomic Energy Act and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010 (CLNDA). The amendment to the Atomic Energy Act is meant to facilitate the entry of the private...
Our Prime Minister Has His Unique Ways To Celebrate A Voting Day
By Sushil Kutty How come Prime Minister Narendra Modi always invariably makes a symbolic statement on Election Day, doesn’t matter where and when the election. Once, he sat in a cave in Kedarnath and meditated with eyes shut to what people thought of the gimmick as long as they...
Donald Trump’s Gaza Fantasy Is Pure Loco!
By Matein Khalid Trump’s vision of Gaza as a “riviera of the Middle East” at his press conference with Netanyahu, whose IDF warplanes, drones and tanks just butchered 45,000 Gazans is as deranged as it is surreal. Trump views Gaza as a New York real estate development opportunity as...
Sending By U.S. Illegal Immigrants Handcupped And Chained Is A Big Insult To India
By Arun Srivastava Trump administration finally accomplished its threat and sent back 104 illegal Indian immigrants through its army aircraft which landed in Amritsar on Wednesday. US could not be faulted for deporting the illegal migrants. But it is the manner in which the entire exercise was executed is...
2025-26 Budget Is A Cynical Exercise In Manipulating One Group Against The Other
By Prabhat Patnaik No budget in post-independence India had been as openly cynical about the lives of the vast masses of the working people as the one presented on February 1, 2025. All pundits, from the finance minister downwards, agree that the strategy of the budget is to stimulate...
2025-26 Budget Miserably Fails In Dealing With Present Job Crisis In The Country
By Krishna Jha Immediately after the happy moments of celebrating our Constitution on January 26 for completing its 75 years, came the budget. The pointers were many but the darkest was the slowdown, continuing and worsening, since last year. The budget estimated a nominal GDP growth rate of 10.1...
