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.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 Gyan Pathak Hyper-nationalism as a political thought is an outdated concept, since not a single country in the world has ever benefited from hyper-nationalism, since it is dehumanizing.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...
Global Growth Under Strain From Tariff War And AI Disruption
By Satyaki Chakraborty The global economic outlook has worsened since the start of the year 2025, as rising economic nationalism and tariff volatility fuel uncertainty and risk stalling long-term decision-making, according to a World Economic Forum report released on Wednesday in Geneva. The latest Chief Economists Outlook reveals that...
Unhindered Israeli Killings In Palestine Have To Be Stopped Right Now
By Dr Arun Mitra The unprecedented humanitarian crisis going on in Gaza is extremely disturbing. No sane and sensitive person can ever condone this on any pretext. Only the beastly instinct can make one kill the innocent toddlers. With an official figure of over 55000 people killed out of...
Remembering Jawaharlal Nehru On His 61st Death Anniversary
By Nitya Chakraborty On May 27, 1964 at 1.44 PM, India’s first Prime Minister and one of the best chroniclers of this great nation’s history breathed his last at his residence Teen Murti Bhavan. Nehru along with Indira Gandhi came back to Delhi on May 26 afternoon after a...
Financial Stress Of Poor Worsening, Loan Delinquencies Jumped 163 Per Cent
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The leaders and top officials of the ruling establishment led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi have just boasted of India replacing Japan as fourth largest economy of the world, falsely giving an impression that economy is performing well. The data speak otherwise. There has been...
Pakistan Prime Minister’s Outreach To Iran Fails To Produce Desired Results
By Sushil Kutty One good thing coming out of India’s “4-Day War”, aka ‘Operation Sindoor’, is the thaw in relations between Pakistan and Iran, two Islamic countries which share a border and often end up trading fire across the same border. Iran is a country worth cultivating or left...
MNREGA: 100 Day-Job Only For 7 Per Cent Households In Rural Areas
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: A recent assessment of the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) shows that in 2024-25 only seven per cent of households could complete 100 days of work as provided in the Act passed by Parliament in September 2005 at the...
President Nicholas Maduro’s PSUV Wins Regional Elections In Venezuela
By Satyaki Chakraborty President Nicolas Maduro’s political party United Socialist Party of Venezuela(PSUV) swept the parliamentary and regional elections in Venezuela on Sunday amidst boycott by the major right wing opposition parties as also once ally the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV),All these parties were opposed to President Maduro’s...
Decoding The Ways Of Living In The Next 40 Years And Beyond Amidst Surge In AI
By Devasis Chattopadhyay With all our chatter about AI, social tensions, war and humanity, I was wondering, while I am in between books, where will we be by 2065, in the next 40 years? Will life on Earth be unrecognisable? Youngsters and oldies, like me, are all so excited...
