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.Prime Minister Has Done A Good Job By Ensuring Return Of Buddhist Relics At Piprahwa
By Sant Kumar Sharma Scholars believe that modern-day Piprahwa was the site of the ancient city of Kapilvastu. Incidentally, Kapilvastu was capital of the Shakya kingdom, where Siddarth Gautam had spent 29 years of his life. It was here that he grew up as a Prince, born to Queen...
Maharashtra Polls Spring Up Symptoms Of Sinking Of The INDIA Bloc
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections scheduled to be held on January 15, have sprung up the symptoms of sinking of the INDIA bloc, while fighting erupted on seat sharing between the Congress and the DMK in Tamil Nadu just before the Legislative Assembly Election likely...
A Tariff Shock In The Oil Market Could Blow A Hole In Centre’s Budget 2026–27
By R. Suryamurthy The threat from Washington to impose punitive tariffs of up to 500% on countries buying Russian crude is not just a foreign policy problem for India. It is a fiscal one. As New Delhi prepares the Union Budget for 2026–27, the shadow cast by the proposed...
Kerala‘S Strong Protest Against Union Govt’s Policies
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in Kerala sent a powerful message to the Union Government by launching a day-long satyagraha against its anti-people policies in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who inaugurated the satyagraha, described it as a fight for survival in...
Artificial Intelligence An Asset To Media But Can Not Be A Substitute
By Asad Mirza NEW DELHI: At the ongoing world Book Fair 2026, In New Delhi, Abu Dhabi-based Muslim Elders Council organised a panel discussion on ‘AI for Humanity: Religious Perspective on Ethical AI’, chaired by former ambassador Dr Zikrur Rehman, former Indian Ambassador to erstwhile Palestinian Authority (PA) and...
Iranian People Have The Dual Challenge Of Fighting Dictatorship Inside And Trump
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: Lashing out with deadly violence, the theocratic regime that rules Iran has murdered, according to unverified numbers, several hundred demonstrators in a desperate attempt to crush the mass popular uprising that’s rapidly spread across the country since mid-December. The scale and lethality of Supreme...
US Gunboat Diplomacy Challenges The World Order
By Nantoo Banerjee The theatres of state-sponsored piracy are expanding, from the traditional Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Somali Basin to the Black Sea and now the Atlantic. The recent US seizure of Russian-flagged oil tanker, Marinera, originally known as the Bella-1, after pursuing the vessel for weeks across...
Donald Trump’s Decision On Iran Will Determine The Geopolitics In 2026
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When President Donald Trump speaks of Iran, he no longer discusses deterrence in conventional terms. Gone is the Cold War lexicon of containment, mutual assured destruction, or carefully calibrated signalling. In its place sits something starker: the explicit threat of regime liquidation as...
Trump Completes His Controversial One Year In Office On January 20
By Kalyani Shankar US President Donald Trump will complete his first year in his second term on January 20. Trump’s second-term foreign policy, which began in January 2025, represents a significant departure from traditional US approaches, even from his first term. His foreign policy actions, including withdrawing from agreements...
Modi Government Policies Are Responsible For Present Isolation Of India In Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: No one can deny that India faces a tough geopolitical challenge within its own South Asian neighbourhood in 2026, with due apologies to Foreign Minister Dr S Jaishankar and his countless admirers all over the world. Over time, recent geo-political developments in this highly sensitive...
February 12 All India Workers Strike May Be Beginning Of Labour Unrest
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All India General Strike of Workers on February 12 against the implementation of the four labour codes may be the beginning of a disturbing labour unrest in India, if the Government of India goes ahead with their plan to fully implement it from April 1,...
Tragic Death Of Two Players In Haryana Is A Wake Up Call For Sports Ministry
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Two teenage basketball players — Hardik and Aman, died in separate accidents in Haryana after court poles collapsed on them during practice sessions in November 2025. Both the players belonged to Rohtak, Haryana. The painful death of these two promising Haryana Basketball players, not...
Is Artificial Intelligence Really Plagiarism On A Massive Scale In The World?
By Dennis Broe NEW YORK: Is AI “Intelligence” or plagiarism software? By plagiarism, is meant not the use of AI that plagues teachers, that is, AI used by students to produce papers, the writing and subject matter of which they are largely unaware, but the larger question of whether...
Modi Mustn’t Rush To Appease Trump On Trade Deal, Explore Options
By Nitya Chakraborty U.S. commerce secretary Howard Lutnick’s stunning podcast on Thursday claiming that the bilateral India-US trade deal was almost ready but was not signed as Prime Minister did not call the U.S. President Donald Trump as was expected by the Americans. This lack of proper gesture on...
Donald Trump’s Risky Bet On Venezuela’s Black Gold Resources
By K Raveendran President Donald Trump’s intensified focus on Venezuela over oil underscores the strategic centrality of the South American nation’s petroleum wealth in shaping U.S. policy and global energy markets. For decades, Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, once a cornerstone of its economy, have languished under mismanagement, sanctions, and...
Shadows Of Judicial Indiscipline On Supreme Court’s Bail Denial To Khalid, Imam
By Indira Jaising At the heart of the controversy relating to the denial of bail to Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid is a simple question: what is the crime that they have committed? What if they have committed no crime at all under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967?...
Stirring Saga Of KSRTC’s Remarkable Turnaround
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: This is the story of a stirringly remarkable turnaround effected by the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), demonized as a white elephant and a drag on Kerala’s economy. Time was – just 10 years ago – when KSRTC found itself a butt of ridicule...
Decoding Swami Vivekananda’s Relevance On His 163rd Birth Anniversary
By Mithun Dey KOLKATA: Youth can gain a positive energy and power with no limits. Human creativity is at its best and the ’never say die’ spirit is at its climax. Demographically, the nation of today is at its youngest best. Envisage the prospective energy in these millions of...
