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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.From Federalism To ‘Nationalization’: Trump’s Election Gambit Mid Term Eve
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: On February 3, 2026, President Donald Trump renewed a controversial call to “nationalize” U.S. elections — an idea that would shift significant electoral authority away from the fifty states to a centralized federal body. Trump’s remarks, given in the context of ongoing disputes...
2026-27 Central Budget Pays No Attention To The Needs Of Marginalised
By Krishna Jha Among the reflections immediately coming after the announcement of Budget, the absence of substantiation of the claims has occupied a major share. Despite the gripping economic crisis, the Budget is claimed to be visionary, based on ‘stable foundations’. But the reality is the treasure of unemployed...
CJI Blaming Trade Unions For Industries Closure Is Totally Unfounded
By Nilotpal Basu In the wee hours of the Republic Day, the country woke up to the horrific tragedy of the charring of workers at the Nazirabad warehouse complex in Anandapur on the southern outskirts of Kolkata. As of January 29, the death toll had climbed to 21, with...
When Do Children Become A Priority In Financial Planning?
By Raju Kumar The Union Budget is often seen as a document of fiscal priorities, but provisions related to children also reveal how the state defines long-term development. Allocations for children are not confined to the social sector alone; they shape human capital, future productivity, and the trajectory of...
Trump Has A Plan To Steal The 2026 Mid Term Elections In November
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: Donald Trump wants to take over the 2026 elections, though “steal” might be a better word. No, the president isn’t planning to send another 1,600 invaders—Proud Boys and other assorted thugs—to rampage through the U.S. Capitol, as they did five years ago in an attempted...
Trump Has Linked India-US Trade Deal To India Acting As Partner In His Pacific Strategy
By Nitya Chakraborty Nearly 48 hours after Donald Trump’s announcement about the India-US trade deal and Narendra Modi’s confirmation in his telephonic conversation, much has been written in the media by the experts, mostly following the lead given by the commerce minister Piyush Goyal in his press meet on...
$500 Billion India-US Trade Deal: Modi Proposes, Trump Disposes
By K Raveendran The sequence of events following Donald Trump’s unilateral declaration of a trade deal with India offers a revealing study in how political narrative can race ahead of economic substance. What stands out is not the content of the supposed agreement, which remains undefined, but the manner...
Mamata Fights Her Own Case In Supreme Court To Protect People Of Her State
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday created a sort of history by appearing in the Supreme Court of India as the first sitting CM to defend the people of her state from being “bulldozed” through Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by Election Commission...
Record Defence Budget Allocation For 2026-27 Is A Boost To Drone Industry
By Asad Mirza While presenting the budget for FY 2026-27, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman earmarked a record Rs. 7.85 lakh crore allocation for the county’s defence sector, post-Operation Sindoor. The increase in the defence outlay in the recent budget, was in the backdrop of “historic success of Operation Sindoor”...
High Tech Companies Have To Adjust To New Market Realities Globally
By T N Ashok For generations of investors across Asia and the Indian subcontinent, the “Golden Rule” of wealth has been simple: when the world trembles, buy gold. But this week, that age-old wisdom faced a brutal reckoning. In a historic “two-front” market shock, the twin pillars of modern...
Installing A Popular Ministry In Manipur Is Welcome But Problems Remain
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Barring any development that acts as a spoiler, the efforts of the Union government and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s top leadership to install a ministry in strife-scarred Manipur should succeed in a couple of days. The usual drill of terminating President’s rule and reactivating...
Balochistan Is On Boil As The Rebels Are Controlling More Areas
By Tirthankar Mitra Balochistan is on the boil. As gun battles and bomb attacks hit Balochistan province of Pakistan, the Sharief Government as also the Pak military which are the real rulers , are in bind. Day after day, their loss of control over the big province is getting...
Total Confusion Over The Status Of India-US Trade Deal Prevailing
By Nitya Chakraborty The announcement on India-US trade deal was expected, but the manner in which both President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi did the same in social media has led to big confusion. After a phone call with Narendra Modi, Trump claimed on Monday that the...
Is India-Us Trade Deal A Reality Or It Is Another Trumpian Trick?
By Anjan Roy If a trade deal between two large countries could be announced immediately after a phone call from a president to a prime minister, then such a deal could at best be described as phoney. Alternatively, there was enough basis for trade between the countries —India and...
Storm Over India-US Trade Deal Caused Disruption In Parliament
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Just within hours of the announcement of India-US trade deal, there arose a political storm in the Parliament of India on Tuesday that disrupted its proceedings. Opposition MPs raised strong objections in both Houses – Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha – demanding a full debate...
Paying The Centre More Than The States Are Getting From Taxes
By R. Suryamurthy The Sixteenth Finance Commission’s horizontal devolution outcomes have been widely read as a technocratic recalibration—one that finally rewards economic performance by explicitly recognising states’ contribution to national output—but beneath the arithmetic lies a more consequential political-economic shift, in which India’s federal fiscal contract is being re-engineered...
India’s 2026-27 Budget Gets Cautious Welcome For Maturity From Western Media
By T N Ashok India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled her ninth budget on February 1 , a fiscal blueprint designed to sustain the world’s fastest-growing major economy at 6.5% even as Donald Trump’s tariff threats and global economic malaise force policymakers worldwide into a defensive crouch. The response...
Myanmar Junta Backed Party USDP Announces Victory In Rigged Elections
By Tirthankar Mitra Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), the military junta backed party won the Myanmar elections in what is widely perceived to be a “sham victory.’ Pointers of democratic irregularity do not make the three phase elections be free and fair poll process. This is the first...
