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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.Setback In Maharashtra Local Body Election Has Lessons For INDIA Bloc
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Setbacks to the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), which is the political alliance of INDIA bloc in Maharashtra, in the local body elections in the state have clearly served a stern warning to the opposition that they must exert more unitedly if they want to perform...
Year 2026 May Witness Further Global Disruptions And Dominance Of Trump
By Kalyani Shankar As the Year 2025 comes to a close, we stand on the brink of 2026, anticipating what lies ahead. What does the crystal ball say? The ball reveals the potential for emerging events and political shifts that could shape our world in 2026. Notable forecasts, including...
H-1B Visa Holders Stranded In India As US Backtracks On Assurances
By T N Ashok Hundreds of Indian professionals working in the United States on H-1B visas are stranded in India after returning home for what they believed would be routine visa renewals — a process that has now spiralled into months-long uncertainty, financial distress, and professional limbo. Many of...
Political Parties In Kerala Are Concerned At Sir Exclusion Of 25 Lakh Voters
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Political parties in the State have voiced grave concern over the fact that more than 25 lakh voters are ‘untraceable’ in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) undertaken by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The parties, with the exception of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),...
New Uttar Pradesh BJP President Pankaj Choudhry Is Disliked By Yogi Adityanath
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Is BJP high command trying to corner powerful chief minister Yogi Adityanath through recently appointed State President Union Minister Pankaj Choudhry.? The appointment of Pankaj Choudhry surprised several BJP leaders and political commentators as he and chief minister Yogi Adityanath belong to same district Gorakhpur....
Latest Bangladesh Developments Have Dangerous Consequences For India
By Nitya Chakraborty The political developments in Bangladesh including violence against any one opposing the fundamentalists are having dangerous consequences for India involving the security and geopolitical stability in the sub continent. According to this writer who has been following the churnings in the newly liberated nation since 1971,...
CJI’s Bench Hits The Nail On A Problem That The Courts Were Always Shy To Discuss
By K Raveendran A pointed observation from the apex court has opened an uncomfortable but necessary conversation about judicial integrity, a subject that has long been discussed in hushed tones but rarely confronted head-on within the system itself. A bench of the Supreme Court of India headed by Chief...
Rise In Agricultural Activities Brought Unemployment Down In Rural Areas
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With rise in agricultural activities during the reaping of Kharif and sowing of Rabi crops, the unemployment rate in the rural areas of India has witnessed a considerable fall to 3.9 per cent in November 2025 as against 4.4 per cent in October on current...
Big Relief To Kerala CM P Vijayan As High Court Stays Proceedings On ED Notice
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Yet another attempt to discredit the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala has failed with the High Court staying, for three months, proceedings on the show-cause notice the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had issued to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, former finance minister Thomas Isaac, and...
Steel Producing Giants Like China, Japan, India Are Competing To Import Raw Materials
By Kunal Bose Japan is a shining example of remaining a powerful entity in the global steel industry in terms of capacity and production volume but more by way of technology prowess. This is in spite of it remaining perennially wholly dependent on imports of principal steelmaking ingredients. The...
Thailand, Cambodia Resuming Border War Again Has A Bad Omen For The Region
By Tirthankar Mitra A ceasefire imposed rather than agreed upon rarely lasts long. The renewed fighting between Thailand and Cambodia is a case in point. A truce brokered earlier this year marked a lull in hostilities. It was pushed on the two neighbouring countries by US President Donald Trump...
U.S. Blockade Of Venezuela Is Also An Indirect Attack On Cuba
By W. T. Whitney, Jr. NEW YORK: Hitting two birds with one stone, the U.S. government, top-level disturber of the peace now brandishing a Caribbean armada, is striking out against Venezuela—and Cuba too, indirectly. The U.S. military on December 10 seized a large oil tanker in the Caribbean bound...
Narendra Modi Govt Brings To An End Two Decade Old Rural Job Scheme MGNREGA
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Two decades old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005 is finally replaced by Viksit Bharat – Guarantee For Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill 2025 on the last day of the Winter Session of the Parliament on December 19....
Trump’s Tariff Hike Squeezes India’s Exports Leaving States Counting Losses
By T N Ashok India’s export-led growth strategy is facing its most severe test in years as sweeping U.S. tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump ripple through the country’s manufacturing heartland, triggering order cancellations, factory slowdowns and mounting job losses. Nowhere is the pain more visible than in Tamil...
World Bank Methodology On Poverty Estimation Ignores Ground Reality
By Utsa Patnaik Of late, there have been several academic papers and media writeups on the World Bank’s 2025 claim of steeply declining extreme poverty in the world, especially in Asia. It would be wonderful if this was true, but it is not true. This claim is spurious, arising...
U.S. Under Trump.2 Underlines That National Security Is Interlinked With Economic Security
By Asad Mirza The last week witnessed both a loss and a win for the Indian diplomacy. The win was being included in the latest proposal by the American President Donald Trump to form a new regional grouping called C-5, and the loss was India being denied a seat...
India’s Reengagement With China In Trade And Investment Is Benefitting Exporters
By T N Ashok When India quietly eased business visa rules for foreign engineers and technicians last month, the immediate beneficiaries were Indian manufacturers struggling with stalled factory lines and half-installed machinery. But the deeper signal was unmistakable: New Delhi is cautiously reopening channels with Beijing at a moment...
In Maharashtra Municipal Polls, Uddhav Sena And MNS Of Raj Thackeray To Join Hands
By Rahil Nora Chopra The formal alliance between the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and Raj Thackeray-headed MNS is expected soon in the run up to the elections to 29 municipal corporations of Maharashtra. Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut said “Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray had come together…we would...
