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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.Narendra Modi Has Lost His Moral Right To Lead 2026 BRICS Presidency
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s isolation from Global South on the issue of Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is now complete. Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims himself as the leader of Global South. Both at the SCO summit and BRICS meeting last year, Modi was active in articulating the aspirations and...
Trump’s Onslaught On Venezuela Is Aimed At Looting Natural Resources Including Oil
By Asad Mirza During the past one year, perhaps no other man has garnered so much news headlines and space as the American President Donald Trump. This is not due to any of his humane policies or pro-people announcements, but based solely on his quirky and unpredictable executive orders...
U.S. Invasion Of Venezuela And Kidnapping Of President Is A Threat To Global South
By Dr Arun Mitra US aggression on Venezuela, kidnapping its elected President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores on the cooked up charges of narcoterrorism reminds one of the familiar story of Lion and the Lamb. Similar excuse was given when the US attacked Iraq in 2003 that...
A Decade After 2014, Modi’s Farm Income Promise Looks Economically Hollow
By R. Suryamurthy By any reasonable political measure, the promise to double farmers’ incomes was one of Narendra Modi’s most consequential commitments. Announced with flourish in the early years of his first term, it sought to reframe India’s agrarian question—not as one of chronic distress to be periodically managed,...
Trump’s Venezuelan Invasion Facing Serious Roadblocks Leading To Uncertainty
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The unmarked aircraft that spirited Nicolás Maduro from Miraflores Palace three days ago was meant to close a chapter. Instead, it has opened a Pandora’s box of interventionist ambition that now stretches from the Arctic Circle to the Rio Grande. In the smoking...
State Help Is Helping Chinese Auto Industry To Dominate Overseas Market
By Kunal Bose Till not very long ago, people around the world loved to believe that bigness in volume of industrial and agricultural products was the only hallmark of China. But this is now disabused by a growing number of sectoral experts. More recently, Nvidia chairman Jensen Huang reminded...
Donald Trump Who Promised To End Wars In Poll Campaign, Goes To War
By Ben Burgis NEW YORK: In January 2023, J. D. Vance had just arrived in the Senate. One of the first things he did was to pen an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal endorsing Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination. His primary argument was that Trump, “started...
Remembering American Writer Jack London On His 150th Birth Anniversary
By Jenny Farrell NEW YORK: Jack London’s journey as a socialist and a writer is a story of dramatic ascent and tragic decline. His socialism grew from lived experience: childhood poverty, hard labour in factories, and first-hand exposure to capitalism’s exploitative logic, crystallisedin1894 . He was born on January...
U.S. Invasion Of Venezuela May Set The Process Of Trump’s Down Turn In November Mid Term
By Nitya Chakraborty The invasion of Venezuela by the United States on the early hours of January 3 along with the kidnapping of President Nicholas Maduro and his wife marks a new phase in Donald Trump’s foreign policy which has been termed by The Guardian columnist as “naked imperialism”....
More New Airlines Are Bad News For Existing Small Domestic Carriers
By Nantoo Banerjee The civil aviation ministry’s much publicized issue of ‘no objection certificates’ to proposed three airlines – Shankh Air, AIhind Air and FlyExpress – apparently to break the near monopoly of IndiGo in the fast-expanding domestic aviation market shows, if anything, a lack of market perspective and...
The Great Indian Paradox – GDP Is Growing High But Rupee Is Sinking
By T N Ashok When India overtook Britain to become the world’s fifth-largest economy, policymakers celebrated a milestone that had been decades in the making. Official growth numbers showed an economy expanding at 6.5 to 7 percent, far outpacing a global slowdown stuck near 3 percent. Yet even as...
Twelve Years After The Maruti Manesar Violence, Workers Still Restive
By Tanishka Shah More than twelve years after an incident at Maruti Plant in Manesar, which led to the death of an HR manager, the dismissal of over five hundred workers and numerous arrests, on November 7, 2025, Gurugram’s Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court issued a judgment denying reinstatement to a...
Trump’s War On Latin America Must Be Stopped By Global Intervention
By Branko Marcetic NEW YORK: Any hope that Donald Trump would be an “antiwar” president went out the window almost as soon as he won the 2024 election, when he filled his administration with a coterie of warmongers. After a year in which Trump backed Israel’s war with Iran,...
Khaleda Zia’s Death Is Helping BNP In February 12 Polls Through Sympathy Wave
By Nitya Chakraborty In the neighbouring Bangladesh, the political developments take unpredictable course many times, but the latest alliance between the NCP, the party of the students body which led the July Revolution and the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami, has shocked the progressive forces who supported the uprising that led to...
USA Invades Venezuela, Bombs Facilities Defying All International Norms
By Satyaki Chakraborty In a repeat of George Bush’s Iraq invasion in 2003 on the basis of fake allegations, Donald Trump ordered invasion of Venezuela on early morning of January 3 beginning the New Year 2026 with the implementation of his National security strategy announced last month. Trump claimed...
Law By Itself Won’t Do; It’s The Application Of Law That Is Most Crucial
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court’s judgment affirming that the mere pendency of criminal cases does not disentitle a citizen from obtaining a passport carries significance well beyond the narrow facts that triggered the ruling. At one level, the verdict reiterates settled law. The right to travel abroad, subject...
Zohran’s Mayoralty Can Advance The Cause Of Socialism In America
By Nick French NEW YORK: On January 1, what to many on the Left felt like a pipe dream less than a year ago is became a reality: democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City. It will not be an easy job. The...
Pushing The Financial System Towards A Dangerous Direction
By Prabhat Patnaik The BJP-led government has just got parliament to pass a legislation permitting up to 100 percent foreign equity-ownership in India’s insurance sector. This, the Prime Minister has announced, marks the beginning of a major “reform” in India’s financial sector, towards presumably much greater private, including foreign,...
