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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.Prime Minister Keir Starmer May Fall But That Does Not Solve Problem In Britain
By Ben Chacko LONDON: If Keir Starmer intended to stave off a leadership challenge by advertising his readiness to fight one, he has miscalculated. All his intervention has done is placed the question of his leadership at the top of MPs’ minds. Perhaps identifying Wes Streeting as a possible...
Trump’s Fair Deal Promise Sounds More Realistic Than Before
By K Raveendran President Donald Trump has declared that a ‘fair trade deal’ with India is forthcoming, asserting that once concluded, India will once again ‘love’ America. He framed it as a departure from past arrangements that, in his view, had been ‘pretty unfair,’ and suggested both countries were...
Why Not PM Narendra Modi’s Degree Row Should Be Heard On Merit?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Disclosure of the details of the degree of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi by Delhi University will be delayed further, because a division bench of the Delhi High court has flagged on November 12, 2025 the delay by the four petitioners in filing...
Communist Jeannette Jara Is Front Runner In Chile Presidential Elections First Round Opinion Poll
By Nitya Chakraborty With three days left for the Presidential elections in Chile on Sunday, November 16, opinion polls indicate the joint candidate of the ruling Left combination, communist parliamentarian Jeannette Jara leading with around 30 per cent of the votes while the main Right challenger Antonio Cast at...
Global Leaders Rushed With Statements Expressing Empathy With India On Red Fort Blast
By T N Ashok The air around Delhi’s Red Fort was thick with smoke and confusion on the evening of November 10, 2025. Sirens wailed as ambulances pushed through the crowded lanes of Old Delhi, their flashing lights reflecting off the centuries-old sandstone walls. Vendors abandoned their stalls, tourists...
Global Fight For Ending Poverty Is Integrated With The Battle For Climate Justice
By Krishna Jha Robert Frost was not alone, nor it was the only time People were passing through a crisis. But now it is life itself that has started ebbing. Climate has become a threat. Dangers are escalating every day. The river has been drying up. Jungle is aflame...
Trump’s Attack On BBC Is An Interference In Media Rights In Britain
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The crisis engulfing the BBC speaks to critical aspects of international politics today which must command the left’s attention. The first is that US President Donald Trump is daily extending his campaign to remake bourgeois politics in his own image. Not content with a full-on...
Tech Giants’ $400 Billion AI Bet: Returns On Investment Is The Key Issue
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The world’s most valuable technology companies are engaged in a spending spree unlike anything seen since the space race. Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft intend to invest as much as $320 billion this year into artificial intelligence technologies, with Amazon offering the most...
COP30 Has Begun With Numerous Challenges, But With Great Hope
By Dr. Gyan Pathak COP30 (30th Conference of the Parties) 2025 has begun under the aegis of UN Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) on November 10 at Belem (Amazonia) under the Brazilian Presidency with numerous challenges but with great hope. It would conclude on November 21, and in the meantime...
Democratic Socialists Won City Elections Across The Country Last Week
By Branko Marcetic NEW YORK: The biggest left-wing political story of last week is democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor of New York City. But Mamdani’s was not the only socialist victory on Tuesday. Just like with almost every election year that’s come before in the Trump era, this...
Stage Is Set For Kerala Local Body Elections In December
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The stage is set for the local body elections in Kerala with the State Election Commissioner A. Shajahan announcing the poll schedule. The elections will be held in two phases on December 9 and December 11. Nominations can be filed up to November 21. The...
China Strikes At Crime Syndicates Dominating In South East Asia
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: China has made a sweeping crackdown on transnational scam syndicates in South East Asia. It is a strike against the export of criminal enterprise and axis of poverty migration and technology. Over the years, the border towns of northern Myanmar evolved into shadow economies. They...
‘Nuremberg’ Is A War Crimes Tribunal Film For The Age Of Trump
By Ed Rampell NEW YORK: The recently concluded AFI Film Festival, L.A.’s biggest and best yearly film festival, screened 160-plus features and documentaries. AFI Fest presents indies and foreign films, but also major motion pictures from Hollywood studios. Nuremberg, distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, was one of AFI Fest’s...
Fertiliser Import Price Surge May Hit India’s Rabi Crop Output
By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to grasp the fact that even 78 years after its independence, India, the world’s most populous country, continues to be heavily dependent on imported fertilizer to produce crops to feed its 1.46 billion-plus population. The prospect of a sudden fertiliser price surge ahead...
Longest U.S. Govt Shutdown Ends With Few Concessions To Democrats
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers WASHINGTON, D.C.: After forty bruising days of recrimination and paralysis, the United States Senate on Sunday night finally broke the logjam that had shuttered the federal government, stalled air traffic, and thrown millions of Americans into uncertainty. In a 60–40 vote, senators from both parties...
Women Voters In Bihar Hold The Key To Government Formation In Bihar
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Even as Bihar is going to poll on Tuesday November 11, 2025 for the second and final phase, political parties and alliances have not yet a clue of the possible outcome. They only guess that the women voters in Bihar hold the key to government...
Adanis Taking A Major Move To Tie Up With Chinese EV Giant BYD For Producing Batteries
By Subrata Majumder USA-China tariff war pause, coupled with marginal reduction of tariff by 10 percent, are unlikely to arrest the attempt by India-China to reduce tension. Pause is fragile and does not usher for any final deal between USA and China in the near future. In the light...
Zohran Mamdani Has Won But His Political Future Depends On His Performance
By Kalyani Shankar Zohran Mamdani’s recent record-breaking achievement in New York as its Mayor is astonishing. Elected as the first Muslim South Asian Mayor, he represents a unique mix of identities. Born in Africa with South Asian heritage and a practitioner of Shia Islam, he is also the son...
