Opinion
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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.A House Built On Sand: The Fault Lines In Trump’s 20 Point Gaza Peace Plan
By Girish Linganna The prisoner-hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas has been completed successfully, and many are calling it a major victory for peace. Twenty Israeli hostages returned home in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, aid started flowing back into Gaza, and guns fell silent after months of...
BJP’s Love For LJP(RV) Hurts All The Other NDA Allies, May Impact Outcome
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the seat sharing process progressed for the Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, the overconfident BJP leadership fell in love with LJP(RV), one of its allies in the NDA. It has been resented by three of the five NDA allies – the JD(U), RLM, and HAM....
SIR Exercise Initiated By ECI Has Degenerated Into A Tool To Destroy Constitution
By P. Sudhir Shocking as it may sound, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) initiated in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), when seen contextually, would actually unravel graver implications which have now come out in the open. When the process was initiated on June 25, within a...
India’s Blue Frontier: Can New Delhi Match China’s Deep-Sea Power Play?
By R. Suryamurthy China has already expanded its presence in the Indian Ocean — not just with warships and ports, but also with fishing nets. Its distant-water fleets, armed with state subsidies, GPS-linked trawlers and floating processing units, now sweep across the Indo-Pacific, harvesting tuna, squid and coral reef...
New Bengal BJP President Failing To Constitute His New State Committee Before Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Forming a new state committee of West Bengal unit of BJP has run into trouble as there are few takers for its membership. Several saffron camp leaders, once eager for a berth in the state committee are now dropping broad hints for their preference to...
Sahitya Sabha Of Assam Taking Steps To Bring Different Communities Closer
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In the Northeast, where ethnic differences divide the people especially during elections ,often leading to fierce outbreaks of violence, certain steps taken by the Asom Sahitya Sabha in recent times seeking to bring different communities closer, are indeed praiseworthy. It is also appropriate for the...
Mohd. Azam Khan Looking For An Important Role In 2027 Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Is veteran leader Mohd. Azam Khan, who was recently released on bail after being in jail for 23 months, indispensable for Samajwadi Party and its president former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav?. Ever since Mohd. Azam Khan who had been a Muslim face of Samajwadi Party...
Recent Political Upheavals In South Asia Have Constitutional Issues
By Vijay K. Tiwari, Bhanu Pratap Recent political turmoil in Asia has been marked by larger legal uncertainty. Images of violence, protests, and arson have evoked a sense of awe, amazement, and panic. Upheavals in South Asia, first in Bangladesh and then in Nepal must be critically understood from...
Gold Feeds On Oil’s Misfortune; One Hits The Roof, The Other Down In The Dumps
By K Raveendran Oil prices fell to their lowest level in five months on Tuesday, continuing a slide that has gathered pace over the past several weeks. The benchmark Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude futures have both dipped significantly, erasing much of the year’s earlier gains. In stark...
We Choose The Future, Our Time Now, Says New York Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani
By Satyaki Chakraborty Zohran Mamdani, the leftwing Democratic Party candidate for New York City mayor position, the election for which is scheduled for November 4 is creating waves in NYC by holding huge meetings in many areas of the financial capital of USA covering youth, students, the workers as...
Hollywood’s Fictional Presidents Mirror And Challenge Reality In US Politics
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When Martin Sheen, who spent years portraying an idealized American president on “The West Wing,” recently castigated Donald Trump as the “biggest nothing in the world,” he articulated a tension that has animated American popular culture for decades: the gap between the leaders...
Decoding The Conviction Of German Fascists At Nuremberg Trial After 80 Years
By Krishna Jha The bell tolls for all those who while treating the living world step beyond. To cross the limits means getting over to barbarity. But consequences come in same measures. No one is spared. Nuremberg Trials are the live examples of the same. October 18 this year...
Overreliance On Legal AI Chatbots And The Erosion Of Reasoning Skills
By Harsh Gour Beyond systemic issues, there is a human cost to misusing AI in law. Many lawyers worry that treating AI as an oracle will erode their own legal reasoning. If an AI can quickly draft a petition or a plaint or summarize a case, will younger lawyers...
Trump Has Not Got Nobel Peace Prize But The Winner Machado Is His Acolyte In Latin America
By Nitya Chakraborty On October 10, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded the Peace prize for the year 2025 to the Venezuelan right wing politician Maria Corina Machado who has been working for the last few years for the removal of the President Nicholas Maduro from his office. The White...
Strategic Investment By Narendra Modi Govt In PSE’s Can Act As A Game Changer
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Over the last two months, social media has been active with both President Trump and Prime Minister Modi hailing each other as ‘friends’, yet the stalemate in US-India trade continues. Despite this exogenous tariff shock, the Indian economy has remained resilient with GDP growth of...
Smooth Implementation Of First Phase Of Gaza Peace Plan Is A Victory For Trump
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: On October 13, Monday, President Donald Trump stood in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt—a city deliberately chosen for its historical role as a venue for Middle Eastern peace negotiations—and signed what his administration has branded the “Trump Peace Agreement.” Alongside him stood more than two...
North Korea’s Hwasong-20 Missile Poses A Big Threat To US Defence Power
By Girish Linganna In the heart of Pyongyang, under the bright lights of Kim Il Sung Square, North Korea unveiled what it calls “the world’s most powerful nuclear weapon” — the Hwasong-20 intercontinental ballistic missile. The timing was no accident. As U.S. warplanes and aircraft carriers patrolled nearby waters,...
Court Framing Charges Against Tejashvi Yadav Jolts RJD On Eve Of Bihar Polls
By Arun Srivastava The framing of corruption charges by the Delhi High Court against the three members of Lalu Yadav Family, Lalu, Rabri Devi and their son Tejashvi on the eve of the crucial assembly elections in Bihar, has stunned even the detractors of their party RJD as Tejashvi...
