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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.Trump-Mamdani Meet: It Was A Win-Win Situation For Both Leaders
By Nitya Chakraborty The meeting on Friday November 21 between the U.S. President Donald Trump and the New York Mayoral-elect Zohran Mamdani produced a win-win situation for both leaders. The maverick Republican President who earlier called Mamdani a lunatic communist and the 34 year old firebrand democratic socialist who...
Dissecting Supreme Court’s Governance And Timeline Verdict
By K Raveendran The framers of the Constituent Assembly drafted the Constitution on the assumption that political actors—presidents, governors, ministers, assemblies—would honour a baseline of institutional morality enabling parliamentary democracy to function as the architects envisaged. That assumption rested on the idea that constitutional statutes alone would not suffice;...
Busy Economic Season Begins But No Improvement In Job Situation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It should be a wake-up call for the Union Government that the economically busy season of the year started in September, and the festival season September-October has failed to improve employment and unemployment situation in the country. Unemployment rate remained in Current Weekly Status (CWS)...
It Is Time South Asian Countries Deal Bilateral Relations With Caution And Cooperation
By Dr Arun Mitra For some time now, the events that are fast occurring in South Asia one after other are a cause of concern. We witnessed terrorist violence in Pahalgam on 22nd April 2025 where 26 innocent people were killed. Now 15 people have died after a blast...
As SIP Surges And Deposits Slow, India’s Financial Stability Has Some Risks
By R. Suryamurthy There is an odd sense of comfort in India’s savings revolution — as if we are watching a financial transformation gather speed while pretending there is no downside to it. Mutual funds have become the new cultural shorthand for “smart money”, the aspirational badge of financial...
Baffling SC Verdict On Deadline For Governors On Bills
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Supreme Court verdict that it cannot set a time limit for the President and Governors to grant or deny assent to the bills passed by the State legislatures has left the urgent Constitutional question of whether the laws passed by the State Governments can...
Job Situation In Bangladesh Worsens As Foreign Countries Restrict Taking Bangla Labour
By Ashis Biswas To everyone’s surprise Bangladesh’s economy is doing none too badly, even as hard times continue to plague the interim Government led by Dr M Yunus. Nearly sixteen months after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, despite occasional fluctuations, the country’s export earnings and remittances have...
50 Years After Franco’s Death, Fascist Legacy Still Haunts Spain
By Jim Jump MADRID: “Spaniards, Franco has died,” came the announcement 50 years ago on Spanish TV. If there was any truth to the widely held story that Barcelona immediately ran out of cava, the corks would have been popping behind closed doors. Most Spaniards held their breath on...
India’s Higher-Education System Is Driving Students Out — Not Bringing The World In
By R. Suryamurthy India’s student mobility crisis is no longer a question of data, it is an indictment of a system that has refused to reform while the world moved on. The new NITI Aayog paper does not so much analyse this imbalance as expose it. The numbers are...
Big Technological Changes In Employment Market Widening Income Divide
By Sanjay Roy Employment across the world is undergoing changes. The changes are multi-dimensional, driven by shifting nature of labour contract by skill grades, impacted by uncertainty and shocks in supply chains. However, the tendencies are neither uniform across countries nor do they show uniformity in direction of change....
Following Reverses In Bihar Polls, Congress Leadership Of INDIA Bloc Is Challenged
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political activity in Uttar Pradesh is heated up as senior Samajwadi Party leader Ravidas Mehrotra remarked that SP president Akhilesh Yadav should lead the I.N.D.I.A. alliance in place of Congress. Congress Lok Sabha MP Imran Masood, however, quickly countered the remark saying that Rahul...
American Economic Policies Are Meant To Impose Austerity On Working People
By Prabhat Patnaik The fact that speculation can exacerbate a basic situation of shortage of a commodity by encouraging its hoarding, or even cause a completely artificial shortage of it when no basic shortage exists, and thereby play havoc with the lives of the working people, especially when the...
Despite Political Turbulence, Bangladesh Hikes Its Garment Exports To USA
By Kunal Bose I got a sweater the other day produced in Bangladesh, as good as you get anywhere but picked up by my daughter in the United States. The south Asian country in spite of serious political unrest, which has its expected fallout in the economy has managed...
Xinjiang In China Has Emerged As A Model Of Digital Governance For The Entire Country
By Aritra Banerjee China’s approach to governing Xinjiang has often been described through individual components: detention centres, forced labour programmes, intrusive surveillance systems, and strict ideological conditioning. Yet the full picture becomes clearer only when these parts are viewed as a single structure. Xinjiang is not an isolated policy...
Punjab Govt Decision To Appoint Jitender Shunty As Human Rights Commission Member Is Welcome
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: When due to the fear of spread of Corona, everyone was hesitant even to attend the funeral of his nears and dears, then this angel was performing the last rites of corona affected dead bodies without any selfish motto and facilitated the dignified last...
Winning Perception Battle Against Bangladesh Is The Main Task Of Narendra Modi At G-20 Summit
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending G20 summit at Johannesburg on November 22 and 23 amidst the diplomatic crisis for India over the Bangladesh demand for deportation of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from her shelter in India. On November 17, the International Crimes...
Supreme Court’s Advisory Opinion Will Have Far Reaching Implications
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the advisory opinion given by the five-judges Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India led by the Chief Justice B R Gavai under Articles 143 of the Constitution of India is not binding, it is likely to have far reaching implications influencing the...
Denial Of Economic Reality By Trump Imperils Republican Party’s 2026 Mid Term Prospects
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Nearly a year into President Trump’s second term, the political math has become unforgiving. His approval rating has collapsed to levels not seen since the chaotic final months of his first presidency. Congressional Republicans face a double-digit deficit heading into next year’s midterm...
