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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’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...
Pakistan’s Big Success In Building Solar Power Capacity Is A Lesson For India
By Kunal Bose Whatever be the state of our relations with the next-door neighbour Pakistan – the bitterness was much in evidence when our cricketers refused to shake hands with the Pakistani players at the recently held Asia Cup finals – we should for our own benefit keep ourselves...
Stiglitz Led Global Panel Warns Income Inequality Has Widened To Emergency Level
By Asad Mirza An International Panel on Inequality has pointed out that the global income inequality has reached ‘emergency levels’, endangering democracy, and social cohesion. The report says that during the last 15 years the rich have grown more richer while the poor have become poorer. Despite numerous welfare...
Centre’s Drive Against Illegal Immigrants Getting Results In Bengal
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Even before the Intensive review of the electoral rolls (SIR) has really started in West Bengal, the state is witnessing a phenomenon that would have been inconceivable earlier: scores of self-confessed Bangladeshis going back to their former homeland with bag and baggage, from North as...
In Phase Two Of Bihar Assembly Poll, Impressive Turnout Is Expected
By Rabindra Nath Sinha As of Monday, there is more than usual curiosity in political circles about two issues as far as the Bihar Assembly election is concerned. The two-phase election concludes on Tuesday, November 11.. The exercise is to cover 122 seats for the 243-member House. Therefore, the...
After One Year Of AMU Judgment, The Key Question Still Remains Unanswered
By Aman Alam, Maimuna Siddiqui It has been one year since the Supreme Court pronounced its verdict on Aligarh Muslim University’s (‘AMU’) minority status. Yet the crucial six-decade old question -Whether AMU is a minority institution or not?’ remains unanswered till date. The judgment doesn’t so much resolve the...
China Sees Political Coldness In India’s Dealing With Coming QUAD Summit
By Nitya Chakraborty In Chinese media, lot of interest is focused on the future of the US sponsored security bloc QUAD and what will be India’s relations with it in the backdrop of US President Donald Trump’s strained relations with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the last...
