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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.Talibans Have Every Right To Reject Trump’s Demand For Bagram Military Base
By Asad Mirza President Trump has fired a fresh salvo from his wish list, ignoring sovereignty of an independent nation and ignoring all norms of international decorum and diplomacy. He seems to act like a child who must cry, when he wants to take control of any other sovereign...
Bangladesh Allows U.S. Troops In Sensitive Island Of Bay Of Bengal
By Ashis Biswas Not many people believed in the serious warning addressed to her countrymen by former Prime Minister, of Bangladesh, Mrs Hasina (Sheikh) Wazed. Days before her flight to India on August 5 2024, when an armed mob attacked and looted her residence. in Dhaka city, she had...
How The Pro-Rich Bias Of Visa System Will Be Adversely Affecting U.S. Tech Supremacy?
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: India’s measured diplomatic response to Trump’s latest H-1B visa sledgehammer—a punitive $100,000 annual fee that effectively prices out most employers—carries the understated fury of a nation whose skilled professionals have been branded economic pariahs. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal’s words about “humanitarian...
Madhya Pradesh BJP Holding Marathon Sessions To Rejig State Party Machinery
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both the state units of Madhya Pradesh BJP and Congress have initiated major strategy to streamline the organisation setup, The Congress has drawn up three day programme involving all the district Congress committees. The district Committees were given task by Rahul Gandhi. Now the...
Deportation Of A 73 Year Old Ailing PIO Woman Tells Of Absurdity Of Trump’s Immigration Machinery
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In the annals of bureaucratic absurdity, few episodes rival the spectacle of the United States government deploying its vast immigration enforcement apparatus to detain a 73-year-old grandmother with arthritic knees. Harjit Kaur, a Sikh seamstress from the San Francisco Bay Area, has become...
Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Redefines U.S. Liberal Immigration Policy
By T N Ashok The Trump administration’s latest immigration directive has stunned employers, foreign workers, and higher-education leaders alike: a $100,000 surcharge on each H-1B visa application, announced by executive order on 19 September 2025. What might appear on the surface as a routine adjustment to visa fees is,...
No Surprises In SEBI Clean Chit To Adani Over Issues Flagged By Hindenburg
By K Raveendran The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s clean chit to the Adani Group over allegations raised by the Hindenburg report has hardly surprised anyone who has followed the regulator’s history. For decades, SEBI has functioned less like an independent watchdog and more as an extension of...
Reclassifying Jobs By Skills And Qualification To Remove Discrepancies
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Given the significant discrepancies in job descriptions across nations, the Government of India and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have signed an agreement on 16 September to fund a feasibility study on an international classification of occupations based on skill and qualification requirements. The initiative,...
Special Intensive Revision: Kerala To Oppose Election Commission’s Agenda
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has decided to strongly oppose the Election Commission’s move to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State. As a first step to protest against the EC’s decision, the State Assembly will pass a unanimous resolution against the rolls revision....
Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Move Makes Him India’s Biggest Headache So Far
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to avoid confronting United States President Donald Trump, while the former real-estate developer with business interests worldwide including in India, harasses India with stupidly high tariffs and now by horrendously increasing the H-1B visa fee. Instead, PM Modi’s response was as...
Despite Being In Jail, Mohd Azam Khan Retains Prominence In Muslim Politics Of UP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: There is no doubt that Samajwadi Party leader Mohd Azam Khan plays a larger-than-life role in Muslim politics of Uttar Pradesh. Is BJP scared of Mohd Azam Khan in forthcoming assembly polls in 2027? And is that why the saffron brigade will be more comfortable...
Why The 25th Congress Of CPI On September 21-25 In Chandigarh Is Significant In Indian Politics?
By D Raja The Twenty-Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of India will convene in Chandigarh from September 21, 2025, at Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy Nagar (Kisan Bhawan). We gather at a moment of extraordinary circumstances. Punjab is reeling under devastating floods. Fields are submerged, homes are damaged, and livelihoods...
Congress-BJP Political Fight On Role Of Election Commission Sees No End
By Dr. Gyan Pathak For quite some time now, India heard the Congress’s and BJP’s points-counterpoints on saving Indian democracy in their own way. Congress alleged that the ruling BJP establishment led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi not only undermined the Election Commission of India (ECI) an and institution...
Foreign Ownership Of Banks In India Will Only Help Big Corporate Groups
By Prabhat Patnaik The Reserve Bank of India has a limit of 15 per cent on ownership by non-residents of the equity of an Indian bank, a limit that is augmentable on a case-to-case basis but remains on the statute books to this date. And yet in 2018, the...
The States’ Fiscal Illusion: Borrowing Today, Mortgaging Tomorrow
By R. Suryamurthy When the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) released its State Finances 2022–23 report, the numbers confirmed what many economists have long feared: India’s states are not just borrowing, they are borrowing badly. The façade of buoyant Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections has concealed deep imbalances...
Why Does BJP Always Get Paranoid At Any Political Comment By Rahul Gandhi?
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at his hydrogen bomb presser made a mention of Gen Z and since then there’s talk that Gandhi was thinking of Nepal and the Nepalese Gen Z overthrowing the Nepalese government, wishing aloud his frustration of not being able to win his...
India Is Now Among The Strongest Drivers Of Growth In Global Steel Industry
By Kunal Bose One single factor that is primarily responsible for the weak finances of the world steel industry is installed capacity staying well in excess of demand. If that is not enough to stand in the way of most mills across the continents to generate surpluses to support...
BJP-led NDA Is In Full Action Mode As Bihar Polls Inch Closer
By Rahil Nora Chopra As the high-stakes battle for Bihar inches closer, the BJP has gone into full action mode to counter Mahagathbandhan’s political yatras. It seems Union Home Minister Amit Shah is himself taking charge to ensure success of Bihar Mission 2025. Already, the BJP has begun reinforcing...
