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.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Neighbourhood First Slogan Has Failed In Last Five Years
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been talking of Neighbourhood First programme since he took over power in 2014. In these eleven years of his rule, India has got isolated from most of the countries who are its neighbours and belong to the South Asian Association of...
New Delhi Has Both Opportunity And Vulnerability In Nepal Developments
By K Raveendran The commotion in Nepal has brought into sharp focus a generational shift in the country’s politics, one that has made the term Gen Z part of the mainstream political vocabulary rather than just a casual reference to youth culture in India and elsewhere in the subcontinent....
Centre Is Implementing Labour Codes Through Backdoor
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the Union Government led by PM Narendra Modi has officially put on hold the implementation of the four controversial labour codes due to stiff resistance from the joint platform of the 10 Central Trade Unions, many provisions of the codes are being implemented across...
Narendra Modi’s Long Awaited Visit To Beleaguered Manipur May Not Lead To Truce
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in No-Modi land’, not that it’s anybody’s fault. It’s Modi who shunned Manipur like a fault, avoided the state like it would soil his shoes. Year 2023 is way back and the events of 2023 split the state wide open. The...
Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Has Opened Up Debate On Wider Issues Of American Values
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University has become far more than a criminal investigation—it is a prism refracting the fault lines of contemporary geopolitics. The 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, gunned down mid-speech by a bolt-action rifle, has posthumously...
The British Left Must Defeat The Far Right, Because Labour Certainly Won’t
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Big questions about Britain’s future hang over the working-class movement. They motivate thousands who will march against racism and fascism in London on Saturday, determined to show that far-right thug “Tommy Robinson” does not speak for the majority with his own anti-immigrant rally. They will...
The $4,700 Tax: How Trump Tariffs Are Crushing American Family Budgets
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Sarah Chen stares at her grocery receipt in disbelief. What used to cost her family of four $180 for a weekly shopping trip now rings up at $267. The Phoenix mother’s monthly grocery budget has ballooned by nearly $350 since the beginning of...
Time For Broader Left Unity In India To Combat Authoritarianism And Communalism
By D. Raja The coming to power of the BJP with an absolute majority in the 2014 general elections was not merely a routine transfer of power from one democratically elected government to another. It marked a qualitative shift in the very nature of our polity. The BJP is...
Maoists And Other Communist Groups Failed To Offer A Good Governance In Nepal
By Arun Srivastava The uprising of the Nepali youth on September 9 and 10 leading to the ouster of the KP S Oli government, does not simply manifest their anger and frustration against the rulers of the Himalayan country, instead points to a deeper and gangrenous like malaise that...
America Has Changed Radically In 24 Years Since That Fateful Morning Of September 11, 2001
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: On a crystalline morning twenty-four years ago, time itself fractured. The world watched in horror as commercial airliners became weapons, transforming symbols of American prosperity into pyres of unspeakable grief. The Twin Towers, once monuments to human ambition reaching toward the heavens, collapsed...
Wary Of Legitimacy, India Refuses To Regulate Crypto Despite Global Shift
By A K Shrivastav Despite favourable developments in the US, India is not going to change its stance on cryptocurrency and stablecoin regulations. According to a report by Reuters based on a new policy document, India will keep a watch on how digital assets play out in the Indian...
INDIA Bloc Is Playing At The Hands Of BJP On Controversy Over PM’s Mother
By Sushil Kutty The Congress party’s motherly love for rival Bharatiya Janata Party is the talk of the town , especially in poll-bound Bihar. And as it happens, the Congress hasn’t lost sight of the important role Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother played in child Modi, young Modi and...
Supreme Court Call For Pan-India Firecrackers Policy Is Welcome
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Diwali 2025, may be a little different. Supreme Court of India has just called for pan-India policy on firecrackers ban, while assuring that it would hear the livelihood concerns also on the next hearing on September 22. The apex court has also issued directions to...
Bihar Polls: NDA, Mahagathbandhan Zero In On Seat-Sharing Talks
By Rahil Nora Chopra As the high-stakes battle for Bihar inches closer, seat-sharing talks have started in both NDA and the Mahagathbandhan alliance. While talks in the NDA has become challenging due to the demands of Chirag Paswan, Jitan Ram Manjhi and Upendra Kushwaha, in the Opposition camp, two...
President Trump Is Using Kirk Killing To Declare War On The Left Wing Democrats
By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON DC: Having neither a subject in custody nor any confirmation of the motive of a shooter didn’t stop President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening from seizing on the killing of Christian nationalist youth leader Charlie Kirk as an excuse for declaring war on the political...
Youth-led outrage turns deadly across Nepal
At least 19 people have died and hundreds have been injured amid escalating protests, as Nepal rescinds its recent ban on social media platforms. Thousands of young demonstrators—largely students—took to the streets in Kathmandu and other cities to oppose the ban on 26 online services, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp,...
Dramatic Stakes as Verge of Expose Sets Assam Ablaze
On the eve of the Chief Minister’s self-imposed deadline of 10 September to unveil explosive allegations connecting MP Gaurav Gogoi with Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi boldly asserted that only a dramatic turn awaits: “either Gaurav Gogoi is going to jail or Chief Minister Sarma will...
Johnston Warns Trump Could Be Pressured From Office Over Epstein Records
Pulitzer‐winner David Cay Johnston asserted on Thursday that President Donald Trump might be “forced out” of office if the full Jeffrey Epstein files were exposed and showed damaging evidence. Johnston’s comments came during an appearance on “Times Radio” as Congress intensifies its efforts to uncover records tied to Epstein’s...
