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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.Indian Techie Pratik Pandey’s Death In Silicon Valley Raises Many Crucial Issues
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: The discovery of 35-year-old Microsoft engineer Pratik Pandey’s body on August 20, 2025, at the company’s Silicon Valley campus has sent shockwaves through the tech industry, raising urgent questions about the human cost of the relentless artificial intelligence arms race that has consumed...
Opinion Divided On Implementation Of Four Labour Codes
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the RSS-backed Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) has demanded immediate rollout of the Code on Wages 2019, and the Code on Social Security 2020, opinions in the political leadership and the officials are still divided. BMS has created a fresh concern within the BJP-led Union...
U.S. Vice President J D Vance Spoke Of Trump Both In Present And Past
By Sushil Kutty US President Donald Trump is trending on ‘X’, not because Elon Musk has returned to Trump’s fold. But Trump is all over X-comments because Vice President JD Vance spoke of Trump in both the present and past tense and though he should have been tense there...
BJP Cadres’ Attack On Congress Office In Patna Is A Part Of Design
By Arun Srivastava PATNA: Weaponisation of politics by the BJP strongman, Amit Shah, got its crude manifestation on Friday August 29 with the BJP cadres led by their two senior ministers, attacking the state office of Congress, Sadaquat ashram, which was once the abode of the former president Rajendra...
Congress Capitulates To Threat Of MLA Accused Of Sexual Misconduct
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a major political setback to the Congress in Kerala, the Crime Branch of the Kerala Police has constituted a Special investigation Team (SIT) to probe the accusations of sexual misconduct against Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil. In view of the digital nature of the alleged...
Madhya Pradesh BJP Government In A Bind Over The Slapping Of IAS Officer By Party MLA
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh BJP is in a dilemma over how to handle the ugly incident involving an IAS officer and a party legislator. If the party does not punish the legislator as per the demand of the State IAS Association, it will face angry...
Israel Seeks To Silence The Truth By Targeting Journalists In Gaza
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The latest Israeli assassination, of six Palestinian journalists, has resulted in worldwide condemnation. Al Jazeera identified the attack as part of a systematic campaign to silence the truth. The bombing attack on the Nasser hospital in the Gaza city of Khan Younis earlier this week...
Easing Of Present Barriers To Chinese Investment Into India To Figure At Modi-Xi Meet On Sunday
By Nitya Chakraborty The tariff war declared by the United States President Donald Trump against India by imposing a total duty of 50 per cent on Indian exports to the USA effective August 27 this year, is having its impact on the economic relations between the two powerful economies...
India-US Back Channel Talks Are On For Working Out A Compromise Formula
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The United States under the deal maker President Donald Trump and India under the charismatic Prime Minister Narendra Modi are arm wrestling despite being buddies on the global stage. They both represent two largest democracies that spent a decade investing in strategic convergence....
BJP Has Much To Worry At Maratha Agitation Reaching Mumbai
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Manoj Jarange Patil led Maratha agitation demanding OBC status for the community has just reached Mumbai, which brings with it fresh political worries for the BJP led Mahayuti government in Maharashtra. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election is going to be held later in 2025, in which...
Trump’s Governance In First Seven Months Of Second Term Differs In Many Respects From The First One
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Seven months into Donald Trump’s second presidency, the political landscape reveals a stark contrast between his current standing and the trajectory of his first term. Where Trump entered office in January 2017 with a 45% approval rating and the benefit of doubt from...
Trump-Imposed 50 Percent Tariffs Have Devastated The Tiruppur Knitwear Workers
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is back to doing what he loves doing most, travel the world, touring international political hotspots, engaging with fellow heads of states, genuine gentlemen like United States President Donald Trump and their Chinese and Russian counterparts. As of now, there’s the belief...
Increasing Bonhomie Between Two Thackeray Brothers Signals Political Alliance
By Rahil Nora Chopra A significant shift is occurring in Maharashtra’s political landscape. Former Maharashtra CM and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday visited his cousin, MNS supremo Raj Thackeray, at his Mumbai residence to offer prayers on Ganesh Chaturthi. The visit once again highlighted the growing...
Madhya Pradesh Political Parties Approve Resolution Approving 27 Percent Quota For OBC
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh BJP achieved a remarkable success when an all-party meet passed a unanimous resolution to offer 27 percent OBC reservation in Madhya Pradesh. The meeting, held at the residence of Chief minister Mohan Yadav, was attended by representatives of the governing BJP,...
Trump Administration Looking For Surrender By Narendra Modi As 50 Percent Tariffs Take Effect
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Trump’s 50% tariffs on Indian exports took effect from Wednesday as there has been no resolution to the dispute over Russian oil buys in by India. In a move that has stunned global markets and rattled one of America’s most strategically important partnerships,...
French Centre-Right Govt Is On The Brink As A Confidence Vote Is Set For September 8
By Nitya Chakraborty France’s centre-right coalition government is once again facing a major political crisis as the Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has called for a confidence vote on September 8 in Parliament after his fragile coalition supporters rejected his budget proposals to revive the economy. Both the Left combination...
What The 130th Constitution Amendment Bill Moved By Home Minister Truly Purports To Achieve?
By Justice K. Chandru (Retd.) ‘History will absolve me’ said Fidel Castro, famously, in 1953, as he was arrested for the alleged attempt to overthrow the Batista regime in pre-revolutionary Cuba. Perhaps all over the world, freedom fighters who were incarcerated or were confiscated of their civil rights have...
Has Modi Started Bowing Down To U.S. Pressure By Withdrawing Import Duty On Cotton
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With India’s suspending import duty on cotton, that is expected to benefit the textile sector of the country, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ‘betrayal’ to farmers. PM Modi has been claiming for several month’s now, the latest being only...
