US Tariff Plans Target Products from India
The United States is moving forward with plans to implement a 50 percent tariff on products from India, as outlined in a draft notice published by the Department of Homeland Security. The announcement follows earlier...
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ED raids Saurabh Bharadwaj’s home in hospital scam probe
The Enforcement Directorate launched a series of raids on Tuesday targeting the residence...
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Amit Shah Supports CP Radhakrishnan’s Vice-Presidential Candidacy
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has expressed strong backing for the NDA’s decision...
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Amit Shah Supports CP Radhakrishnan’s Vice-Presidential Candidacy
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has expressed strong backing for the NDA’s decision...
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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 USA Is Unreliable, Xi’s China Could Be Worse
By Nantoo Banerjee Notwithstanding India’s current trade tariff spat with the United States, India should apply caution to further open up imports from China with which it already suffers from massive trade deficits – nearly $100 billion last year when China had severely cut down imports from India. The...
Time For Reforming GST To Reduce Inequity Among States To Suit True Concept Of Federalism
By R. Suryamurthy When India rolled out the Goods and Services Tax in 2017, it was sold as a grand nation-building reform – a “one nation, one tax” revolution that would bind the economy together. Eight years later, it looks less like a fiscal triumph and more like a...
Pakistan’s Increasing Strategic Alliance With China And Bangladesh Is Ominous For India
By Asad Mirza The last week was full of hope and consternation both, for the Indian diplomatic community. On the one hand, the Chinese Foreign Minister met the Prime Minister Modi in Delhi. The Ministry of External Affairs described the talks as fruitful. But what rattled the Indian diplomats...
Gram Urja Swaraj Campaign Of Centre Is On Sans Scheme Or Budget
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It would be shocking for many to learn that the Union Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) that runs a campaign named Gram Urja Swaraj has in fact neither any scheme nor any budget. PM Narendra Modi’s Gram Urja Swaraj is just an empty slogan with...
Nikki Haley’s Concern On Trump’s Anti-India Tilt Is Shared By Traditional Republicans
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a former Republican presidential contender, warned that “alienating New Delhi at a time of rising Chinese assertiveness would be a strategic disaster,” she was not speaking in a vacuum. Her intervention came...
Mamata Banerjee Scores Over Narendra Modi In The Propaganda War Over Metro Projects
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress, BJP and CPI(M) have always been at odds. Of late, post the inauguration of three Metro railway routes in and around Kolkata, last week by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, things have come to a head between the three political outfits as they...
Indian Students Are Grappling With Trump’s Immigration Clampdowns
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In 2025, for hundreds of thousands of young Indians, the dream of studying in the United States is alive — but under siege. A fiery Reddit post recently captured the angst: “What’s so wrong with us that every country wants to limit us?”...
After Kashmir Home Department’s Ban On Books, Librarians Are Under Pressure
By Siddu Huded On August 5, 2025, the Jammu & Kashmir Home Department issued a notification banning 25 books. The order was justified on grounds that the works propagate “false narratives” and “secessionist sentiment.” This was not an obscure list. It included Arundhati Roy’s Azadi (2020), journalist Anuradha Bhasin’s...
Election Commission’s Degradation: From Watchdog To Caged Parrot
By K Raveendran Indian epics tell us that aggression should never be turned against the weak is a lesson etched into the Mahabharata. Karna, remorseful after joining in the humiliation of Draupadi, admitted the shame of deploying power in the wrong direction. Draupadi in that moment represented not just...
130th Constitution Amendment Bill Can Be Challenged In Supreme Court
By T N Ashok India’s Home Minister Amit Shah’s 130th Constitution Amendment Bill to disqualify high profile political leaders after a 30-day pre-trial custody has created a political storm besides raising questions over the constitutional validity of such a measure fraught with serious consequences for the governance of a...
Former CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy’s Death Is A Big Loss For Left
By Nitya Chakraborty Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, the legendary communist leader of the undivided Andhra Pradesh and the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) for seven years from 2012 to 2019 passed away on Friday August 22. He was 83. Sudhakar was a distinguished leader of the...
Amartya Sen’s Comment On Deportation Exposes PM’s Bogey On Infiltrators
By Arun Srivastava Trepidation expressed by the 91-year-old Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen on Friday at a public discussion in Kolkata on ‘India’s Youth: Social Opportunities They Should Have’: “There remains a possibility that I might be sent back to Bangladesh because my ancestral home is in Dhaka,” has become...
Constitutional 130th Amendment Bill, 2025 Is A Damocles Sword
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Less than one month remains when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attain the age of 75 on September 17, 2025. Yet there is no announcement on his part that he would retire from public life, as politician and as ruler of the country. One can...
FBI Raid On Former NSA Of Trump Shows The Vindictive Character Of US President
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: The FBI’s early morning raid Friday on former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s Maryland home has reignited a cauldron of old enmities inside the Trump orbit, exposing once again the combustible intersection of classified secrets, loyalty tests, and the former president’s refusal to...
Kuki-Zo Council Finds Assam Rifles DG’s Clarification Comforting
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Clarification offered on August 21 by director general of Assam Rifles Lt-Gen Vikas Lakhera, AVSM, SM about Myanmarese nationals entering India under the Free Movement Regime (FMR) effective from last week of December 2024 has given an opportunity to the Kuki-Zo Council (KZC), a...
Monsoon Session Of Parliament Exposed Increased Authoritarianism Of Ruling Party
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As far as outcome is concerned, the month-long Monsoon Session of the Parliament of India that concluded on August 21, 2025, can be termed as near washout. Nevertheless, the symptoms it manifested signalled India’s great struggle ahead. The opposition battled for saving the Constitution and...
India’s Aviation Dream Is Built On A Fragile Safety Net And Compromised Regulator
By R. Suryamurthy The Air India Flight 171 crash in Ahmedabad this June, killing 241 people, should have been a line in the sand. A Boeing 787 — the pride of modern aviation — falling out of the sky seconds after take-off was not just a technical failure. It...
Narendra Modi’s Proposed GST Concessions Are Not Growth Oriented
By Prabhat Patnaik Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech was expectedly full of blatant untruths. He talked for instance of the great strides that India had made in the manufacturing sector during the years of BJP rule, while the reality is a drastic fall over the last ten years in...
