Bill Gates pulls out of AI Impact Summit keynote
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has withdrawn from delivering the keynote address at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, a decision that has intensified debate over his participation amid scrutiny linked to the release of...
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Khera dares Rijiju to deny Soros links
Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera has publicly challenged Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju to...
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Supreme Court to hear 1991 worship law challenge
Supreme Court has set the stage for a final hearing on a batch...
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Gogoi says Borah defect undermines Congress cohesion
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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.India Positions Itself As The AI World’s Third Pole Under PM Modi’s Active Leadership
By T N Ashok At the center of Bharat Mandapam, the chiselled, lotus-shaped convention complex that has become the theatre for India’s global ambitions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood for a “family photo” that looked less like a diplomatic formality and more like a merger of Silicon Valley and...
Bengal BJP Leaders Looking For March 15 Rally Of PM Modi For Poll Boost
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Optics rather than cohesive groundwork to build up an efficient poll machinery marks the activities of West Bengal unit of BJP in the run up to the Assembly elections in April/May this year.. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed meeting on March 15 at Brigade Parade...
Epstein Files Reveal A Saga Of Systematic Crimes By The Super Rich In Neoliberal Era
By Nilotpal Basu Since the release of the Epstein Files by the US Department of Justice on January 30, outrage has been unleashed across the United States and Europe. But the revelations, which include more than 30 lakh e-mail exchanges, over a lakh of photographs and above a thousand...
Great Punjabi Sufi Poet Bulleh Shah Was A Rebel Against Caste, Orthodoxy
By Krishna Jha “Break down the mosque, break down the temple, break down everything that can be broken, but do not break a human heart, for that is where God resides.” That was Bulleh Shah, relevant even after so many years. One of Punjab’s greatest Sufi poets, he makes...
Asia-Pacific To Miss 88 Per Cent Of The Sustainable Development Goals By 2030
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Asia-Pacific region will miss 103 of 117 measurable targets – or 88 per cent – across the 17 global Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by world leaders in 2015, a new report by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has...
Kerala Moves SC Against HC Order On ‘Nava Kerala’ Survey
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Government has moved the Supreme Court against an order of the Kerala High Court quashing a Government Order (GO), issued in October 25, to conduct a door-to-door survey titled ‘Nava Kerala Citizen Response Programme’. The programme was aimed at reaching out to the...
The American Left Owes A Lot To The Contribution Of Jesse Jackson
By Peter Dreier NEW YORK: One of the most famous photographs of Martin Luther King Jr shows him standing on the balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, with three of his top aides — Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and Jesse Jackson. The next night (April 4, 1968)...
Trump’s Second Tenure Has Led To Vertically Splitting The U.S. Society
By Ramzy Baroud NEW YORK: A January 2026 Gallup poll showed that 89 per cent of all Americans expect high levels of political conflict this year, as the country heads toward one of its most decisive midterm elections ever. Gallup, however, was stating the obvious. It is a surprise...
Mending Fences With Bangladesh: Modi Has Taken The Right Move But The Task Is Too Tough
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken the right move in sending a personal message to the new Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tarique Rahman by stating that “your victory is a testimony to the trust and confidence reposed by the people of Bangladesh in your leadership and...
An Artificial Intelligence Summit Organised Most Unintelligently
By K Raveendran Grand declarations, glittering participation and a stage crowded with policymakers, entrepreneurs and technologists were meant to signal India’s arrival as a decisive force in artificial intelligence. Instead, the India AI Impact Summit has come to symbolise something far less flattering: a troubling gap between ambition and...
BJP’s Stakes Are Very High In Assam, Resorts To No Hold Barred Politics
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Assam is the only state out of the five scheduled for election in April-May, where BJP led NDA is in power, while in the other four – West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry – it hopes to increase its presence, to a significant level...
India France Bilaterals And Macron-Modi Bonhomie Have Special Significance
By T N Ashok The optics of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to India for a 4th official in quick time are unmistakable. When he landed in Mumbai a warm embrace from PM Modi welcomed him reestablishing the bonhomie enjoyed between them. Narendra Modi, and Emanuel Macron, had a...
Jesse Jackson’s Death Is A Big Loss To Current Movement In U.S. For Protecting Human Rights
By Tirthankar Mitra A lifelong crusader at home and abroad for the rights of the economically challenged and unrepresented Jesse Jackson is no more. His was a voice respected in US whose citizen he was and far beyond the contours of American borders. For the issues he championed were...
Women And Children Welfare Schemes In Madhya Pradesh Yielding Results
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: An economic survey is often regarded as a mirror of a state’s socio-economic condition. It does not merely present figures on growth rates, investment, and production; it also reflects the state’s vision and the direction in which it seeks to move its future. Alongside agriculture,...
Decoding The Significance Of Popular Front Victory In Spain In 1936
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: Ninety years ago, the people of Spain delivered a forceful rebuke to right-wing extremism and opened one of the most dramatic chapters in working-class history. The election victory on Feb. 16, 1936, of the Popular Front (Frente Popular)—an alliance of socialists, communists, republicans, and...
British Communists Remember The Red MP Shapurji Saklatvala On His 90th Death Anniversary
By David Horsley and Jeanne Rathbone LONDON:“By the death of Saklatvala, the Indian people have lost their greatest and most sincere champion, the Communist Party, one of its most devoted and self sacrificing leaders, and his family a kindly, gentle, loving husband and father.” These were the words of...
Veteran Politicians Are Back In Strength As Nepal Votes On March 5
By Nitya Chakraborty Just twenty days after the February 12 national elections in Bangladesh, another South Asian country Nepal is going to the polls on March 5 just six months after the Gen Z movement in the country ousted the K P S Oli government in September 2025. The...
Shocking Lack Of Progress In Human Capital Development In Past 15 Years
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When the world seems to be on the rapid development trajectory, there has been a shocking lack of progress in Human Capital development across the world. Despite rising incomes and reductions in poverty, two-thirds of low- and middle-income countries have experienced a decline in health,...
