IPA Staff
8469 stories by IPA Staff
Unemployment Rate Decline Veils Frightening Level Of Joblessness
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The frightening reality of joblessness in India persists and millions of people have just stopped even searching for jobs. Modi government is playing with the data that showed a decline in the unemployment rate, and Union Minister of Labour and Unemployment Bhupender Yadav claimed employment...
First Two Phases Of UP Assembly Polls Indicate Voters Punishing BJP
By Rahil Nora Chopra Reports coming from the ground after the first two phases of polling in Uttar Pradesh is that SP-RLD alliance is way ahead over BJP. The impact of the farmers’ agitation is most evident in the assembly seats, which are adjacent to Delhi, such as Muzaffarnagar,...
Narendra Modi Magic Losing Its Spell In The Ongoing State Elections
By Partha S. Ghosh First, it was the humiliating defeat of the BJP in the high-profile West Bengal election early last year. In his desperation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had even resorted to a vulgar campaign against the Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, but to no avail. Then came his...
Widening Of Inequality Is A Natural Consequence Of Capitalist Planning
By Prabhat Patnaik Much has been written about the immense increase in economic inequality that has occurred of late and various startling figures have been provided by bodies like Oxfam, which has just come out with a report titled Inequality Kills. This shows that the wealth of the 10...
Ukraine Crisis Has Exposed The Real Game Plan Of United States Govt
By Prakash Karat The inception of the current crisis on Ukraine lies in the continuing eastward expansion of NATO. Contrary to what was promised to Russia by the United States in the post-Soviet period that NATO would not expand eastward, all the East European countries and the Baltic states,...
United States Ramps Up War Talk As It Points More Missiles At Russia
By John Wojcik U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken went on national television Thursday morning to declare, again, that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could start at any moment. His dire prediction was yet another in the endless string of declarations by the U.S. that war could start at...
38 get death sentence in Ahmedabad serial blast case
A special Gujarat court pronounced death sentence on 38 out of 49 convicts in the Ahmedabad serial bomb blast case today. Eleven other convicts have been awarded life imprisonment. The deat sentence to the 38 convicts has been awarded under section 302of the Indian penal Code (IPC) and Unlawful...
Narendra Modi Seeks To Retain Power Through His Strategy Of ‘Divide And Rule’
By Nitya Chakraborty Two phases of polling for the seven phase assembly elections to the five states have been over by now and the third phase is due on February 20. By then in three states Goa, Uttarakhand and Punjab, the polling will be completed. Only two states Uttar...
Time Ripe For Building A Broad Unity Against Centre’s Attacks On Federalism
By Prakash Karat Some chief ministers of the opposition-ruled states have been discussing about the need for a united stand to defend federalism and to counter the onslaught of the Modi government on centre-state relations. The need for a united stand of state governments in defense of states’ rights...
Yogi Adityanath Has Lost His Senses By Putting His UP Model Above Kerala
By Binoy Viswam Ever since the battle for Uttar Pradesh has begun, the RSS – BJP big shots are anxious about their political fortunes. Though states like Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa also are scheduled to the polls, the chieftains of the Sangh Parivar are more nervous about UP....
