11569 stories by IPA Staff
BJP Forges Ahead With Party Apparatus For Poll
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Digvijay Singh’s announcement of his entry into MP politics is expected to have a profound impact on politics in the state. He chose Indore to make the announcement in the presence of his wife Amrita and Rameshwar Neekhra, a very senior leader of Congress....
Alliances And Counter Alliances In Syrian War
By Conn Hallinan An unusual triple alliance is emerging from the Syrian war, one that could alter the balance of power in the Middle East, unhinge the NATO alliance, and complicate the Trump administration’s designs on Iran. It might also lead to yet another double cross of one...
New Cuban President Has A Tough Task To Pep Up Economy
By C.J. Atkins The revolution carries on. That’s the message out of Havana, where 57-year-old Miguel Díaz-Canel was elected president of Cuba by the National Assembly of People’s Power in April 19, succeeding Raúl Castro, 86. The 605-member National Assembly, Cuba’s legislature, met on Wednesday and received...
Fiscal 2019 On Chaotic Start With Cash Squeeze
By S. Sethuraman Fiscal 2019 has not begun well for the terminal year of the majoritarian BJP battling desperately for a renewed mandate in the 2019 Lok Sabha poll – which may perhaps be tactically advanced, depending on mid-May outcome of Karnataka Assembly election.. Mounting opposition...
Dalit Political Scene Is Changing Fast
By Arun Srivastava Scared of Dalits feeling alienated and severing their ties with the party, the BJP leadership has embarked upon a major image refurbishing mission. With the Supreme Court reluctant to review its order on the SC/ST Atrocities Act, the BJP has decided to move the court...
Congress For Alliance With BSP-SP In MP, Chhattisgarh
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress is exploring ways to forge an electoral alliance with Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to counter the BJP in the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. .In the 2013 elections BSP had a vote share of 6.29 percent in MP and 4.27...
SC throws the yellow rag out but life-without-Loya doesn’t end there
Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court has dismissed all PILs in the Judge Loya case, asserting that there was no foul play, that Judge Loya took the natural way out. It was expected. No other ruling could have come. The four Supreme Court judges who rose in rebellion with a...
Trump-Xi Tariff War Has Kept Options Open
By Martin Hart-Landsberg There is a lot of concern over the possibility of a trade war between China and the U.S. In early April, President Trump announced that his administration was considering levying $100 billion of additional tariffs on Chinese exports, after the Chinese government responded to a...
Guv Banwarilal, His Cheeky Pat And Mother India
By Sushil Kutty In the movie ‘Mother’ India the resident ‘lech’ was named Sukhilal. In Tamil Nadu, Governor Banwarilal Purohit steals a cheeky pat on a woman journalist’s cheek and Mother India explodes in righteous indignation – brackets Banwarilal in the company of Sukhilal, names that have gone...
A hartal sponsored by no one!
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Keralites woke up this Monday to a different kind of hartal. The hartal which, as usual, hurt all was unique in that it had no sponsors! How can a hartal be observed without anybody giving a call for it? You might ask. Well,...
