IPA Special
Europe’s Theatre Of War Is Expanding As Poland Shoots Down Russian Drones
By Anjan Roy With every day, peace in Europe is receding and fears of a serious war breaking out nearing. On the eve of First World War, Earl Grey, then foreign secretary of Britain, had mourned with prophetic words: “Lights are being put out all over Europe. We might...
Mayawati Mobilising Workers For A Massive Show Of Strength On October 9
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNIW:BSP national President of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Mayawati is mobilising party workers to organise massive show of strength at state capital Lucknow on October 9 on the occasion of death anniversary of the founder of the party and dalit thinker Kanshiram. Mayawati has realised unless...
In Nepal, It Is The Total Revolution By Generation Z Against Old Order
By Nitya Chakraborty The two day uprising in Nepal on September 8 and 9 resulting in the ouster of the KPS Oli government following the attacks and burning of the Parliament Building, Supreme Court and the official and private residences of the present and former powerful ministers, was an...
Weakening Economies, Rising Risks Add To Gold’s Safe Haven Allure
By K Raveendran Gold set another all-time high on Tuesday, scaling past its previous peak in both international and domestic markets as a confluence of macroeconomic factors, investor psychology, and geopolitical risks continue to create the perfect storm for a historic rally. Globally, the precious metal surged beyond the...
Pact For The Future Requires Fundamental Shift For Course Correction
By Dr. Gyan Pathak World needs a course correction for which a fundamental shift is required, since global military expenditure has been rising fast while sustainable development goals (SDGs) are faltering with too big a financial gap. Global insecurity intensifies, geopolitical rivalries deepen, and global military spending surged to...
Democratic Party’s Win In Virginia Gives A Big Jolt To Donald Trump And MAGA Lobby
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: James Walkinshaw’s decisive victory in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District Tuesday night wasn’t just another predictable Democratic hold—it was a strategic chess move in a House of Representatives so narrowly divided that a handful of seats could determine whether Republicans can govern or Democrats...
Zohran Mamdani, New York Mayor Finalist Takes Up Bernie Sanders’s Torch
By Nick French NEW YORK: On Saturday, a modest crowd braved on-and-off thunderstorms to pack Brooklyn College’s 2,400-capacity Claire Tow Theater for the latest stop on Bernie Sanders’s “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. The town hall was far from the biggest stop on the tour, which drew tens of thousands to...
Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi Retracting From His SCO Commitment One Week Back?
By Nitya Chakraborty Is the Prime Minister Narendra Modi retracting from his commitment to the SCO declaration issued on September 1 and the BRICS statement of July 6 this year to send some sort of signals to US President Donald Trump about restoring reciprocity in the India-US relations? The...
Nepal Uprising Is On The Pattern Of Youth Revolt In Sri Lanka And Bangladesh
By Sushil Kutty It happened like it was going to happen. Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned Tuesday afternoon. Oli called an all-party meeting for the evening but had to succumb to pressure. Both his homes, private and government, had felt the torch and it was getting very...
Bayrou Govt’s Fall By Losing Confidence Vote Is A Big Jolt To French President Macron
By Satyaki Chakraborty The inevitable happened on September 8 in French Parliament as Prime Minister Francis Bayrou lost the confidence vote on his minority government by 364 to 194 in the house of 577 giving a clear indication that many of the members of the Macron’s centrist party voted...
ECI Can Not Be Fully Trusted In Implementing Supreme Court Order On Aadhaar
By Arun Srivastava The latest directive of the Supreme Court to ECI to treat Aadhaar the “12th document” which can be produced as proof of identity for the purpose of inclusion in the revised voters list of Bihar is too little and too less content wise. With barely 20...
Trump’s Second Sanctions Against Russia Is Sure To Further Impact Indian Economy
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: President Donald Trump’s latest policy announcements represent a convergence of his most aggressive impulses: economic coercion through secondary sanctions targeting India’s post-SCO energy partnerships, a final ultimatum to Hamas on hostage negotiations, and the deployment of federal troops in American cities despite growing...
Russia Is Playing A Significant Role In Bringing India And China Closer In Geopolitics
By Asad Mirza The recent Shanghai Cooperation Council (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China has essentially revived the fortunes of the SCO or in other words exhibited the might, power and reach of China in the backdrop of tariffs and sanctions upheaval created by the US President Donald Trump. At...
India’s Geopolitical Dilemma: Between Multipolarity And U.S. Hegemony
By Dr Arun Mitra The shifting contours of global geopolitics have placed India at a critical juncture. The United States, along with certain other former colonial powers, is once again striving to reassert global dominance. Their strategy is clear – prevent developing nations from advancing, while sustaining their own...
Indian Steel Industry And Iron Ore Development Facing Big Challenges
By Kunal Bose Indian steel industry faces a series of new challenges as the country is faced with US President Donald Trump’s imposition of 50 per cent tariff on Indian exports to the USA including the steel products. India presents a different picture now where because of the growing...
Mukesh Ambani’s RIL Is India’s Biggest Beneficiary Of Discounted Russian Crude Oil
By Nantoo Banerjee One’s pain could be another’s gain. The phrase aptly describes those big business gainers across the world out of the three-and-a-half-year-old Russia-Ukraine war, killing thousands of soldiers and civilians on both sides. The list of such gainers may be short but very impressive. They include some...
Bihar Assembly Poll Is The Testing Ground For PM-RSS Experiment On SIR
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s manouvres failed to ignite the passionate feelings of Bihari women and connect them with the PM and his party’s political ambitions before the ensuing assembly polls.. Modi was miffed at Congress leaders presumably used abusive languages against her mother Hiraben. He ought...
Trump’s Economic Promise Turns Into Political Peril As Essentials Prices Rise
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: President Trump’s signature economic strategy is backfiring in spectacular fashion, transforming his promise to make life more affordable for working Americans into a growing source of voter anger that threatens to define his second term. Seven months after returning to office pledging to...
