IPA Special

Trump Regime Expanding Fast Foreign Military Bases

By Cameron Orr   U.S. President Donald Trump’s new discretionary budget will shovel 61 percent of the country’s social oxygen into the Pentagon’s fiery furnace. That’s $727 billion worth of schools, libraries, green jobs and infrastructure, housing, hospitals, nutritional support, healthcare, and other social needs that will go unmet....

Apr 11 · >

Less Prospects Of A Full-Fledged Global Trade War

By Anjan Roy   After US President Donald Trump announced three rounds of tariff proposals on Chinese products entering the US and the Chinese responses of counter tariffs on US goods entering China, it was felt that a raging trade war would soon break out. The Chinese had in...

Apr 11 · >

Kejriwal’s Apology To Arun Jaitley Has Significance

By Amritananda Chakravorty   After months of protracted litigation faced by Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, and prominent leader of Aam Aadmi Party (‘AAP’), pertaining to several defamation suits filed by various political rivals, including Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari and Kapil Sibal, amongst others, Mr. Kejriwal has...

Apr 10 · >

Amit Shah Diatribe Is A Sign Of Nerves

By Amulya Ganguli   BJP president Amit Shah’s intemperate outburst against the opposition parties – calling them dogs, cats, snakes, etc. – was a sign more of nervousness about his own party than of disdain for its opponents.   The reason for the uneasiness about the BJP’s prospects is...

Apr 10 · >

Smriti Irani Is In Choppy Internet Seas

By Sushil Kutty   Information & Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani is the talk of Online Town. From the wire to the scroll, she’s commanding attention and grabbing eyeballs. The lady minister wants to regulate online content. Especially, because there is an impression building that the Modi Government is dangerously...

Apr 10 · >

Mamata’s One To One Strategy For 2019 Poll Is Workable

By Nitya Chakraborty   West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made major moves   in forming a front of anti-BJP parties during her stay in Delhi last month. She has floated the idea of fielding a single opposition candidate against the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls so...

Apr 10 · >

Equality Has To Be The Basis Of Future Indo-Nepal Relations

By Barun Das Gupta   Nepal Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli came to New Delhi on a three-day visit last week. The tone for the talks he had with the Indian side was set by Oli himself. Three days before he left for Delhi, Oli told the Nepali...

Apr 9 · >

Panchayat Polls In Bengal: Opposition Tries To Put Up A Fight

By Ashis Biswas   KOLKATA: So far as the outbreak of violence in West Bengal prior to the panchayat polls is concerned, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) is apparently unable to exercise a total control on proceedings. Given the TMC’s overwhelming dominance at all levels of political activity, the...

Apr 9 · >

Rahul Usurps SP-BSP’s Bragging Rights

By Sushil Kutty   Congress President Rahul Gandhi has taken ownership of the die cast by the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party combine and challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to contest and win the Varanasi constituency against a united opposition candidate in the next elections. “He will lose,” Rahul declared...

Apr 9 · >

Anti-Trafficking Bill Is The Worst Victim Of Lok Sabha Logjam

By Nantoo Banerjee   It is a matter of great concern that the country’s apex legislature, Parliament of India, is finding it increasingly difficult to legislate, if one goes by the outcome of the second part of the less-than-five- week-long budget session, 2018-19, that ended within minutes of its...

Apr 9 · >
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