IPA Special
LDF, Congress Challenge Thrissur LS Constituency Poll Result
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A protracted politico-legal battle is in the offing as the CPI(M), CPI and the Congress are gearing up to move the Election Commission and courts with evidence of fraud in the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency election in 2024 which BJP candidate Suresh Gopi won. CPI...
Bengal Congress Clueless On Alliance Strategy As High Command Is Keeping Mum
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: After having worked out an electoral alliance with Congress since 2016 Assembly polls, the West Bengal unit of CPI(M) wants the other political outfit to make the first overtures for a poll pact in 2026 Assembly elections. It needs to be stated that the state...
Haryana’s Contract Employment Security Act Has Some Welcome Features
By Rohit Mani Tiwari A paradoxical situation has recently emerged in the Indian employment landscape. On one hand, there are traditional bastions of ‘secured employment’ like Tata Consultancy Services (‘TCS’), which recently retrenched around 12,000 employees and halted the on-boarding of over 600 graduate trainees (‘GETs’) due to ‘skill-mismatch’...
India-US Ties Are Too Strong To Be Rocked By Trade Tariff
By Nantoo Banerjee Come August 27, the picture of the Indo-US trade may show a considerable change. India’s merchandise exports to the US will be generally subjected to a 50 percent import tax from that date. A few categories, including drugs and pharmaceuticals, have been exempted. The reason advanced...
India Squeezed Between Washington And Beijing As The Tariff War Rages
By R. Suryamurthy India today finds itself confronting a dilemma as old as statecraft itself: when forced to choose between two unpalatable options, which poison does one swallow? In 2025, that question has sharpened into a binary that policymakers in New Delhi cannot evade. On one side stands Washington,...
After Two Decades, Bolivia’s Left Wing Rule Is Ending In October This Year
By Nitya Chakraborty For the Latin American Left, August 17 was a sad day as the dominant ruling party of Bolivia Movement for Socialism (MAS) which ruled for two decades this South American country faced an ignominious defeat in the Presidential elections due to the vertical split of the...
Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra In Bihar For Right To Vote Getting Massive Response
By Arun Srivastava Rahul Gandhi’s Vote Adhikar Yatra got tremendous response in Bihar on the inaugural day on Sunday, August 17 when the Leader of Opposition exposed the Election Commission’s attitude in his speech and along with the other India Bloc leaders gave his one man one vote slogan....
Election Commission’s Credibility Is At Stake Due To Its Aggressive Stance To Rahul Gandhi
By Kalyani Shankar A serious conflict is rapidly escalating between the Congress-led Opposition, the ruling BJP, and the Election Commission of India over allegations of voter manipulation and “vote theft.” This issue has intensified following the announcement of the SIR initiative in Bihar, aimed at revising electoral rolls sparking...
Jan Vishwas Laws Provide Ease Of Living To Offenders But Not Victims
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the third day after the Independence Day speech of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his government has introduced on August 18, 2025, the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025 in the Lok Sabha and it was referred to a Select Committee of the...
Time Has Come To Amend Article XV Of Constitutions Regarding Elections
By Vasudev Devadasan Recently, the leader of the opposition made serious allegations of voter fraud in an assembly constituency in Bangalore. This article does not analyse these allegations but rather focuses on the constitutional demands the present moment raises. First, it briefly discusses how the veracity of the allegations...
No Deal On Ukraine War At Trump-Putin Meet At Anchorage In Alaska
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer ANCHORAGE, ALASKA: The much-anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, billed as a potential turning point in the grinding Ukraine war, ended without a ceasefire agreement, and without the celebratory luncheon that White House aides had originally...
Prime Minister’s GST Reform Package Has To Solve Many Unaddressed Issues
By R. Suryamurthy By pledging a sweeping Goods and Services Tax (GST) reform as a “Diwali gift” from the ramparts of the Red Fort in his Independence Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a high-stakes deadline — and a high bar. The promise was designed to thrill...
CJI Gavai’s Humility Wins Fans Not Just In Judiciary, But Way Beyond It
By K Raveendran On Independence Day, Chief Justice of India B. R. Gavai offered a reminder that struck at the heart of India’s constitutional order. “The Supreme Court is not a superior court to the High Courts. Both are equal constitutional courts,” he said, pulling back the veil on...
Narendra Modi Appeals To RSS To Allow Him To Rule For Ten More Years
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s appreciation for Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and eulogising it as the organisation which has been genuinely concerned for the welfare of the country, in his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort, was purely an act of self- protection from RSS anger and an...
Hopes Of The Employed And The Jobseekers Shattered, Hard Times Ahead
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Amidst a serious threat to Indian jobs due to global uncertainties, trade wars, automation, deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the fast-changing world of work in India, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi just employed a rhetorical device in a bid to tickle a little the...
Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir’s Threat To Use Nuclear Weapons Is Ominous
By Dr Arun Mitra The statement by Pakistan’s army chief, General Asif Munir, made in the United States—that if necessary, Pakistan would use nuclear weapons and bring half the world to the brink of destruction—is completely unnecessary, dangerous, and deepens the rift in India–Pakistan relations. It is surprising that...
Prime Minister’s Address Was Marked By Big Confidence In Meeting Pak Nuclear Threat
By Sushil Kutty Threats to national security were at the core of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 12th Independence Day speech. He highlighted both external and internal threats to India’s national security. From Pakistan’s wayward military and from the burgeoning crowds of “illegals” from Bangladesh and Myanmar. Modi called the...
Large Corporates May Benefit More From PM’s Job Plan
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: The Union government’s employment-linked incentive schemes (ELIS), one of which is pompously christened ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana’, suffers from several deficiencies and it is open to doubt whether in the long run, ELIS can fulfill the prime objective of reducing ever increasing unemployment. This...
