IPA Special
Hindutva Is Yet To Emerge As Core Issue In Bihar Despite BJP’s Bangladeshi Pitch
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the BJP has been raising its pitch on the issue of Bangladeshi Muslims infiltrators, and the Election Commission of India (ECI) has said that they have found illegal infiltrators name during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the Electoral Roll, Hindutva is yet to...
Indian Govt Confident Of Maintaining Oil Supplies Despite Trump’s Sanction Threat
By Subrata Majumder US President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to Russia to end war with Ukraine, or, face secondary sanction, embracing 100 percent tariff on countries purchasing oil and other goods, if no peace agreement is reached between Russia and Ukraine within 50 days. At present, over 90...
Communist Party Of India Urges Maoists To Leave Armed Struggle And Join National Mainstream
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (CPI) has called upon the Maoists as also other sections of armed rebels in the country to leave the path of armed struggle and join the mainstream of the communist movement. The Party’s call assumes special significance in the context of...
Differences On Next CM Choice May Prolong President’s Rule In Manipur For A Short Period
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Politically the Bharatiya Janata Party and administratively the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) are still trying hard to install a popular ministry in restive Manipur ; but circumstances seem to have forced them to be in a state of readiness to extend President’s...
Trump’s Battle With The WSJ Over Epstein Issue Might Be Prolonged
By Sushil Kutty Scandals and US President Donald Trump are buddies. Problem is, if only Trump didn’t have so many skeletons! One or the other skeleton keeps tumbling out of a Trump cupboard. And most if not all involve trouble with ‘woman’ or ‘woman trouble’. Who doesn’t know of...
PM Narendra Modi’s Durgapur Rally Failed To Energise Bengal BJP
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi sounding poll bugle for 2026 Assembly polls in West Bengal at his Durgapur rally on Friday turned out to be a feeble call. While he spoke of Bengali “asmita” (pride) in his 34-minute address to stoke the Bengali sentiment for BJP,...
Gulf States In Central Asia And The Caucasus: Pragmatism Redrawing The Map
By M A Hossain It is easy to overlook the quiet revolutions in geopolitics, especially when the headlines are dominated by wars in Ukraine and Gaza, tensions in the Indo-Pacific, or the perennial drama of U.S.-China rivalry. Yet, beneath the surface of global power struggles, there is a subtler...
INDIA Bloc Has To Give Sole Focus On Assembly Polls In Bihar By Year End
By Nitya Chakraborty The INDIA Bloc constituents are finally meeting in New Delhi on Saturday, July 19 to discuss the strategy for the monsoon session of the Parliament beginning on July 21 as also an assessment of the developments in the country including increasing threat to the electoral democracy...
BRICS Bloc Members Have To Jointly Challenge Trump’s Tariff Threat On Them
By Prakash Karat The 17th BRICS Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro on July 6-7, the first summit with the expanded membership of eleven countries. Soon after, US President Trump threatened to impose 10 per cent tariffs on those countries that align with BRICS. Earlier too, Trump had...
Politics Hots Up In West Bengal Over Bangladeshi And Bengali Muslims
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election Commission of India’s ongoing voter list clean-up drive in Bihar coupled with rounding up of Bengali speaking Muslims by BJP ruled states and locking them up in detention centres or pushing them into Bangladesh at gunpoint has generated a considerable political heat in West...
Why Modi Govt’s Boasting About Income Equality In India Is Erroneous?
By Prabhat Patnaik The World Bank has recently published a list of Gini coefficients for 61 countries relating in some cases to income distribution and in others to consumption expenditure distribution. In that list India had the fourth lowest Gini coefficient in 2022, on the basis of which the...
Tamil Nadu Politics Is Hotting Up With AIADMK-BJP Challenging DMK Led Front
By Sushil Kutty For the time being Tamil Nadu has set aside the issues of ‘three-language’ and ‘delimitation’ on the backburner. The focus is on alliances or the lack thereof. But with the 2026 assembly elections up for grabs, the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is weighed down by anti-incumbency,...
After 20 Years As CM, Nitish Kumar Is Being Called The King Of Jungle Raj
By Arun Srivastava A change of power is yet to take place, a mahagathbandhan government is still waiting in the wings to occupy the centre stage, but to the chagrin of the people of the state, jungle raj has already descended in Nitish Kumar’s Bihar. This negates the myth...
LJP Leader Chirag Paswan Meets J P Nadda And Discusses Bihar Situation
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political activity in Bihar is soaring high as Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan met BJP president J P Nadda on 17 July and discussed the current political situation in the poll-bound Bihar. In a post on X, Paswan...
Not Legislation, But Harmony And Secularism Can Prevent Blasphemy
By Dr. Arun Mitra Blasphemy means making statements that oppose or insult God, deities, religious symbols, sacred things, or beliefs—statements which are generally considered wrong according to religious norms. Historically, every religion has defined blasphemy in its own way. Incidents of blasphemy have always occurred, but in recent years,...
South African Communist Party Will Contest Solo In 2026 National Elections
By Sabina Price LONDON: Deeming the African National Congress’s electoral strategies as beyond the pale, the South African Communist Party has committed itself to a new strategy. The Tripartite Alliance, born out of the struggle for national liberation which saw the alliance members fight side by side to end...
U.S. Supreme Court Is Being Used By Trump To Implement His MAGA Agenda
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: In a landmark but largely silent move, the U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for former President Donald Trump to dismantle the Department of Education, terminate thousands of federal employees, and slash funding to states — all without providing a single word of...
World Organization Against Torture Flags India As “High Risk” Country
By Edgar Kaiser, Grace Anu Backia This year has proven to be a sobering one for the Indian police with several reports revealing their unconstitutional and torturous attitude. The Status of Policing in India report 2025 put forth an alarming data about the police officers’ stand on torture. As...
