IPA Special
After Defeat Of Impeachment Motion Against Speaker, Opposition Needs To Cooperate
By Kalyani Shankar The role of the Lok Sabha Speaker in promoting parliamentary stability and Independence is incredibly important and deserves recognition. On March 11, 2026, the Opposition’s impeachment motion against Speaker Om Birla was defeated by a voice vote, nearly four decades after the last attempt. With 119...
In A Period Of Global Turmoil, China And Vietnam Launch Innovative Strategic Dialogue
By Satyaki Chakraborty Just three days after the conclusion of the eight day National People’s Congress in Beijing, Chinese Government launched on March 15 an innovative strategic dialogue with its neighbours focusing on political, security as also defence cooperation issues. The dialogue is called 3+3 dialogue and it has...
Stage Set For Bruising Battle Of Ballots In Kerala On April 9
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the Election Commission of India (ECI) announcing April 9 as the date for the 2026 Assembly election, the stage has been set for a bruising, no-holds-barred battle of ballots in Kerala. With less than a month left for the election, political parties will have...
Tripura Left Front To Fight Bypoll Against Ruling BJP Without Allying With Congress
By Sagarneel Sinha AGARTALA: The main Opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist) or the CPI(M)-led Left Front surprised the political observers in Tripura by declaring candidates for the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) polls and Dharmanagar bypoll even before the formal election notifications. Days after Left’s declaration,...
Hollywood’s Long Night Of Reckoning: The 98th Oscars Finally Got It Right
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: There are Oscar nights that feel like clerical exercises — the industry awarding itself with the dutiful efficiency of a board meeting — and then there are nights that feel like history being made in real time. The 98th Academy Awards, held Sunday...
Analysts See Prolonged War Cutting Up To 70% Of Crude Output
By K Raveendran #Oil markets have entered a phase of acute uncertainty as military escalation involving strikes on Iran and the resulting closure of the Strait of Hormuz begin to reverberate through global energy supply chains. Within just over a week of the disruption, more than 12 million barrels...
Trump’s Sanctions Easing – India’s Relief, China’s Opportunity And Russia’s Windfall
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In the fog of war stretching from the Persian Gulf to Eastern Europe, a quiet recalibration of global energy policy is unfolding in Washington. The Donald Trump administration has moved to temporarily ease restrictions on Russian oil shipments already at sea, a measure...
Iran’s ‘Mosaic Defence’ And ‘Fourth Successor’ Models Working Well
By Asad Mirza In the ongoing war against Iran by US and Israel two terms which have gained prominence are “Mosaic Defence” model of war tactics and “Fourth Successor” model of leadership, both of which have shown the success of the Iranian regime in the war, so far. As...
Decent Job Creation Under New Labour Code To Remain Elusive
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Decent job creation in India will remain elusive, because Union Government has no plan to modify EPFO schemes for now, though it plans to roll out full implementation of the new labour codes from April 1, 2026. The Social Security Code 2020 has a clause...
Narendra Modi’s Pro-US Policy Has Damaged His Standing As BRICS Summit Host In 2026
By Dr Arun Mitra Despite pressures from the United States government, many countries in the Global South have begun asserting themselves and refusing to accept US dictates. After the collapse of the Soviet bloc in the 1990s, the world entered a period of geopolitical uncertainty. The United States emerged...
Wages Of Injustice: The Supreme Court Of India On Domestic Workers
By Maya John Last Month, in a public interest litigation (‘PIL’) seeking inclusion of domestic workers under minimum wages notifications, a bench of the Supreme Court dismissed the petition, with the Chief Justice of India (‘CJI’) making several adverse comments against trade unions, projecting them, rather than employers, as...
China, Russia Join Hands To Move Cautiously In Defending Their Ally Iran In War Against U.S.
By Nitya Chakraborty As the U.S. Israel war against Iran entered its fourteenth day on Friday March 13, in the diplomatic corridors in the UN headquarters in New York and in other major capitals including the EU headquarters in Brussels, speculation has started on what can be the likely...
In A Spirit Of Internationalism, Communist Parties Of Iran, Israel, US Take Joint Stand Against War
By Satyaki Chakraborty The war in West Asia entered its 14th day on Friday, March 13 expanding the war theatre with neither Iran nor United States showing any indication of relenting for the end of this brutal high tech war. Trump’s determination to bring Iran to the American knees...
U.S. Govt Is Making A Mockery Of India-US Trade Relations At This War Time
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In the fraught geometry of global trade, pressure rarely disappears; it merely changes form. That is precisely what appears to be unfolding in Washington. With punitive tariffs increasingly constrained by legal challenges and geopolitical complications, the office of the Donald Trump has turned...
Iran’s Defiance Of US-Israel Axis Becomes Stronger Under Mojtaba Khamenei
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The new voice of power in Tehran did not sound conciliatory. It sounded resolute. Offensive, defensive and no apologies for its programmes or human rights violations. Warned neighbouring Arabs to take off the US naval bases. In his first statement since assuming the...
Trump Is Continuously Giving Misleading Picture On Hormuz Strait Creating Confusion
By Anjan Roy As in any war, conflicting narratives are emerging in Iran war and it is becoming increasingly difficult to get at what is happening on the ground. These have become all the more real as Iran has now started savage attacks on US facilities in the Gulf...
Modi Govt Is In A Position To Deal With Current Oil Crisis Due To Iran War
By Subrata Majumder With the outbreak of combined USA-Israel war against Iran, threats loomed large on oil price hike. It turns double whammy, combined with Trump’s tariff war. It raised a new era of global political and economic conflict, which is unlikely to decelerate in near future. This war...
All Major Political Parties In Uttar Pradesh Are Battling To Own Kanshi Ram Legacy
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled for 2027, the Congress SP, BSP and Azad Samaj party are looking forward to kindle the legacy of the BSP founder Kanshi Ram, who is seen to have reshaped Dalit politics in North India. The new entrant in...
