IPA Special
BJP, SP Forge Alliance With Smaller Parties And Caste Groups
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Since caste is dominant factor in forthcoming assembly polls, both the ruling BJP and its main rival Samajwadi Party are making alliances with small regional parties and various caste group to expand their social base. BJP is working very hard to get support from non-Yadav...
Pinarayi Vijayan Rebuts CAG’s Criticism Against KIIFB
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The war of words between the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government and the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) over the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Board (KIIFB) has taken a new turn. The confrontation began when the CAG criticized KIIFB in its report placed on the table...
Rich Countries Are Hypocritical On Providing A Path To Net-Zero Carbon Emission
By Prabir Purkayastha Fighting global warming is not just providing a path to net-zero carbon emissions for all countries. It is also about how to meet the energy needs of the people while doing so. If fossil fuels are to be given up as they need to be,...
UAE Chalks Up Significant Diplomatic Success With Pay-Offs
By James M Dorsey Headline-grabbing, fast-paced moves reinforce the UAE’s position as a regional power. They highlight the UAE’s willingness to chart a course that increasingly competes with Saudi Arabia, the Gulf’s regional behemoth; is at times at odds with US policy; and scoffs at assertions of human rights...
Narendra Modi’s Capitulation On Farm Laws Is A Victory Of Wider Consciousness
By Prakash Karat The capitulation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in announcing the repeal of the three farm laws, is a historic victory for the united farmers’ struggle led by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM). It is a victory which has far wider consequences than just the nullification of...
Oil, Strategic Release, Game Theory And Realpolitik
By Matein Khalid Von Neumann’s Game Theory can model strategic behaviour in the global oil market, as once Admiral Yamamoto used it to model the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and the IDF used it to model Israel’s pre-emptive strike against Nasser’s Egypt in June 1967. So the US...
Modi Perfects An Art Of Compromise Without Confessing
By Krishna Jha It is the moment when you celebrate democracy, yet realise that it is also out of bounds. Prime minister has stepped back on three agrarian laws that were to be among the darkest in the annals of history. The ruling forces have realised that to maintain...
The Story Of Parvaiz Qureshi Standing Up Against Pervez Musharraf
By Sant Kumar Sharma The Indian forces detected intrusion by Pakistani soldiers into Kargil heights in May 1999 and the political leadership of the day, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and others were categorical that they had to be evicted. What followed was massive mobilisation of the Indian Army,...
Indian Crypto Bill Seen As Bid To Strike A Balance
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav October has been extremely good for the cryptocurrency trade. Almost all major coins registered significant gains, with bitcoin closing the month at a staggering $61,880 – surging 40 percent during the period. The next few days were no less momentous as the first digital coin...
AFI Fest Features The Reel And The Real Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin
By Ed Rampell LOS ANGELES: My favorite film at AFI Festival from November 14 to 21I this year was The Real Charlie Chaplin, co-directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney, who co-wrote the almost 2-hour biopic with Oliver Kindeberg. The highest compliment I can pay this documentary that traces...
Politics Of Closing And Opening Schools Cannot Improve Air Quality
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After the air quality in the Nation Capital Territory Delhi turned sever and out of control in the second week of November, and the Supreme Court of India made sharp remarks on the failure of governance of November 13, the government of Delhi announced closure...
Thin Line Separating Pervasiveness And Perversion
By Sushil Kutty This word best describes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nearly two-term rule so far— ‘Pervasive.’ The pervasiveness of Modi in our times. His pervasive presence in all spheres of our lives. Weekends also —the ‘Man Ki Baat’. Modi sees to it we don’t forget he rules our...
Australia’s Foremost Left-Wing Historian Stuart Macintyre Passes Away
By Michael Lazarus On Monday, November 22, Stuart Macintyre passed away after a relapse of cancer. With his death, the Australian left has lost a preeminent intellectual and historian. Macintyre was more than a writer and researcher. His encyclopedic knowledge of Australian and working-class history was equalled only by...
President Maduro’s Socialist Party Sweeps Regional Polls In Venezuela
By Steve Sweeney President Nicolas Maduro hailed a “victory for the humble people” of the country as his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) swept to victory in Sunday’s regional elections. In an initial announcement by head of the National Electoral Council Pedro Calzadilla, the PSUV won the governorship...
Historic Day For Oil Consumers As Cartel Is Reined In
By K Raveendran It is indeed a historic occasion for oil consumers, suffering at the hands of oil producers. Major oil importing countries, led by the United States, have shown the courage to stand up to the challenge posed by oil cartel of OPEC+ and decided to take the...
Healthy Food Not Affordable For Over 40 Per Cent Population
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Availability of healthy food to an individual has many dimensions, and the chief among those is its affordability. It is more shocking than the shocks from COVID-19 pandemic to know that three billion people, ie about 40 per cent of the population of the world,...
Small Farmers And The Farm Law: An Introspection
By Nilanjan Banik On 19th November, PM Modi announced the repeal of the farm laws. Does it mean a good thing or a bad thing for the majority of the farmers who dot the countryside? India has around 260 million people living in poverty and 80% of them fall...
Vaccine Inequity Is A Major Concern For The Pandemic-Hit At Global Level
By Dr Arun Mitra The statement by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) that at present booster dose against COVID-19 vaccine is not a priority and administering two doses is the present priority goes along the line of World Health Organisation (WHO). Dr Balram Bhargav, director of the...
