IPA Special
LPG Shortage Has Started Affecting People Across Indian States, Cities
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the government of India has assured that there are enough oil and gas resources in the country, and there is no reason for public to panic, hotels and eateries in several cities in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and elsewhere have shut down causing great...
The $75 Billion Paradox: India And The Global Arms Bazaar
By T N Ashok In the dusty archives of 1947 sits a photograph that serves as the moral conscience of a nation: Mahatma Gandhi, a man of “soul-force” and homespun cotton, walking toward an independence won without a single division of tanks. He famously argued that a nation’s strength...
Colombia’s Ruling Left Coalition Wins Maximum Seats In March 8 Elections To Congress
By Satyaki Chakraborty The ruling Left coalition in Colombia headed by the President Gustavo Petro recorded a significant victory in the national elections held on March 8 by getting maximum number of seats in the legislature. The polls held in the background of US President’s war in Iran and...
Himanta Sarma Is No More The Strong Leader He Was Before 2021 Polls
By Rabindra Nath Sinha Party hopping is on in full swing among the BJP and the Congress ranks in Assam where Assembly elections are due between March-end and mid-April latest and for which the Election Commission of India is expected to announce the schedule in a matter of days....
Nuancing Feminism In The Indian Bar To Make It More Gender Neutral
By Nandita Rao In December 2025, the Supreme Court of India, led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant passed a historic decision, reserving thirty percent posts in all State Bar Councils for women. The Court passed these directions in a Public Interest Litigation, pointing out that the percentage...
Red Letter Day For People Of Kozhikode, Wayanad
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a Red Letter Day for the people of Kozhikode and Wayanad districts. Friday, March 6, 2026 saw the first controlled rock blast at the site of the proposed Anakkampoyil-Kalladi-Meppadi tunnel road project connecting Kozhikode and Wayanad districts. A long-standing dream of the people...
Iran War Is Likely To Hit Indian Economy Hard
By Nantoo Banerjee The all-out war in West Asia, involving the US-Israel combine and Iran and covering 10 countries in the region, is expected to have a big economic backlash on India. At stake are India’s $120-billion trade in this region, huge oil imports, overall balance of payments, inflow...
Nepal Electorate Give Unequivocal Verdict Against Instability, Old Faces, Corruption
By Nitya Chakraborty With the final results of the March 5 elections in Nepal, almost available, it is clear that the Gen Z supported Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is set to form the next government in this tiny Himalayan nation headed by the RSP leader Balendra Shah whose political...
Respect (Disrespect) To President Is New Electoral Narrative In West Bengal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest controversy involving the President of India Draupadi Murmu is being shaped as a new electoral narrative in West Bengal, and the way it is being done shows that it is less about protocol itself and more about electoral narrative building ahead of the...
U.S. Defence Companies Are Making Fortunes As Iran War Escalates
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Strip away the flags. Silence the speeches. Turn off the generals with their grave faces and PowerPoint slides showing red arrows across sand-coloured maps. When the theatre clears, what remains is not a clash of civilisations, not a battle for freedom, not even...
Naming Mojtaba Khamenei As Supreme Leader Marks Continuity Of Iranian Leadership
By Asad Mirza Iran on Monday (March 9) named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as the supreme leader of Iran, signalling that hardliners remain firmly in charge. Iranian institutions and politicians, from the foreign ministry to lawmakers, issued statements expressing their allegiance to the country’s new...
Narendra Modi Has Politicised President’s Visit To Bengal To Help BJP
By Arun Srivastava Never before in the political history of India, the institution of President was used in such a blatant manner as was done on Saturday March 7, by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for ensuring the victory of the BJP at the Bengal assembly elections. What has...
Britain Is Drifting Into Donald Trump’s Iran War, That Has To Be Stopped
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The tens of thousands who marched against war with Iran on Saturday speak for the huge majority of the British public. That is clear from every opinion poll. It was clear on the BBC’s politics show Question Time, where presenter Fiona Bruce, asking for a...
Oil Shock Fears Mount As Gulf Conflict Impact Spreads Far And Wide
By K Raveendran Escalating hostilities between the United States, Israel and Iran are rapidly transforming a regional confrontation into a global economic and geopolitical crisis, raising the spectre of what many analysts are beginning to describe as a Third Gulf War. Tehran’s early warning that Washington might possess the...
Women Workers Facing Double The Risks From Generative AI Than Men
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the world is celebrating the International Women’s Day on March 8, a new concern has emerged for women workforce. They are facing double the risks from Generative AI (Gen AI) compared to men, which an International Labour Organisation (ILO) research brief has just confirmed....
Iran War Threatens Growth, Jobs, And Fuel Prices Ahead Of Assembly Elections
By T N Ashok The Strait of Hormuz is ablaze, and India’s economic miracle is suddenly hostage to a war it did not script. What began as a regional clash between Iran and Israel has metastasized into India’s most acute economic crisis in a decade. For New Delhi, the...
Israel, US, Iran War Is An Economic Disaster For India
By Matein Khalid The geopolitical convulsion in Iran has led to panic buying in Brent crude as Saudi Arabia’s largest refinery Ras Tanura and Qatar’s LNG mega complex at Ras Laffan shut production even as tanker traffic in the Straits of Hormuz comes to a halt amid soaring war...
Bangladesh Takes Emergency Measures To Deal With Energy Crisis Due To Iran War
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Bangladesh has resorted to petrol rationing to stave off a crippling shortage of fuel in the days ahead, as the war against Iran by the US/Israel forces completed its first week. New Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has cut down on power consumption in his official...
