IPA Special
Congress Leadership Is Gasping, Only Common Party Members Can Save It
By Kalyani Shankar Years ago, a visionary Congress leader predicted that the ordinary party worker would save the party for their survival when they find their leaders ineffective. It looks as if that moment has come now. The party is gasping for breath, and it needs oxygen from solid...
Centre’s Usurping Power Of The States May Face Stiff Opposition
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The letter sent by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M K Stalin to the chief ministers of 12 states is just a beginning of the stiff opposition to Modi government’s usurping the powers of the states through central legislations not only on the matters...
BJP Leaders Responsible For Violence And Killings At Lakhimpur Kheri
By Arun Arivastava It was not merely a coincidence that the day the Supreme Court responding to the petition by a noble lady observed that the 10-month-old farmer protests on Delhi’s borders had “strangulated” the city, the Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra had warned agitating...
Pandora Papers Have Brought Out Misuse Of Offshore Funds By Indians
By Sushil Kutty The buzz is about the ‘Pandora Papers’, leaked files of the hidden wealth of some of the world’s richest people, their money stashed in offshore accounts in tax havens. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ), a group of global investigative journalists, worked to unearth the...
German National Elections Give A Big Jolt To The Left Party De Linke
By Victor Crossman German national elections held on October 26 gave a rebuff to the ruling centre-right Christian Democrats and made the Social Democratic Party (SPD) the leading party, imparting a swing against the right. But simultaneously, the results showed that the Left Party De Linke got only 4.9...
Mamata Should Restrain TMC Leaders From Making Comments On Leadership
By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the three by polls in West Bengal announced on Sunday indicate major signals for the coming period of the state politics as also the shaping of the opposition unity on national plane to fight the BJP in the coming state assembly elections in...
Domestic Drug Prices Are Going Through The Roof
By Nantoo Banerjee Little is heard of India’s National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) and its Drug Price Control Order (DPCO), these days. This is despite the fact that most drug prices have zoomed by over 60 to 100 percent since last year. Thanks to the lack of actions by...
BJP Is Getting Full Advantage Of Electoral Bonds In Elections
By Gyan Pathak A scheme that overtly or covertly benefits a particular group is partial, and hence for impartiality’s sake it must be struck down. Sale of electoral bond in India falls in this category, since it benefits the party that made it. However, despite concerns expressed by the ...
Narendra Modi Has Big Apathy To Complaints By Opposition Parties
By Sushil Kutty Please nobody should complain. Especially don’t complain about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s programmes and policies. Criticism is okay, but not complaints. PM Modi is extremely sensitive to “complaints”. Especially those from miffed and upset farmers, and those from the opposition parties. The farmers are opposed to...
Farmers Killing In Lakhimpur Kheri Gives A Big Jolt To Yogi Adityanath
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The killing of more than half a dozen farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri has hottened the political situation in Uttar Pradesh with all opposition parties hitting street putting Yogi Adityanath government on defensive. Senior opposition leaders including former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and Congress leaders were...
Right Wing Brazilian President Bolsonaro Facing Demand For Impeachment
By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil witnessed massive demonstrations in all big towns across the country on Saturday demanding the impeachment of the far right President Jair Bolsonaro for his all round failure in protecting the lives of the citizens against covid and drastic fall in the living standards of the...
Opposition’s Present State Has Brightened Modi’s Acceptability Before Indian Voters
By Harihar Swarup The BJP is keenly watching the churn in India’s oppositional politics. BJP sees the implosion in the Congress. The battle within the country’s grand old party is between those who see a bleak future under current leadership and those who believe that the future of...
Supreme Court Shines Under CJI’s Uncompromising Approach
By K Raveendran The circumstances in which Supreme Court Chief Justice N V Ramana assumed office were not particularly happy. Andhra Pradesh chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy’s complaint against alleged questionable conduct by Justice Ramana in the run-up to his assumption of office had created misgivings. But it is...
Intimidation, Reprisal, And Detention Of Activists In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Many cases were being reported anonymously to the UN Human Rights because of fear of reprisal from the governments across 45 countries including India. A new report presented to the UN Human Rights council have documented allegations of reprisals and intimidation against some 240 civil...
Poor Countries Are Suffering From Covid Vaccine Shortage
Dr Soma Marla By the end of September this year Western and many middle income nations have succeeded in vaccinating nearly 70 percent of their population, while countries like Haiti, Chad, Syria and others could reach merely two percent level. In India we vaccinated nearly 80 crores of population...
G-23 Leaders Miffed With Congress High Command Again
By Rahil Nora Chopra The G-23 group of leaders, who have been demanding reforms within the Congress party and reiterating their calls for change, have once again raised their reservations following the crisis in the party in Punjab as well as the exit of a senior leader from its...
Starmer Determined To Move British Labour To Centrist Position
By Arun Srivastava Now there is no ambiguity. The Labour Party under Keir Starmer will outright discard the left ideals and will be “back in business” with the sole mission of winning the Parliamentary elections. The goal set by Starmer makes it explicit that the party is not inching...
U.S. has spent $21 trillion for 20 years in its ‘war against terror’
By John Bachtell Since September 11, 2001, the United States, has spent a mindboggling $21 trillion on foreign and domestic militarization. Meanwhile, the entire Republican Party and a handful of centrist Democrats are trying to block or whittle down a $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill that covers the next...
