IPA Special
China’s Diplomatic, Trade Gains In Europe Continue As Trump Fumes
By Nitya Chakraborty The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday, January 29 in Beijing assumes special significance at a time when Britain is fighting its transatlantic ally U.S. over the sovereignty of Greenland and President Trump has mentioned security threat...
Ajit Pawar’s Death Creates Vacuum, Maharashtra Politics Will Be Reconfigured
By Dr. Gyan Pathak NCP leader Ajit Pawar’s sad demise in a plane crash on Wednesday, January 28 has created such a vacuum in Maharashtra politics that no single politician could fill in the near future. A prospect of political reconfiguration that was already indicated by the election of...
2025-26 Economic Survey Is A Document Of Sobriety Amidst Global Disorder
By R. Suryamurthy The Economic Survey 2025–26 presents itself as a document of sobriety in an age of global disorder. It raises India’s potential growth estimate to 7 per cent, underscores macroeconomic stability, and urges delayed gratification in the face of geopolitical and financial uncertainty. Yet when read closely—and...
Recent Right Wing Global Shifts Have Led To Attacks On Republicanism
By Nilotpal Basu From Plato’s Republic till today, republicanism has traversed a long journey. It has been enriched at junctures of the French Revolution and its clarion call for liberty, equality and fraternity. The journey has witnessed major ruptures with the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the advent...
Mamata Beats Narendra Modi In Singur Campaign By Focusing On SIR Harassment
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: With Assembly elections in West Bengal round the corner, Singur has taken centre stage. Once billed as the site of turnaround of industrialisation in the state, after the Tatas pulled out of its ambitious small car project, it is now the first mile post marking...
South Asian Immigrants In USA Are Getting Brutal Treatment From Authorities
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Despite protests from South Asian countries to various US authorities, there has been no noticeable improvement in the treatment of illegal immigrants as the official ‘search, detect and deport’ drive continues in full strength. During the last few days, two planeloads of 50′ illegals’ each,...
Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” Was Published 179 Years Ago
By Krishna Jha The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was published in London on February 21, 1848. It was commissioned by the Communist League, and became a foundational text for communism. With its famous call, “Workers of the World, Unite”, it asked the toiling masses...
Vietnam Navigates Trump Trade Wars, Sets Development Goals For Future
By Amiad Horowitz HANOI: Over the last half decade, Vietnam has emerged as a growing middle power in the world. Its economy is one of the fastest—if not the fastest—growing in the world. But just over 40 years ago, before embarking on a set of economic renewal policies known...
When Gold Breaks Five Thousand And Dollar Blinks
By K Raveendran Gold pushing decisively past the $5,000-a-troy-ounce threshold at the same moment the US dollar slides to a four-month low is not just a dramatic coincidence of charts. It marks a psychological rupture in global markets, challenging assumptions that have underpinned portfolio construction and macroeconomic thinking for...
Budget 2026-27 Getting The Advantage Of Stable Economic Growth Amidst Global Turmoil
By Anjan Roy 2026-27 budget is unquiet positioned. Amidst global turmoil, Indian economy is sailing forth merrily. After all, it is not every year that a finance minister gets to prepare a budget when the economy is in a Goldilocks interlude. The latest figures speak for themselves: GST rationalisation...
From Trump’s Tariffs To Brussels’ Carbon Tax: India’s Trade Tightrope
By R. Suryamurthy The India–European Union Free Trade Agreement has been unveiled at a moment when the global trade order is no longer merely fragmented but openly coercive. With the United States under a resurgent Donald Trump once again wielding tariffs as instruments of strategic pressure—threatening punitive duties on...
Redrawing Of Global Trade Map Is The Message From India-EU Trade Deal
By T N Ashok After nearly two decades of stalled negotiations, missed deadlines and political hesitations, India and the European Union on Monday announced the conclusion of a sweeping free trade agreement that both sides say could reshape global commerce at a moment when the world economy is fragmenting...
Extended President’s Rule In Manipur Ends On February 12
By Rabindra Nath Sinha Will the Centre muster courage to act on its much desired political objective of installing a popular ministry in strife-scarred Manipur latest on February 13, 2026? Manipur was placed under President’s rule as usual initially for six months on February 13, 2025 and later circumstances...
The Washington Post, Dhaka And Politics Of Implausibility
By M A Hossain There is something faintly theatrical about the Washington Post’s recent report claiming that a U.S. diplomat in Dhaka openly told Bangladeshi journalists that Washington wants to cultivate relations with Jamaat-e-Islami and views Hefazat-e-Islam through a pragmatic lens. The report is built around alleged audio recordings...
BJP’s High Financial Muscle Distorting Electoral Space In Indian Democracy
By Tirthankar Mitra A candidate’s popularity or lack of it together with the organisational network, performance and promises made by the political party he/she represents are the yardsticks of electoral success or failure in India. But one must not overlook the spending capacity of a nominee which recent disclosures...
India-EU FTA Gives A Strong Political Message Of Europe To Trump
By Asad Mirza In today’s fractured world, fissures caused mostly by the ongoing Trumpomania, every nation is working post haste to forge new alliances particularly focussed on trade. The best example of this is the India-EU partnership FTA, to be formalized on January 27.. The enhanced partnership is going...
India-EU Free Trade Agreement Gives A Big Boost To India’s Trade Diplomacy
By Kalyani Shankar India and European Union announcing on Tuesday the historic deal on Free Trade Agreement is a major achievement of the Indian Government in the present state of global turmoil after U.S. President Trump’s declaration of tariff war at global level A military contingent from the EU,...
President Xi Jinping’s Major Military Purges Leading To Uncertainty In Defence
By Anjan Roy With the purge of General Zhang Youxia, until now the vice-chairman of China’s all-powerful Central Military Commission, there remains just another member in the traditionally seven-member top body controlling China’s vast military outfit following the latest purges by the President Xi Jinping. Chinese analysts are not...
