IPA Special
Tamil Nadu CPI Stalwart R Nallakannu Was The Great Warrior Of Freedom Movement
By Satyaki Chakraborty R Nallakannu, the stalwart of the communist movement and the freedom struggle in now Tamil Nadu passed away early this week in Chennai after completing 100 years dedicated to the struggles for the poor and the underprivileged of the country, with special focus on his state...
Farmers Unions Decide To Fight Unitedly Against India-US Trade Deal
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: The Indian farmers’ unions are girding up loins to fight unitedly against the India US Trade Deal. On Tuesday, the major unions met under the banner of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) at Kurukshetra in Haryana and planned a Pan-India United Constant Struggle till Victory...
Unless United, MVA Risks Losing Lone Winnable Rajya Sabha Seat
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the ruling Mahayuti alliance comfortably placed to sweep six of seven Rajya Sabha seats from Maharashtra that go to polls on March 16, the opposition MVA finds itself in a more precarious situation. With a combined strength of 46 MLAs, the bloc has enough...
Your Party Of Britain Has The Chance To Grow Under Jeremy Cobryn
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Your Party now has the chance to make a fresh start following the conclusion of the election to its first central executive committee, the party’s collective leadership. The poll saw supporters of the slate backed by Jeremy Corbyn secure a clear majority, meaning Corbyn will...
Supreme Court’s Stern Comment On NCERT Focuses On Role Of BJP Led Centre
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Supreme Court of India has ordered a blanket ban on an NCERT book, and used the expression “deep-rooted and well-planned conspiracy” in a specific context a chapter that discussed alleged corruption and functioning of the Judiciary. Only an investigation can reveal the actual dimension of...
Anthropic Episode Should Be A Wake Up Call For Indian It Companies As Well As Govt
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik The recent fall in Indian IT stocks due to the belief that large language model agents such as those developed by Anthropic can automate chunks of work currently outsourced to Indian IT services has led to a downfall of the Nifty IT index by more...
Trump’s Nomination Of Casey Means As Surgeon General Signals A Shift In Public Health Policy
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When President Donald Trump nominated Dr. Casey Means to serve as Surgeon General, the choice was intended to signal a cultural shift in American health policy. Instead, it has ignited one of the most contentious confirmation battles for the office in recent memory...
SC Stay On Kerala HC Order Against Nava Kerala Survey A Shot In The Arm For Govt
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Supreme Court’s order staying the Kerala High Court decision stalling the ‘Nava Kerala Citizens’ Programme’ has come as a big relief to the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government. The programme was envisaged as a public outreach and development feedback initiative to obtain suggestions from...
CJI’s Opposition To Targeted Cash Transfers Is Against Welfare Objective Of States
By Nilotpal Basu Recently, a sharp and categorical statement by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) to the effect that cash transfers to certain sections of beneficiaries have to be foregone, has rightfully drawn sharp criticism. He opined that governments should instead focus on creating permanent assets. One would...
How February Revolution Of 1917 In Russia Played An Important Role Before October
By Krishna Jha March 8 this year marks the 109th anniversary of the February Revolution, which laid the ground for the great historic event that took place in October, 1917. It could not be a socialist revolution, but had enriched the basics as Lenin wrote in his Two Tactics...
Congress Unit In Haryana Is Campaigning Against Failures Of BJP Govt
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Haryana unit of Congress Party has raised the public issues, through the gherao of assembly march, to ensure accountability from the BJP government on numerous issues, including bank fraud of Rs. 590 crores by a private bank, the cancellation of ration cards for over...
United States Faces Fast Loss Of 100 Million Jobs To Artificial Intelligence In A Decade
By Mark Gruenberg PALO ALTO(USA):The U.S. faces “a tsunami of lost jobs”—100 million over the next decade—to the rapid development of artificial intelligence and robotics taking over a wide range of occupations, ranging from accounting to fast food, the AFL-CIO, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind.-Vt., and other members of the...
Rahul Gandhi Making The Most Of Modi’s Tariff Blushes
By K Raveendran The political sparring between Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi has entered a sharper and more consequential phase, with the balance of advantage appearing to tilt towards the Leader of the Opposition after an unexpected judicial intervention in the United States cast doubt on the durability of...
Expression Of Dissent Is Branded Anti-India And Suppression As Nationalism
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The ruling political party BJP and their supporters have been busy for the last five days branding an act of becoming ‘shirtless’ as a protest against PM Narendra Modi at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on February 20 at Bharat Mandapam New Delhi, as...
Ukraine War Enters Its Fifth Year With Ceasefire Talks Yet Not Clinching
By Anjan Roy The Russian war in Ukraine has completed four years this week with the peace talks still showing no signs of an agreement. Meanwhile, the Russian economy has entered what is known, in the language of high-altitude mountaineering, as the “death zone”, while Ukraine is struggling to...
Insulating India’s Economy From West Asia’s Oil Shocks In The Event Of US-Iran War
By R. Suryamurthy The renewed escalation between the United States and Iran has once again exposed a persistent weakness in India’s macroeconomic strategy: despite two decades of repeated oil shocks, New Delhi continues to treat West Asian instability as an episodic risk rather than a structural constraint on growth,...
BJP’s ‘Mission 2026’: An Aggressive Operation In Bengal Before Polls
By Arun Srivastava Reminiscent of L K Advani’s rathyatra of 25 September 1990, seeking to capitalise on the massive protests across north India against the reservation bill, the national BJP leaders will take out a massive rath yatra on March 1, christened as “Parivartan” rathyatra across West Bengal with...
The Empty Throne: How Bollywood Lost Its Audience To Thriving OTT
By T N Ashok There is something painfully symbolic about a state-of-the-art multiplex in Hyderabad — Dolby Atmos ceiling, IMAX screen the size of a football field, carpet that cost more per square metre than most Indian families earn in a month — sitting two-thirds empty on a Friday...
