IPA Special
Congress High Command Must Resolve Karnataka Leadership Crisis Soon
By Kalyani Shankar Karnataka’s political crisis is rooted in an intensifying power struggle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar. The unresolved question of a rotating chief minister system has deepened the crisis, making it critical for the Congress High Command to act decisively to stabilize...
How Trump’s Arctic Gambit Is Rewriting The Rules Of Power In Europe
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump’s threat to take over Greenland did not come wrapped in diplomatic language or buried in briefing papers. It arrived bluntly, as his foreign policy often does: Greenland, he said, was too important to be left where it was. The...
Vince Zampella, The Icon Of Video Game Industry Passes Away At 56
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: By the time most Americans encounter war today, it is not through a history book or a foreign correspondent’s dispatch. It is through a controller, a headset, and a glowing screen. The battlefield is digital, the weapons are pixel-perfect, and the pace is...
Global Supply Chains Enter Era Of Structural Volatility, Says WEF Report
By Satyaki Chakraborty Global value chains have entered an era of structural volatility, according to a World Economic Forum report released today, forcing companies and governments to reevaluate how and where they invest and produce. The report finds that nearly three in four business leaders now prioritize resilience investments,...
For Resisting Trump, Popular Alliances Against Fascism And War Needed
By Ben Chacko LONDON: US tariffs on Britain, punishing us for symbolic defiance of Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland, expose how pointless is the so-called “special relationship,” and how empty claims that NATO is an alliance for mutual defence. Keir Starmer’s abject fawning on the crook in the White...
Rise In Unemployment Rate In December Is Warning Signal For India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak December 2025 registered a rise in unemployment rate in India to 4.8 per cent from 4.7 per cent in November despite the seasonal increase in agricultural and allied activity in rural India. Additionally, it should be a matter of concern that unemployment rate in rural...
Creamy Layer Question Returns To Test Political Resolve
By K Raveendran Creamy layer debate has returned to the centre of constitutional and political attention, with the Supreme Court once again seeking the Union government’s position on whether economic and social advancement within backward classes should limit access to reservation benefits. The court’s renewed query, coming after two...
Syrian Kurds Must Not Be Abandoned In Their Struggle Against Jihadists
By Manish Rai The militias associated with the Syrian government are conducting attacks on the Kurdish districts of Sheikh Maqsood, Ashrafiyah, and Beni Zeyd in Aleppo. The violence in Aleppo is the most severe since Syria’s Islamist authorities assumed power. The recent outbreak of violence occurred two days subsequent...
A War Without Headlines: Israel’s Shock-And-Awe Campaign In The West Bank
By Ramzy Baroud NEW YORK: A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following the events of October 7, 2023, and the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. In her book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi...
Trump On His Way To Take Over Honduras Through Rigged Polls Of November 30
By John Perry NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its head of state have overshadowed his less brazen but possibly more effective regime-change operation in Honduras. No-one can be sure if the National Party’s Nasry “Tito” Asfura really won the presidential election on November...
How Far European Union Can Go To Defend Greenland From Trump Annexation?
By Nitya Chakraborty The Washington talks for discussing the future of Greenland failed on Wednesday with the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland returning back home with the message from White House that Greenland rightfully belongs to USA and Trump will be deciding on the timing of its takeover....
Maharashtra Polling Results Show Further Consolidation Of BJP-Led Mahayuti
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The results of the elections held for 29 municipal corporations across Maharashtra reveal further consolidation of BJP-led Mahayuti bloc, which included BJP and Shiv Sena (Shinde). As for Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, BJP-Shiv Sena (Shinde) had taken a lead even before election held on January 15...
Situation In Iran Is Serious But The People Of The Country Have The Power To Decide
By Dr. Arun Mitra Over the past several days, the situation in Iran has steadily deteriorated due to continuous mass protests. Long-standing sanctions imposed by the United States have severely weakened Iran’s economy. The country has been compelled to spend enormous sums on armaments as well as on its...
Artificial Intelligence To Dominate Global Investment Trend In 2026
By Satyaki Chakraborty The global economic outlook has improved modestly but remains uncertain, with asset valuations, mounting debt, geoeconomic realignment and rapid artificial intelligence deployment creating both opportunities and risks, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest Chief Economists’ Outlook, released on January 16. Although 53% of chief economists...
Congress Fronts Priyanka In UP Role Rejig, SP Alliance Looks Shaky
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the Congress preparing to go independent in the Panchayat and local body polls in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party appears to be having a rethink about tying up with the INC for the 2027 UP Assembly elections, after the latter’s poor performance in Bihar. Moreover,...
Can Germany’s Left Beat The Ever-Repressive Powers Coming From The Right?
By Nick Wright LONDON: Finding myself last weekend back in Berlin after several years’ absence, I found many changes but some constants. A power outage which cast some of Berlin’s southern districts in to darkness for days brought forth some very old themes in Berlin politics. A fire damaged...
2026-27 Budget Offers Modi Govt A Great Opportunity To Reshape Strategy
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers When India’s finance minister Ms Nirmala Sitharaman rises to present the 7th Union Budget on February 1, a record of sorts, the moment will carry an uncommon weight. This is no routine fiscal exercise, no mere balancing of columns and commas. Instead, the budget is...
Mystery Shrouds Over ED Becoming Super Active In The Run-Up To State Elections
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Supreme Court of India hearing high profile politico-legal cases involving leaders of opposition and Enforcement Directorate (ED) of India is not new. However, the case that the Supreme Court heard on January 15 has a special significance in the run-up to state election of five...
