IPA Special
Second Round Of US-China Talks On Trade In London Crucial For Future Course Of Tariff War
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: China US tariff war is back in the news and focus as the Chinese delegation reached London for the second round of trade talks beginning Monday. The first round was held in Geneva last month and the three day talks prepared a framework for...
Joint Letter Of Five Left Parties To Pm Demands Trying Of Maoists Under Law
By Arun Srivastava Indian state, as guaranteed and obligated under the Constitution has the legal responsibility to protect the right of lives of its citizens. If it feels that an individual is involved in criminal activities, in that case the activity of that person must be investigated, before initiating...
Britain To Revamp Its Defence And Security To Meet New Challenges In Europe
By Asad Mirza The United Kingdom’s Strategic Defence Review (SDR), published on June 2 this year offers an ambitious vision for the British Armed Forces. It reiterates a focus on a ‘NATO First’ policy, amid what Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer calls in the document a ‘new era for...
World Health Organisation To Update Its Old Study On Impact Of Nuclear War
By Dr Arun Mitra In the highly surcharged atmosphere due to ongoing war between Russia & Ukraine and Israeli aggression on Gaza, the fear of use of nuclear weapons looms large. People around the globe had become complacent about the need of the abolition of nuclear weapons. Thus, the...
India Must Have An Election Commission Above Suspicion
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There has never been a time since independence when the Election Commission of India (ECI) came under such a great public distrust as it has been freely expressed now. ECI is supposed to do its duty as a neutral umpire in electoral battle, but unfortunately...
World Bank Gives A Relief To India By Focusing On Poverty Reduction
By Sushil Kutty When the Narendra Modi government started building toilets for people to use, tens of thousands in India’s hinterlands were reluctant as they were used to open air defecation, the traditional way of clearing the bowels in the relative freedom of an open sky! After 11 years...
India’s Industrial Output Sinks Even As GDP Grows
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s economic growth figures seem to be getting increasingly delinked with domestic manufacturing, industrial output, and job generation. The manufacturing sector had a very little contribution to the country’s 6.5 percent GDP growth during the last financial year, the slowest in four years. Despite a good...
Elon Musk Mobilises His Full Force To Defeat Big Beautiful Bill In Senate
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON DC: President Donald Trump has ruled out any patching up with Elon Musk over their divide following strong differences over the Big Beautiful Bill leading to $2.7 trillion deficit in a decade opposed strongly by the tech billionaire Musk who has vowed to ensure...
Fresh Violence Makes Context For MHA-Kuki-Zo Ultras Talks Complicated
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Manipur is on the boil again with the National Investigative Agency and the Central Bureau of Investigation stepping up their respective activity. Ironically, the fresh violence, the persisting deep ethnic divide and deactivated internet services in five of Manipur’s 16 districts serve as the...
Trump Targeting Ivy League Universities Is Part Of Ideological Fight Against Democrats
By Kalyani Shankar US President Donald Trump has targeted top US universities during his second term. He has been waging a war on Ivy League universities for the past few weeks. He has particularly targeted institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, and the University of...
Unemployment At 6.9 Per Cent As Modi Government Completes 11 Years
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On June 9, this year, as BJP celebrates 11 years of PM Narendra Modi led government in India as golden period of the country, unemployment rated stood at 6.9 per cent as per Centre of Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data based on 30-day moving average...
The Curious Case Of Honeymoon Murder Of A Indore Husband In Meghalaya
By Sushil Kutty Indore’s Raja Raghuvanshi didn’t want to honeymoon in Meghalaya. But Indore’s Sonam Raghuvanshi was adamant and Meghalaya they went. And Meghalaya is wishing this wasn’t how it should have been! Why bring murder to Meghalaya, there was already talk of Meghalaya as a crime-high state? Now,...
Election Commission Has Much Explaining To Do In Countering Rahul Gandhi’s Allegations
By Arun Srivastava A scrutiny is a careful and exhaustive examination of the facts and the ground realities. The interpretations may have the element of personal bias but it ought not to be used for setting political agenda. Nevertheless the scrutiny of Rahul Gandhi’s criticism of the role of...
Building Jagannath Temple At Digha, Mamata Has Scored Political Gains Over State BJP
By Kunal Bose Religion as long as it remains confined to individuals and there is civilised tolerance of different faiths, peace prevails. But once it spills into public space and attempts are made to assert dominance of a particular religion as we are witnessing here and in some neighbouring...
Chirag Paswan Seeks To Steal Nitish Kumar’s Thunder In Bihar Assembly Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra Bihar seems to have a penchant for being in the news be it owing to JP’s call of total revolution or the Bhagalpur blindings or the fodder scam. The state finds itself in the news again as a new leader whose political party is part of...
Green Signal For Sabari Rail Project In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A long-standing dream of Keralites is set to become a resounding reality soon with the Union Government giving the green signal for the Sabari rail project. According to Kerala’s Railway Minister V Abdurahiman, all hurdles in the way of the 111-km-long Angamaly-Erumeli Sabari project, which...
RBI’s Latest Monetary Policy Exudes Over Confidence And High Optimism
By Anjan Roy The new governor of the Reserve Bank, Sanjay Malhotra, has taken to monetary policy formulation and the world of finance like fish to water. Within a short period of his taking over, Malhotra has got into his charge with a refreshing confidence. RBI’s monetary policy, announced...
President Donald Trump Finally Gives Up His Initial Musk As A Global Peace Maker
By Indrani Chakraborty U.S. President Donald Trump has finally given up his initial musk as the global peace maker after taking over presidency on January 20 this year. After 135 days of acting as a fake peace maker, under his direction, the United States vetoed a United Nations Security...
