IPA Special
Three National Elections In Europe Send Mixed Political Signals
By Satyaki Chakraborty The results of the national elections held on Sunday May 18 in three countries of Europe-Portugal, Romania and Poland have given mixed signals about the political trends in the continent with Right forces consolidating in Portugal while the anti- Right combinations prevailed with narrow margins in...
Pope Leo XIV Is Expected To Bring Out Major Reforms In Vatican Favouring Marginalised
By Kalyani Shankar The world’s attention has been on the Vatican City in Rome for the past few days. The Catholics have made history with the election of Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old American cardinal of Spanish descent. He has taken over as the 267th occupant of the throne...
Composition Of All-Party Delegations Under Operation Sindoor Unsatisfactory
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s resolve against terrorism is not at all questionable, as the people of India, including the political parties, have already demonstrated it in the aftermath of Pahalgam terror attack since April 22, and after the launch of Operation Sindoor on May 7. Now, the ruling...
The Great Turn Around Of AIMIM Supremo Asaduddin Owaisi After Pahalgam Massacre
By Sushil Kutty Who doesn’t dislike AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi? You can count them on the fingers. Of a thousand and one hands! Asaduddin is not easy to like. Bangladeshi writer Tasleema Nasreen wouldn’t duck if she spots Asaduddin Owaisi across the road. She will run! There are folks...
Centre And The BJP Led State Administrations Are Yet To Take Steps Against Hate Campaign
By Ram Puniyani The killings of 26 tourists in Baisaran near Pahalgam were one of the worst tragedies in recent times. Baisaran is a lovely spot reachable only on horses or by walking in the uneven terrain. The killings left the whole nation in deep grief. While the terrorists...
Arrest Of Ashoka University Professor On Filmsy Ground Shows Centre’s Intolerance
By Arun Srivastava Arrest of Ali Khan Mahmudabad, associate professor and head of the department of political science at Ashoka University in Haryana and sparing the BJP minister, not even registering FIR notwithstanding a clear order from the Madhya Pradesh High Court has certainly not come as a surprise....
President Trump Sidelined Israel During His Four Day West Asia Visit Last Week
By Asad Mirza The President of the United States, Donald Trump, arrived in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, on the first leg of his West Asian tour, last week. He also visited Qatar and the UAE during the tour, ignoring Israel. During the visit he also met with...
PM Starmer Should Make His Own Programme, Not Dance To Reform UK’s Agenda
By Diane Abbott LONDON: After a set of elections in which the Labour leadership’s campaign was almost all about immigration and asylum, it has decided to “go further and faster” in the same direction. We know that the outcomes of the May 1 elections were disastrous for Labour, and...
Deal Maker Trump Puts Up A Magnificent Show Of His Craft In Arabian Gulf
By K Raveendran Donald Trump’s Gulf tour has marked a defining chapter in his post-presidential brand of deal diplomacy, delivering a staggering $2 trillion in agreements that stretch across Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. This campaign stands in sharp contrast to the flagging results of his...
Big Setback For President Trump As Moody’s Downgrades U.S. Economy
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: It’s the turn of the United States government to face a sovereign rating being downgraded by the Moody’s from its top AAA rating – Moody’s keeps downgrading the ratings of many developing countries including India. Moody’s Ratings cut the United States’ sovereign credit...
INDIA Bloc Constituents Have To Be Pro-Active To Meet BJP Challenge Amidst India-Pak Tensions
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has said that neither INDIA bloc, nor Congress has any future. Such a wishful statement of BJP has come out after senior Congress leader P Chidambaram’s opinion that he did not see INDIA bloc is intact, and was uncertain whether it would remain intact....
Arresting Gujarat Samachar Owner For Non Official View In His Daily, Is Ominous
By Sushil Kutty If you can’t shut ‘em up, then shut them up! That’s the current day maxim in Modi-India. ‘Shut ‘em up’ is stifling the voice, spoken and written. ‘Shut them up’ is locking up the offending party behind bars, turning him from free bird to jailbird! The...
Rahul Gandhi Has Got Tremendous Response From Dalits In His Bihar Visit
By Arun Srivastava Amit Shah’s direction to Nitish Kumar not to allow Rahul Gandhi to interact with the Dalit and OBC students at SC hostel in Darbhanga during the Congress leader’s visit to Bihar on Thursday, has proved to be counterproductive. Not only the dalit and OBC students, even...
Former BJP Lok Sabha Member John Barla’s Switch To TMC Is A Big Jolt For Saffrons In North Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: North Bengal has not been a happy hunting ground for All India Trinamool Congress even when it replaced CPI(M)-led Left Front government in 2011 and several years thereafter. The northern part of the state continued to be under BJP hegemony but the TMC inroads post...
Baloch Rebels Expose Pakistan Army Vulnerability
By Manish Rai Fierce attacks by Baloch rebels have shaken the Pakistani Army, while it was predominantly occupied on the Indian front. Balochistan’s provincial capital, Quetta, saw six attacks on Pakistani forces in just one day. Pakistan mobilised its Army units from Balochistan and redeployed on the Eastern border...
From Fire To Fizzle – President Trump Has To Take A U-Turn In His Global Tariff War
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Renowned Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow was once asked if having a trade deficit is bad for any economy. He answered by saying he would always have a trade deficit with his barber and would always run a trade surplus with his students. Such is...
Along With The Fight Against Cross-Border Terror, Govt Must Ensure Communal Harmony
By D. Raja The developments following the horrific terrorist attack in Pahalgam (Jammu & Kashmir), which claimed the lives of 26 civilians including tourists, have brought to fore a number of pressing concerns: national security, civil liberties, democratic accountability, regional peace and imperialist overreach. In the aftermath of the...
New CJI B R Gavai’s Comments On Waqf Act, 2025 Have Alarmed Hindutva Petitioners
By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court of India has deferred pleas against Waqf (Amendment) Act till May 20. Chief Justice of India BR Gavai did not waste time arguing. He said the top court will not permit anybody to challenge the 1995 Waqf Act, “Lets argue the petitions challenging...
