IPA Special
New Labour Codes: A Most Unfair Labour Practice
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The trade unions with the exception of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sabha (BMS) have condemned the notification of the four new labour codes as the most unfair labour practice. Expectedly, Opposition parties and many trade unions have demanded that they be revoked as the codes were...
India Can Take A Leaf From China’s Book To Tackle Winter Pollution
By Tirthankar Mitra Come winter, the discourse over air pollution gets shriller in India. It is this time of the year when burning agricultural stubble and bursting firecrackers make the air more noxious. India can take a leaf out of China’s book to find s way out of the...
The New Kill Zone: Gaza’s Borders After The ‘Ceasefire’ Set By Israel
By Ramzy Baroud LONDON: The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing campaign of destruction. Starting on October 10, the first day of the announced ceasefire, Israel transitioned tactics: moving from indiscriminate aerial bombardment to...
The Quiet American Plot To End Progressive Government In Honduras
By John Perry LONDON: Trump’s gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean grabs the headlines, while quieter moves to destabilise other progressive Latin American governments go unnoticed by corporate media. A key case is a plot that would create chaos enabling a neoliberal candidate to be declared victor, with Washington’s connivance,...
Behind India’s Rising Foreign Debt Is Growing Trade Deficit
By Nantoo Banerjee The government may disagree but India’s persistent trade deficit is ruining the country’s economy despite its impressive growth. Last month, import-happy India’s trade deficit reached a record high level of US$41 billion as exports witnessed the sharpest monthly decline over a year. Unfortunately, a big surge...
G20 Declaration Focuses On Immediate Economic Agenda Sidelining Views On Conflicts
By Nitya Chakraborty The two day G20 summit which ended at Johannesburg in South Africa on November 23 afternoon signalled two major political developments. First, the US, the leader of the democratic world got isolated geo-politically due to the decision of President Trump not to attend the summit and...
India Enters Into A New Phase Of Turbulent Industrial Relations
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With unilateral announcement of implementation of the four controversial laobur codes by the Government of India on November 21, 2025, and the joint platform of the 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) to intensify their protests already planned on November 26 against it ,is a clear...
Indo-US Trade Deal Is Nearing Conclusion As Both Sides Dilute Earlier Hard Stance
By Kalyani Shankar The long-awaited trade deal between the US and India is coming close. The US has indicated a potential reduction of the 50% tariff on Indian goods. President Donald Trump is expressing some flexibility on the matter. “We’re making a deal with India—it’s a much different deal...
Centre Can’t Pretend Sliding Rupee Just A Currency Blip
By R. Suryamurthy India is drifting into yet another familiar cycle of currency anxiety. The rupee has slipped to fresh lows, brushed up against the psychologically loaded 90-per-dollar mark, and triggered the usual storm of political point-scoring and expert cautioning. The noise is predictable; what it hides is far...
President Trump And New York Mayor Elect Mamdani Reset A Fractured Relationship
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The afternoon light slanted across the South Portico when Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City stepped out of a black SUV and strode toward the West Wing entrance of the White House in Washington on November 21 npoon— a sight that would...
Opposition’s Unsuccessful Attempt To Milk Sabarimala Issue
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The desperate attempt of the Opposition parties in Kerala – the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – to extract political capital out of the Sabarimala issue seems to be reaching nowhere. The main reason for the failure of the...
Centre’s New Four Labour Codes Have Angered The Indian Trade Unions
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: After a thumping win in Bihar Assembly elections, the BJP led central government has started to implement its hidden agendas, which it kept pending for more than five years. On Friday, November 21, 2025, it notified the four labour codes, which were waiting for...
Supreme Court Signalling Constitutional Rethink On Talaq Issue Has Wider Dimension
By Asad Mirza Recent observations by a Supreme Court bench on the topic of Talaq, has yet again opened a Pandora box. The issue could be resolved once and for all if the Muslim jurists make a review of the practice in keeping with the modern times. On November...
Trump-Mamdani Meet: It Was A Win-Win Situation For Both Leaders
By Nitya Chakraborty The meeting on Friday November 21 between the U.S. President Donald Trump and the New York Mayoral-elect Zohran Mamdani produced a win-win situation for both leaders. The maverick Republican President who earlier called Mamdani a lunatic communist and the 34 year old firebrand democratic socialist who...
Dissecting Supreme Court’s Governance And Timeline Verdict
By K Raveendran The framers of the Constituent Assembly drafted the Constitution on the assumption that political actors—presidents, governors, ministers, assemblies—would honour a baseline of institutional morality enabling parliamentary democracy to function as the architects envisaged. That assumption rested on the idea that constitutional statutes alone would not suffice;...
Busy Economic Season Begins But No Improvement In Job Situation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It should be a wake-up call for the Union Government that the economically busy season of the year started in September, and the festival season September-October has failed to improve employment and unemployment situation in the country. Unemployment rate remained in Current Weekly Status (CWS)...
It Is Time South Asian Countries Deal Bilateral Relations With Caution And Cooperation
By Dr Arun Mitra For some time now, the events that are fast occurring in South Asia one after other are a cause of concern. We witnessed terrorist violence in Pahalgam on 22nd April 2025 where 26 innocent people were killed. Now 15 people have died after a blast...
As SIP Surges And Deposits Slow, India’s Financial Stability Has Some Risks
By R. Suryamurthy There is an odd sense of comfort in India’s savings revolution — as if we are watching a financial transformation gather speed while pretending there is no downside to it. Mutual funds have become the new cultural shorthand for “smart money”, the aspirational badge of financial...
