IPA Special
Baffling SC Verdict On Deadline For Governors On Bills
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Supreme Court verdict that it cannot set a time limit for the President and Governors to grant or deny assent to the bills passed by the State legislatures has left the urgent Constitutional question of whether the laws passed by the State Governments can...
Job Situation In Bangladesh Worsens As Foreign Countries Restrict Taking Bangla Labour
By Ashis Biswas To everyone’s surprise Bangladesh’s economy is doing none too badly, even as hard times continue to plague the interim Government led by Dr M Yunus. Nearly sixteen months after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, despite occasional fluctuations, the country’s export earnings and remittances have...
50 Years After Franco’s Death, Fascist Legacy Still Haunts Spain
By Jim Jump MADRID: “Spaniards, Franco has died,” came the announcement 50 years ago on Spanish TV. If there was any truth to the widely held story that Barcelona immediately ran out of cava, the corks would have been popping behind closed doors. Most Spaniards held their breath on...
India’s Higher-Education System Is Driving Students Out — Not Bringing The World In
By R. Suryamurthy India’s student mobility crisis is no longer a question of data, it is an indictment of a system that has refused to reform while the world moved on. The new NITI Aayog paper does not so much analyse this imbalance as expose it. The numbers are...
Big Technological Changes In Employment Market Widening Income Divide
By Sanjay Roy Employment across the world is undergoing changes. The changes are multi-dimensional, driven by shifting nature of labour contract by skill grades, impacted by uncertainty and shocks in supply chains. However, the tendencies are neither uniform across countries nor do they show uniformity in direction of change....
Following Reverses In Bihar Polls, Congress Leadership Of INDIA Bloc Is Challenged
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political activity in Uttar Pradesh is heated up as senior Samajwadi Party leader Ravidas Mehrotra remarked that SP president Akhilesh Yadav should lead the I.N.D.I.A. alliance in place of Congress. Congress Lok Sabha MP Imran Masood, however, quickly countered the remark saying that Rahul...
American Economic Policies Are Meant To Impose Austerity On Working People
By Prabhat Patnaik The fact that speculation can exacerbate a basic situation of shortage of a commodity by encouraging its hoarding, or even cause a completely artificial shortage of it when no basic shortage exists, and thereby play havoc with the lives of the working people, especially when the...
Despite Political Turbulence, Bangladesh Hikes Its Garment Exports To USA
By Kunal Bose I got a sweater the other day produced in Bangladesh, as good as you get anywhere but picked up by my daughter in the United States. The south Asian country in spite of serious political unrest, which has its expected fallout in the economy has managed...
Xinjiang In China Has Emerged As A Model Of Digital Governance For The Entire Country
By Aritra Banerjee China’s approach to governing Xinjiang has often been described through individual components: detention centres, forced labour programmes, intrusive surveillance systems, and strict ideological conditioning. Yet the full picture becomes clearer only when these parts are viewed as a single structure. Xinjiang is not an isolated policy...
Punjab Govt Decision To Appoint Jitender Shunty As Human Rights Commission Member Is Welcome
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: When due to the fear of spread of Corona, everyone was hesitant even to attend the funeral of his nears and dears, then this angel was performing the last rites of corona affected dead bodies without any selfish motto and facilitated the dignified last...
Winning Perception Battle Against Bangladesh Is The Main Task Of Narendra Modi At G-20 Summit
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending G20 summit at Johannesburg on November 22 and 23 amidst the diplomatic crisis for India over the Bangladesh demand for deportation of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from her shelter in India. On November 17, the International Crimes...
Supreme Court’s Advisory Opinion Will Have Far Reaching Implications
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the advisory opinion given by the five-judges Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India led by the Chief Justice B R Gavai under Articles 143 of the Constitution of India is not binding, it is likely to have far reaching implications influencing the...
Denial Of Economic Reality By Trump Imperils Republican Party’s 2026 Mid Term Prospects
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Nearly a year into President Trump’s second term, the political math has become unforgiving. His approval rating has collapsed to levels not seen since the chaotic final months of his first presidency. Congressional Republicans face a double-digit deficit heading into next year’s midterm...
Beyond The Mandate: Bihar’s Structural Fatigue Is The Real Opposition
By R. Suryamurthy Bihar has once again handed power to Nitish Kumar, sending him into the record books with a tenth chief ministerial term. It is an extraordinary political achievement — longevity on a scale unimaginable in most Indian states. Yet as Kumar prepares to take oath, the state...
HAL Tie Up With German HENSOLDT Is A Major Breakthrough In Defence Technology
By Aritra Banerjee The third day of the Dubai Airshow 2025 delivered one of the event’s most consequential announcements: a new defence–industrial partnership between Indian and German state-backed companies, centred on co-developing a LiDAR-based Obstacle Avoidance System (OAS) for Indian military helicopters. The contract between Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)...
NDA Has Successfully Exploited Insecurity Over SIR In Bihar Assembly Polls
By Nilotpal Basu The Bihar assembly election is a watershed in the electoral history of our country. Conducted against the backdrop of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) announced on June 25, it laid out a new set of ground rules for adult franchise. The debates in the Constituent Assembly,...
India’s Expanding Digital Infrastructure Triggering Fresh Water Crisis
By Tirthankar Mitra India’s digital infrastructure is growing at a rapid pace. Even as the country is poised to become one of the world’s biggest data centre hubs, the success story conceals an environmental dilemma. A vast facility hosting the servers is powering everything from banking to streaming. But...
Decoding The Great Friedrich Engels On His 205th Birth Anniversary
By Krishna Jha Friedrich Engels was the one without whom Marxism could not have been complete. Born on November 28, 1820in Barmen, in the Rhine province of the Kingdom of Prussia, Engels was inseparable from Marx. His father was a manufacturer. He was forced to leave his studies and...
