IPA Special
Digital Lockout Of Millions Of MGNREGA Workers In India Is Unkindest Cut
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Nearly 2.7 million workers have been locked out of the digital framework of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREGA), the only employment guarantee scheme for the poor rural workers, between October 10 and November 14, 2025. Their names have been ultimately deleted from...
Congress Needs Deep Introspection On Bihar Assembly Polls Disaster To Prepare For Future
By Kalyani Shankar In his victory speech following the Bihar elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi predicted that the Congress party might split again, given that the NDA secured a landslide victory. He criticised the Congress party for transforming into a communist-Maoist entity, noting that it has been losing election...
Nitish Kumar Emerges Politically Stronger After Bihar Assembly Polls
By Rabindra Nath Sinha Several conclusions, interesting and of political import, are instantly possible from an analysis of the Bihar Assembly election results announced on Friday, November 14. The most telling of these inferences is that the Bharatiya Janata Party, despite being for the first time the single largest...
Communist Jeannette Jara Wins In First Round In Presidential Polls In Chile
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Left coalition candidate and the Communist Party leader Jeannette Jara took the leading position in Presidential elections in Chile held on Sunday, November 16 by getting 26 per cent of the votes as against his rival far right candidate Jose Antonio Kast who got 24...
Bihar’s Unfair Results: Rahul Gandhi Gets It Wrong For One More Time
By K Raveendran Rahul Gandhi’s reaction to the Bihar election outcome, framed by surprise and a sense of unfairness, must reopen a debate about the structural imbalances that shape electoral competition in India. His argument, on its surface, reflects the opposition’s frustration after a contest that produced a seat...
India’s New Privacy Rules Demand Compliance From Every One Excepting The State
By R. Suryamurthy India has finally switched on its long-delayed data protection regime, and at first glance, the moment looks like a milestone — a country of 1.4 billion people stepping into the league of nations that take digital rights seriously. But peel back the official statements, the compliance...
How Narendra Modi And Nitish Kumar Built A Winning Combination In Bihar
By T N Ashok When the votes were counted in Bihar’s 2025 assembly elections, the result was unambiguous: The Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (United) alliance had secured 202 of 243 seats, decimating an opposition that just months earlier had harboured hopes of unseating the incumbents. The landslide...
India’s New Labour Policy – ‘Shram Shakti Niti’ – Casts Digital Illusions In A Religious Packaging
By Hussain Indorewala, Madhulika T, Gayatri Singh, Akhil Surya The Ministry of Labour and Employment’s recently released draft labour policy, Shram Shakti Niti 2025 is a puzzling document. In one section, it claims that the policy derives its legitimacy and moral authority from the Constitution of India, and the...
ILO Governing Body To Meet From November 17 To 27 In Geneva
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When the ILO Governing Body meets in Geneva from November 17 to 27, 2025 for its 355th Session, it will confront a world of work that looks increasingly unstable—and increasingly unequal. The global labour market is being reshaped simultaneously by artificial intelligence, geopolitical realignments, climate...
Trump Launches Attacks On Key Democrats Through Probe Into Their Friend’s Companies
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump has trained his smoking gun on key democrats (Bill Clinton) leading bank JP Morgan Chase and LinkedIn Cofounder to contain the growing fissures in the MAGA base as new demands emerge to tell all in the Epstein files saga....
PUK To Wait And Watch Until Baghdad Picture Becomes Clear
By Manish Rai The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) has once again established itself as a significant player in the Iraqi political landscape. In the recently concluded Iraqi legislative elections, it became the sole Kurdish party to increase its seats and secure seats in nine provinces of Iraq. PUK...
INDIA Bloc Must Take Proper Lessons From Big Jolt In Bihar Assembly Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty The NDA led by the BJP has swept the assembly polls in Bihar stunning the RJD and the other constituents of the INDIA Bloc by the extent of the win of the NDA constituents in the 243 member state assembly. The initial results till this afternoon...
Bringing LJP(RV) Into NDA Fold Enabled It To Sweep Bihar Election
By Dr. Gyan Pathak NDA has swept the Bihar Vidhan Sabha Election 2025, and INDIA block, which is known as Mahagathbandhan (MGB) in the state has cut a sorry figure. Right from the beginning of the counting of votes, NDA allies took lead over the MGB allies and maintained...
AAP Retains Tarn Taran Assembly Seat By A Good Margin In Bypoll
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party has succeeded in retaining its Tarn Taran assembly seat by defeating the Shiromani Akali Dal by a margin of 12091 votes. AAP candidate Harmeet Singh Sandhu got 42649 votes and SAD candidate got 30558 votes. Third position was captured by the...
Federal Govt Reopens But Health Care Ambiguities Haunt Citizens
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The federal government reopened on Thursday s after a grueling 42-day shutdown, sending nearly 900,000 furloughed workers back to their jobs and averting what economists warned could have been a devastating blow to the holiday economy. But the bipartisan agreement that ended the...
Maharashtra Congress To Ally With Smaller Parties For Local Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Maharashtra Congress has taken a decision to ally with smaller and like-minded parties for the upcoming local body elections, leaving those from the ruling Mahayuti coalition. This is even though the Congress continues to assert that its alliance with its major Maha Vikas Aghadi...
President Donald Trump’s Provocations Are Bolstering Latin America’s Left
By Steve Ellner NEW YORK: When Donald Trump assumed the presidency in January 2025, the Pink Tide governments in Latin America were losing ground. The approval rating of Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, reached the lowest of his three presidential terms, while that of Colombia’s Gustavo Petro...
Foreign Powers Including U.S. Are Responsible For Catastrophe In Sudan
By W. T. Whitney, Jr. NEW YORK: Since war erupted in April 2023, fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has caused a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions. Some 150,000 people have died and 14 million Sudanese out of a population of 51 million are...
