IPA Special
Big Tech’s Brutal Culture Pushes Employees Down An Abyss Of Anxiety
By K Raveendran The narrative circulating among professionals in high-performing technology firms is increasingly marked by anxiety. Reports of employees receiving lay-off notifications at 3 a.m. are emblematic of a culture in which even top-paid staff feel tethered to the abyss of “you may not be here tomorrow”. The...
India, U.S. Forge Defence Alliance Even As Trade War Looms Large
By TN Ashok In a striking display of geopolitical pragmatism, India and the United States finalized a sweeping 10-year defence framework agreement this week, even as a bitter tariff dispute threatens to derail a $530 billion trade deal between the world’s largest democracies. The defence pact, signed after talks...
Fear Of Denial Of Right To Vote Haunts Bihar’s Dalits, Muslims
By Arun Srivastava Despite Rahul Gandhi donning critical and aggressive posture and putting Narendra Modi on the mat in the current assembly polls campaign in Bihar, the Dalits, rural poor and pasmanda Muslims are yet to acquire sufficient confidence of exercising their right to vote. With four days left...
AITUC, AIBEA Flag Pitfalls In Centre’s Draft National Employment Policy
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Draft “Shram Shakti Niti 2025 – National Labour & Employment Policy” of India is now under sharp attack from various stakeholders. They have pointed out the pitfalls of the policy, while the joint platform of the 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) has already launched...
India To Buy ₹1,500 Crore More Meteor Missiles For Rafales
By Girish Linganna India is set to purchase Meteor long-range air-to-air missiles worth USD 180 million (approximately ₹1,500 crore) in a game-changing move that will significantly boost the country’s air combat capabilities. These advanced missiles will be fitted on Rafale fighter jets, giving India a decisive edge in air...
Evidence Mounts Of Trump’s Plan For A Coup In Venezuela
By Tim Wheeler NEW YORK: Evidence is mounting that the Trump administration is preparing for a coup to overthrow the Venezuelan government, escalating a U.S. effort that has dragged on for years. The president’s increasingly bellicose behaviour toward Venezuela is evident in his sharp increase of military forces deployed in...
Trump-Xi Summit At Busan Is A Game Changer Within China’s Us Policy
By Nitya Chakraborty In the last 24 hours since the holding of the historic summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, a large number of commentaries in the American media as also in other western papers have been written. While in US, the assessment of the...
Borrowed Power: Trump’s Gamble With The Big Bomb May Backfire
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: When Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that the United States would “immediately resume nuclear testing,” the world flinched — not because it expected mushroom clouds to rise over Nevada again tomorrow, but because it remembered what those clouds once meant. For three...
NDA’s Manifesto On Bihar Elections Is Evasive, Full Of Vague Promises
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Shrewdness is all that reflects NDA’s manifesto on Bihar elections released on October 31, 2025, just a week before the first phase of election to be held on November 6. It is elusive. It does say nothing about the plight of Bihar, even though it...
Navigating Turbulence With Defiance While Maintaining Resilience
By TN Ashok The pronouncements from India’s economic policymakers carry an almost defiant optimism these days. Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran recently projected GDP growth touching 7% for fiscal year 2026—a remarkable forecast given that just months ago, analysts feared the figure might languish around 6%. Meanwhile, inflation...
Assam CM’s Strange Fury Over Congress Leader Singing Tagore Song
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Apparently, if political leaders insist, certain songs composed by ‘Kabiguru’ Rabindranath Tagore cannot be sung except on special occasions. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has ordered the state police to initiate a case of treason against a Congress leader, who committed the sin of singing ‘Amar Sonar Bangla’ some days ago at...
Deaths From Substandard Drugs: Painful Price Of Policy Failure
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: The Chhindwara cough syrup tragedy has once again exposed the deep cracks in Madhya Pradesh’s health system—especially in the quality control and supply chain of medicines. Dozens of children lost their lives, and the investigation revealed that the cough syrup administered to them contained toxic...
Kerala Becomes First State Free Of Extreme Poverty
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: Kerala has added yet another feather to its capacious cap of achievements, turning its critics and detractors green with envy. ‘God’s Own Country’ is set to officially become the first state in the country to be free from extreme poverty. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will...
POLITICAL DELICACIES
By Rahil Nora Chopra NDA, INDIA BLOC RELEASE MANIFESTOS AHEAD OF BIHAR ASSEMBLY POLLS The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has released its manifesto for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, pledging to create one crore jobs, boost industrial growth, and expand infrastructure across the state. Special focus has been...
War Of Position Vs. War Of Manoeuvre: China’s Gramscian Trade Strategy
By C J Atkins NEW YORK: Fresh off his meeting on October 30 morning with Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Donald Trump hailed the summit as “amazing,” a “12” on a scale of 1 to 10. Xi’s assessment was also positive but more measured in tone. “In the face...
Is Xi Jinping Working For A Bipolar World Along With Donald Trump?
By Nitya Chakraborty The much-awaited meeting between US President Donald Trump and the Chinese President Xi Jinping ended on Thursday morning at Busan in South Korea with both expressing high optimism at the outcome of the talks. Trump described the talks as “amazing” saying that their dispute over...
G2 2.0? Trump And Xi Strike Tariff Détente In Historic Busan Summit
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers BUSAN: US and China emerged victorious with a framework agreement here as President Trump suspended tariffs and China lent an ear to hear as for the first time in six years with an agreement that could reshape the contours of the world’s most consequential economic...
Putting All Eggs Of Indian Diplomacy In One Basket Is Proving Fatal
By P Sudhir In the shifting sands of contemporary global economy, India is apparently in trouble. The trouble is most palpable in the sphere of foreign policy and diplomacy. It is worthwhile to understand that in the present times diplomacy and foreign policy are more intractably linked to...
