IPA Special
Obama’s 2024 Summer Playlist Is Sweet Musical Journey Of Nostalgia
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav If you long for a time when your friends would share their playlists to match your mood, worry not! Former United States President Obama recently unveiled his annual summer playlist with over 40 songs. These songs keep Obama pleasantly engaged even as...
Jobs In Urban India Declined In The First Quarter Of 2024-25
By Dr. Gyan Pathak At a time when Budget 2024-25 is aiming at creating about 3 crore formal jobs, the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for the first quarter of the current financial year shows a decline in the employment in urban India. Women workforce suffered even more...
Lateral Entry Into Govt Services Meant Acting Against Reservation
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding back execution of his much-vaunted lateral entry scheme has certainly not come as a surprise. After Lok Sabha electoral reverses, Modi had come to realise that it would not be possible to implement the scheme in the changed political situation, though...
BSNL’s 4G Launch May Take Place Latest By March Next Year
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: For unlisted BSNL, the beleaguered PSU under the administrative control of DoT, the only silver lining is that sections of users in towns and mid-size cities are porting to it from other telecom service providers under TRAI’s Mobile Number Portability (MNP) scheme as...
Kamala Harris Is Now Front-Runner Against Trump As Poll Fever In U.S. Picks Up
By Sushil Kutty United States Vice President Kamala Harris gave her okay to be the Democratic presidential candidate after praising herself, her mother and briefly her Jamaican father, too, though her husband Douglas Emhoff got the first mention with President Joe Biden a close second. If elected,...
Political Delicacies: Rahul, Kharge Visit Poll-Bound J&K
By Rahil Nora Chopra RAHUL, KHARGE VISIT POLL-BOUND J&K, BOLSTER ALLIANCE WITH NC With the Assembly polls in Jammu & Kashmir approaching, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi and Congress party president Mallikarjun Kharge, on Thursday, paid a visit to the residence...
Uncertainty In Bangladesh: BNP, Army Differ On Election Timing
By Nitya Chakraborty More than seventeen days after the abdication of former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina from power in Bangladesh on August 5 and taking political shelter in India, conflicting trends are visible in the functioning of the interim government headed by Dr. Muhammad Yunus,...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Still Sticking To His Hindutva Agenda
By P Sudhir THE eleventh Independence Day Red Fort address of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was his longest so far and it was the most disappointing by his own standards. The bulk of the speech was a litany of achievements of his government beginning from Swachh...
BJP Plot To Destabilise Hemant Soren Govt Has Backfired Again
By Arun Srivastava The central BJP leadership’s operation to topple Hemant Soren Government in Jharkhand through Champai Soren, has backfired. The plan was to unseat Hemant Soren government in by forcing a split. Home Minister Amit Shah for long has been focusing on Jharkhand, had spent a huge resources...
UNHRC Makes Damning Observations On Human Rights In India
By Ravi Nair The United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC) has made critical observations about the status of human rights in India in its country audit prepared after 28 years. The comments are critical about most of the areas of operations of the government where rights of the people are ...
Gruesome Rape Cases In Kolkata, Badlapur Have ‘Political Saviours’
By Sushil Kutty “Kolkata rape-murder” versus the “Badlapur monstrosity”. The BJP is targeting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the horrendous rape-cum-murder of a trainee doctor in a hospital and the Congress is out to settle scores for the INDI-Alliance after the sexual assault on a...
Modi Government’s Retreat On Lateral Entry: Advantage Rahul Gandhi
By K Raveendran The Centre’s abrupt reversal on its proposal to permit lateral entry into senior government and public sector positions can be traced back to a complex interplay of political dynamics, strategic manoeuvring and to a large extent pragmatism. The change is widely attributed to the formidable...
Indian Bureaucracy In Danger Of Losing Its Secular Character
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) dreams of making India a Hindu Rashtra. It has been pursuing it through all its activities, and through hundreds of its affiliate organisations. Governance in India has been secular so far, and the government employees were barred in participating in...
Urgent Need For Central Law To Ensure Safety Of Doctors
By Dr. Arun Mitra The rape and murder of a young medico in R G Kar medical college in Kolkata has shaken not only the medical community but the people across sections of the society are outraged and are coming out on streets to demand stringent action...
Minister Chirag Paswan Shines The Lamp On PM Modi’s Clay Feet
By Sushil Kutty Has Prime Minister Narendra Modi stopped taking decisions, leaving the door open for allies to declare their intent at will by shouldering the responsibility? Take for instance, the Modi government’s decision on the UPSC’s lateral recruitment process. Modi took a decision and ally Union...
Hamas Has Chosen To Be An Iranian Satellite Like Hezbollah
By Manish Rai After lengthy negotiations in Doha, Hamas has named Yahya Sinwar as its new Political chief, replacing Ismail Haniyeh who was assassinated in Teheran. Since 2017, Sinwar has served as the group’s leader inside the Gaza strip. He now becomes overall leader of its political wing....
In The United Kingdom, Despair Is Creating An Opening For The Far Right
By Declan Mulholland LONDON: This month’s far-right riots brought chaos to communities across the country, perhaps most notably in parts of the North East. The pattern of locations might initially have seemed random, but it quickly became clear that there was a concerted effort to seize upon some...
Sanders Wants Defeat Of Trump First, Followed By Fight Against Capitalism
By C.J. Atkins CHICAGO: The task facing the people’s and democratic movements in the 2024 elections is clear, according to Sen. Bernie Sanders: Trump has to be beaten in order to block fascism. After that, it’s time to take on what he called “uber capitalism” and the...
