IPA Special
Afghan Foreign Minister Muttaqi’s Current Visit To India Is Positive For The Region
By Asad Mirza The Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi is on a 7-days visit to India. The visit assumes importance as it is the first such high level visit by any Afghan official to India since the Taliban-led government of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was proclaimed...
Passing Away Of IPA Columnist Sushil Kutty Is A Big Loss To Independent Media
By K Raveendran Sushil Kutty, who passed away on Sunday night, lived and wrote like a man apart — a loner in every sense, and yet deeply connected to the world through the force of his words. A regular columnist for the India Press Agency for the last ten...
2025 Nobel Prize Winner Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is An Uncompromising Writer
By Tirthankar Mitra Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian author whose fiction walked the tightrope between despair and grace has been awarded the 2025 Nobel prize for literature. He is the second Hungarian to win this prize. Born in 1954 in Gyda, he came of age in the long dusk of...
With Israel’s Partial Pull Out Of Troops, The Long March Of Palestinians To Gaza Is On
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: The people of Gaza have begun their long march home from the concentration camps in the southern part of the besieged strip, as a ceasefire agreement finally appears to be taking hold and Israeli troops have partially pulled back from cities in the north....
Trump-Modi Meet At ASEAN Summit In Malaysia Can Remove Irritants In Indo-US Ties
By Nitya Chakraborty There is a big possibility of renewal of India-US bilateral ties impacting the ongoing trade talks following the proposed one on one meeting between the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the U.S. President Donald Trump during their presence in Kuala Lumpur to attend the summit...
Basking In Borrowed Glory: Funny And Hilarious Show Of Bravado
By K Raveendran President Donald Trump’s admission that he is basking in borrowed glory is as disarmingly honest as it is characteristically Trumpian. When he says that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, the newly minted Nobel Peace Prize laureate, called to tell him that she was accepting the...
Narendra Modi Government Took 11 Years To Make Draft Employment Policy
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Government of India led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has finally decided to bring National Labour & Employment Policy – Shram Shakti Niti 2025, though it took 11 years to do so. Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has put the draft policy on...
NITI Aayog Warning On India’s Digital Overreach Needs To Be Taken Seriously
By R. Suryamurthy When India’s new Income-tax Act, 2025 was unveiled earlier this year, it was touted as a model of modernization — a law that would replace the colonial hangover of the 1961 Act with a “trust-based, transparent, and technology-driven” tax regime. But as the government celebrates digital...
A Pause In Netanyahu’s Slaughter: Can A New Israeli Politics Emerge?
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Unyielding vigilance is needed to ensure Israel fulfils its commitments under the “ceasefire.” Palestinians streamed back to Gaza City to confront anew the now familiar scenes of destruction with their homes and businesses, schools and hospitals, mosques and churches heaped in ruins with vital infrastructure...
The Price Of Pragmatism: What India Gains (And Loses) By Courting The Taliban
By Girish Linganna In a move that would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago, Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi arrived in New Delhi on October 9 for an eight-day official visit that marks a watershed moment in India’s foreign policy. His meetings with External Affairs Minister...
Nomination Begins For Bihar Election But Seat-Sharing Troubles Continue
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Filing for nomination papers for the first phase of Bihar election has began on Friday , October 10 but both the NDA and INDIA bloc are still trying to overcome the troubles on account of seat-sharing among their alliance partners. All the political parties in...
Israel-Hamas Deal Has Lessons For The Global Anti-War Movement Supporters
By Dr Arun Mitra The agreement reached between Israel and Hamas has raised a ray of hope that the massacre of Palestinian children and women, being carried out by the Israeli army for nearly two years, might finally stop. However, reports continue to emerge that Israel has not ceased...
Parleys With Paswan, Manjhi, Nitish On As NDA Braces For Bihar Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The BJP and its allies in the NDA continue their hectic efforts to come to an effective seat-sharing arrangement ahead of Bihar assembly elections. But behind agreement and smiles, much effort was put in to persuade Chirag Paswan, with Union Minister Nityanand Rai visiting Paswan’s...
Pro-Fascist Forces Are Surging Ahead Globally Including India In Recent Years
By Prabhat Patnaik All over the world there is an upsurge of fascistic forces. This includes India too where the fascistic Hindutva elements have been not just on the rise, but in power for more than a decade now. Liberal and progressive thinking in the country has been concerned...
Record Price For Sri Lankan Teas In Global Market Enthuses Indian Producers
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Sri Lankan (black) tea recently secured the highest price in the world , as one kilogram of its FFE X SP variety was sold for a record price of 125,000 Yuros, (equivalent to 252,500 Sri Lankan rupees) , at a function in Japan . This...
BSP Supremo Mayawati Hints At Understanding With BJP At Her Mega Rally On Thursday
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: With her soft approach towards BJP and attack on Samajwadi Party and Congress, BSP national President Mayawati sent her clear political message to party leaders workers while addressing the mega rally here on October 9. Mayawati selected the occasion of 19th death anniversary of BSP...
Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal Is Welcome But The Follow Up Is Crucial For Enduring Peace
By Nitya Chakraborty The Israel-Hamas peace deal announced by the US President Donald Trump on Wednesday night in Washington is a welcome development, however limited it be at the moment as the agreement between the two warring parties is only for the first phase of Trump sponsored deal involving...
RSS Centenary Year Should Be An Occasion To Expose Its Dubious Past
By P. Sudhir In the middle of a huge public overdrive over the centenary of the formation of RSS, the country was shocked by a bizarre spectacle. A lawyer, Rakesh Kishore, registered with the Supreme Court Bar Association, was seen hurling a shoe at the Chief Justice of India,...
