IPA Special
Deep Financial Crisis Is Behind Maldives President Muizzu’s Soft Tone To India
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The recent resignation of two controversial ministers in Maldives, who had made derogatory remarks about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has cleared the path for Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu’s visit to India. These ministers, known for their anti-India stance, were seen as a potential obstacle...
US Agencies Plotting To Oust Leftist President Of Honduras Xiomara Castro
By W. T. Whitney Jr. WASHINGTON: After narrowly losing elections in 2013 and 2017, Xiomara Castro and her social democratic Freedom and Refoundation Party (Libre) won the next set of elections such that, as of January 2022, she was Honduras’s new president. The defeated National Party had presided over...
Narendra Modi Govt Has Abdicated Its Responsibility For Ruling Manipur
By P. Sudhir It is sixteen months since the ethnic conflict erupted in Manipur. Over 250 people have been killed and many more injured during the violence and 60,000 people remained displaced and living as refugees. The central government and the BJP state government have abjectly failed to address...
Old People Need Complete Health Coverage, Get Only Health Insurance
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government has a penchant for launching exaggeratingly “exciting and impressive” scheme, but many of them only skin deep, ignoring the real issues facing the people of India. The latest cabinet decision on September 11, 2024 relating to health coverage of...
Rahul Gandhi Has A Habit Of Courting Known Anti-National Elements Abroad
By Sushil Kutty Rahul Gandhi in the USA is proving to be a nightmare for the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government. Also to India that is Bharat. His statements made abroad do not make him a patriot. But patriotism is the last refuge for scoundrels. So, whoever is writing the...
So Far Harris Trumps Donald And That Is None Too Good For Narendra Modi
By Anjan Roy If debates between rival leaders decided outcomes, then Kamala Harris has won the US presidential race. The entire media, including the arch conservative ones, could not but admit that the debate on September 10 night could not have been better for Harris, and worst for Donald...
Appearance vs. Essence: A Marxist Look At The Harris-Trump Debate
By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON: Watching the Harris-Trump debate, an old idiom came to my mind: “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Karl Marx had another way of saying much the same thing: “All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.”...
Imran Khan’s PTI Leading Massive Opposition Rallies In Pakistan Cities
By Tirthankar Mitra A recent gathering of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) in Islamabad has led to the accentuation of political turmoil in the country. Recent arrests in Punjab and Balochistan are further pointers that the government is struggling against its own challenges as well as those from the Opposition. Reports...
A Pragmatic Approach Towards Chinese Investments Must For India’s Manufacturing Goals
By K Raveendran India’s economic aspirations have long been anchored in the expansion of its manufacturing sector, a goal that has become increasingly critical as the country seeks to position itself as a global economic powerhouse. It is widely believed that the realisation of this goal would be impossible...
Confident Kamala Harris Takes On Donald Trump In Her First Presidential Debate
By Sushil Kutty Who won Tuesday’s Trump-Harris debate and the answer was in the media’s pocket. Democrat Kamala Harris had to just show up while Republican Donald Trump had to field pointed questions. Harris owned the media and Kamala wasn’t late at the ABC show. Kamala’s highlight of the...
Edible Oil Crisis In India Is A Result Of Gross Neglect
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though oilseed crops are the second most important determinant of the agricultural economy, next only to cereals within the segment of field crops, India has lost the self-sufficiency in oilseeds achieved during the “Yellow Revolution” in the early 1990s. Government’s neglect in terms of policy...
Remembering Visit To Hiroshima And Nagasaki At This Time Of Big Wars
By Dr Arun Mitra Visit to Hiroshima to participate in the All Asia Conference of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in 2009 and again on the occasion of 20th World Congress of IPPNW in 2012 is an unforgettable experience. We had the opportunity to go...
Indian Goods Supplies To Bangladesh Begin To The Relief Of Consumers
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: With the resumption of bulk rail dispatch of goods/cargo from India to Bangladesh, the interim government has succeeded in restoring major supply chains to some areas, bringing much needed financial relief to people already hit by massive inflation. As Chief adviser to the current ruling...
ILO Finding On Share Of Labour Going Down In Production Process, Is Ominous
By Krishna Jha In its report, published for 2024, September, the International Labour Organisation has come out with its new findings on the share of labour going down in the production process. It is a signal for the unfolding of a new world with the advent of scientific technological...
Bhupinder Singh Hooda Is In Big Spirits To Bring Congress To Power
By Harihar Swarup Former Chief Minister Bhupender Singh Hooda , who is sure to contest in coming Haryana Assembly elections on October 5 , is known for the sobriquet “Ganga Putra” after a narrow escape from death in 2003 when his car was swept away by the flooded Ganga...
What Is Dr. Jaishankar Up To? Does He Want A Globally Isolated India?
By Tirthankar Mitra A book launch is not the ideal platform to make a foreign policy announcement. Yet external affairs minister, S Jaishankar chose the occasion to announce that the era of uninterrupted dialogue with Pakistan is over. Jaishankar’s take has dual interpretations. His comment is a pointer to...
Jammu & Kashmir Poll Scenario Has Turned Bizarre With Large Number Of Proxy Candidates
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It is an open secret, but never admitted, that political parties in power often get some candidates contest elections to effect division in opposition votes to facilitate easy win for their own candidates. The “election strategy of the proxy” in Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing...
India Is Failing To Take Full Advantage Of China+ Strategy By Maintaining Barriers
By Subrata Majumder Narendra Modi Government is going hot with China on diplomacy through remarks by the external affairs minister Dr. S Jaishankar, but at the same time, the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is soft on the issue of allowing Chinese investment in India. The economic survey of 2023-24...
