IPA Staff
16631 stories by IPA Staff
Tipra Motha, Chakma Students Lead Stir In Chittagong Hill Tracts
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Tripura’s most prominent TIPRA Motha leader Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarman (ex-royal scion) and Chakma student outfits are in limelight following their successful protests to highlight atrocities against minorities and indigenous people in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh. The interesting part is that Debbarman...
India To Step Up Coal Production To 1.5 Billion Tonne In FY 2029-30
By Dr. Gyan Pathak To strengthen India’s energy security and realise self-reliance under “Atmanirbhar Bharat” programme by replacing imported coal with domestically mined coal, India will increase its production from the provisional 997.25 million tonne (MT) in FY24 to 1.31BT in FY25 and 1.5BT inFY30.It has been planned to...
New Army Regimes In West African Countries Posing Challenge To Western Powers
By Prabhat Patnaik West Africa, which had been largely under French colonial rule, never saw decolonisation of the sort that India did. For a start, the erstwhile French colonies’ currency continued to be linked to the French franc at a fixed exchange rate, which meant that they could not...
SBI’s Move To Buy Equity In Big Defaulter Company SIIL Is Preposterous
By C H Venkatachalam In a move that has surprised corporate watchers, State Bank of India (SBI) will take a dual role in the debt restructuring of defaulter Supreme Infrastructure India Ltd (SIIL). This development marks an unprecedented step in India’s corporate debt resolution landscape, as the country’s largest...
Himachal Minister Knows His State People More Than Rahul Gandhi
By Sushil Kutty Does Congress general secretary (Organization) KC Venugopal know Himachal Pradesh more than Himachal Pradesh cabinet minister Vikramaditya Singh? For that matter, does Raebareli’s Congress MP Rahul Gandhi? Venugopal is Rahul Gandhi’s eyes and ears within the Congress framework but it would be naïve to believe he...
After FY26, GST Cess May Stay In New Avatar
NEW DELHI: With most states not keen to let go of revenues, the Goods and Services tax (GST) compensation cess will likely be retained beyond January 2026, by when the compensation-related loans and interest would likely be fully repaid, sources said. However, the cess would be “re-branded” with a...
OMCs To Invest Over Rs 1.9 Lakh Crore In Expansion Of Refining Capacity By 2030
NEW DELHI: India’s oil marketing companies are expected to add 35-40 million tonnes of crude oil refining capacity by the end of the fiscal 2029-30 in order to meet the growing energy demands of the country and the expected growth in consumption, as per Crisil Ratings. Furthermore, the agency...
Railways Floats Tenders For Placing Kavach On 9,600 Km Of Tracks
NEW DELHI: The railways ministry has fast-tracked its plans to install the Kavach Automatic Train Protection system in the wake of the recent accidents and has floated tenders for fixing it on 9,600 km of railway tracks as well as equipping 10,000 locomotives with the device in the coming...
TRAI Seeks Views On Satcom Spectrum Allocation And Pricing Methodology
NEW DELHI: The telecom regulator has sought views on the pricing methodology and terms and conditions of allocating satellite spectrum — without auctions — to companies seeking to launch satellite broadband services in the country. Global biggies such as Bharti Group-backed Eutelsat OneWeb, Amazon-backed Kuiper, Elon Musk’s Starlink, Globalstar...
EPFO Gets Smarter, Claims Settlement Now 30 Per Cent Faster
NEW DELHI: Processing of claims by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has seen a sharp jump of about 30% year-on-year in August-September, thanks to the latest software upgrade by the world’s largest retirement fund body’s digital platform. The slower pace of claims settlement by EPFO had earlier been...
AICTE, OPPO India Launch Second Phase Of ‘Generation Green’ Campaign
The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and OPPO India launched the second phase of their ‘Generation Green’ campaign with a nationwide e-waste awareness drive at Ramjas College, University of Delhi. Ramjas College became the first ‘Eco-Conscious Champion Institute’ under the initiative. The campaign aims to educate youth on...
New PLI Scheme For Specialty Steel: Government
NEW DELHI: The government is working on the another round of the PLI scheme for speciality steel as the response for the first round of the initiative did not meet expectations, according to Steel Secretary Sandeep Poundrik. The top ministry official made the remarks at CII Steel Summit 2024...
Karnataka Launches Draft GCC Policy To Attract Investments, Create Jobs
NEW DELHI: The Karnataka Government on Friday launched a draft Global Capacity Centres (GCC) policy with the aim to generate USD 50 billion economic output and attract 500 new GCCs by 2029, creating 3.5 lakh jobs. According to officials, this policy is designed to enhance investor confidence, promote seamless...
Government Plans 4.5-6 Crore Textile Jobs By 2030
NEW DELHI: The government has prepared a road map for creating 4.5-6 crore jobs in the textile sector by 2030, Union Minister Giriraj Singh said on Friday, asserting that efforts are being made to take the sector’s market size to USD 350 billion from around USD 165 billion at...
SC Clears GMR Airports To Operate Nagpur Airport, Closes Curative Plea Of Centre, AAI
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday cleared decks for private firm GMR Airports to upgrade and operate Nagpur’s Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport (AAI) by closing the proceedings on a curative plea of the Centre and the Airport Authority of India. The Centre and the AAI had filed a...
In A Sudden Turn, Myanmar Junta Invites Armed Rebels To Political Talks
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In quick-paced developments, Myanmar’s ruling junta has invited the armed rebel groups to stop fighting and participate in political talks. “We invite ethnic armed groups, terrorist insurgent groups, and terrorist PDF groups which are fighting against the state to give up terrorist fighting and communicate...
Decoding Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar On His 204th Birth Anniversary On September 26
By Nitya Chakraborty Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar whom Rabindranath Tagore had hailed as the symbol of ‘ajeya paurasha, akhanda manushyatva’ meaning invincible manliness and indelible humanism was the tallest among the social reformers and educators in 19th century Bengal. His 71 year life from September 26, 1820 to July 27,...
PLFS 2023-24 Wraps Up Disturbing Level Of India’s Labour Market Distortion
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After unemployment rate in India officially reaching 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, which was 45 years high, PM Narendra Modi led government has been successful in reducing it to 3.2 per cent on paper by 2023-24 which wraps up increasingly disturbing level of labour market...
