11843 stories by IPA Staff
Christians Dressed In Crusade Mail
By Sushil Kutty With Muslims fasting and generally comatose during the month of Ramzan, authorities in China have told mosques in China to raise the national flag to promote the spirit of patriotism. There are 20 million Muslims in China and they are, apart from the Uyghur, the...
Nipah The Virus On A Killing Spree In Kerala
By Aditya Aamir It is rare. It is deadly. It’s called the Nipah Virus! The fruit-bat borne virus has already killed 11 in Kerala’s Kozhikode and Malapuram districts after the first three deaths in a family were diagnosed as Nipah, the name that spells panic. One of the...
Maduro Re-Elected President Of Venezuela
By Emile Schepers Venezuela’s incumbent president, Nicolás Maduro, of the United Socialist Party, won a new six-year term, according to preliminary results announced Sunday night by the National Election Council (CNE). Most of the right-wing opposition to the leftist government had boycotted the election, but some oppositionists broke...
Indian Stability Innovations Get Global Recognition
By Nitya Chakraborty In the last decade, India has emerged as the world’s most dynamic lab for stability-enhancing innovations that support a more inclusive economy, according to The Atlas of Innovation for Economic Stability published today by international NGO FHI 360 with support from The Rockefeller Foundation. The...
Worry For NDA As Modi-Shah Duo No Longer Unassailable
By Amulya Ganguli What the Karnataka election has shown is that neither Narendra Modi’s oratory nor Amit Shah’s organizational micromanagement is enough at a time of an ebbing tide for the BJP. The exposure of the inadequacies of these two seemingly invulnerable weapons cannot but be of concern...
New Kerala Labour Policy To Make State Investor-Friendly
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The new labour policy, which has been approved by the Kerala Cabinet, has a lot to commend itself. The most significant feature of the new policy is the commendable attempt to make the state labour-friendly. A refreshing effort which is in glaring contrast...
Ominous Silence Of Advani On Karnataka Crisis
By Arun Srivastava BJP’s only “Hindu Hridaya Samrat” (emperor of Hindu hearts) Lal Krishna Advani whose Rath Yatra blazed a bloody trail across India and who took BJP from a two-MP party to forming the first NDA government, is to be blamed for the current constitutional and democratic...
Constitutional Crisis Post-Karnataka Election Results
By Amritananda Chakravorty The last week in the Indian politics has witnessed tectonic shifts, in terms of political alliances, increased questioning of the Governor’s independence, and the role of the Courts in ensuring that the legislative institutions do not lose their sanctity, and all happened in the backdrop...
BJP Seeks To Take India Towards A One-Party State
By S. Sethuraman Apparently, the Bharatiya Janata Party, in command and control of the Centre and most of the States. has been working on ideas of reaching out to the panchayats, rural and urban, as well, with a single electoral roll enabling simultaneous elections at all levels –...
Banks Being Penalised While Big Fraudsters Are At Large
By Nantoo Banerjee Eleven out of 21 public sector banks are already under the Reserve Bank of India’s prompt corrective action (PCA). Left to the central bank, three to five more banks may join soon the framework. PCA generally restricts lending activities and network expansion of banks. The ...
G-String Holding The Alliance Together
By Sushil Kutty ‘Must see Pic! Priyanka with George Clooney’ carried by a news outlet sounds somewhat like ‘Must happen Event! Rahul is Prime Minister’. And Karnataka chief minister-designate of the Congress-JD(S) combine HD Kumaraswamy gives credence to the belief that the Gandhi family is the default page...
Yeddy Bids A Sweet Adieu
By Sushil Kutty Democracy won or not did not matter. But Karnataka CM for a day BS Yeddyruppa decided he has had enough of it. He quit. He resigned Saturday after an emotional speech. Around 4 pm was time for the SC-ordered floor test. But Yeddy was reading...
Red Star Flutters Radiantly In Kathmandu
By Sankar Ray The spectre of Pushpa Lal Shrestha seemed to have been stalking where Khagda Prasad Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka ‘Prachanda’, chairpersons of Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) were jointly planting a party unification plant called...
When Indira Gandhi Could Have Eliminated Defections
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Defection is the cancer of Indian politics. It is the brutal murder of our system of parliamentary democracy. The first defection took place in 1967. Through defection elected governments of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh were overthrown. After the general elections Congress...
Challenges In Indian Economy This Fiscal
By K R Sudhaman The International Monetary Fund has forecast bullish GDP growth for India at 7.4 per cent in 2018 as against 6.7 per cent in the previous year. It forecast a better 7.8 per cent GDP growth for 2019, making India the fastest growing economy again...
Democracy is dead; long live democracy!
By K. Raveendran Tonnes of crocodile tears have been shed in the past one week over the murder of democracy; as though it has occurred for the first time. The truth is that democracy is being murdered in this country every day. No party has the moral right,...
U.S. Left brace up in a big way for mid-term elections in november
By Nitya Chakraborty The mid-term elections in the United States of America, scheduled for November this year, have assumed crucial importance as the Left wing of the Democratic Party led by Bernie Sanders, has launched a massive campaign in a planned manner to get the candidates with faith...
Adieu sweet yeddy, 112 times!
By Sushil Kutty Movement is an anxiety-buster. Husbands stalking corridors outside labour-rooms! The mobile rings and people are up on their feet, walking, talking! It’s therapeutic movement. So, the Congress-JD(S) alliance moved their MLAs from resort/hotel in Bengaluru to Taj and Hyatt in Hyderabad. But, no sooner did...
