11843 stories by IPA Staff
Taste Of Victory In Karnataka Emboldens Mayawati
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP national president Mayawati is now more confident about entering into alliances with other regional parties after the successful experiment in Karnataka with JD(S). She hopes that after winning one assembly seat out of 17 seats it contested in Karnataka in alliance with...
Opposition To Blamed For Its Own Woes
By Arun Srivastava According to the Sarkaria Commission, the largest single party can stake a claim to form the government only with the support of others, including “independents”. But in Karnataka as well as the other states of Goa, Manipur and Meghalaya, the BJP did not have the...
Health Is Always The Biggest Victim Of Conflicts
By Dr Arun Mitra It is perplexing to know that the main entrance gate of UN office in Geneva is called the Broken Chair Gate. Only when one sees with own eyes a large broken chair on the Palais des Nations in Geneva that one comes to...
Supreme Court Has Prevented Horse Trading By Preponing Floor Test
By Harihar Swarup Finally the Supreme Court has pronounced its verdict; the one-day Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has to prove his majority in a floor test on May 19 at 4 PM. The pro-tem speaker will conduct the floor test. The apex court’s verdict has closed the...
Consolidation Of Anti-BJP Forces Is The Need Of The Hour
By S. Sudhakar Reddy The five-day 23rd Congress of Communist Party of India held at Kollam, Kerala, from April 25, 2018 will be by generations to come for the historic decision of the Congress to take all measures to unite and consolidate the growing consensus among political parties...
Trump Desperate To End Mueller’s Investigations
By John Wojcik Rudy Giuliani, the newest addition to President Trump’s legal defense team, has added his voice to the list of Republicans demanding that Special Counsel Robert Mueller wrap up his investigations of the president and those around him, claiming, as did Vice President Pence last week,...
Keeping India Awake For ‘Height Of Trivialisation’?
By Sushil Kutty The arguments finally grind to a halt at 4.56 am and the three-judge bench of Justices Sikri, SA Bobde and Ashok Bhushan rule at around 5.30 am that the governor’s actions can be “injuncted against” but that his orders cannot be restrained. “Are the governor’s...
Ramadan Peace Is All A Bloody Hoax
By Aditya Aamir The Government of India order on cessation of army operations in Kashmir during Ramadan is a farce. Ramadan was never an addendum to peace throughout Islamic history. And security forces in Kashmir have been dealing with year-round no breaks in terror for decades. In 2014...
Petro Product Prices At Historic High
By Anjan Roy Oil prices have started pinching as these touch the highs of some six years ago. With the Karnataka state elections out of the way, prices for petrol and diesel have today reached the highest level ever. Depending on the metropolis where you are buying,...
Karnataka Governor Vala Has Acted Like A RSS Pracharak
By Nitya Chakraborty By inviting the BJP leader B S Yeddyurappa to form the new Karnataka government despite his inability to prove majority support among the elected legislators, Governor Vajubhai Vala has acted like a RSS pracharak rather than a custodian of the Indian constitution. The most sordid...
Great Chilean Musician Max Berru Passes Away
By Barbara Russum Max Berrú Carrión was born in Cariamanga, Ecuador, June 5, 1942. He died May 1 at the age of 75 in Santiago de Chile of bone marrow cancer diagnosed last year. Despite not being born in Chile, Berrú became Chilean by choice and lived five...
Sugar Industry’s Bitter Cup Of Woes
By G. Srinivasan In the run-up to the Karnataka assembly polls, with the State being one of the few largest producers of sugarcane in the country, the Union Cabinet approved financial assistance of Rs 5.50 per quintal (100 kg) for cane crushed by sugar mills in the extant...
Riding The Bucking Horse To Power
By Sushil Kutty There are no thoroughbred kudra in Karnataka politics today – stallion, mare or gelding. They are all of suspect breed, with a price and prize to command. Then, there are the horses for courses, tasked to identify the vulnerable horse to rustle from rival political...
Kashmir Developments Need A Strong Political Initiative
By Shameem Faizee With daily worsening situation in the Kashmir Valley, the political parties including the partners of the ruling alliance have unanimously urged the Union government to declare ceasefire for the month of Ramadan and continue it till the end of Amarnath Yatra. They have cited...
Crucial Presidential Elections In Venezuela On May 20
By Tony Burke Presidential elections will be held in Venezuela on May 20 at the same time as municipal and regional elections. Contrary to claims from some who support Donald Trump’s “regime change” agenda in the oil-rich country that Venezuela is a dictatorship, these elections will be the...
Whistle-Blower’s Crusade Against Mining Mafia
By Arun Srivastava PATNA: Even a brusque caution from senior minister Sarju Roy to have the renewal of mining rights to companies investigated by some professional agency for wrong-doing, as the existing procedures are violation of court orders, the Bihar government has preferred to sit idle an allow...
Karnataka Results Show That Modi Magic Is Working
By Amulya Ganguli By turning all predictions about Karnataka upside down, the BJP has shown yet again how effectively it runs the party’s election campaign. Disproving the belief that there was no wave in favour or against any party or that the outgoing chief minister Siddaramaiah had...
Deve Gowda Becomes The ‘Good Father’
By Sushil Kutty The electoral battlefield in Karnataka is strewn with bodies, those of the dead and the wounded. Siddaramaiah has lost more than one arm. BS Yeddyurappa lost his cup of joy because there are these things called ‘slip’ and ‘lip’. Amit Shah lost his confidence. Rahul...
