11843 stories by IPA Staff
Xi’s Sideshow To Trump Donald
By Sushil Kutty The two big world news that’s caught the attention of the remote today are North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un getting a shot at giving himself a sheen of respectability and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s lifetime President Xi Jinping sitting down to diagnose...
Left Consolidation Efforts Get A Big Boost At CPI Congress
By Nitya Chakraborty The call for more united action of the Left parties with special focus on the reunification efforts of the CPI and the CPI(M) was the highlight of the 23rd congress of the CPI which began its session at Kollam in Kerala on April 26.The deliberations...
Wuhan Summit Creates A New Template For Economic Engagement
By Subrata Majumder A perpetual border settlement between India and China is untenable. Then, why not use economic engagement to soothe the relation. Against the backdrop of US trade war against China, Prime Minister Modi’s reciprocation to Beijing’s urge for amelioration of ties is a timely step for...
Tragedy In A Town Named Kushinagar
By Aditya Aamir To wake up to the headline ‘Tragedy in Kushinagar’ doesn’t give anybody ‘Kushi’. Add to that the number ‘13’ and ‘superstition’ drops anchor. Last heard, ‘13’ was still an unlucky number. And 13 children died in Kushinagar when their school bus was blown off the...
Congress Plans Big Anti-Modi Rally
By Rahil Nora Chopra Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee is organising a Jan Aakrosh Rally in Ram Lila Maidan in New Delhi on 29 April, hoping to bring at least one lakh people from Delhi and neighbouring states. The rally‘s aim is to expose the Narendra Modi government’s work...
Appointment Of Judges: War Without An End
By Sushil Kutty The war over judges continues unabated. If the battle lines are drawn, the canvas of the battleground is widening by the day. Now, it has extended to appointments of judges in the Supreme Court. While one judge has been appointed with acceptance from both the...
FICCI Report Unveils Multi-Pronged Agenda To Reinvigorate BIMSTEC
By Nitya Chakraborty The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has made far-reaching recommendations for the creation of a new ‘BIMSTEC’ by strengthening infrastructure linkages, deepening regional transport connectivity, facilitating cross-border trade, investment and tourism, protecting the environment and promoting sustainable use of shared natural...
Asaram gets ‘life’ till god calls his ‘man’
By Sushil Kutty The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a sea of swirling plastic waste in the middle of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas and thrice that of France, is difficult to remove. Similarly, human garbage, trash like self-styled ‘god-man’ Asaram Bapu, is hard to get rid...
Modi And Xi Need To Focus On Trade Issues
By G. Srinivasan India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President in perpetuity Xi Jinping summit parleys sans aide but with interpreters in Wuhan on April 27-28 to take advantage of their mutual chemistry in cementing bilateral relations have not come a day too soon. Soon after Modi’s...
CPI’s Kollam Congress Has To Chart Programme For Revival
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India’s four day 23rd Congress at Kollam in Kerala beginning April 26, has got a tough task in preparing the Party to be a prominent participant in the current battle of the opposition parties against the NDA government at the centre...
Real People, Real World, Real Poetry
By Chip Grim Poetry on the Picket Line might sound a little unlikely, but it works. It’s a squad of writers prepared to turn up on picket lines and read poetry — something a little different and, usually, it goes down pretty well. It started off by accident...
Us Rejoining TPP To Put Further Pressure On China
By Subrata Majumder The US-China trade war has taken a new shape after Trump administration evinced interests for re-joining the TPP (Trans – Pacific – Partnership). Seemed to have been flattened by Chinese bellicose and domestic lobby by US farmers, Trump administration is likely to shift pressure on...
Major Decisions of the Courts in India
CJI’s impeachment motion rejected by Vice President – 71 Rajya Sabha Members belonging to seven political parties have signed the notice for initiating impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra. In a press conference, the opposition leader, Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad also mentioned that the same had...
Strong In Polemics But Bad In Law
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 19th April, 2018, the Supreme Court of India dismissed the series of petitionsseeking an independent probe into the death of CBI Special Judge Loya, who allegedly died of cardiac arrest on 1st December, 2014. Judge B.H. Loya was hearing the Sohrabuddin encounter case, wherein...
Popular Angst Against BJP, Modi About To Explode
By Amulya Ganguli Close on the heels of an open letter written to Narendra Modi by 49 former bureaucrats about the “terrifying state of affairs” in India, has come yet another missive by as many as 637 academics in India and abroad who have voiced a similar concern....
BJP Goes Into Election Mode In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is now in the election mode for 2019 Lok Sabha polls. As a part of damage control after the humiliating defeat in two by-elections for Lok Sabha seats Gorakhpur and Phulpur, BJP national president Amit Shah visited the state capital and held discussions...
Casting couch as ‘livelihood provider’
By Sushil Kutty Pretty girl in Delhi tells mom and pop and little adorable brother at dinner that her bags are packed and first shot of dawn she will be up and gone to Bollywood! Mom – who’s always warning daughter to take care stepping outdoor because there...
A Great Victory For The Yechury Line
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Cometh the hour, cometh the man. And the chosen man at this critical juncture in the country’s political history is CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury. It may sound a cliché. But the fact is it is Yechury’s finest hour. By getting the 22nd...
