11843 stories by IPA Staff
Bengal Not Responding To Assam Govt’s Queries
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) never loses any opportunity to urge the Central Government to observe existing norms and niceties of governance within a federal political structure. However, there are also occasions when the Bengal Government would do well to follow its...
BJP Determined To Devalue Nitish Kumar
By Arun Srivastava The marriage of deceit and intrigue is on the verge of cessation. Publically both the partners, JD(U) and the BJP have been claiming to enjoy a successful and happy connubial, the reality is they have ceased to be a perfect bed partner. The major partner...
Irani Circular And A Government Running Scared
By Sushil Kutty Arun Shourie was proof of ‘journalism of courage’, the ‘fearless’. One of those who when asked to ‘bend’ did not ‘crawl’. They did not make movies on him but he was the closest to a ‘hero’ to many a young journalist when 24/7 television journalism...
India-Hater Shahid Afridi Is Out Of Favour In Dubai
By Aditya Aamir Shahid Afridi is now ‘Shaheed Afridi’ and along with other Pakistanis out of favour in Dubai. His cricketing career over, the man with the heavy bat is batting for terrorism and terrorists. Maybe he wants to be a politician, walk in the footsteps of marriage-machine...
Riots-By-Design Are Scaring The BJP’s Allies
By Amulya Ganguli The restiveness among the BJP’s former and present allies has spread from the Shiv Sena, which was the first to say that it would not align with the BJP in 2019, to Telugu Desam and Hindustani Awam Morcha’s Jitan Ram Manjhi to Nitish Kumar and...
Big Funds To Boost Fisheries And Animal Husbandry
By K R Sudhaman One of the main problems of Indian agriculture is disguised unemployment. That is, farming by nature is seasonal and hence it does not provide job as well as income throughout the year. It is precisely for this reason every farmer needed to engage himself...
Dalit Is Boiled Meat In The Caste Cauldron
By Sushil Kutty Without doubt there are the twisted caste-oriented who are the scum of the earth and wouldn’t blink a jaundiced eye while committing atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. It is a centuries old practice and no doubts. Thirty years ago, realizing this, Parliament gave...
Impeachment Move Against Chief Justice Of India Is On
By Amritananda Chakravorty In an unprecedent move, the opposition parties, led by the Congress, are planning to introduce a resolution calling for impeachment of the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Mishra (‘CJI’). A draft resolution was circulated last week, which requires a minimum signatures of 50 Rajya Sabha...
Parliament Gridlock Threatens Indian Democracy
By Kalyani Shankar No one should be surprised at the newspaper and primetime TV headlines that the current session of Parliament is heading towards a washout. This is the 12th straight session wasted so far. In fact we see almost the same headlines at the close of every...
Smriti irani april-fooled on april 3!
Aditya Aamir Information & Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani proposes and the PMO disposes! But not to her liking. Late on April 2, Irani directed that journalists who “create and publish fake news” will face six months’ suspension for the first violation; one year for a second and will...
Commonalities Between Lula And Lalu
By Arun Srivastava Former president of Brazil Lula da Silva and the Indian symbol of social justice, former chief minister of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav, have one common feature. Like Lula the Indian leader Lalu is also convicted for indulging in corrupt practices and under the Indian law...
Setback To Fight Against Dalit Oppression
By Arun Srivastava While laying down procedural safeguards and trying to strike a balance between protecting individual liberties and preserving the spirit of a law in favour of oppressed sections, the Supreme Court has virtually conceded to the argument that the provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the...
Weather a summer of political change or not?
By Aditya Aamir This summer – April-May-June – will sizzle. Not as much as last year or the year before. But average temperatures in most parts of the country will be ‘above normal’, says the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). There is a silver lining, though: temperatures in east,...
Why India Is Strengthening Its Northern Defences
By Barun Das Gupta March 19 was a big day for the Indian Air Force as its heaviest transport aircraft, C-17 Globemaster, landed at Tuting Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) in Arunachal Pradesh, very close to the Chinese border. India has been upgrading the old and disused landing strips...
Encounters Of The PDP-BJP Alliance
By Jay Bhagwan Army officer Lieutenant Ummer Fayaz’s killing has been avenged for the nth-time. Two of his killers are said to be among the 12 militants killed in south Kashmir on the April Fool’s Day. Three army soldiers and four civilians also died in the exchange...
Growing Big Scale Bank Frauds And ‘Underpriced’ Political Risks
By Nantoo Banerjee It may look unusual that global investment bankers, led by Goldman Sachs and Nomura, are suddenly changing their perception about India as a rewarding investment and growth destination. Last month, Nomura’s research report on India went to the extent of saying that political uncertainty in...
Find The ‘Leaker’ And You Will Find The Motive
By Sushil Kutty All CBSE question papers should henceforth – like film Censor Board certificates, which carry no-smoking and no animals were used in the making of the film claims – carry the legend ‘This Q-paper was not leaked at any step of its making process.’ That requires...
Wages Without Work’ Continues To Haunt LDF Govt
By P. Sreekumaran ‘Nokkukooli’ – the practice of charging for no work and exorbitant charges for loading and unloading works – continues to have Kerala in its stranglehold despite assertions to the contrary by the Pinarayi Vijayan Government. The LDF Government had declared that the infamous practice...
