11843 stories by IPA Staff
Chauhan Revives Police Commissioner Debate
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: In Madhya Pradesh there is no perceptible decline in crime in general and against women in particular. The government has come under severe attack over the death of a journalist, Sandeep Sharma, in Bhind district. The sand mafia’s hand is suspected in the brutal...
Biggest Bane Of Dalit Politics Are Its Leaders
By K. Raveendran UP Governor Ram Naik can produce a treatise on the ‘R’ in the middle of B R Ambedkar’s name. He has been feeling very agitated over the way Ambedkar’s name was being written in Hindi-spoken states, such as Uttar Pradesh. According to him, the R...
Amit Shah’s Big Faux Pas Has Put BJP In The Dock
By Harihar Swarup The BJP began its campaign in Karnataka on an embarrassing note, which pollsters say, is inauspicious. It was a day of embarrassment for the BJP when usually sharp party President Amit Shah committed a gaffe. Interacting with the media during a tour of Lingayat and...
Socialism Is Now At The Core Of British Labour Party’s Advance
By Carlos Martinez “A Party With Socialists In It: A History of the Labour Left” by Simon Hannah is inspired by Tony Benn’s comment that “the Labour Party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it” and the book charts the attempts...
Anti-BJP Forces Set To Pose A Strong Challenge To Narendra Modi
By S. Sethuraman Karnataka Assembly poll outcome in May will finally determine whether the Modi-Amit duo should opt for advancing Lok Sabha elections well ahead of April-May 2019. Such a decision becomes crucial for the Modi Government, with a perceptible spread of anti-incumbency mood in the country, and...
Disarmament, Development And Health Are Inseparable
By Dr. Arun Mitra Saddened and disturbed on hearing about the devastation caused by the atom bombs thrown on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Mahatma Gandhi had said “I regard the employment of the atom bomb for the wholesale destruction of men, women and children as the most diabolical...
Fifteen Years After Us Invasion Of Iraq
By Stephanie Savell In 2003, President George W. Bush and his advisers based their case for war on the idea that Saddam Hussein, then dictator of Iraq, possessed weapons of mass destruction—weapons that have never been found. Nevertheless, all these years later, Bush’s “Global War on Terror” continues—in...
Mamata”s Federal Front Move Makes Headway
By Rahil Nora Chopra Mamata Banerjee has become active with the Lok Sabha election coming closer. After meeting with Chief Minister of Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao on the issue of third front she was in Delhi and held meetings with the opposition leaders to unite them against BJP. She...
Modi’s Integrated Education Scheme Offers Nothing New
By Gyan Pathak With the approaching general elections in 2019, the political establishment has become more vociferous in the hope of covering up their failures of performance. High sounding schemes are being launched to avert possible anti-incumbency by mesmerizing the people of India in their favour. The new...
Jai Ramji Ki To All In Cambridge Analytica’s India
By Sushil Kutty Cambridge Analytica whistle-blower Christopher Wylie, who carries a ‘lie’ in his surname for effect, says he’s been getting lots of requests from Indian journalists about Indian political parties’ links with the tainted company. Stating that SCL/CA had several projects in India and offices strewn across...
BJP Is Desperate To Foment Tensions In Bengal
By Arun Srivastava BJP president Amit Shah’s loyalty to his boss Narendra Modi is so passionate that for promoting his political interest he is not only determined to go against the ideological and political ethos of the Sangh and the BJP but he can resolutely contrive to obliterate...
Chouhan Takes An Ambitious Programme For Unorganised Labour
BY L S Herdenia BHOPAL: As the dates for the 2018 Vidhan Sabha elections are coming closer, BJP led Madhya Pradesh Government is promising heaven to the deprived sections of the society. Unorganised labourer is one such section. Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan has announced an...
Mp Gramoday Mela Showcases Folk Culture Of India
By Raju Kumar Temple of Goddess Wagheshwari Devi is situated in Dhamangaon village, which is about 20 kms from Burhanpur near the Maharashtra border. Traditionally, people have deep faith in this temple, so during Navrati festival, people from various adjacent villages come to this place for worshiping the...
Mamata Bending The Bow To Blunt BJP’s Arrow
By Aditya Aamir Whoever said Mamata Banerjee is a one-god person can eat their words with bhaat and fish curry. The ‘appeasement-Chief Minister’ of West Bengal and Trinamool Congress boss is no less a Ram-bhakt than a Babul Supriyo or a Dilip Ghosh. And in the true spirit...
GI Registry Needs To Be Broad-Based
By G. Srinivasan The Chennai-based Geographical Indications (GI) Registry’s order in mid-March to exclude Madhya Pradesh from the area officially declared for cultivation of the aromatic and widely consumed basmati rice, both by the domestic users as also the overseas aficionados, has predictably raised a lot of questions...
Trade War: More Rhetoric, Less On Impact
By Subrata Majumder Amidst the revision of Chinese Constitution, which will permit Xi Jinping to be the perpetual head of Communist Party after the expiry of his second term, Trump’s escalation of tariff on steel and aluminum imports and asserting further tariff rampage on Chinese exports worth of...
Zuckerberg’s Loss Of Face Is Politician’s Gain
By Sushil Kutty If you notice the cows have all been put to pasture, sort of. No more cow vigilante justice and beef in fridge. Instead, there is data leak and the cool stuff that can be done with smartphones: move data of the cattle-class into the folders...
Solar Electric Vehicles May Soon Be A Reality
By K R Sudhaman As global solar power generation touched 100 GW, of which nearly half is in China and an additional 20 GW in India, very soon a new application – solar powered electric vehicles will become a reality providing clean and green transportation particularly in...
