11843 stories by IPA Staff
Why ASEAN Matters So Much For India?
By Nilanjan Banik When it comes to competing in the world economy, the Chinese dragon always wins hands down against the Indian elephant. India’s share in world trade is stuck at around 1.8 percent since 2011, whereas that for China is close to 12 percent. For the Indian...
Supreme Court Hearing On Judge Loya’s Death Significant
The much awaited hearing on late CBI Judge Loya’s death witnessed unexpected drama last week. It was a keenly watched hearing, since this matter was supposed to be the trigger for the four senior most judges of the Supreme Court to call the press conference on 12th January, 2018...
Telecom Imports Putting Pressure On Security, Forex Reserves
By Nantoo Banerjee The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) may be trying to push the manufacturing of telecommunications equipment in the country for both economic reasons and alleviating security concerns, but the progress made so far in this regard is far from encouraging. India has become one...
On Delhi Metro, an ‘eye-opening picture’ of ‘sick journalism’
Sushil Kutty Some journalists are pinheads. But all journalists come loaded with questions in their heads. Suspicious to a fault, journalists have a questioning mind. Some even questionable minds. Hacks at heart, they hack into lives without a ‘May I?’ These days of Social Media they are prone to...
Binoy Kodiyeri Episode: Points To Ponder
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the Dubai Police and the Dubai Court giving a clean chit to Binoy Kodiyeri, son of Kerala CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s son, the party has emerged out of a tight political situation at least for the time being. The Kerala CPI(M)...
Our Institutions, Including Statute, Need A Re-Look
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Davos World Economic Forum to sell his great India story to the world. But even before he could make a pitch, he lost his cause. Damning conclusions in two separate reports about the performance of his government put him...
Importance Of Scientific Health Education
By Dr. Arun Mitra Education is the key to development of any society. It opens up one’s mind, widens the horizon of thinking and gives an insight into the causes and effects of happenings around. Health education is all the more important because good health is most dear...
Bengal Byelections Seen Going TMC Way
By Ashis Biswas Unforeseeable occurrences apart, the outcome and the broad trends of the Uluberia Lok Sabha and Noapara Assembly by elections in West Bengal on Jan 29, are predictable. The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) should win both seats on current performance. Given the state of the...
Election Commission Seems Partisan Against AAP
By Harihar Swarup The Delhi High Court has acted wisely by restraining the Election Commission from holding by-election to the seats fallen vacant following disqualification of 20 MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party. However, the court refused to stay the Centre’s notification disqualifying 20 MLAs for holding office...
JP’s ‘Man Of Science’ Goes Off The Bend
By Sushil Kutty You think you know the man – his cold efficiency and his investigative mind, a one-time no-nonsense top-cop of a metropolis of hard-cases and white collar criminals with a yen for a dollar and a date. Then suddenly, when he is off-guard, or rather when...
2018 Budget: What Can Jaitley Do?
By K R Sudhaman Come January, all sorts of rent-seeking and lobbies start, demanding tax sops and other concessions in the General Budget. But the voice of underprivileged and poor, particularly farmers, who have been hit by an unprecedented crisis, is hardly heard as it is very feeble....
Madhya Pradesh Women Fight Closure Of Boozing Yards
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Strange things are happening in Madhya Pradesh. Women generally are against liquor shops, bars and other such outlets. But in Madhya Pradesh just the opposite is happening. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan himself announced closure of “ahatas” (courtyards adjacent to liquor shops) in...
CPI(M) Confident Of Retaining Tripura
By Barun Das Gupta State Assembly elections to three north-eastern States – Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland – will be held next month. Tripura goes to polls on February 18, while Meghalaya and Nagaland on February 27. The results will be out on March 3. In the last five...
Karni Sena Provides A Preview Of Hindu Rashtra
By Amulya Ganguli Even as the gau rakshaks have yielded place in the media headlines to the Karni Sena, the latter’s crusade against the screening of the Sanjay Leela Bhansali film, Padmavat, is giving a foretaste of what can be expected if and when India’s present constitutional order...
CPI(M) Victim Of The Bourgeoise Maneouverings
By Arun Srivastava Prakash Karat might have been feeling ecstatic at his victory. The Central Committee members endorsed his political line of ‘no alliance, no understanding with the Congress’. But the BJP is celebrating his triumph.Karat and his comrades have made the task of making a clean sweep...
After Liquor, Nitish Now Turns Against Dowry
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the liquor ban, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is now toying with the idea of a slogan asking people not to take or give dowry. He is said to be planning to activate the police and administrative departments to implement the campaign against...
Bhansali, Media And Politicians Feed Padmaavat Frenzy
By Sushil Kutty The irony is Sanjay Leela Bhansali caters to the same base instincts that the media accuses the “fringe” of. Bhansali’s Allauddin Khilji is pictured a violent sultan who wears his vices on his sleeve. He is a womanizer who rapes his wife. A glutton who...
Modi’s Flawed Policies Working Only For Super Rich
By Gyan Pathak The second most important slogan around which Narendra Modi has been reaping political dividend since the general elections in 2014 is ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ (support for all, development for all), but the data released by various organizations ahead of the World Economic Forum gathering...
