11569 stories by IPA Staff
Every Rooftop And Pond Can Be Solar Power House
By K R Sudhaman Buoyed by the leg up in solar power development in the country, rooftop solar is fast catching up with land becoming scarce, particularly around major cities where solar provided a viable solution to tackling peak power demand. With net metering fast catching up, solar...
Cash Crunch May Continue Beyond One And A Half Years
By Gyan Pathak Indians have been suffering in the grinding mill of Modi’s monetary policy misadventure for one-and-half years, which began in November 2016 with the announcement of demonetization. Mismanagement of currency notes and coins created a severe “cash crunch” on the one hand, and excessive supply of...
Hang The ‘Nuanced Look’, String The Rapist High
By Sushil Kutty Now that there is an ordinance to deliver death to rapists of children below 12, there are those who are calling for a “nuanced look” at the whole thing. Their argument: Death penalty for both rape and murder will make rapists kill without compunction; most...
Good Times Are Here Again For India’s Super Rich
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to know that India’s rich are getting richer. The country’s $billionaires’ club is expanding. Fifty-six new members joined the club, last year. Old ones are amassing more wealth every year than ever before. Some are shedding sticky assets after squeezing them for...
Sitaram Has Historic Tasks To Do In Second Term
By Nitya Chakraborty The re-election of Sitaram Yechury as the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) at the just ended 22nd congress of the CPI(M) assumes special significance in the present period of political turmoil when all opposition parties including the Congress are feeling the...
Media In The Times Of Impeachment
By Sushil Kutty You are entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts. That is a truism. But facts coloured by ideology become opinions. Ideologies are basically left of centre and right of centre. Governments are ideological. The judiciary has to be above politics. And...
Pashtun Protest Escalates Braving Heavy Odds
By Sankar Ray The Western Pakistan is astir more vociferously than ever in the current millennium with the steady advance of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) – Movement for the Protection of Pashtuns – that seeks solutions related to Pashtun question in a centripetal way. This unequivocal...
High Court Rap Minor Setback For Trinamool Congress
By Ashis Biswas In Bengal, opposition parties did well not to crow about their legal victory against the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) over the conducting of the panchayat polls: the Calcutta High Court order snubbed the TMC and the state administration, but it was no more than...
Dangerous Portends Of Agenda-Driven Verdicts
By K. Raveendran “Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.” This remark of Lord Chief Justice Hewart of England, uttered nearly 100 years ago, is now heard throughout the world of common law. It reflects an ethical requirement that judges...
Yashwant Sinha’s Warning Bodes Ill For PM Modi
By Harihar Swarup The Narendra Modi government will complete four years next month (May 26, 2018). It has by now presented five budgets and used up all the opportunity available to it to show results. At the end, however, government seems to have lost its views and surrounded...
