11522 stories by IPA Staff
Pawar Nurses Prime Ministerial Ambitions
By Rahil Chopra After Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, NCP Chief Sharad Pawar is also getting into the act trying to forge the unity of Opposition parties before the Lok Sabha elections in 2019. Sharad Pawar met Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav...
Salman Khan Finally Attains Veergati, Goes To Jail
By Aditya Aamir Year 2018 is bad for Salman Khan. He stands convicted and sentenced for five years in the fourth blackbuck case. Year 1998 was a bad year for the blackbucks killed in Jodhpur by a band of actors led by the superstar. Hunting is a centuries...
Poverty Eradication Plans Only Target Vote Banks
By Gyan Pathak National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRlM), launched in June 2011, was one of the flagship programmes to eradicate rural poverty in India. By the 7th year of its implementation it was to cover all the districts and blocks of the country. Only after two months the...
China Has Lessons To Learn From US-Japan Trade Tiff
By Subrata Majumder Donald Trump is not the first US President to hatch a trade war against its rival. In 1985, Ronald Reagan took an assault on Japan, skyrocketing the yen value to nail Japanese exports. The challenge was to uptick the yen value artificially in a coterie...
Fifty Years After Martin Luther King Jr’s Assassination
By John Wojcik Five decades have passed since the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. In that city this week, thousands gathered to commemorate the civil rights icon’s life. From symposia hosted by the National Civil Rights...
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...
