11633 stories by IPA Staff
Congress Plans Big Anti-Modi Rally
By Rahil Nora Chopra Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee is organising a Jan Aakrosh Rally in Ram Lila Maidan in New Delhi on 29 April, hoping to bring at least one lakh people from Delhi and neighbouring states. The rally‘s aim is to expose the Narendra Modi government’s work...
Appointment Of Judges: War Without An End
By Sushil Kutty The war over judges continues unabated. If the battle lines are drawn, the canvas of the battleground is widening by the day. Now, it has extended to appointments of judges in the Supreme Court. While one judge has been appointed with acceptance from both the...
FICCI Report Unveils Multi-Pronged Agenda To Reinvigorate BIMSTEC
By Nitya Chakraborty The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has made far-reaching recommendations for the creation of a new ‘BIMSTEC’ by strengthening infrastructure linkages, deepening regional transport connectivity, facilitating cross-border trade, investment and tourism, protecting the environment and promoting sustainable use of shared natural...
Asaram gets ‘life’ till god calls his ‘man’
By Sushil Kutty The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a sea of swirling plastic waste in the middle of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas and thrice that of France, is difficult to remove. Similarly, human garbage, trash like self-styled ‘god-man’ Asaram Bapu, is hard to get rid...
Modi And Xi Need To Focus On Trade Issues
By G. Srinivasan India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President in perpetuity Xi Jinping summit parleys sans aide but with interpreters in Wuhan on April 27-28 to take advantage of their mutual chemistry in cementing bilateral relations have not come a day too soon. Soon after Modi’s...
CPI’s Kollam Congress Has To Chart Programme For Revival
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India’s four day 23rd Congress at Kollam in Kerala beginning April 26, has got a tough task in preparing the Party to be a prominent participant in the current battle of the opposition parties against the NDA government at the centre...
Real People, Real World, Real Poetry
By Chip Grim Poetry on the Picket Line might sound a little unlikely, but it works. It’s a squad of writers prepared to turn up on picket lines and read poetry — something a little different and, usually, it goes down pretty well. It started off by accident...
Us Rejoining TPP To Put Further Pressure On China
By Subrata Majumder The US-China trade war has taken a new shape after Trump administration evinced interests for re-joining the TPP (Trans – Pacific – Partnership). Seemed to have been flattened by Chinese bellicose and domestic lobby by US farmers, Trump administration is likely to shift pressure on...
Major Decisions of the Courts in India
CJI’s impeachment motion rejected by Vice President – 71 Rajya Sabha Members belonging to seven political parties have signed the notice for initiating impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra. In a press conference, the opposition leader, Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad also mentioned that the same had...
Strong In Polemics But Bad In Law
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 19th April, 2018, the Supreme Court of India dismissed the series of petitionsseeking an independent probe into the death of CBI Special Judge Loya, who allegedly died of cardiac arrest on 1st December, 2014. Judge B.H. Loya was hearing the Sohrabuddin encounter case, wherein...
