IPA Special

Trupti Becomes Terminal Desai In Kochi

By Aditya Aamir   Rights activist Trupti Desai might as well be a hanger at the Kochi Nedumbaserry Airport. She’s been hanging there at the airport like a terminal patient in ‘recovery’ since Friday 4.45 am and cannot get out because the climate outside is not fair weather for...

Nov 16 · >

State Repression Of Labour Activists On The Rise

By B. Sivaraman   Under the BJP rule, labour issues are also increasingly becoming human rights issues. Is it conceivable that the Indian state in the 21st century could go back exactly a hundred years to usher an industrial relations scenario based on the principles of British Common Law...

Nov 16 · >

Rafale Deal Had No Sovereign Guarantee From French Govt

  By Nitya Chakraborty   The cat is finally out of the bag. The French Government did not agree to give any sovereign guarantee to the Rafale deal and its offer of a Letter of Comfort(LoC) does not in any way help in meeting the obligations of the French...

Nov 16 · >

Modi Govt Has No Option But To Cancel Rafale Deal

         By Shameem Faizee   Though much more will be revealed in the coming days about the dirty game that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the crony capitalist Anil Ambani  have played in finalising the Rafale deal, whatever has come to light so far is enough to outright cancel...

Nov 16 · >

Renaming Places, Reviving Ram Mandir Issue

  By S. Sudhakar Reddy   BJP governments in states and Centre is now busy in renaming cities, towns, railway stations etc. Gurgaon is renamed as Gurugram, supposed to be dedicated to Dronacharya, a cruel Acharya who insisted that Ekalavya must cut his thumb and offer as Guru Dakshina...

Nov 16 · >

How To Ensure Your CMM Probe Is As Accurate As Possible

If your production line relies on a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) for quality control purposes, then you probably understand how important a regular stream of high-quality metrological data is for ensuring that the parts you are producing match blueprint specifications as closely as possible. Without a functional CMM, it...

Nov 15 · >

Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments

Election of KM Shaji declared void – The Kerala High Court has declared the election of K M Shaji in 2016, candidate from the Indian Union Muslim League, as void on the grounds that he had indulged in corrupt practices during the assembly elections by using religion to appeal...

Nov 15 · >

Sabarimala Review Is A Big Challenge To Supreme Court

By Amritananda Chakravorty   The controversy around the entry to Sabarimala temple refuses to die down. Parallel proceedings are going on in the Supreme Court and in the Kerala High Court. On 13th November, 2018, the Supreme Court heard the slew of review petitions filed against its very own...

Nov 15 · >

Mayawati Throws Spanner In Unity Works

By Rahil Nora Chopra   Opposition parties are meeting on November 22 to discuss the anti-BJP alliance and Ashok Gehlot will meet with Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on behalf of Congress president Rahul Gandhi. But a major question that remains unsolved is whether Mayawati will go...

Nov 15 · >

Democrats Have To Fight Harder Battles In 2020

By John Bachtell   The outcome of the 2018 midterm elections was a big victory for the American people, Democrats, and allied movements, despite GOP gains in the U.S. Senate. Republican monopoly of government has been broken and the political terrain significantly reshaped for battles ahead, including the 2020...

Nov 15 · >
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