IPA Special

Data Safety: Provide Virtual Aadhaar Number to Service Provider Not Aadhaar Number

Aadhaar card data should be kept secured and safe. It should not be provided easily and to everyone. This is the reason the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has come up with the concept of a Virtual Aadhaar ID (VID). Getting VID is simple. It is a masked...

Sep 11 · >

MP Opposition To SC-ST Act Upsets BJP Applecart

By L.S. Herdenia   BHOPAL: Opposition to the SC and ST Act has created insurmountable difficulties to the ruling party BJP in Madhya Pradesh to the extent that it is hampering its poll eve campaign. How much nervous BJP is can be gauged by the fact that the party...

Sep 11 · >

Kim Jong Writes to Trump Seeking Another Meeting

North Korea has written a new letter to Donald Trump asking for a second meeting and it is learned the White House is looking for a date. Since June 12 summit both the leaders are in talks about nuclear programme of North Korea. However, the discussions have been criticized...

Sep 11 · >

Supreme Court Striking Down Section 377 Goes Beyond Law

By Amritananda Chakravorty   “Finally!” “Relieved!” “Long Overdue!” these were the reactions from the members of the LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and inter-sex), after the historic judgment of the Supreme Court of India in Navtej Johar & Ors. vs. Union of India [Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 76 of...

Sep 11 · >

Nepal Gets Access To Chinese Ports For Trade

By Barun Das Gupta   Last week Nepal signed a Transit and Transport Agreement with China which will give the land-locked country access to four Chinese seaports. These are: Tianjin (3276 kms from Nepal), Liyanyugang (3379 kms), Shengzen (3064 kms) and Shenjiang (2755 kms). As against these, the Kolkata...

Sep 11 · >

Great Expectations From Justice Ranjan Gogoi

By Paras Nath Singh   After months of speculations that were not entirely unjustified, Justice Ranjan Gogoi is at last set to adorn judicial firmament as the 46th Chief Justice of India (CJI). The incumbent CJI, Dipak Misra has officially recommended the name of Justice Ranjan Gogoi, the senior-most...

Sep 10 · >

50 Years To Give India The Hindu Soul

By Aditya Aamir   Amit Shah says the BJP will rule for 50 years, i.e., till 2069 from 2019. By then Amit Shah will be history as will Narendra Modi along with an entire generation. Whether Modi and Shah get to become statues on the Sabarmati will depend on...

Sep 10 · >

Reinventing The Declining Appeal Of Narendra Modi

By Arun Srivastava   Uncertain electoral prospect has caused trepidation to the BJP top leadership, especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his close aide Amit Shah and the element of desperation was manifest in his speech at the executive meet of the party in Delhi. Though the senior leaders...

Sep 10 · >

Not The Best Of Times For Mamata Beyond Bengal

By Amulya Ganguli   For a politician like Mamata Banerjee, who is aspiring to move from state politics to play a national role and even become the prime minister, the recent past has been eminently forgettable.   The snub which she has received from her former anti-BJP Federal Front...

Sep 10 · >

Ongc, Oil Explore India’s New Petro Reserves

By Nantoo Banerjee   It is highly admirable that India’s public sector oil giants — ONGC and OIL — continue to vigorously using their experience and skill to explore new oil and gas reserves within the country. Oil exploration is considered to be a big financial and technological gamble...

Sep 10 · >
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