IPA Special
For Mumbai Underworld, Everyone Is Above Board
By Sushil Kutty Nawab Malik is a household name. The NCP minister in Uddhav Thackeray’s cabinet is a tireless pursuer of criminals and those who convert religions to consummate marriages with “mashukas”; who allegedly use caste labels to con jobs in the Indian Revenue Service. Nawab Malik’s own son-in-law...
Veteran Journalist Barun Dasgupta Breathes Last In Kolkata
By Nitya Chakraborty Barun Dasgupta, a leading journalist of the country, who worked in many national dailies including The Hindu and The Indian Express, died in Kolkata of old-age ailments on October 31. He was 86. Barunda, as all the younger reporters called him affectionately, worked for the India...
Is Arbitration Still Really An Alternative To Traditional Litigation?
By Ajay Kumar “To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice” is a commitment that comes from the Magna Carta in England, and today is reflected in various constitutional provisions guaranteeing access to free, fair and independent courts. However, whether the courts...
Nicaragua Goes To Presidential Polls On November 7 Amidst US Sanctions
By Satyaki Chakraborty Nicaragua, a small nation of Latin America is going for the Presidential polls on November 7 this year amidst threats of more sanctions by the United States and the protests by the opposition parties and the civil society activists against the curbs imposed by the Daniel...
Priyanka’s Move To Allot 40 Per Cent Tickets To Women Should Help Congress
By Harihar Swarup After a long time, the Congress party is setting the political agenda instead of reacting to moves made by the BJP. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has promised that 40 per cent of the Congress tickets will be given to women in Uttar Pradesh. And Congress will ensure...
RBI Becomes Largest Buyer Of Gold By Central Banks
By K Raveendran Interesting trends are emerging in the performance of gold as an asset class as India is recovering from the impact of Covid pandemic. Although some of the basic fault lines continue to nag, there is a perceptible pick-up in demand, such as the bellwether automobile industry,...
Stalled Labour Market Recovery And Disparities Need Urgent Redressal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The global labour market recovery has been stalled and significant disparities between advanced and developing economies persists along with great disparities between the various groups of workforce within nations are at alarming level that need urgent redressal to avoid catastrophic impacts on workforce including complete...
No Silver Lining To The SilverLine Project In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Dark clouds are gathering over the Kerala Government’s SilverLine high-speed rail project. The prestigious project, which, when implemented, would reduce the running time between Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram from 11 hours to less than four hours, has run into several hurdles, raising doubts about its realization...
Poll Campaign For Presidential Poll In Chile On November 21 Heating Up
By W. T. Whitney Jr. The 1973 U.S.-supported military coup against Chile’s socialist government and the murder of President Salvador Allende may be old history. The Pinochet dictatorship ended in 1988 and democratic forms—elections, political parties, debate—are in place. And Chile’s economy, recovering from the pandemic, is booming. For...
Celebrating Pakistan Team Win Does Not Constitute An Offence Under UAPA
By Yashashwini Santuka In the last one week, post the India-Pakistan Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup match which was won by the Pakistan team, a range of alarming developments followed. The most imminent among them was the observation of hate and anger against those celebrating the Pakistan men’s cricket...
China’s New Law On Land Border Activities Has Grave Implications For India
By Anjan Roy Come 2022, India can anticipate serious incursions and incidents on the Indo-China border along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The Chinese have just unilaterally passed a new law empowering the Chinese state to undertake a wide variety of activities along its land borders which in...
Yogi Adityanath Is Making Use Of Sedition Case To Woo Hindu Voters
By Sushil Kutty Sometimes the Supreme Court says something of great import and then leaves it behind like it was a no account fleeting thought. Take the archaic sedition law. Earlier this year, the apex court said it was time for India “to define the limits of the sedition...
Education Must Be Rooted In The Reality Of A Vast And Diverse Country Like India
By Prabhat Patnaik Education in post-independence India was supposed not just to provide knowledge and skills to students, but also to facilitate the process of “nation-building” (to use a clumsy word). Since the concept of an “Indian nation”, although it existed in a rudimentary form earlier (going back even...
BJP’s Divisive Policies In J&K Are Responsible For Disillusionment Among People
By M Y Tarigami The recently concluded visit of union home minister Amit Shah, his first since the special status of Jammu & Kashmir under Article 370was arbitrarily and unconstitutionally revoked in August 2019, has been one more addition to the long list of disillusionments as except rhetoric nothing...
Better Nutrition For The Poor Is Imperative For India To Contain Hunger
By Dr Arun Mitra After the sad happenings during COVID-19 which led to the death of 4 lakh people according to official figures (even though some independent agencies point out this number to be between 25-40 lakh), the news of vaccinating 100 crore people with first dose and 30...
BJP Govt In Tripura Is Unresponsive To Attacks Against Opposition Leaders
By Sagarneel Sinha Trinamool Congress, which is trying to get a foothold in Tripura after ascending to power for the third consecutive time in West Bengal, has been claiming that its leaders are facing attacks in the north-eastern state while carrying out its political programmes. Recently, party’s Rajya Sabha...
Congress Steps Up Poll Campaign In Goa, Uttar Pradesh
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress is going to initiate its campaign for Goa and Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls with senior leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra leading the same. After visiting Varanasi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, general secretary of the party in-charge of UP, will be addressing the...
Portugal Faces Snap Elections As Left Bloc Votes Against Budget
By Satyaki Chakraborty Portugal is facing the possibility of a snap election early next year as the Socialists Party Government led by Prime Minister Antonio Costa conceded defeat in Parliament on Wednesday after his budget was voted out by his allies, the Left bloc including the Portuguese Communist Party...
