IPA Special
Strict Measures Needed For Limiting Consumption Of Power By Citizens
By Harihar Swarup Unprecedented. Unpredictable. A “perfect storm” of high demand, high global prices, and extended monsoons. All of these are common descriptors of how India came to have just four days of coal supplies left at power plants. These are all convenient but incomplete explanations. More than plain...
Hunger In India At Precarious Level, Worsening Further In Modi Raj
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the yardstick of Hunger, Modi Government is performing worse than its predecessors, neighbouring countries, and majority of the countries of the world. One can see it through the data of Global Hunger Indices for several years in succession that contradict all the tall claims...
Centre Must Not Impose Its Policy On NEET On Unwilling States
By K R Sudhaman The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) controversy between Tamil Nadu and the centre is yet another example of deteriorating centre-state relations and to polarise politics. There are merits and demerits in centralised common entrance test for joining a medical course just as having common...
With Eye To Dethrone Yogi In 2022, SP, Congress Intensify Campaigns
By Rahil Nora Chopra Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly election, the Samajwadi Party (SP) on Tuesday speeded up its campaign for the 2022 assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh with a “Vijay Yatra” from Kanpur. Thisyatra will be rigorously continued till the elections all across the state. Akhilesh Yadav...
NHRC Chairman Arun Mishra Praises Home Minister For New Age In Kashmir
By Prakash Karat The Modi government has been undermining all the institutions under the Constitution and denuding them of their essence. This was on display in the event to observe the 28th foundation day of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The anniversary meeting was attended by both the...
Air India Sale To Tatas Is A Mockery Of Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat Slogan
By Binoy Viswam Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat has earned one more feather in its crown. India’s national air carrier, Air India has been handed over to a private corporate, the Tata’s. Thus, the frenzied moves to sell off Air India have been successfully completed. Air India and its 125 aircrafts...
Unemployment Number In India Is Much More Than Official Data Show
By Prabhat Patnaik Unlike in the advanced capitalist countries, a reduction in employment opportunities in India takes the form not of a larger proportion of the work-force being shut out of employment, but of almost everyone having lesser number of days of work. This is a reflection of the...
Under Narendra Modi Regime, Edge Of RTI Act Has Been Deliberately Weakened
By Sushil Kutty October 12 marked 16 years of the RTI Act. The Act supposedly empowered “we the people” with the right to seek information so that governments could be held accountable. The baseline property was that “all citizens shall have the right to information.” Did the Act guarantee...
Trade Finance Gap Impeding Growth, Jobs, And Poverty Reduction
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Increasing trade finance gap has been impeding growth, jobs, and poverty reduction across the globe. The COVID-19 impact widened the gap by 15 per cent in 2020 in comparison to 2018. Moreover, despite various measures to support the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), the...
Priyanka Must Blend Kheri Gains With The Party’s Support Base
By Arun Srivastava With Mamata Banerjee getting ready for a major intervention in the national politics and project her Trinamool Congress as the only genuine dynamic organization with Congress legacy , Rahul Gandhi has acquired a proactive stance and working tirelessly to present the Indian National Congress, the grand...
American Corporate Interests Dictate President Hernandez Of Honduras
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Chilean author and human rights advocate Ariel Dorfman recently memorialized Orlando Letelier, former Chilean President Salvador Allende’s foreign minister. Agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet murdered Letelier in Washington in 1976. Dorfman noted that Chile and the United States were “on excellent, indeed obscenely excellent,...
Divided Left In Greece Is Struggling To Emerge As An Alternative To Right
By Aliki Kosyfologou and Thanos Andritsos Greece is facing big challenges in terms of the country’s political situation as also the economic directions. For the last two years, Greece has seemed as if it is switching between two national costumes. The winter one consists of rising coronavirus deaths, decimated...
Energy Crisis Part Of An Emerging Post-Covid Phenomenon
By K Raveendran The shift in the national focus from covid to coal has been prompted by fears of a nation-wide power blackout in the face of disruption in the movement of the vital commodity from the mines due to excessive rainfall, but the fact is that the energy...
Narendra Modi’s Defence Of Human Rights Record Of His Regime Is Ludicrous
By Sushil Kutty Human rights are routinely violated in our country. But rarely do ministers’ sons drive a jeep over human beings, deliberately. Lynching of human beings, they say, became frequent after 2014. Mostly because of the cow. Lakhimpur-Kheri saw four farmers killed by a rampaging jeep driven by...
Sudden Energy Crisis Grips The World Economies Including India
By Anjan Roy It is suddenly energy crisis all over the world. In India we are facing a coal shortage of epic proportion which is threatening to upend the entire power situation. Talks are about impending shut down of a string of thermal power stations strewn around the country....
Mass Movement In India For Public Health As Fundamental Right Is Needed
By Dr Arun Mitra That out of a population of 100000 in our country 32 persons die due to Tuberculosis every year, is a matter of grave concern and shame. Recently we have seen death of large number of children having fallen prey to Dengue fever and Encephalitis in...
Opposition Parties In Uttar Pradesh Make Lakhimpur Killings A Major Poll Issue
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Battleground Uttar Pradesh is ready for assembly polls with three important opposition leaders former chief ministers Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party and Mayawati of BSP and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi launching their election campaign. Former chief minister and national President of Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav...
Pakistan’s Father Of Nuclear Bomb Dr. A Q Khan Has An Amazing Life Story
By Harihar Swarup Pakistan’s father of nuclear science, Abdul Qadeer Khan, who died recently was born in Bhopal. “This child appears to me prodigy…. Look in his eyes.” In 1936, these were the words of Maharani of Narasinghar, a tiny princely state, 45 kms from Bhopal. Zulekha Begum, mother...
