IPA Special
Arnab Goswami Is Misusing Media Freedom To Achieve His Objective
By Sushil Kutty The Maharashtra Government and the Mumbai Police will not have to work hard to compile the list of FIRs filed against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami. There are 100s of FIRs lodged against him piled high on Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh’s desk. There is...
BJP Is Projecting Now Only Narendra Modi To Voters In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Barely forty eight hours ahead of the first phase of polling for the Bihar assembly, the BJP leadership has brought out significant strategic shift in its campaigning. The party which had earlier announced to face the election under the leadership of Nitish Kumar,...
Ratification Of Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Is A Big Win For Planetary Health
By Dr Arun Mitra It is unfortunate that an event that concerns the very existence of life on earth is hardly under debate and is poorly reported. With Honduras submitting its document of ratification to the UNO on 24th October, the Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has...
Cuban Leadership Striving Hard To Improve Economy Despite U.S. Blockade
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Buffeted for six decades by the U.S. economic blockade and recently having had to cope with restrictions on daily life and work due to COVID- 19, Cuba’s already shaky economy is deteriorating. Government leaders recently outlined remedial steps leading to what they call...
Opposition Alliance Victory In Bihar Poll Can Act As A Game Changer
By Nitya Chakraborty The assembly poll, in Bihar the first phase of which begins on October 28, has assumed unusual significance in the national politics signalling at last some possibility of a big anti-BJP backlash if the outcome on November 10 becomes favourable to the RJD led...
Between A ‘Caged Parrot’ And ‘His Master’s Voice’
By K Raveendran The CBI has been declared unwelcome guests by half a dozen states, the latest being Maharashtra, which recently revoked the general consent for the central agency to investigate cases in its territory without the need to seek the state government’s permission in individual cases. ...
Increasing Poverty In India Makes Zero Hunger Target Unachievable
By Gyan Pathak Millions of people are reversing back into poverty in India and million others are being pushed into extreme poverty. The World Bank report on ‘Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020: Reversals of Fortune’ has specifically mentioned this trend, that has been accelerating in the COVID-19...
Modi Govt Must Show Vision And Statesmanship In Dealing With Kashmir
By Amulya Ganguli The Kashmir scene is going from bad to worse. The release of the arrested leaders has opened a Pandora’s box, eliminating the possibility of a return to normality in the foreseeable future. If the BJP presumed that a relaxation of the harsh measures of...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Has Given Clear Signal On Building Hindu Rashtra
By Arun Srivastava The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat could no more hide his intentions and control his feeling and on Sunday he publically confessed “India is a “Hindu Rashtra” and Hindutva is the essence of its self-hood. Though in the past he had used...
Base Year For New Retail Inflation Series For Industrial Workers Shifted To 2016
By Satyaki Chakraborty The union government decision on October 22 to launch the new series for retail inflation for industrial workers shifting the base year to 2016 from 2001 has come suddenly to the central trade unions. They are still studying the implications of the Government decision. The...
