IPA Special
Public Sector Is Still Playing A Critical Role In Indian Economy
By Satyaki Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to embark on a big-ticket privatization is certainly welcome but India cannot be without public sector, which always played a critical role in bailing out the economy in crisis. “India needed a mix of socialism widely represented by public...
Question Hour Is An Essential Ingredient Of Vibrant Functioning Of Parliament
By Harihar Swarup Long before Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there was PM Atal Behari Vajpayee, whose primary identity was that of an outstanding parliamentarian. Elected to Lok Sabha a remarkable 10 times, hurling speech after thundering speech, taking opposition attacks on the chin, when Vajpayee was PM it...
NIA Continuing Hounding Of Scholar Activists For Relationship With Elgaar Parishad
By Arun Srivastava Police and intelligence agencies acting in a reckless manner driven with sense of vengeance and self-promotion has been an old machination, but the difference between the old and the latest tactics is its ruthlessness and resorting to brutality to finish the accused and his or...
Bizarre Developments Are Taking Place In Television Channels
By Sushil Kutty It’s another Saturday and if we thought it will be weekend as usual, we were wrong. Tension continues to brew. Both at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between wannabe superpower China and regional bulwark India and in Mumbai and Bengaluru, where the fair and...
Slum Dwellers Asked To Be Evicted By Supreme Court Have Nowhere To Go
By Aman Garg and Shivaang Maheshwari The judiciary is the last resort of the distressed, the deprived and the despondent. Naturally, they expect a humanitarian and empathic response from it. But it isn’t always so. On August 31, 2020, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed...
Nearly Two Decades After 9/11, Military-Industrial Complex In USA Is Stronger Than Ever
By C.J. Atkins It has been almost 20 years since Al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and crashed another into a field in Pennsylvania after a passenger revolt. On that day, 2,977 people lost their lives, leaving behind hundreds of...
India, China Should Take Forward Implementation Of Five Point Moscow Formula
By Nitya Chakraborty The five point formula agreed at the two hour talks between the two foreign ministers of India and China on Thursday night in Moscow amidst heightening tensions in Ladakh border, has come as a ray of hope in working on some arrangement to avert...
China May Not Vacate Occupied Territory In Ladakh Border
By Barun Das Gupta The meeting between the Foreign Ministers of India and China, S. Jaishankar and Wang Yi, in Moscow on Thursday proved as infructuous as the previous one between defence Ministers Rajnath Singh and Wei Fenghe on September 4. China is in no mood to vacate...
Indian Economy: Contrasting Views — Rajan And Rangarajan
By Anjan Roy A pall of gloom is hanging about India’s economic future ever since the GDP estimates about the first quarter of the current fiscal were laid bare a week back. There is a virtual competition among forecasters about the extent of estimated contraction of the Indian...
Bihar Poll Permutations See Nitish Woo LJP, Manjhi
By Rahil Nora Chopra As the Bihar Assembly election approaches, the political parties are getting busy forming the alliance with other partys. At one time, the main pillar of Dalit politics was Ram Vilas Paswan. In fact, two years back Paswan and Nitish Kumar were good friends. When Nitish...
