IPA Special
Six Years Of Modi Rule Has Led Indian Economy To Near Collapse
By Prabhat Patnaik The GDP growth in the first quarter (April-June) of 2020 over the first quarter of the previous year has been minus 24 per cent according to preliminary official estimates. But most knowledgeable people believe that even this is an underestimate of the actual contraction...
National Digital Health Mission Will Be Another Mechanism For Surveillance By Centre
By Dr Arun Mitra Healthcare has always been a concern in our country, but lately the people are more sensitised towards it. This is because of the spread of COVID which is taking toll on the lives of many people from all socio economic strata. In addition...
Planned Conspiracy Is On To Distort The Role Of Early Indian Freedom Fighters
By Krishna Jha To build our present it is imperative to have a rich sense of history, which means hindsight with objectivity, without bias, without any inclination to stigmatise it. But what is happening is simply the reverse. A concerted effort has been unleashed to dim the...
From Sudha Bharadwaj To Rhea, Women As ‘Enemy Of The State’
By Annie Domini The 28-year-old Rhea Chakraborty, actress-girlfriend of the late Sushant Singh Rajput, has been arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau on charges of drugs consumption, for allegedly buying cannabis for Rajput. Cannabis, or marijuana, also known as weed in common parlance, is a mild psychoactive drug...
Twin Disasters Ringing Alarm Bells For Indian Economy And Public Health
By Prakash Karat IN the space of a few days, there have been two developments concerning the pandemic and the economy which are alarming. India became the country with the second largest number of Covid-19 cases in the world, overtaking Brazil. Preceding this came the news that in...
Online Fantasy Sports Are Entertaining Young Indians Like Never Before
By Satyaki Chakraborty Are you not getting enough of cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, volleyball, baseball, hockey and other favourite sports of yours? You can now try the online fantasy versions of these, and that too for free! Homebound Indians bored of the pandemic have been taking to...
Priyanka Has Succeeded In Making Up Congress Battlefield-Ready
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, with her aggressive posturing and fighting spirit, has succeeded in making her party the main opposition in Uttar Pradesh. Her ground level work during the pandemic has reaped dividends in raising the party morale as well as...
AGR Order: A Case Of Subjective Judicial Overreach?
By Rohan Deshpande On September 1, 2020, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Arun Mishra finally sought to set at rest the controversy surrounding payment of Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) dues by telecom companies. It may be recollected that on October 24, 2019,...
Corporations Cashing In On Covid-19 Set To Make Billions
By Ben Chacko Corporations cashing in on Covid-19 are set to make tens of billions more in profits this year while millions of people fall into poverty worldwide, Oxfam has revealed. According to a new report by the charity today, 32 of the world’s largest companies stand...
Modi Revels In Celebrating Everything But Reality
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s obsession with making India the best place in the world is much appreciated even by his critics. But many a time, the expression of his resolve often sounds jarring as it is marked by a terribly wrong sense of time....
