IPA Special
Retail Power Priced Four Times The Generation Cost
By Nantoo Banerjee India is the cheapest producer of electricity from coal, solar and wind sources in the entire Asia Pacific region. It is the only country in the region where solar power costs almost 14 percent less than that of thermal power. However, in terms of tariffs...
Coming State Assembly Elections Are Crucial In National Politics
By Amulya Ganguli It is not as difficult as it may seem to guess the outcome of some of the elections later this year and during 2021. The predictions are fairly easy if the present trends in the poll-bound states are kept in mind. To take the more...
Stronger Putin Emerges As A Big Challenger To Capitalist West
By Arun Srivastava The political leadership of the capitalist countries and their policymakers are in a state of utter slipup on how Putin got massive mandate and also how to deal with Russia and its economy under him. While slapping sanction the Western world had visualised that...
Blaming BJP Won’t Solve The Internal Crisis Of The Congress
By Sagarneel Sinha Since last year’s debacle of the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections, the party has refused to go for a deep introspection and an overall systematic change from top to bottom. Instead, Rahul Gandhi resigned as the party president —not mainly for owning his responsibility...
Supreme Court Must Revisit Its Position On Two-Child Norm
By Vrinda Agarwal On the occasion of World Population Day recently, we witnessed the all too familiar chorus of demands for a population control law. Unfortunately, most of these demands involve making the two-child norm compulsory such that a wide gamut of individual rights and benefits can be...
Sachin Pilot Has Been A Huge Beneficiary Of ‘Entitlement Raj’
By Harihar Swarup Long before Sachin Pilot, there was his equally charming father, Rajesh Pilot. In 1997, Pilot senior decided to take on octogenarian Sitaram Kesri for the Congress president’s post to “save the party”. It’s a battle he knew he could not win as Kesri had “managed”...
India’s Complacence On Covid-19 Security Is Misplaced
By Arjavi Indraneesh Ignorance is for long considered bliss. But not when it comes to vital issues like the spread of a pandemic. Governments all over the world have been showing great reluctance to let the world know of the real situation, lest it should be construed...
Dark Cloud Over Sachin Pilot’s Flypast For The BJP
By Sushil Kutty Sachin Pilot and his 18-19 musketeers are up the creek without a paddle. They have been given respite till July 21 to think over what they want – disqualification or rehabilitation? That’s because the Rajasthan High Court has told the Speaker of the Rajasthan Assembly...
Congress, Others File Memo Against Digital Poll Campaign
By IPA Correspondent The Indian National Congress and eight other political parties — CPI, RJD, CPI(M), CPI(ML), RLSP, VIP, HAM, LJD — have written a memorandum to the Election Commission opposing the digital poll campaign, requesting the EC to ensure free and fair public participation as well as...
Political Prisoner, Pandemic And The Apathetic State
By Megha Katheria After a lot of drama, imprisoned poet and activist Varavara Rao, 79, was shifted to Saint George Hospital in Mumbai after testing positive for COVID-19. He has been moved from the Taloja jail prison hospital to J J Hospital in Mumbai last week. This was...
