IPA Special
Rajasthan Govt Crisis Is A Result Of BJP’s Bid For One Party Rule
By Prakash Karat The political drama in Rajasthan, consequent to the revolt of Sachin Pilot who was the deputy chief minister and PCC president, is still unfolding. But the essential contours have become clear. The inner tussle in the Congress cannot be separated from the BJP’s drive...
Public Sector Banking Facing Severe Attack By Modi Government
By Krishna Jha The ordinance on nationalisation of 14 commercial banks, promulgated on July 19, and presented in Lok Sabha on July 21, 1969 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was a momentous decision to achieve one of the prime goals spelt out in the Constitution The Communist...
Delhi Sero-Survey On Covid-19 Is Yet Another Expose
By Gyan Pathak The Delhi serological survey results have astonished all, exposed mishandling and failure of COVID-19 containment measures, and provided a proof that our Government agencies have been groping in the dark. We did not have realtime figures of actual number of patients even in the National...
Dharna By BJP Minister Against His Own Government Creates A Row
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Can you imagine a Minister to stage Dharna against his own government? But such a strange and unprecedented incident has happened in Madhya Pradesh. Besides this two senior BJP leaders have raised their voice against the government. One such voice has been...
Coerced Examinations During Pandemic Is Ludicrous
By Mohd Kumail Haider 2020 has been about an international health emergency affecting almost every aspect of our routine lifestyles. Students have been particularly affected. As COVID-19 infections double every few days, states like Punjab, Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal and Delhi decided against holding final year examinations....
Case Against Bhushan Puts Focus Back On Contempt Of Court
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has reportedly registered a suo moto contempt of court case against senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan and Twitter India, apparently for a tweet by the activist advocate on a picture showing Chief Justice SA Bobde riding a Harley Davidson bike without helmet...
Congress’s Internal Strife Weakens Non-BJP Opposition
By Sushil Kutty At a time when Covid-19 is chipping away at life and liberty and the nutty coronavirus behaviour is going from ‘bad’ to ‘worse’, infecting tens of thousands across India, the political sideshow – being played out in Congress-ruled Rajasthan and partially enacted in BJP-ruled...
Mamata Launches Cleaning Drive Of Trinamool Officials In A Big Way
By Arun Srivastava While the Bengal BJP unit has been witnessing the worst kind of factional feud, which has stooped low to the extent of trading personal accusations and charges, even allegation of womanising against some leaders, the TMC boss Mamata Banerjee has embarked on the path of...
Eerie Silence Of Opposition Parties On Ram Temple Puja
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The silence of three major political parties — Samajwadi Party, BSP and the Congress —on scheduled puja on August 5 at Ayodhya for the Ram Mandir has baffled political commentators as well as media-persons. When contacted, none of the leaders from these major political...
Civil Society Members Seek Free And Fair Investigation Into Delhi Riots
By Satyaki Chakraborty Seventy-two members of the Civil Society including senior government officials, academics, activists and lawyers have sought free and fair investigation into the riots that took place in North East Delhi from February 23 to 26 this year. In their letter sent to the President...
