IPA Special
India Has Many Options To Meet Latest Challenge From China
By Anjan Roy Nothing could compensate the loss of twenty young lives of the Indian Army, but the episode and China’s premeditated actions on India’s Himalayan borders willy nilly has changed for good the global geo-political narrative. Much to its chagrin, India is now hyphenated —as they...
Privatisation Of Coal Blocks Is A Big Threat To Environment
By Krishna Jha Coal workers in the country, engaged in one of the most hazardous jobs, struck work for three days from June 2 to 4, 2020. It was not only against the deplorable conditions that the miners keep facing every day, the struggle launched was also against...
Central Trade Unions Gear Up To Challenge The Government
By Sukumar Damle On 3 July 2020, the Central Trade Unions are slated to launch their nationwide campaign to protest the deteriorating conditions of the workers, spree of privatization of public sector units, suspension of labour laws citing the pandemic and other issues. The pressure cooker situation...
Indian Civil Society Calls For Knowledge-Sharing In Fight Against Covid
By Satyaki Chakraborty Countries across the globe are racing towards developing a successful vaccine for COVID-19. Various governmental research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and even universities are working around the clock to research fast diagnostics, effective treatment, and vaccines. However, given the large scale demand, concerns have raised...
EU Mulls Real Wall To Bar Entry Of Americans To Europe
By Mark Gruenberg On Tuesday in Arizona Trump had his picture taken at the phony prop he calls his “beautiful wall,” one of the props along the border with Mexico that he runs to every time he wants to stir up fear of immigrants. While he was...
Anti-Slavery Movement Was The Link Between Lincoln And Marx
By John Wight On page 405 of the folio edition of the writings and speeches of Abraham Lincoln there is a letter dated January 19 1863. It is titled “To the Workingmen of Manchester, England” and begins: “I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the address...
Covid Outbreak Drags Everything Down Except Gold
By K Raveendran Gold prices hit record highs last week, with 10 gm of the metal costing over Rs 48,000. Prices have since scaled back a little, but continue to be at multi-year highs. Gold is perhaps the only asset whose value has gone up when everything else...
Big Split In RJD Is A Boost To NDA On Poll Eve In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Three decade old tryst of the RJD with the highly caste sensitive Bihar politics suffered the first ever worst jolt with the founder of the party, former union minister and vice president, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh quitting the party along with five MLCs. The reason...
Priyanka Gandhi Is The Fiery Face Of The Opposition In UP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The Congress under the leadership and guidance of Priyanka Gandhi Vadhra appears to be taking the Yogi government head-on. She’s questioning the Uttar Pradesh government on various issues and it seems she is not even afraid of going to jail. Much significance is...
Political Considerations, Not Laws, Governing The Courts
By Apurba K Baruah It is necessary to remind ourselves in contemporary India that, politics makes the law as and when required and even remakes and replaces laws and therefore there is a limit to the judicial system under which you seek justice. The case of Akhil...
