IPA Special
Economic Slowdown Turning Into A Real Crisis
By Anjan Roy In the foreground of the annual Fund-Bank brainstorming sessions in Washington, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been the latest to decipher India’s slow down. It has cut down growth forecast by close to one percentage point. But is predicting a rebuking in 2020 to...
Modi Govt Is Mistreating Its Own Public Enterprises
By Nitya Chakraborty The Narendra Modi Government has been aggressively following anti-public sector policy in its second term. The premier public sector enterprise like ONGC, BPCL, NTPC and HAL are getting step-motherly treatment from the Government and all focus of the Modi Government advisers is on bringing about...
Thirty Years After The Fall Of Berlin Wall
By Victor Grossman BERLIN: Remembrance Days are rewarding for journalists, especially since Google made research digging so easy. And how the German media love such days! We are again blessed with one such year. Not German unification, a 29th year is not round. But November 9th fits...
Congress In-Fighting Intensifies In Madhya Pradesh
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Congress is contesting the Jhabua Vidhan Sabha bye-elections under the shadow of factional divide. At a time when the party should be devoting its entire energy to consolidating its electoral base, its leaders are dispatching letter after letter to the chief...
Shiv Sena Starts A New Chapter With Aaditya Thackeray
By Kalyani Shankar How would the late Sena Pramukh Balasaheb Thackeray have reacted to the idea of his grandson Aaditya entering electoral politics, when the Thackeray clan had so far scrupulously kept out of it? He would have chuckled. So far, the family has run a powerful political...
Reconstitution Of Bench On Land Acquisition Is Imperative
By Amritananda Chakravorty No week passes by when the Supreme Court is devoid of a controversial decision, whether on the judicial or on the administrative side, especially that of the Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi. On 12th October, 2019, the CJI set up a Constitution Bench of...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Supreme Court refuses to entertain plea to link social media with Aadhaar – On 14 October 2019, Supreme Court refused to entertain a plea for mandatorily linking social media accounts with Aadhar. The bench granted the petitioner liberty to approach the High Court, noting that the Madras High Court...
Drastically Changing Political Contour Of Middle East
By Arun Srivastava LONDON: The European Union which is already engaged in a bitter tug of war with the United Kingdom on the issue of Brexit is faced with yet another major challenge and this time from the Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issuing a warning to the...
American Left Must Back Move For Trump Impeachment
By C.J. Atkins In a recent op-ed that appeared in The Guardian, Samuel Moyn argues that the “coalition of long-governing elites, from liberal technocrats to ‘never-Trump’ conservatives” is declaring war on the president simply for their own interests—as part of an attempt to re-install centrist neoliberalism in power....
China’s High Speed Wealth Generation In Last 70 Years
By Nantoo Banerjee Few countries in the world have seen a single political party, following a democratic succession system within, enjoying such a long uninterrupted power and political authority as the People’s Republic of China. Under the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) seven-decade rule since 1949, the...
