IPA Special
Current Slowdown Recalls Manmohan-Era ‘Policy Paralysis’
By Amulya Ganguli There is a curious similarity between the opening months of Narendra Modi’s second term and the closing period of Manmohan Singh’s second term. In 2012-13 when the Manmohan Singh government was entering the final phase of its tenure, it was afflicted by what was...
The Case Against Electronic Voting
By Chirag Patnaik There is a lot of debate on the pros and cons of electronic voting. Those promoting the idea point to the fact that we will get results quickly, that the chances of errors are fewer, less cumbersome, cheaper, saves paper etc. But here are some...
China On Backfoot Over Protests In Hong Kong
By Arun Srivastava China’s intensifying propaganda offensive is a move to convince a watching world that protesters were anti-national and their demand for scrapping the extradition bill was against the interest of Hong Kong. Debasing and insulting the pro people elements has been the known tactics of the...
Digvijaya Under Attack Both By BJP And Congress
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: In a rare coincidence former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh is being attacked both by his party colleague and also by the BJP and Bajrang Dal. Umang Singar, a member of the Kamal Nath cabinet has accused Digvijaya Singh of...
India To Deploy Newly Formed Integrated Battle Group Along Pak Border
The Indian Army has decided to deploy a newly restructured army battalion specialising in conducting cross border strikes near the Pakistan border in next few months, Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said. “The international border portion of Jammu and Kashmir will see reorganisation first followed by others,...
Modi Averts Trump’s Overture On Article 370, For Now
By Harihar Swarup Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest encounter with US President Donald Trump in France laid to rest, for the time being, the threat of the US inserting itself into India-Pakistan. During media interaction in advance of the talks, Modi was direct, explicit and firm in conveying...
NRC Has Caused A Human Tragedy In Assam
By Barun Das Gupta Cyril Radcliffe, sitting in a London hotel, is said to have knifed India into two with the help of a map lying in front of him. What was the rationale behind the way he wielded his knife? None whatever. Veteran journalist, the late Kuldip...
Time For A Closer Look At CIBIL Norms
By K Raveendran At least one of the reasons cited by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while announcing the merger of public sector banks is untenable. In what is considered as the second wave of the government’s efforts to revive the economy, Sitharaman announced a series of banking...
Bank Mergers Should Not Lead To Disruption
By Anjan Roy In apparent irony when finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman was talking about creating commercial banks capable of servicing a five-trillion dollar economy, the quarterly GDP growth figures showed a further dip. The principal reason for banking reforms could not be to service a multi-trillion dollar...
Bhopal Is Now Hotbed Of Political Slugfest
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: All is not well in Madhya Pradesh Congress. Followers of various factional leaders are openly holding out threat that if their boss is not appointed as the President of the state Congress they may resort to other options. Most vociferous are the followers...
