IPA Special
BJP May Not Be Able To Put Brake On Its Downhill Journey
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The public mood across India is now somewhat visible behind hitherto hazy political cloud. The latest Mood of the Nation Survey of India Today – Cvoter has just found that the BJP is on its downhill journey along with its partners in the National Democratic...
Narendra Modi Government Has Destroyed The Academic Character Of Universities
By Prabhat Patnaik When BJP rule in the country is dead and gone, a good deal of the damage it has caused to the Indian society, polity and economy will no doubt be reversed. But there are at least two areas where such reversal will be difficult: one is...
27 Parties To Gather In Mumbai For Decisive I.N.D.I.A Third Meet
By Rahil Nora Chopra About 27 parties will be attending the I.N.D.I.A alliance’s third meeting scheduled on August 31 to September 1 in Mumbai. On agenda of this meet is the formation of several committees for coordination and discussion on drafting a common minimum programme (CMP).In addition, a convener...
India’s Chess Prodigy R Praggnanandhaa Has Catapulted Our Nation Sky High
By Sushil Kutty India’s chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa lost to Magnus Carlsen in the Chess World Cup final, ‘X’ announced, the same microblogging site that Elon Musk bought and gave it a new avatar. Fide world champion Carlsen was magnanimous in victory giving Praggnanandhaa a new moniker, kind of...
Wrong Central Policies Harm The Interests Of Darjeeling Tea Plantations
By Ashis Biswas While Darjeeling tea planters are pressing central government again to impose a minimum import tax (MIT) on imported Nepal tea, to arrest the steep decline in Indian high value export earnings, Nepalese producers feel bilateral level talks may help improve the situation. Darjeeling planters had appealed...
Republican Party Debate Proves The GOP Is Still Very Much Trump’s Property
By Luke Savage Watching Wednesday night’s Republican Party’s presidential debate in Milwaukee, I felt an overwhelming sense of déjà vu. Before Donald Trump injected his weird carnival barker routine into the bloodstream of American conservatism, Republican primary contests were generally dull and predictable affairs. And in this respect, much...
After Soft Landing On Moon, India Has Now Better Bargaining Power In Space Diplomacy
By Anjan Roy Now that India has soft landed on the south pole of moon, the dust it will raise will travel from moon surface to the earth. The landing of a rover vehicle will kick up lot of moon dust —called regolith for its typical characteristics— which is...
ISRO Scientists And Engineers Have Earned Their Bragging Rights, Not Politicians
By Sushil Kutty Just after 6 pm, August 23, Chandrayaan-3 landed on the moon. ISRO — the Indian Space Research Organization — erupted in cheers. Vikram-lander and a rover called Pragyan were deposited on the lunar surface. India was only the fourth country to be on the moon, and...
Latest CAG Reports Expose Big Corruption In Central Govt Schemes
By P. Sudhir Prime Minister Narendra Modi, every other day, rails against the corrupt rule of the Congress and UPA governments in the past and targets the corruption of those ruling regional parties who are arrayed against the BJP. From the outset, Modi has tried to project the BJP...
Precious Central Funds Have Been Plundered In Various Schemes
By Krishna Jha As the masses in the country are suffering from extreme deprivation, under the dark shadows of unemployment and no earnings even to meet the basic needs, there comes the horrific revelation that under Ayushman Bharat, 7.5 lakh beneficiaries were registered with a single mobile phone number....
