IPA Service - Different Truths

June 14, 2018
IPA Service
Sports

Beautiful Game, but in Limbo in India: How Television Finished Off Indian Football

The enthusiasm for football is slowly working into a frenzy. For India, there is an irony in all this. It is not playing in the World Cup as it...

June 13, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations, World

Despite Record of Trump, There are Positives from the Korea Summit

Many of the voices on television and in the opinion pages are howling that Trump gave away the store in his meeting with the North Korean leader in Singapore...

June 13, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Amit Shah Using Sampark to Redefine Political Contours

Modi rode to power riding on the support of the urban middle class. But unfortunately, this middle class has turned his bitter critic, notwithstanding every attempt to refurbish his...

June 12, 2018
IPA Service
Potpourri

Two Killer Words in the News, Lynching and Assassination Flash across Screens, Pages

There is the lone-wolf – the assassin. Lynching and assassination are two killer words in the news these days. The former is wanton, brutal. The latter is fine-tuned, deadly....

June 12, 2018
IPA Service
Defence, International Relations, World

One-Shot Trump and Two-Faced Kim: The World Waits with Baited Breath

Leaving Fareed Zakaria to his TRP-enhancing devices, it’s nobody’s guess that the world is watching Trump and Kim and if there’s hope in the air it is not Zakaria’s....

June 12, 2018
IPA Service
Development, Economy

Violent Attacks on Development Projects Rising: Disregard to Land Acquisition Law is a Reason

Unlike Bengal, other states seem to be less lucky to deal with similar agitations by militant groups and NGOs against development programmes, including infrastructure, industrial and core sector projects,...

June 11, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Creamy Layer Turns Messy and Uncanny: Supreme Court Bench Skips Most Contentious Issues

The decision by a vacation bench of the Supreme Court in a case about reservation in promotions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes last week may not have been...

June 11, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

Fiscal Federalism Yes, But No Tangible Results: Danger of Vacuum in Planning Process

A major decision of Modi as Prime Minister was to dismantle the 65-year old and well-oiled institution of Planning Commission and replace it with Niti Aayog, through an executive...

June 9, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Pranab Strikes Big Bang, Congress Hits Black Hole

Pranab Mukherjee did not have to “die first” to go back in time to retell history. He’s 82 and in his memory-cache there is enough of reading of history...

June 9, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Yogi in Deep Trouble after Humiliating Defeats

Both Yogi and state BJP president Mahendra Nath Pandey have been summoned to Delhi by party president Amit Shah to seek a firsthand report on the defeat. Both Yogi...

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