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March 27, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

Trump Brings World near Another World War: New NSA Bolton Advocates Attack on Iran and North Korea

Pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war with the appointment of Bolton is apparently totally acceptable—provided the cash keeps flowing. H.R. McMaster is approximately the 60th person...

March 26, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

SC Dilutes Scheduled Castes & Tribes Act Drastically: Country-Wide Demand for Immediate Judicial Correction

A shocking judgement of the Supreme Court on the Scheduled Castes & Tribes Act and a weekly round-up of the major decisions of the courts in India as also...

March 25, 2018
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Education & Career

A Felt-Need to Refound the Universities That Failed us

India’s colonial past gave birth to the modern education system where ‘academically trained minds’ were supposed to serve the British Empire, not to challenge them. In fact, in current...

March 24, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
International Relations, Politics, World

Despite Economic Slowdown Popularity of Vladimir Putin is all-time High in Russia

With more than 56 million votes, it was Putin’s biggest ever win and the largest by any post-Soviet Russian leader. But the OSCE, a rights watchdog, said restrictions on...

March 24, 2018
Reetwika Banerjee
Cyber Security

Stay Alert against BlueSnarfing at Free Public Hotspots

BlueSnarfing is comparatively a topical cybercrime wherein attackers establish a clandestine connection with wireless gadgets via ‘Bluetooth’ technology, gain unauthorised access to victim’s device and remotely steal information...

March 23, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Data Mining for Poll Started in India: Facebook can Influence, but to Limited Extent

It is possible to use Facebook data to influence Indian elections because India doesn’t have a data protection law. Therefore, anything that Cambridge Analytica does in India will be...

March 23, 2018
IPA Service
People, Potpourri

The Lie That Cambridge Analytica can Sway FB Indians: 90 percent of Personal Data are Fake

FB boasts it can influence more than half the human population. Maybe. But not all the personal data of 2 billion human beings locked in FB is authentic data....

March 22, 2018
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Humanism

Here’s a poetic tribute of Sarala to Mother Teresa, and a call to the youth to emulate her, in Different Truths. Learn dear youth What’s humanism from our beloved...

March 21, 2018
Hemashri Hazarika
Governance

An Ode to my Mentor

Indian bureaucracy thrives on sycophancy and who would be the most favourite officer depends on how flexible an officer can be to please some people. However, whenever there was...

March 20, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Political Equations are in Flux Ahead of Assembly and Lok Sabha Polls

The Congress President Rahul Gandhi said that the week-long AICC plenary session could pit ‘encompassing Indian ethos’ as the political, ideological and social moorings of Congress to counter ‘sectarian...

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