By Nitya Chakraborty

By Nitya Chakraborty The 18th Lok Sabha elections in India begin on April 19 with polling in 102 constituencies in the first phase. The seven phase polls covering 90 crore voters out of around 142 crore total population of the country, will end on June 1 after polling is over in 543 Lok Sabha constituencies. […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty It may be a bit late as only six days are left for the beginning of the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 19, but still it is high time that the Supreme Court intervenes to ensure level playing field for the opposition by stopping the politically motivated raids […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The 18th Lok Sabha elections scheduled to be held from April 19 to June 1 this year in seven phases have assumed historic importance in the past 73 years of the functioning of parliamentary democracy in India since the holding of the first Lok Sabha polls in 1951-52. The Narendra Modi government […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The late awakening of the Supreme Court headed by the Chief Justice of India Dr. D Y Chandrachud in seeing the quid pro quo relationship between the donors and the ruling party under the Electoral Bonds Scheme 2017 is welcome. The CJI has been firm in getting all the details from the […]

The post Electoral Bonds Donation Is A Small Part Of BJP’s Financial Muscle Power first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The State Bank of India’s plea to the Supreme Court seeking extension of time till June 30 this year to disclose details of electoral bonds encashed by political parties instead of March 6 as ordered by the apex court is nothing but a sordid attempt by the Finance Ministry to save the […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The stage is set for the holding of the Lok Sabha elections in April/May this year. The two Left parties CPI and the CPI(M) which played a major role in the formation of the Congress led UPA government after the Lok Sabha polls in 2004, are struggling o be relevant in Parliamentary […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty For the opposition INDIA bloc, after a chilling two months of despair and political setbacks following the desertion of Nitish Kumar led JD(U) and Jayant Choudhury led RLD to NDA, the last seven days of February have brought new optimism in the INDIA ranks. The period beginning February 20 when the Supreme […]

The post How To Bring Down BJP’s Present Lok Sabha Seats To 220 In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its third year on Saturday, February 24 Russian President Vladimir Putin looks totally relaxed as against his competitor US President Joe Biden who lost his temper in an election gathering on Wednesday by calling Putin ‘SOB’ which is generally not used in public by the […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Congratulations to the Supreme Court bench led by the Chief Justice of India Dr. D Y Chandrachud for finally declaring the electoral bond scheme of the Narendra Modi government as ‘unconstitutional’, since the bonds are violative of the right to information under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution. The State Bank of India, […]

The post Congratulations Supreme Court, Electoral Bond Order Has Strengthened Democracy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Why is Supreme Court is totally silent in coming out with its order on the legality of the controversial electoral bond scheme for more than three months? After a number of hearings, the Supreme Court concluded the same on November 2, 2023. Now more than three months have passed but there is […]

The post What Is Supreme Court Doing In Relation To Its Verdict On Electoral Bond? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty On June 21, 1991, the 70-year-old Congress veteran P V Narasimha Rao took oath as the Prime Minister of a minority government amidst massive political uncertainty over its longevity. The Congress had got only 232 seats as against the usual majority of 272 in the Lok Sabha with the total strength of […]

The post Bharat Ratna, P V Narasimha Rao Carried Out A Surgical Operation On Indian Economy In 1991 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The order issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on January 26 asking Israel to stop genocide of Palestine people is a development of major significance in the battle of the peace-loving people of the world demanding the end of the war between Israel and Palestine in Gaza. The nearly four-month-old […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The World Economic Forum (WEF), the organization of big global CEO’s and neo liberal think tanks has expressed its concern at the impact of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) indiscriminately in the industries of the countries, both developed and developing. The random use of the latest human intelligence technology will be […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The seat sharing talks between the constituents of INDIA block have started in right earnest. Congress high command has finally understood the need for early clinching of the agreements between the INDIA partners taking into the specifics of the political situation in each state. It is a welcome development. To start with, […]

The post Congress-Left Seat Sharing In A Few States Will Be Positive For Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The year 2023 has ended with two big wars and a few local conflicts including one in Myanmar bordering India. While the world was looking for the end of war in Ukraine during 2023, a new war with much severe death toll began in Gaza strip of Palestine in October 2023 giving […]

The post Global Politics May Witness Further Shift To Right And Authoritarianism In 2024 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Four days after the declaration of the state assembly poll results, a close analysis shows that the Congress has not done so badly in the three Hindi heartland states- Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh as is being presented in the national media. In fact compared to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the […]

The post INDIA Bloc Has Still The Potential To Take On BJP In Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Let us call the spade a spade. The results of the five state assemblies announced on December 3 and 4 are sending ominous signals to the anti-BJP opposition just four months before the Lok Sabha elections due in April/May 2024. To be frank, the final results leading to the defeat of the […]

The post For Congress And Its Allies, The Signals For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Are Ominous first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The Israeli-Hamas war entered its 43rd day on Saturday as the battle has turned by now one sided with Israeli defence forces going all out in bombing the Gaza strip including the civilian areas and the hospitals in the name of eliminating the Hamas militants who launched the ‘terror’ attack on Israelis […]

The post Israeli Genocide Is On In Gaza Strip As Super Powers Play Geopolitical Games first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The sacking of the Home Minister Suella Braverman by the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday was not unexpected as the feisty Home Minister was ignoring all the indications from the PM office for diluting her Islamophobic tone on the Israel-Hamas war which came for strong criticism even from right wing […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Dhruba Narayan Ghosh, known as D N Ghosh, the young official who played the leading role in preparing the draft of the ordinance on bank nationalisation issued on July19, 1969, passed away in Kolkata on November 6. He was 95. Originally, a member of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IAAS), Ghosh […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Nikhil Chakravartty, a pioneering figure in Indian journalism for more than four decades of the last century, is being deeply missed by sections of the media fighting hard to protect the hard-won freedom of the press against the onslaughts of the Narendra Modi government. In the second half of the twentieth century, […]

The post Remembering The Icon Of Indian Journalism Nikhil Chakravartty On His 110th Birth Anniversary first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The Hamas-Israeli war entered its seventeenth day on Monday indicating all the potential of the limited conflict engulfing the entire West Asian region if the global powers, especially the United States President Joe Biden does not persuade his friend Israeli:Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare ceasefire immediately to stop the killing of […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The Hamas-Israeli war entered its 12th day on Wednesday with the clashes between two sides intensifying leading to all the possibility of being turned into a dreadful regional war. So far more than three thousand Palestinians have been killed, including about five hundred who were killed when a hospital was bombed in […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty It is now a full-fledged war between Palestinian militants and Israel. In the last four days, nearly two thousand have been killed. All indications point to further escalation involving the other militants friendly with Hamas on the one side, and big assistance to the far-right Netanyahu regime by the US and other […]

The post PM Modi’s One-Sided Reaction On Hamas-Israel War Has Ominous Portent first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The Indian Democracy is currently under severe attack by the ruling Government at the centre. The raids by the Delhi police on the staff of the NewsClick news portal and subsequent arrest of the founder editor Prabir Purkayastha and HR head Amit Chakraborty on October 3 signal the arrival of an era […]

The post NewsClick Raid By Delhi Police Is A Fit Issue For Suo Moto Consideration By Supreme Court first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Once again, the Government has approved the sale of 28th tranche of electoral bonds with effect from October4 lasting ten days and as usual, it is slotted few weeks before the assembly elections to the five states. As usual, the BJP will be getting another big bounty in their election campaign kitty […]

The post Supreme Court’s Waiting Game On Electoral Bonds Hearing Is Hurting Indian Democracy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty After the passing of the Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament in the special session last week, the think-tanks of the BJP aided, by veteran poll strategists, have been busy working out the best time suited to the party for holding the Lok Sabha elections, due in April/May of next year. Preliminary studies […]

The post PM Narendra Modi May Prepone Lok Sabha Elections To February 2024 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The first coordination committee of the INDIA block of 28 opposition parties has decided to finally start the process of seat sharing for both coming state assembly elections scheduled by year end as also the Lok Sabha polls by early 2024.The spokesman K C Venugopal made it clear after the CC meeting […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty September 11, 1973 was the day when fifty years ago, the first democratically elected left wing president of Chile Dr. Salvador Allende, a leading Marxist was, overthrown through a bloody military coup which had the full backing of the US administration led by the President Richard Nixon.. Dr. Allende created a history […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty As the leaders of the INDIA alliance prepare for their third meeting in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1 to take forward the decisions taken at the last conclave in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18, one issue that should figure most prominently in their minds is how to project the […]

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