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  BY James M Dorsey   For Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, religious reform has long been a question of when rather than if. Bin Salman’s potential embrace of religious, not just social and economic reform, could have far-reaching consequences for the role of religion in Saudi Arabia and religious soft power rivalry in […]

The post Saudi Arabia’s Bin Salman Toys With Religious Reforms Adding To Soft Power Rivalry first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Nitya Chakraborty   Nearly a week has passed since the holding of the Bengaluru conclave of the opposition parties which gave birth to the new front INDIA consisting of 26 anti-BJP parties. In the following days since July 18, the focus of both media and the BJP leaders has been on the differing […]

The post India Partners Seat Sharing For Lok Sabha Polls Is Achievable In Most Of 543 Seats first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar   Why did the Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi consciously keep a low profile at the Opposition unity meeting in Bangalore or earlier in Patna? Insiders say that it was a calculated decision. Congress decided two things after the Party failed to unite the Opposition. One is to […]

The post Sonia Gandhi Will Be More Active In India Till 2024 Lok Sabha Elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Gyan Pathak   India is in election mode, and the Narendra  Modi government takes special care of big companies that are not only helping the BJP through finance, especially through electoral bonds, but also through making favourable propaganda on behalf of the government. In the pre-election year 2022-23, Rs 2.09 lakh crore loans taken […]

The post Modi Govt Writes Off Rs 2.09 Lakh Crore Loan To Companies In 2022-23 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty   It will take a dozen oxen of 1000 horsepower each to drag Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Parliament and then, too, there is no guarantee the Prime Minister will make a statement on “Manipur”, the forbidden topic as far as the Prime Minister is concerned. For reasons beyond grasp, Prime Minister […]

The post Ruling Party Is Acting Bizarre In Parliament On Discussion On Manipur first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Satyaki Chakraborty  Spanish voters finally gave a big rebuff to the Far Right People’s Party(PP) and the fascist VOX by denying them majority in the 350 member house of national assembly elections to which were held on Sunday, July23. Despite all opinion poll predictions about the defeat of the coalition government headed by […]

The post Socialist Sanchez And Communist Diaz Halt Far Right Take Over In Spain first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee   It can happen only in India when wholesale prices shoot up and retail prices drop sharply. Or, when consumer prices flare up, wholesale prices are deeply depressed. Ordinarily, they may look somewhat absurd, but are often seen as true by the data provided under India’s government-run price indices such as the […]

The post India’s Price Indices May Not Be All That Reliable first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Tirthankar Mitra   KOLKATA: Congress national leadership has a tough task ahead of it to make some of its West Bengal unit leaders cooperate with Trinamool Congress in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Given earlier intra-party differences coupled with panchayat election clashes, the bonhomie between Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and former Congress chiefs […]

The post Bengal Congress In Utter Confusion Over Mamata’s Olive Branch To The Party first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Sushil Kutty   We can do without #ModiVsChandrachud, the entire lot of us bifurcated people of India. The fight is not imaginary and is not limited to social media alone. The perception that the CJI is waging an all-out war against the Prime Minister and is weighing in on the side of the […]

The post Supreme Court CJI’s Observation On Govt Failure In Manipur Is A Warning To PM first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Harihar Swarup Uttar Pradesh’s political waters are calm, for now. Or, perhaps, that is just how it seems, as no grand  alliances have been formed, no active partnerships sought, and there has been no getting together of likeminded parties. The 2024 elections are still months away. That is too long a time in […]

The post Opposition Alliance Against BJP Is Facing Many Hurdles In Uttar Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Arun Mitra   The video showing two women being paraded naked and molested by an unruly mob of males in Manipur has shocked the whole country. It has brought shame to us worldwide. This has also exposed hollowness in our society which takes pride in worshiping women as Devis. This has also brought […]

The post Hatred Breeds Socio Cultural And Mental Aberrations All Along first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Arun Srivastava   Conservatives lost two seats in the parliamentary by-elections in Britain this week. Conservative victory from Boris Johnson’s old set of Uxbridge and South Ruislip has come as a face saver for the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. With this victory Sunak could avoid a 3-0 drubbing. Notwithstanding Conservative leaders nursing […]

The post Big Defeat Of Tories In Two By Elections Gives A Big Jolt To British PM Rishi Sunak first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Robert Reich   It’s tempting to view the strike underway by Hollywood writers and TV and film actors against the studios as a war between wealthy Hollywood elites. But that’s not at all the case. In fact, what’s happening now in Hollywood is a microcosm of what’s happening across America in the emerging digital […]

The post Hollywood Strike is a Labor vs. Capital struggle in the New Economy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty   If indications from the think-tanks closer to the BJP are to be believed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team of advisers are processing a number of options to ensure that the newly set upfront of the anti-BJP parties – INDIA – does not get the advantage of the joint campaign […]

The post Opposition Front ‘India’ Should Be Ready For A Snap Election By 2023 End first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By K Raveendran   A Supreme Court bench of Justices B R Gavai and P K Mishra are set to take up the crucial hearing of Rahul Gandhi’s appeal against the upholding of his conviction by the Gujarat High Court on August 4. The apex court has issued a notice to the Gujarat government […]

The post Supreme Court Approach In Teesta Case Opens Up Array Of Possibilities In Rahul’s Case first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Gyan Pathak   Unemployment rate in India has been rising this month. As on July 21, unemployment rate on the basis of 30 days moving average rose to 8.4 per cent which is over 0.4 per cent more than the last month, according to the latest CMIE data, which indicates that the month […]

The post Unemployment Likely To Rise Over 8.4 Per Cent By July End first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty   Janata Dal (S) must have compulsions for wanting an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party for the 2024 general elections. For the record, the BJP, too, will not look askance at a tie-up with the Janata Dal (S). At this point in time, and right up to general elections 2024, neither […]

The post Janata Dal(S) Seeking Alliance With BJP In Karnataka To Save Its State Outfit first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr.Gyan Pathak   July 18, 2023 proved to be significant in recent political history of India, especially in the last decade since advent of BJP leader Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India in 2014. The opposition alliance I.N.D.I.A was formed with 26 political parties, while NDA was able to gather 38. All […]

The post Quantifying Political Worth Of NDA And I.N.D.I.A Is Puzzling first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Sushil Kutty   There is always a chance that justices may ask to be recused from a case involving a Congress luminary because there is no saying which justices’ father, mother, uncle, grandfather, grandmother wasn’t affiliated with the hoary old party? Just like Justice B R Gavai who offered to recuse himself from […]

The post Uncertainty About Rahul Gandhi Continues As Defamation Case Is Deferred To August 4 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra   The latest political buzz is that the SamajwadiParty is likely to lead the Mahagathbandhan in Uttar Pradesh. While talk of an alliance has been recurrent, the major difference this time is the interaction between the opposition parties in Bengaluru,which gave clear indications of Samajwadi Party (SP) and its allies – […]

The post Akhilesh To Lead ‘India’ Against NDA In Uttar Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava   Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again mouthed empty shallow words before the people of India when he said, “Today, when I have come among you and am standing near this temple of democracy, then my heart is full of pain, full of anger. The incident that has come to the fore […]

The post Manipur Video Of Heinous Sexual Assault On Kuki Women Is India’s Shame first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty   Even his blind bhakts were getting worried. But, it’s okay. Finally, his laryngitis has spoken. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hasn’t lost his voice. And he hears the noises around him. By now even the EU Parliament must have heard the good news. Aside from the despicable one that Prime Minister Modi […]

The post Prime Minister’s Belated Reaction On Manipur Developments Is Pathetic first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Dipankar Bhattacharya The successful second conclave of Opposition parties in Bengaluru and the emergence of a new coalition with the acronym INDIA have clearly rattled the Modi regime. The desperation to put up a parallel ‘alliance’ show in Delhi on the same day by discovering and manufacturing new parties from all corners of […]

The post Message From Bengaluru Meet Of Opposition Must Be Carried To Every Corner Of The Country first appeared on IPA Newspack.