By Sushil Kutty A Sikh when he goes places can be traced to a gurdwara. Nowadays, the trace will lead through Canada, the United Kingdom and into enemy country Pakistan. Akali Dal titan Parkash Singh Badal would not be at any of these Sikh centres of convenience. After 75 years serving the Sikh cause, Badal […]
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By Kalyani Shankar Will the turncoats spoil the chances of the ruling BJP returning to power in Karnataka’s May 10 Assembly polls? The Party-hopping has peaked before the elections. How far these turncoats would damage the BJP is unknown. Despite its insisting that this migration would not affect its poll prospects, the exit of prominent […]
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By Arun Srivastava Notwithstanding some political experts and BJP sympathisers expressing serious scepticism on the feasibility of the opposition unity, Monday’s meeting of TMC chief Mamata Banerjee with JD (U) chief Nitish Kumar and Tejashvi Yadav, the deputy chief minister of Bihar sends a clear message that this is now no more unrealistic. The posturing […]
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By Satyaki Chakraborty Greece is going for national election on May 21 this year as the Prime Minister of the Centre Right New Democracy Party Kyriakos Mitsotakis met the President and proposed the dissolution of the Parliament. The President accepted and fixed May 21 as the date for elections. Next month’s legislative elections will be […]
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By Sushil Kutty Section 124A is pretty stark in its messaging: “Whoever, words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the Government established by law in India shall be punished…” The 150-year-old […]
The post Islamic Pakistan’s Supreme Court Has Scrapped Sedition Law, When Will India? first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Nantoo Banerjee At a time when India is aiming to become an industrial powerhouse and a $5-trillion economy by 2026-27, the country’s nearly 500-million workforce, the second largest after China, lives in deep uncertainty over life after retirement. The minimum pension continues to be Rs.1,000 per month for the last two decades despite pre-election […]
The post Life Is Dreadful For Millions Of India’s Industrial Pensioners first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Nitya Chakraborty Dr. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, presently Chancellor and Professor of History at Ashoka University, is a well-known Indian historian who has done commendable work on different areas of the country’s history. His scholarship on the First War of Independence/Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, as also his sensitive understanding of the complex relationship between Subhash Chandra […]
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By Arun Srivastava The RSS has now emerged as the prime driver of the BJP poll campaigns in the elections and with the Lok Sabha polls scheduled in April/ May 2024, its role is getting expanded in the electoral strategy of the BJP. It was visibly evident in the assembly elections to the three north-eastern […]
The post RSS Has Taken Command Of BJP Preparations In Bengal For Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the Centre and States are holding back announcement of roll out of the four controversial labour codes brought in 2019 and 2020 fearing adverse political fallout during 2024 general election in the country, India has already begun witnessing relaxation being given to employers. Several states have already relaxed their laws […]
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By Amitabha Sen The World’s second largest economy, China is currently holding more than half of the global wheat stocks leaving much behind the combined stocks of the US and the European Union’s 27 member states. If excluded China, the global stocks can take care less than two months consumption. This is revealed in the […]
The post China Dominates Global Wheat Market With Its Record Stocks In 2022-23 first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Rahil Nora Chopra In an attempt to bring back the politics of social justice before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi have raised the demand that the Union government should go ahead for a caste census with immediate effect. Kharge has written to Prime Minister […]
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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” is set to embark on a three-day visit to India starting on April 28, 2023, in what is seen as a significant step in strengthening bilateral ties between the two neighbouring countries. So far, India-Nepal relations have either in the context of its poor […]
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By Arun Srivastava RSS which claims to be the nation’s conscience keeper and beholder of the highest order of morality utterly lacks moral conviction to explain the reasons for its strident opposition to the caste census which basically aims at ascertaining the correct socio-economic position and to reflect on population size of the OBCs, EBCs, […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The acquittal of all living 67 accused in a Special Court in Ahmedabad has clearly showed that the riot victims of Naroda Gam massacre have been served injustice in place of justice. As the case stands now, prosecution has miserably failed in producing evidence against the accused persons, while judiciary failed […]
The post Once Again, The Rioters In 2002 Gujarat Massacre, Go Scot-Free first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Prabhat Patnaik Government officials never tire of repeating that India is currently the fastest growing major economy in the world. What they never mention is the fact that India had witnessed perhaps the sharpest absolute drop in GDP among the major economies of the world in 2020-21 because of its draconian lockdown; and the […]
The post More Fund Transfers To The Working Poor Can Boost Growth In Ailing Indian Economy first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Dr Soma Marla In India, landownership is crucial for the upliftment of the rural poor. Even after seven decades of independence from British colonialism, the rich landed sections occupy vast tracts of land while the small and landless, who form 80 percent of the farmer community possess only a negligible portion. The landless situation […]
The post Suspension Of Earlier Land Reforms Measures Has Adversely Affected Rural India first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Satyaki Chakraborty The United States of America is steadily losing its diplomatic battle in the Middle East against China as more and more warring nations in the region are looking to China for acting as the facilitator for establishing peace in the region. After the big success of brokering a peace deal between Iran […]
The post China Emerging As The Prime Mediator In Easing Tensions In Middle East first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Prakash Karat There is much talk about opposition unity these days. Such talk has gathered momentum after a series of meetings of various leaders of opposition parties. This comes in the background of the united stand of eighteen opposition parties in parliament during the second half of the budget session, where they all demanded […]
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By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Recently, numerous articles have been written on the demise of the dollar. The argument is that China, the second largest economy after the US, is increasingly convincing the world’s largest suppliers of energy, including Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela to trade in Chinese Yuan. This, according to the commentators, will […]
The post Who Will Be The Ultimate Winner In Currency War? Dollar Or The Yuan? first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Krishna Jha In 1938, there were public bonfires of forbidden books in Italy. Militia was always present in such events to help keeping alive the flames and restrain any interruption. In fact, Mussolini had contended that “fascism requires military journalism”. In fascist Italy, the role of Mussolini as the prime censor was visible quite […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty The explosive facts mentioned by the former Jammu & Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik in his interview with The news portal The Wire last week, have not elicited any response till now from the PM’s office though the veteran politician blamed the Prime Minister and the then Home Minister Rajnath Singh for […]
The post Opposition Must Demand A Supreme Court Monitored Probe On Pulwama Massacre first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As India becomes the largest populated country in the world with 142.86 crore population as per the State of the world population (SOWP) 2023 report released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), population anxieties have seeped into large portions of the general public. High rate of population growth, that stands […]
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By Tirthankar Mitra Trinamool Congress leaders were irate on hearing Union home minister Amit Shah’s call to his party activists to ensure victory from 35 constituencies in Lok Sabha elections next year and usher in a BJP government in 2025. But had these Trinamool leaders taken a little pause and watched Shah’s subsequent words, the […]
The post Amit Shah’s Claim Of 35 Lok Sabha Seats In Bengal In 2024 Poll, Is Meant To Soar Up Sagging Morale Of State BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.
