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By Sushil Kutty That moment when Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were shot dead stays frozen in time. Now, less than a week later, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a petition seeking an independent inquiry. The petitioner also wants the 183 encounter-killings in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s time probed. The question […]

The post Supreme Court Agreeing To Hear The Petition On Prayagraj Killings Is Welcome first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Just one year is left for the holding of the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for April/May 2024. The non-BJP opposition parties are having discussions for building a comprehensive unity of the opposition political parties who are determined to remove Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power at the coming Lok Sabha polls. This […]

The post Overemphasis On Total Opposition Unity Before 2024 Lok Sabha Polls, May Be Counter Productive first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar With the state assembly election later this year, Congress faces a political crisis again. The party lost Punjab last year because of mishandling by the Gandhis by backing the wrong horse. Will the Congress leadership be able to save Rajasthan from going the Punjab way? Congress and BJP have been alternating in […]

The post Congress Leadership Has To Take Immediate Action To Resolve Rajasthan Crisis first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The finance minister of Uttar Pradesh, Suresh Khanna, was absolutely right in saying: “Some decisions are taken in heaven. Whatever happened was kudrat’s (nature’s) justice, decided in heaven.” That the assassinations of gangster Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf was carried out following a ‘divine order’ is clearly manifest in Yogi government […]

The post Murky Plot Behind Political Killings Of Gangster Brothers In UP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the rate of melting and retreating of Himalayan Glaciers has doubled since 2000 at the rate of 0.5 m per year compared to 0.25 m per year in the earlier 25 years between 1975 and 2000, there is no comprehensive information about the volume loss of glaciers in the Indian […]

The post Rate Of Melting And Retreating Of Himalayan Glaciers Doubled first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee Pledging inflated stocks to borrow big from India’s public sector banks seems to have become a routine practice in India. Surprisingly, the Reserve Bank (RBI), the banking regulator, and the government, are doing little to control such practices by holding bank management as responsible as those adventurous borrowers. There are reasons to […]

The post Unholy Bank-Borrower Alliance Is Behind Most Big Financial Frauds first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava In a scenario where it appears that road to south for BJP is once again getting blocked, the desperate leadership as a last resort to salvage the situation and stem the crisis is seriously contemplating to turn the electoral battle into a combat between “SAVARKAR VS TIPU” and polarise the society.  But […]

The post Karnataka BJP Is In Twilight Zone Before May 10 Assembly Elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is the soul and spirit of the Aam Aadmi Party, which recently achieved “national party” status, couldn’t care less right now for an electoral alliance with a party or parties for the 2024 general elections. Not the day after he was questioned by the CBI on […]

The post AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal’s Prime Task Now Is To Come Out Of CBI Net Unscathed first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge is walking a tightrope in trying to amicably resolve an intra-party feud between veteran Ashok Gehlot and young Turk Sachin Pilot in  Rajasthan. Working out a compromise formula by Kharge seems to be asking for the moon as both the feuding  leaders seem to possess a winner takes […]

The post Congress Leadership Must Act Fast To Bridge Gehlot-Pilot Differences first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak International Labour Organization (ILO) has categorically told the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) that social justice is indispensable in protecting the workforce since inequality has been growing worldwide. The importance of the statements lies in the fact that these have been delivered at a time when the world labour […]

The post Social Justice Indispensable In Protecting Workforce first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Ever since Covid happened to humans, the World Health Organization has disappointed a lot of people. First it seemed to let off China with a light rap on the wrist. Then, it floundered in the number-crunching. So much so, it gave to our own high-flying Prime Minister Narendra Modi the blushes when […]

The post Latest Surge In Covid Virus Poses Fresh Challenges In Dealing With Variants first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey Think that the modern nation-state originated with the emergence of the 17th-century beginnings of the era of science and reason? Think again. In a recently published book, political scientist Anna Gryzmala-Busse traces the origins of the modern state to medieval Europe when religion and the church played a powerful role rather […]

The post Nation-State Inspired By Religion, But Politics Making A Difference first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup With day-long protests by Congress across the country recently, the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament has given shape to political chessboard, setting up  the opening pieces for the 2024 election battle. How events pan out depends on subsequent moves of various protagonists. We can, however, make preliminary observations. One, the next […]

The post BJP Is Pinning High Hopes On Its Agenda Of Nationalism And Hindutva first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran A graph tweeted by Rahul Gandhi, sourced to ‘India’s Consumer Economy 360 Survey’, and showing that between 2016 and 2021 income of the poor class decreased by about 50 per cent has put the focus on the think-tank that produced the survey report.  Rahul cited the graph to back his claim that […]

The post Minefield Of Labour Statistics: Confusing Signals And Conflicting Claims first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ben Chacko This spring has been a triumphant one for Chinese diplomacy, from the breakthrough in Iran-Saudi relations to Friday’s high-profile summit with Brazilian President Lula. Lula’s remarks on moving away from trade in US dollars show Chinese President Xi Jinping’s description of China and Brazil as “comprehensive strategic partners” has real content. Britain’s […]

The post China Outsmarts USA In Hardcore Diplomacy In The Last Two Months first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik Except in war-time, capitalism invariably seeks to control inflation by creating a recession; and this is so even when the inflation has been caused by an autonomous increase in capitalists’ profit-margins which are downward inflexible and hence would not be reduced by a recession. This strategy is pursued because a recession invariably […]

The post Oil Output Cut By OPEC+ Countries Is A Testimony To Decline In Us Hegemony first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Government of Punjab has just started compensating farmers of the state for their crop losses due to inclement weather conditions in March and April. AAP government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann kept their assurance to do it at lightning speed in transparent manner and met the deadline of Baisakhi, […]

The post Farmers Across States Must Be Compensated As In Punjab first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra As per the reports, Somalia with a Population of 17 Million is passing through serious crisis of food security.  Over 200,000 people are facing catastrophic levels of food crisis. ‘Due to starvation they are dying, falling prey to diarrhoea, measles or malaria etc. Number of deaths last year is estimated to […]

The post Famine In Somalia Once Again Focuses On The Need For Global Food Security first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas In northeast Indian states, upset Christians feel they must protest more vigorously against the recent demolition of a few churches in Manipur and Assam, for which they hold the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accountable. Intriguingly, Nagaland-based Christians have reacted more sharply than their follow religionists in the region. The Nagaland Pradesh Congress […]

The post Attacks Against Churches Anger Christians In North Eastern States first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Any activist and leader of West Bengal unit of CPI(M) will face strong disciplinary action in the event of any understanding with BJP in the panchayat elections The riot act being read out at the recently concluded state committee meeting of the CPI(M) is a clear pointer to the growing murmurs in […]

The post CPI(M) Bengal Leadership Faces A Big Dilemma Over Strategy In Panchayat Poll first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava For naysayers it was a the doomsday as the “historic meet” between Nitish Kumar and Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday in presence of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge not only sent a vibrant message that opposition unity was no more an illusion but would strengthen the ideological narrative of the opposition fight against the […]

The post Nitish-Rahul Meeting Has Set The Pace For Nuanced Approach To Opposition Unity first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sudhir The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi on Easter day was notable, as it was his first visit to a church since becoming prime minister over nine years ago. On the same day, Easter Sunday, BJP leaders conducted an outreach in different places by […]

The post BJP Is Taking A Cynical Approach Towards Christians In Kerala first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Om Prakash Sabherwal, more known as OP in Delhi’s media circles, was a leading journalist in the national capital for more than five decades in the last century. He joined India Press Agency (IPA) in1959 at the call of IPA founder Nikhil Chakravartty and was connected with the organization till his last […]

The post Remembering Days With O P Sabherwal On His Birth Centenary Day On April 13 first appeared on IPA Newspack.