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By Arun Srivastava Notwithstanding Supreme Court glare on the release of Bilkis Bano convicts, the chances are quite bleak that their release would be declared null and void and they would ever be sent back to the prisons. The entire saffron eco system is out to protect them and their pursuit.  They are too willing […]

The post Released Convicts In Bilkis Bano Case Are Making All Efforts To Evade Law first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty NCP Chief Sharad Pawar was the last political stalwart to jump into the Karnataka electoral showdown and predict the Congress will get the Karnataka electorate’s thumbs up in the May 10 assembly elections results of which will be out by May 13 afternoon. Pawar based his projection on hearsay because the NCP […]

The post Opposition Parties Have To Do Lot Of Homework After Karnataka Results first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Decreasing investment in maternal and newborn health has stagnated the progress in preventing premature deaths of pregnant women, mothers and babies globally, due to which death befalls on one every 7 seconds. Indian mothers and babies remain most unsafe both in number and its share in global deaths. Based on the […]

The post Mothers And Babies Are Most Unsafe In India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy A hundred year old story has become a hot topic in China, which is finding sympathies among young people. It has been trending on the Chinese internet. A short video based on the story was viewed over three million times. It has become a huge favourite in a musical format. So much […]

The post Kong Yiji Story Of China Can Be Replicated In India Also As Problems Are Same first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ben Chacko Victory Day, celebrating the surrender of Nazi Germany in Second World War, should be an occasion for international unity. Time zone differences mean a surrender effective from 11.01pm Central European Time on May 8 1945 is celebrated on May 8 in the West and May 9 in the East, but it was […]

The post On Victory Day, Need To Forge Unity Of Anti-Fascist Forces Once Again first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar surprised friends and foes alike with his sudden decision to give up the presidency of his Party recently, only to withdraw it after three days. It ultimately became a storm in a teacup. Had Pawar stuck to his decision, it could have considerably weakened his Party, […]

The post Sharad Pawar Has Now Emerged As A Stronger Leader To Lead Battle Against BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty May 9 this year is the occasion for the observance of the 162nd birth anniversary of the globally admired poet and visionary Rabindranath Tagore. Born in Calcutta in 1861, Tagore lived an active life of 80 years till he died in 1941 on August 7 in the midst of the devastations caused […]

The post Decoding Rabindranath Tagore’s World View On His 162nd Birth Anniversary first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh shirking of his moral accountability to resolve the differences between the two communities Meities and Kukis, and instead blaming the “prevailing misunderstandings between two sections of society” on the issue of inclusion of the majority Meitei community in the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category has been primarily […]

The post BJP’s Inner Rivalry And RSS Bid For Expansion Have Contributed To Manipur Violence first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Pep talk and tall talk are separated by a wide gulf. Unofficial number two in Trinamool Congress hierarchy Abhishek Banerjee’s recent claim of his party bagging 40 out of 42 seats from West Bengal in next year’s Lok Sabha elections will be taken as pep talk by many among his party faithful; […]

The post Abhishek Banerjee’s Claim On Trinamool Getting 40 Seats In Lok Sabha Is Not A Tall Talk first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By S. Sethuraman An ominous silence will now descend upon Karnataka, the scene of thus far the bitterest electoral battle at the state level, with uproarious, often abusive BJP-Congress exchanges, both with high stakes for future survival. The 224-member Karnataka Assembly goes to polls on May 10 and the suspense should end with the results […]

The post Karnataka Results Will Be The Harbinger Of The 2024 Battle Mood first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to understand why the government is in such a tearing hurry to auction the recently discovered large lithium reserves in Jammu & Kashmir’s Reasi district before the end of the current year itself. The secretary to the Union Ministry of Mines, Vivek Bharadwaj, said the ministry had written to […]

The post Militancy Makes Lithium Mining In J&K A Challenging Task first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Veteran of many electoral battles, Narendra Modi, has been forced to adopt a defensive strategy in the face of critical ethical attack from Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi. It may look like an incredulous argument, but the bare fact is it was in riposte to the aggressive attack from Priyanka at her […]

The post Narendra Modi Has Turned The Karnataka Assembly Polls Into A Referendum On Him first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty “Brotherly neighbours” China and Pakistan have been joined by Afghanistan to pin down India on CPEC. Foreign Ministers of the three countries met in Islamabad on the heels of the SCO foreign ministers meeting in Goa. The Pakistan-China-Afghanistan nexus should worry the so-called Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. That […]

The post Afghanistan Joining China’s BRI Programme Is A Big Diplomatic Defeat For India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty The Labour Party in Britain made massive gains in the country wide local bodies elections this week vindicating the opinion polls that the Labour under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer is set to form the next Government after the national elections scheduled in 2024 or early 2025. The Conservative Party has […]

The post British Labour Party’s Big Win In Local Polls Sets Pace For 2024 Victory first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will the controversial film, “The Kerala Story”, further the propaganda of the Sangh Parivar? That is the million dollar question resonating in the political corridors of Kerala. Secular parties in the state say that the film seeks to portray Kerala, a bastion of secularism, as the epicentre of religious terrorism.  The […]

The post ‘The Kerala Story’ Won’t Further Sangh Parivar Agenda first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: All attempts of national and Madhya Pradesh leaders to persuade Deepak Joshi not to leave BJP failed. He finally joined the Congress on Saturday in the presence of PCC president Kamal Nath. He accepted the Congress membership along with large number of his followers. While announcing his decision to leave […]

The post Deepak Joshi Finally Leaves BJP And Joins Congress Leading State BJP In Turmoil first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rise in unemployment rate in India again in April 2023 should serve as a wake-up call for PM Narendra Modi led ruling establishment, since it shows the upward trend since the beginning of 2023, a year when both the domestic and global economies have been projected to decline to a new […]

The post Rise In Unemployment In India Again In April Is A Wake-Up Call first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The last time Karnataka went to the polls in 2018, the keenly-fought election had given a fractured mandate, with BJP winning 104 seats in a 224-member Assembly. However, the BJP could not get the magic number of 113 and remained out of power despite all the manoeuvring it claimed it did […]

The post In The Last Leg Of Campaign In Karnataka Polls, BJP Is Focusing On Hindutva first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup It did not take long for the rethink on the resignation. Allowing the hysteria to last just a few hours seemed more in keeping with Sharad Pawar’s style than his dramatic announcement on Tuesday evening that he was resigning from the President-ship of the party he had founded and which is identified […]

The post Sharad Pawar’s Resignation Drama Masterstroke Hits BJP And Fadnavis Most first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran A reported impasse in the use of rupee for trade between India and Russia is seen more as posturing rather than a failure of the arrangement as both sides cannot manage without each other in the context of the prevailing global political situation. There have been reports that India and Russia have […]

The post Trouble In India, Russia Talks On Rupee Trade Mostly The Result Of Posturing first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The toughest foreign minister in the hemisphere, India’s EAM S. Jaishankar cannot suffer fellow foreign ministers who pour scorn on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, call him names and think they can make a clean getaway! And, if the erring foreign minister happens to be Pakistan’s, woe betide that gentleman or lady like […]

The post Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar Acted Like A Cop, Not A Diplomat At Goa SCO Meet first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabir Purkayastha MAY 3rd is World Press Freedom Day, a reminder that the role of news organisations is to speak truth to power. Not to manufacture consent – to use Chomsky’s famous words – for the government and the ruling classes. While doing that, I want to remember two men who exemplify the need […]

The post Remembering Julian Assange On World Press Freedom Day first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra The most unexpected development in the political scenario was Sharad Pawar’s resignation as NCP chief and this has not only surprised his party but also his Maharashtra allies Uddhav Thackeray and Congress. After the dramatic show of distress from partymen, Sharad Pawar agreed to once rethink over his decision. Election of […]

The post Sharad Pawar Is Emerging As NCP Supremo With Stronger Domination first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Cruel joke is being played with the women wrestlers who enhanced the prestige of India in global fraternity by winning medals in international championships. In the evening of May 3 while addressing the election rally in Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that he was a celebrant of the Nari Shakti (women’s’ […]

The post Centre’s Tackling Of The Dharna By Leading Women Wrestlers Is Pathetic first appeared on IPA Newspack.