ARABIAN POST SPECIAL

By Arun Srivastava Congress having a massive rally in Nagpur to celebrate its foundation day on December 28 is unlikely to have any significant political or electoral bearing on the RSS. Congress was born in Bombay in 1885. But the party leadership chose Nagpur as the venue of celebration for obvious reason to send a […]

The post Congress Foundation Rally In Nagpur Must Send Strong Message To RSS first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup BJP’s top leadership seems to act in unconventional ways. That relates to its unexpected choice of chief ministers in three states, Vishnu Deo Sai in Chattisgarh, Mohan Yadav in Madhya Pradesh and Bhajan Lal Sharma in Rajasthan. To the public at large, and often the know-it-all media, these names could have been […]

The post BJP High Command Opted For A Long Term Planning In Deciding On New Chief Ministers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty So after all the “jalsas” to crown chief ministers of three states — Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, forget Telangana, it is ‘Congressi’ — a probe has been ordered on the Parliament security breach, with the Modi government’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi telling the country, shamed by a bunch of unemployed […]

The post The So-Called ‘High Level Probe’ Assured By Minister Pralhad Joshi Is Nothing But A Hoax first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava With a sankalp (pledge) at KV temple of Varanasi to get rid of the anti-people government of the BJP, the Uttar Pradesh Congress will launch its UP Jodo Yatra on December 20 from Shakumbhari Devi temple in Saharanpur and culminate at Naimisharanya (Sitapur) after covering 16 parliamentary constituencies in 10 western and […]

The post Congress Yatra In Uttar Pradesh Beginning December 20 Will Be A Big Opposition Show first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Only a few months ago, RSS-BJP clan had created hype around “Nari Shakti Vandan”, just after PM Narendra Modi government had introduce Women’s Reservation Bill, 2023 on September 19 in a special session of Parliament. Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam was the new epithet for the Bill which was brought forward as […]

The post Woman Judge’s Seeking Permission To Die Exposes ‘Nari Shakti Vandan’ Hype first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Parliament attack ‘mastermind’ Lalit Mohan Jha is in police custody. Four of his underlings – if he is ‘mastermind’, indeed – have been charged with terrorism under various sections of the UAPA, supposedly one of the toughest anti-terror legislations anywhere in the world. Does that mean, Neelam Devi, Sagar Sharma, Manoranjan D., […]

The post The Curious Case Of ‘Hindu Terrorists’ Involved In Breach Of Parliament’s Security first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Come winter, a season of mellow fruitfulness, Kolkata springs up pleasant surprises. A three day festival on Sahir Ludhianvi, whose lines of love and protest are still hummed began on December 15 at Dhana Dhanyo stadium. Tributes are paid to an individual’s memory usually on his/her birth anniversary or the day he […]

The post Kolkata Remembers The Legendary Lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi Through Three Day Festival first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy It was a contradiction in terms. One of the largest producers of fossil fuels, UAE, was hosting the UN talks on limiting use of such fuels to cut down CO2 emissions and thereby help keep earth’s temperature rise within the stipulated 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.   At the end of the […]

The post COP28’s Agreed Document Is A Bundle Of Contradictions On Major Issues first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava This is the second time in two decades that the security of Parliament has been breached. Nevertheless, the two incidents are distinctly different from each other in nature and probably in intention. The first was planned by terrorists “to wipe out the entire political leadership of India,” to quote the then home […]

The post Unemployed Youths Intruding Parliament Is A Desperate Cry For Help first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The way PM Narendra Modi’s growth narrative is being boastfully brought forward is nothing but mere politics, since it tries to put the stark reality of incidents of hunger and malnutrition in the country under carpet. As per the growth narrative India is the fourth biggest economy of the world, growing […]

The post Fourth Biggest Economy Has Largest Number Of Hungry And Malnourished first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Neelam ‘Azad’ is 42 and a student forever. Armed with a string of educational qualifications, Neelam couldn’t land a job and may not ever land one now that a case under UAPA has been lodged against her and the five others who planned and carried out the attack on Parliament on the […]

The post The Gang Of Six Breaching Parliament Security Needs Patient Hearing From Govt first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The impressive gains in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan could not blind the BJP leadership to the fact of its declining share of votes in all the states in November 2023 elections compared to Lok Sabha Election 2019, and hence it was compelled to bring new faces as Chief Ministers as […]

The post Declining Share Of Votes Compelled BJP To Choose New Chief Ministers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty All indications available from the Congress and Trinamool Congress sources on the eve of the INDIA constituents meeting in New Delhi on December 19 suggest that the Congress high command is itching to form an electoral alliance with the Trinamool Congress in Bengal for fighting the BJP jointly in the 2024 Lok […]

The post Congress May Opt For Alliance With Trinamool In Bengal For Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Is Kashmir now settled issue? The Supreme Court verdict says ‘Yes’ and National Conference Chief Farooq Abdullah put his seal of approval to the Supreme Court verdict on the abrogation of Article 370. Nobody could have put it more succinctly than Farooq Abdullah, not even his son Omar Abdullah. In King’s language, […]

The post Irrespective Of Supreme Court Verdict, Kashmir Remains An Unsettled Issue first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran It is no surprise that COP28 Dubai has proceeded the way it has. As member countries grappled with how to formalise and approach towards the most sensitive issue of fossil fuels, the climate summit had to be extended to try and work out a consensus. According to latest reports emerging the vibrant […]

The post COP28 May Have Avoided A Showdown, But Conflict Points Remain Largely Unresolved first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Supreme Court upholding abrogation of Article 370 in its verdict on December 11 has multifaceted implications. For Mehbooba Mufti if it was not the defeat of Kashmiris but of the idea of India, it was certainly not a defeat for Kashmir and Its cultural ethos, the Kashmiriyat. Instead it was a setback […]

The post By Upholding Abrogation Of Article 370, Supreme Court Has Kept Many Issues Unanswered first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Three-terms in a row and knowing well that he faced the axe, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan thought long and short and took the dive for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who dumped him to safeguard his own future. Modi fought on his own “name and face” to guarantee a third-time for himself […]

The post Will Depriving Shivraj Singh Chouhan Of Chief Ministership Help BJP In 2024 Polls? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak COP28 draft negotiation text released on reduction of fossil fuel has generated great criticism and fury, since it stops short of phasing out fossil fuels, and therefore no agreement was reached within the deadline. Negotiators are now awaiting new text, talks continue beyond the deadline, but there is no sign that […]

The post COP28 Draft Negotiation Text Frustrates Hope Of Phasing Out Of Fossil Fuel first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: By naming Mohan Yadav as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sprang a second surprise in the context of Vidhan Sabha elections. The first surprise was when he asked three Union Ministers and four MPs to resign and contest Vidhan Sabha elections. The Union Ministers were […]

The post New Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav Will Bring Yadav Votes For BJP In Hindi Heartland first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The shock that BJP had to suffer in Karnataka Vidhan Sabha election in May 2023 is not yet over when it was not able to win even a single seat reserved for Scheduled Tribe (ST), though the party somehow made inroads to a great extent in the November 2023 Vidhan Sabha […]

The post BJP Tries To Restore ST Support Base By Choosing A Tribal Cm In Chhattisgarh first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Alternative core positive agenda to counter the BJP in the next general elections will have the maxim “Main Nahin, Hum” as the pivot to take on Modi. Apparently, the insight behind coining this slogan is to counter Modi’s rhetoric of “my guarantee”, some leaders of the INDIA bloc confide that it underscores […]

The post INDIA Bloc Strikes With New Slogan “We, Not Me” To Defeat “I” Of Modi first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar After completing the five state elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the Opposition prepare for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The B.J.P. is confident about maintaining its stronghold in the Hindi belt, and the Opposition has failed to challenge them effectively. B.J.P. won elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh comfortably […]

The post BJP Has A Big Advantage Over Congress In Terms Of Funds And Organisational Power first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The crime in India has been recorded annually since the days of the British Raj. Currently, with more comprehensive statistics, the data is compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) under the Union Home Ministry. However, what remain unclear are the dependability of the data, the specific actions taken to control […]

The post Annual Crime Data Report May Not Be All That Dependable first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran It may not have been as high-profile as the ‘call of national duty’ press conference by the four senior most judges of the Supreme Court about six years ago. But the renewed controversy about the master of the roster, prompting two senior advocates of the apex court to write to Chief Justice […]

The post Master Of Roster Controversy: History Repeats Itself After A Gap Of Six Years first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The left movement in the country in general and in Kerala in particular suffered a grievous loss in the passing away of Communist Party of India (CPI) state secretary Kanam Rajendran. Kanam had been admitted to hospital on October 25 with multiple ailments, including a wound on his leg. As the […]

The post Kanam: A Communist To The Core, A Pillar Of Left Unity In Kerala first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Trinamool Congress has found itself in a political whirlpool ever since the cash for teaching jobs case unfolded in West Bengal leading to several senior Trinamool Congress ministers and leaders marking time behind the bars and CBI and ED grilling some others. As the cup of woes of the ruling dispensation of […]

The post Old Versus Young Debate In Bengal Trinamool Congress On Lok Sabha Polls Eve first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna In October this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a significant meeting to evaluate the advancement of India’s Gaganyaan Mission and to define the future of the nation’s space exploration efforts. Expanding on the achievements of such previous space missions as Chandrayan-3 and Aditya L-1, the Prime Minister has set ambitious targets […]

The post Hectic Work Is On In ISRO To Send First Indian Astronaut To Moon By 2040 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Delay in picking Chief Ministers for Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan is telling on the mental agility of claimants for the post in all three states. Look at outgoing Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan who can’t stand in one spot for more than an hour at a piece. He is all […]

The post Delaying Selection Of Chief Ministers Does Not Speak Well Of BJP Leadership first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.