ARABIAN POST SPECIAL

  By Ashis Biswas   KOLKATA: In Assam, the job security of Bengali teachers working in many schools has been endangered by the circulation of widespread reports of organised corruption in the state Education sector of West Bengal. Many of these teachers—- local Assam media estimates put their number in hundreds— are degree holders from […]

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By Girish Linganna   India will launch the PSLV-C56 rocket on July 30, carrying the DS-SAR satellite from Singapore and six other co-passenger satellites. The launch is scheduled for 6:30 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).   All the satellites will be placed […]

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By Prabir Purkayastha THE new blockbuster film on Oppenheimer has brought back the memories of the first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It has raised complex questions on the nature of the society that permitted such bombs to be developed and used and the stockpiling of nuclear arsenals that can destroy the world many times […]

The post Rise And Fall Of The Father Of Atom Bomb J Robert Oppenheimer In United States first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Gyan Pathak   As Rajasthan is approaching closer to Vidhan Sabha election later in 2023, political rhetoric is rising to higher pitches. CM Ashok Gehlot has clearly been playing a politics of human development to counter the BJP’s politics of communal hatred. Nevertheless, politics of development is always better than the politics of hatred. […]

The post In Rajasthan, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Is Setting A Record Of Pro People Schemes first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Sushil Kutty   Supreme Court Justice B R Gavai is busy, perhaps the busiest justice. Very recently he asked to be recused from Rahul Gandhi’s defamation/conviction case citing long-standing family links with the Congress. Now, he was part of the special bench that has given Director, Enforcement Directorate, Sanjay Kumar Mishra, further extension […]

The post Supreme Court’s Order To Grant Extension To ED Sanjay Mishra Till September 15, Is Bizarre first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tony Wood   With the death of Adolfo Gilly on July 4, 2023, the Latin American left didn’t just lose one of its most lucid Marxist thinkers. It also lost a man who directly experienced many of the region’s key events of the past seventy years, from the Bolivian Revolution of the 1950s to […]

The post Death Of Marxist Journalist Adolfo Gilly Is A Big Loss To Latin American Left first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava   No one can guarantee that the Narendra Modi government will not reappear before the Supreme Court just ahead of September 15, the latest expiry date, requesting for yet another extension to the top cop of the country, the Enforcement Directorate chief S K Mishra, on the plea of protecting and preserving […]

The post Centre Falls Back On ‘National Interest’ To Keep Mishra As ED Director first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra   The Lok Sabha has seen a no-trust motion being filed against the Narendra Modi-led government by the Congress and BRS to apply pressure on the ruling BJP over the Manipur issue, and it was accepted by the Lower house. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said he would like to discuss […]

The post No-Confidence Motion On Manipur Brings BRS, Congress On Same Table first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By L S Herdenia   BHOPAL: “Ninety six hours – two visits by Home Minister Amit Shah” It is obvious Amit Shah does not want that 2018 is repeated in 2023 Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. That is why he is paying special attention to the state. He reached Bhopal in the late Wednesday evening, […]

The post Panicky Amit Shah Held Continuous Sessions In Bhopal With B Leaders first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik ON April 3 this year, the minister of state for planning, Rao Inderjeet Singh, said in the Rajya Sabha that the government had no data after 2011-12 for estimating poverty, and therefore had no idea how many people had been lifted out of poverty since then. On July 18 however the UNDP […]

The post Narendra Modi Govt’s Claim Of Large Reduction In Poverty Level Is Flawed first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P Sudhir   The events in Manipur, which dominated the national political situation over the past nearly three months, have brought out a startling feature of governance under Narendra Modi. The authoritarian regime is accountable to no one. Manipur has been in the grip of ethnic violence resulting in the deaths of over 150 […]

The post Manipur Developments Show That Our PM Narendra Body Is Accountable To None first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty   Is it confidence or overconfidence? Narendra Modi has declared himself Prime Minister for the third time. But even the thought of a third straight term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls for setting up more suicide helplines across India. Is there a way out, will the people of India be able […]

The post Narendra Modi Has Declared Himself As Prime Minister For The Third Time first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Satyaki Chakraborty   At long last, there is some ray of hope for the common people of the Central American nation Guatemala which will going for its run off national elections on August 20. In a surprise development, the centre left party Semilla candidate Bernardo Arevalo stood in the second position with 12 […]

The post A Strong Centre-Left Front Emerges In Guatemala To Challenge Ruling Right In Presidential Poll first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Arun Srivastava   On July 11, just a fortnight back, the Supreme Court allowed Enforcement Directorate director S K Mishra to continue to hold the office till July 31 this year, notwithstanding holding that the extension given to Mishra was illegal as it violates the court’s 2021 order. This, had aroused apprehension in […]

The post Centre Pleading For Fresh Extension For ED Despite SC Order, Is Ominous first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran   It would be an ideal situation if political parties are brought under the purview of the rights to information  (RTI) Act as it would introduce complete transparency in the functioning of the parties. But unfortunately, many ideal situations are never practical and as such remain unattainable. The demand by the Association […]

The post Political Parties Under Right To Information Act Will Remain An Unrealisable Dream first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava   Prime Minister Narendra Modi deriding and insulting the united opposition front, INDIA, and drawing parallels with the likes of the erstwhile British East India Company, the outlawed outfit Indian Mujahideen and the Popular Front of India — has certainly not come as a shock. Expecting PM Modi to speak respectfully of […]

The post Modi Deriding ‘India’ Betraysdesign To Humiliate The Opposition first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Dr. Gyan Pathak   There is no end in sight to the woes of the MSMEs in India, that suddenly started worsening with the sudden announcement of demonetization on November 8, 2016 by PM Narendra Modi, further exacerbated by introduction of GST next year from July 1, 2017, and intensified with lockdown of […]

The post MSME Sector In India Continues Its Struggle Amidst Odds first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: The stage is set for a prestigious battle in the by-election to be held in Puthuppally Assembly constituency in Kottayam district of Kerala. The by-election has been necessitated by the death of incumbent MLA and former chief minister of Kerala Oommen Chandy.  Though almost three years of the current Assembly […]

The post Can Sympathy Wave See Congress Through In Puthuppally? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava   Lying has acquired the character of political culture of the BJP. Certainly it has not come as a surprise. While the so-called conscience keeper of New India, the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, has not been alive to the ethics of truth, probity and transparency in the matter of functioning of its […]

The post Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Avoiding Discussions In Parliament On Manipur first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Dr. Soma Marla   Successful launch of Chandrayan 3, the latest mission of Indian Space Research Organisation to moon, is a remarkable scientific endeavour. It took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikotain Andhra Pradesh state on the afternoon of July 14,2023. With the successful launch, India is bidding to become […]

The post Successful Launch Of Chandrayan 3 Is A Remarkable Achievement By ISRO first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  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.