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By Prabhat Patnaik The data on unemployment brought out by the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE) present a grim picture. Not only has the unemployment rate increased sharply for some years now, starting from even before the pandemic, but the figure which had shot up during the pandemic has not come down much […]

The post Present Acute Unemployment Crisis Can Not Be Dealt By Modi’s Neo-Liberal Agenda first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman Agriculture and food are now back in the centre stage in the backdrop of the critical geopolitical developments. This has become necessary after food shortages witnessed in the face of Russian-Ukraine conflict in countries dependent on wheat imports from those two warring countries. In this emerging scenario, it is worthwhile to […]

The post Higher Budgeting For Agriculture And Food In India Is Now Crucial first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By S. Sethuraman Saint Tyagaraja, who combined wealth of Music and heights of poetic excellence was born in Tiruvarur in present day Tamil Nadu on May 4, 1767. He had inherited music in pristine forms of earlier times like Prabhanda Gita and absorbing Bhakti Gitams spreading in the Cauvery Deltaic region. Tyagaraja, a great worshipper […]

The post Paying Tribute To Great Music Legend Saint Tyagaraja On His Birth Anniversary first appeared on IPA Newspack.

DUBAI, 3rd May 2020 (WAM) — The Dubai Police General Command platform at the Arabian Travel Market 2023 exhibition at the Dubai World Trade Center continues to showcase its police services, products and work aimed at strengthening the tourism…

By Prakash Karat The Karnataka assembly election has a special importance in the present conjuncture.  For the BJP, in its quest for overall political dominance, retaining this southern state is vital for its ambition to spread its influence in other southern states. With the election campaign at its peak, by all accounts, the BJP is […]

The post Defeat Of BJP In Karnataka Assembly Polls Is Crucial For Indian Democracy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Binoy Viswam Day in and day out, the RSS-led parivar excels themselves in the fascist skills of propaganda. Learning lessons from Mussolini and Hitler, updating those lessons for the changing time and place, they sometimes outsmart even their masters. In 1937, inaugurating a movie production unit, Benito Mussolini gave the motto: “Cinema is the […]

The post Film ‘Kerala Story’ Is Full Of Lies And Fiction Based On The Vision Of RSS first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty India in its capacity of rotating head of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) invited Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to the Goa SCO on May 4-5, but India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hadn’t decided on a bilateral with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. So much for India’s legendary ‘athithi devo bhava’ and […]

The post By Not Holding Bilateral Talks With Bilawal Bhutto, India Has Lost An Opportunity first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hounding the leaders of opposition, allegedly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Centre through Enforcement Directorate (ED), has reached an unprecedented level under directorship of Sanjay K Mishra, and hence his extension of service has been naturally opposed by the forces against abuse of power. However, extension of ED Chief Sanjay […]

The post Extension Of ED Chief’s Tenure Is Still Puzzling first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Even five years after the historical ‘national duty’ press conference by four judges alleging undesirable practices including ‘bench hunting’, the problem continues to be the bane of Indian judiciary. All the four judges have retired for long, but many of the problems they raised persist, undermining people’s faith in the system. Bench […]

The post Bench ‘Hunting’ Continues To Hound Delivery Of Justice And Fairness first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak With sudden announcement by Sharad Pawar to step down from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) presidency may have surprised all, but it seems that his announcement was premeditated. He will be quitting as NCP chief, but will remain in politics at least for the next three years, during which he would guide […]

The post NCP Needs A Strong United Leadership In The Event Of Sharad Pawar’s Exit first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Subrata Majumder A new landscape in currency dominance in global market is taking shape, with US dollar losing pre-eminence and Chinese yuan gaining steam. According to a IMF survey, dollar share in central bank foreign exchange reserves declined from 71 percent in 1999 to 59 percent in 2021. This resulted in steady decline in […]

The post Ukraine War And US, EU Sanctions Leading To Loss Of US Dollar’s Global Dominance first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra An open air gymnasium being set on fire at Churachandpur merely 60 kilometres away  from  Manipur capital, Imphal followed by chief  minister, N Biren Singh being advised not to come to the trouble spot are some of the ominous signs indicating that things  are not at all shipshape for the BJP  in […]

The post A Year Before Lok Sabha Polls, BJP Walking On Thin Ice In Manipur first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar Viewers worldwide will witness the coronation ceremony of British King Charles and his Queen Camilla on May 6. The critical moment in modern British history will be 70 years after Queen Elizebeth11 coronation in 1952. Though Charles succeeded Queen Elizabeth 11 in September 2022 after her death, the coronation will only occur […]

The post King Charles 111 Aims To Synergise Tradition With Modernity At Coronation first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Sweep of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in the elections held for Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (APMCs) across Maharashtra, which is also considered as mini-general election, signals its return to power in the state which is going to be held in 2024, just a few months after the Lok Sabha […]

The post MVA Sweep In Maharashtra APMC Elections Boosts Its Image In Maharashtra first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Farmers of Karnataka, under the banner of Samyukta Kisan Panchayat declared an open war against the Narendra Modi government from Bengaluru and called upon the farmers who constitute 65 per cent of the total population of the state, to ensure the defeat of BJP, Narendra Modi resorted to his tested theatrics and […]

The post Farmers Of Karnataka Resolve At Their Meet To Defeat BJP In Assembly Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray stepped into his 102nd year on May 2, 2023. The maestro died in 1992, at the age of only 71. He left us without finishing many of the proposed film and writing projects which he had undertaken in his last years. Bengal lost not just a […]

The post Satyajit Ray’s Birth Anniversary: Three Encounters Of The Close Kind first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Less than a year is left for the commencement of the polling in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. After the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s positive talks on forging opposition unity with a large number of parties, including the Congress, focus has shifted to the next meeting of the anti-BJP parties expected […]

The post BJP Can Be Restricted To Below 160 Seats In 2024 Lok Sabha Elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The constant political exploitation of the reservation policy, framed in 1950, threatens to further divide the country not only on the caste and sub-caste lines, but also on their extension to rope in religions. As the situation stands today, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar, the author of the reservation policy, would have been […]

The post The Caste Cum Religion Based Reservation Policy Must End first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Myanmar, India, China, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Indonesia, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), recently attended a secret meeting in New Delhi to discuss the ongoing crisis in junta-led Myanmar. This meeting was the second in a “Track 1.5” dialogue series that began in Thailand last […]

The post Regional Powers Discuss Myanmar Crisis In A Secret Meeting Hosted By India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Nilanjan Banik As per the State of World Population Report published by the United Nations Population Fund, India will become the most populous country in the world in the summer of 2023. At this point, India also has a relatively ‘younger’ working-age population compared to China. Depending upon how one read the data, […]

The post Faulty Policies By Modi Govt Have Led To Shrinking Of Indian Middle Class first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The strategy of the vice chancellor of Vishwa Bharati University, Bidyut Chakraborty, has crossed the line of decency. Chakraborty who has, for more than six months, been tirelessly working to evict Amartya Sen from the premises of Shantiniketan on April 20 shoot off yet another notice to Sen asking him to “vacate […]

The post Vishwa Bharati University Makes Final Move To Evict Amartya Sen By May 6 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party in Tamil Nadu has renewed its vows with the principal opposition party in the state, the AIADMK, with certain concessions from both sides. One, the BJP’s K Annamalai will put his ego on hold and for that, the AIADMK will consider Annamalai an equal partner and not a […]

The post AIADMK-BJP Alliance Has Many Faultlines To Be Dealt Before 2024 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey A schism that could tear the Anglican church apart is about more than LGBTQ rights. It’s about fundamental cultural and religious differences with potentially profound consequences for the geopolitical battle to shape a 21st-century world order. The rift also raises questions about the Church of England’s priorities at a time when […]

The post Anglican Schism Over Gay Rights Is Not Just About Theology, But Geopolitics first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas By end 2023, rail journey time for passengers between Kolkata and the three Barak valley districts of Assam via Dhaka, Bangladesh may be reduced to 15/16 hours only, if things run according to plan. A Kolkata-Agartala journey would take only around 10 hours, according to Railway authorities. People in Assam, Meghalaya and […]

The post New Measures In Rail Connectivity Reduce Travel Time Between Eastern India And Bangladesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.