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By Nitya Chakraborty Mrinal Sen, the ace film maker who depicted both the political turmoil of Calcutta in 1960’s and 1970’s along with the selfishness and cowardice of the Bengali middle class through his 28 feature films, steps into his 100th year of birth on May 14 this year. The owner of the Dada Saheb […]

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By Prakash Karat The state of press freedom in India has been accurately captured by the World Press Freedom Index.  This year’s index was issued on May 3, which is observed as World Press Freedom Day.  The Reporters without Borders (RSF), which has prepared the World Press Freedom Index has placed India in the 161st […]

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The trouble in Rajasthan Congress bodes ill for the party’s prospects in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as any hope of a truce between Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot. The mess makes the top leadership look confused and helpless. And that is definitely not a good sign. Just two days after Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok […]

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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 […]

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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; […]

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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 […]

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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.

As expected, in the third ‘Vajramuth’ rally held in Mumbai on May 1, Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray targeted the BJP and challenged them to hold the elections now. Uddhav said BJP is “scared of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance”, which is receiving positive response from people. While criticising the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis […]

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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 […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Many migrant workers face wage-related abuses, including non-payment, delayed payment of wages, and in many cases forced to work beyond the legal working time having most direct and tangible effect on their everyday lives. These sometimes lead to even debt bondage and forced labour. International Labour Organization (ILO) Committee of Experts […]

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By Prakash Karat Many of the top wrestlers of the country, including international medal winners, are out protesting at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. They have returned to the spot where they first conducted dharna in January since the government and the sports ministry have not acted on the complaints of sexual harassment made by some […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP leaders in Kerala are in seventh heaven following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Kerala.  They are gushing from the housetops that visit was an unqualified success and a political game-changer. But the jury is sharply divided over its outcome. The Prime Minister virtually sounded the poll bugle with […]

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By Sushil Kutty Section 124A is pretty stark in its messaging: “Whoever, words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the Government established by law in India shall be punished…” The 150-year-old […]

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