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By Dr K R Shyam Sundar The Economic Survey (ES) 2022-23 prepared the ground for the focus points in the Union Budget 2023-24 presented on February 1… Labour law reforms were implemented. It is not a question of the Union Government’s failure. It is the duty of the Union Government to pass laws and frame […]

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In a setback to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) supported candidate won the Nagpur division teachers’ seat of the Maharashtra Legislative Council on Thursday. Nagpur, where the headquarters of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is located, is also the home district of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Nitin […]

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By P. Sudhir A small US investor firm has challenged the Indian behemoth, the Adani group, and shaken it to its foundations.  The Hindenburg Research, a short selling firm, brought out a 129-page report on the Adani group marshalling evidence of all the funding operations and offshore activities of the 578 subsidiaries and shell companies […]

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Activists of right-wing organisations took out a massive rally in Mumbai on Sunday against ‘love jihad’ and demanded anti-conversion laws and a crackdown on land grabbing in the name of religion. Leaders and workers of right-wing outfits such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) marched in the rally. […]

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In-charge of the Rajasthan unit of Congress on Saturday alleged that the ruling BJP government at the Centre was misusing constitutional institutions to suppress the voice of the masses and opposition. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa was addressing a meeting of Congress leaders of the Jaipur division regarding the party’s ‘Hath Se Hath Jodo’ campaign. He said, […]

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By Harihar Swarup No stock-taking of India is complete without an assessment of social, economic and political condition of the Adivasis, India’s ancient citizens. No section of the Indian community has been more affected by independence and democracy than the Adivasi. Democracy is neither new to them, nor a gift of independence. From the time […]

The post ‘Development’-Driven India Has Abandoned Its Adivasi Brethren first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty How is it that the United States President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DoJ) can search Biden’s private residence and confiscate classified documents, and start an investigation? Ditto for the United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who gets hauled up by a British ‘Bobby’ for not wearing seat-belt and is fined for […]

The post Damning BBC Documentary Brings Back PM Modi’s Airbrushed Past first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas With only a few days left for the Tripura Assembly polls, major parties have continued their efforts to work out pre-poll alliances. So far, only the CPI(M) and Congress are in the process of finalising a joint pre-poll campaign , having agreed to contest the elections in alliance, in an effort to […]

The post Tipra Motha’s Rigid Stand On Separate State Halts Alliance Talks With BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Saturday called the basic structure doctrine a North Star that guides and gives certain direction to the interpreters and implementers of the Constitution when the path ahead is convoluted. The remarks by the CJI came against the backdrop of the recent remarks by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar who […]

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The Sports Ministry on Saturday suspended Wrestling Federation of India’s (WFI) assistant secretary Vinod Tomar, a fallout of the grapplers’ allegations of sexual harassment and corruption against the sports body’s chief, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. It has decided to suspend Tomar, “with immediate effect, to ensure proper functioning of WFI”. The ministry said it has […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik All regimes based on class antagonism require a discourse to legitimise class oppression and this discourse in turn requires a vocabulary of its own. The neoliberal regime too has developed its own discourse and vocabulary and a key concept in this vocabulary is “populism”. This concept is given great currency by the […]

The post Capitalists Are Terming Social Welfare Schemes ‘Populist’ To Deny Benefits To Poor first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabir Purkayastha The recent announcement of the Narendra Modi government of a Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 19,794 crore) National Green Hydrogen Mission has created two kinds of questions. The most common reaction is what is green hydrogen? And do we have a plan for a green hydrogen path for which Rs 20,000 crore is […]

The post Massive Green Energy Plan For Indian Capital But Not For Its People first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy China’s population has shrunk in 2022 for the first time in six decades. That has sent bells ringing about the prospects China should be facing henceforth. There is a long and tortuous history culminating in the phase when population is shrinking. China had imposed strict rule in 1985 allowing couples to have […]

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