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By Nitya Chakraborty The first coordination committee of the INDIA block of 28 opposition parties has decided to finally start the process of seat sharing for both coming state assembly elections scheduled by year end as also the Lok Sabha polls by early 2024.The spokesman K C Venugopal made it clear after the CC meeting […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty September 11, 1973 was the day when fifty years ago, the first democratically elected left wing president of Chile Dr. Salvador Allende, a leading Marxist was, overthrown through a bloody military coup which had the full backing of the US administration led by the President Richard Nixon.. Dr. Allende created a history […]

The post Fifty Years Later, Decoding Chile’s Military Coup And Marxist President Allende’s Killing first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty As the leaders of the INDIA alliance prepare for their third meeting in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1 to take forward the decisions taken at the last conclave in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18, one issue that should figure most prominently in their minds is how to project the […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Just five days before the third meeting of the anti-BJP opposition parties now acronymed India National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on August 31 and September 1 in Mumbai, a major issue should be made clear to the constituents as also to the people of the country in general. This is INDIA has […]

The post INDIA Alliance Is Meant For Lok Sabha Polls, State Elections Are Separate first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty   British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s latest film ‘Oppenheimer’ is creating waves in the cinema halls all over the world, including India, bringing to the fore once again the history behind the making of the atom bomb that was dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, […]

The post Decoding ‘Father Of Atom Bomb’ J. Robert Oppenheimer On Hiroshima Day first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports 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 Nitya Chakraborty   If indications from the think-tanks closer to the BJP are to be believed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team of advisers are processing a number of options to ensure that the newly set upfront of the anti-BJP parties – INDIA – does not get the advantage of the joint campaign […]

The post Opposition Front ‘India’ Should Be Ready For A Snap Election By 2023 End first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The second conclave of the opposition parties is now scheduled to be held in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18 to take forward the decisions arrived at the first Patna conclave of 16 parties held on June 23. The Bengaluru conclave hosted by the Congress Party will have representation from eight more […]

The post Opposition Parties Second Conclave At Bengaluru Has To Take The Unity To The Higher Level first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty On June 19 evening West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee conveyed something politically significant in her tweet congratulating the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on his 54th birthday. Her tweet said ‘Best wishes on your birthday, Rahulji. Wishing you good health. May you have a terrific period next year’. […]

The post Opposition Parties Optimistic About Success Of Patna Conclave On June 23 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Finally, the opposition parties are meeting in Patna on June 12 to discuss the joint strategy to fight the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024, with the objective of removing Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power. Less than ten months are left for the Lok Sabha elections scheduled in April/ […]

The post Opposition Can Follow A Five-Point Approach To Defeat BJP In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The resounding victory of the Congress Party in the Karnataka assembly elections less than a year before the holding of the Lok Sabha polls in April/May 2024 has given a big boost to the Party and its leaders the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi. For the Grand Old Party, this […]

The post After Karnataka, Combined Opposition Can Now Face Lok Sabha Polls With Bigger Confidence first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Remembering Film Director Mrinal Sen On His 100th Birth Anniversary first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty May 9 this year is the occasion for the observance of the 162nd birth anniversary of the globally admired poet and visionary Rabindranath Tagore. Born in Calcutta in 1861, Tagore lived an active life of 80 years till he died in 1941 on August 7 in the midst of the devastations caused […]

The post Decoding Rabindranath Tagore’s World View On His 162nd Birth Anniversary 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 Nitya Chakraborty Dr. Ranajit Guha, the most globally known Indian historian who introduced a new approach to history writing through his ‘subaltern studies’, passed away on April 28, less than a month before the Renaissance man was due to touch his 100th year on May 23. He was intellectually active till the end. Since […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Dr. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, presently Chancellor and Professor of History at Ashoka University, is a well-known Indian historian who has done commendable work on different areas of the country’s history. His scholarship on the First War of Independence/Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, as also his sensitive understanding of the complex relationship between Subhash Chandra […]

The post Nothing New In Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s ‘A New History Of India’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The explosive facts mentioned by the former Jammu & Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik in his interview with The news portal The Wire last week, have not elicited any response till now from the PM’s office though the veteran politician blamed the Prime Minister and the then Home Minister Rajnath Singh for […]

The post Opposition Must Demand A Supreme Court Monitored Probe On Pulwama Massacre first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Just one year is left for the holding of the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for April/May 2024. The non-BJP opposition parties are having discussions for building a comprehensive unity of the opposition political parties who are determined to remove Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power at the coming Lok Sabha polls. This […]

The post Overemphasis On Total Opposition Unity Before 2024 Lok Sabha Polls, May Be Counter Productive first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Om Prakash Sabherwal, more known as OP in Delhi’s media circles, was a leading journalist in the national capital for more than five decades in the last century. He joined India Press Agency (IPA) in1959 at the call of IPA founder Nikhil Chakravartty and was connected with the organization till his last […]

The post Remembering Days With O P Sabherwal On His Birth Centenary Day On April 13 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The 26th tranche of the electoral bonds is on sale from April 3 and it will continue till April 12. Karnataka assembly elections are scheduled on May 10. The principal beneficiary of the electoral bonds, will be in a position to make full use of the money available from the bonds for […]

The post Supreme Court Must Come Out With An Interim Stay On The Sale Of Electoral Bonds first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty There has been a sudden change in the political mood of the country, especially among the non-BJP opposition parties after the conviction of the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by the Surat Court and consequent disqualification of Rahul as Lok Sabha member from Wayanad constituency of Kerala. If the conviction is not stayed […]

The post Congress Should Not Confuse Legal Coalition On Rahul As Political Alliance first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The petition moved jointly by 14 leading opposition parties to the Supreme Court seeking its intervention in the ‘misuse’ of central investigation agencies by the Narendra Modi government against the leaders of the non-BJP parties, has big political significance in the present phase of political turmoil in the country. The immediate provocation […]

The post Opposition Petition To Supreme Court Forms The Core Of Political Campaigning Against BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty There are lot of discussions in the media about the recent meeting of the Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with the Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav in which both of them said that they would explore the possibility of bringing together the political parties opposed to both the Congress and the BJP. […]

The post There Is No Scope For Pre-Lok Sabha Poll Total Opposition Unity To Take On Narendra Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.