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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 […]

The post Ranajit Guha Gave A New Dimension To History Writing Through His Subaltern Studies first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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.

By Nitya Chakraborty The political resolution adopted at the three-day Congress plenary at Raipur last week is marked by pragmatism by the party leadership. Whether in dealing with strategy on alliances with the opposition parties, or in formulating the social justice-driven agendas, the leadership has shown both understanding and vision to take on the BJP […]

The post Congress Strategy Adopted At Raipur Plenary For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Is Pragmatic first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress plenary session in Raipur which began on February 24 has to perform the historic task to frame its policy of alliance with the non-BJP opposition parties which are ready to take on the saffrons in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress is the biggest opposition party in the country […]

The post Congress Plenary In Raipur Has To Adopt A Flexible Approach To Opposition Parties To Take On BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress is holding its three-day plenary session at Raipur beginning February 24. This conclave is going to be crucial for the party in framing its strategy for the coming Lok Sabha elections in April-May 2024 that are barely 13 months away. In the current round of the state assembly elections in […]

The post Congress Needs A Composite Strategy To Take On BJP In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The 2023  assembly election season has started with the polls in Tripura scheduled on February 16 and Meghalaya, Nagaland on February 27. The results of all the three states in the first phase, will be known on March 2. The outcome will be having significant impact on the tempo of the poll […]

The post BJP May Lose Power In Two Out Of Three North Eastern States After Assembly Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty As a part of the tradition of the global CEO’s body World Economic Forum (WEF), the annual five day jamboree at Davos has started and the Global Risk Report 2023 has been released mentioning both the existing risks as also the new dangers threatening the global economy. As a journalist who attended […]

The post WEF’s Global Risk’s Report 2023: What It Means For Indian Economy? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led the BJP to a massive victory in his home state Gujarat in the latest assembly elections. The Congress has faced its worst disaster in the state of Mahatma Gandhi in 2022 polls. Certainly, there are reasons for the BJP to rejoice but the way the BJP […]

The post BJP’s Big Victory In Gujarat Does Not Mean Any Sweep Of Narendra Modi In Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty I saw last week in Netflix Writer Director Pan Nalin’s latest film “Last Film Show”, ”Chhello Show” in Gujarati. The film has already been nominated by India as its Oscar contender for the 2023 Academy Awards Function scheduled in March. Only last week, Nalin’s film was named as the winner of the […]

The post India’s Oscar Contender “Last Film Show” Is A Poignant Human Document first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee has done it again. His third book’ The Song of the Cell’ published this year has once again mesmerized the doctors, scientists and the common readers much more than the impact he had with his first two books ‘The Emperors of all Maladies’ and ‘The Gene’. Mukherjee has come […]

The post Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Third Book ‘The Song Of The Cell’ Is A Masterpiece first appeared on IPA Newspack.