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By Nitya Chakraborty Things are heating up in Indian politics as the BJP and the Sangh Parivar prepare for the next phase of assembly elections in the states within this yearend as also in 2023, and, eventually, tobe followed by the Lok Sabha polls in March-April 2024. After the last round of assembly elections resulting […]

The post Prashant Kishor, A Ray Of Light At The End Of Tunnel For The Opposition first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty It is good that the Chief Justice of India N V Ramana has agreed to take up for hearing a pending petition challenging the Electoral Bond Scheme, 2018 .The 20th tranche of electoral bonds opened on April 1 this year and it will continue till April 10.It would have been better if […]

The post Supreme Court Has To Take An Early Decision On Electoral Bonds first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] is holding its 23rd Party Congress in Kerala this month, from April 6 to 10. The delegates attending this five-day session will be deliberating on both the national and international situations, and, on the final day, will be adopting a document which will guide the […]

The post CPI(M)’s 23rd Party Congress Must Help Unite Seculars Against Saffrons first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Three weeks have passed since March 10 when the results of five state assembly elections were announced.  From that very day, the winner in four states BJP, is preparing for the next round of elections scheduled in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat by the end of 2022. In both the states, the BJP […]

The post M K Stalin Is Now The Best Choice To Head A Revamped UPA first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Karl Marx died in London on March 14, 1883. Three days later on March 17,  Friedrich Engels in his speech at the grave of his best friend and partner in their bid to change the world, said: ‘On March 14, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the assembly elections to the five states – Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur – have shown that the Grand Old Party the Congress is on the decline. The Party has not only lost its ruling state Punjab miserably to the Aam Admi Party (AAP) but also done […]

The post Five Assembly Poll Results Jolt For Congress, Boost To BJP And Narendra Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The maverick film director of Bengal Mrinal Sen, the second most important member of the famous troika in the cinema world that included Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, will step into his 100th year on May 14, 2023. Significantly, Ray was born just two years before in 1921, on May 2, the […]

The post Remembering The Debate Between Satyajit Ray And Mrinal Sen Over ‘Akash Kusum’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The massive victory achieved by Trinamool Congress in the latest elections to 108 civic bodies in Bengal covering all the districts is a continuation of the trend which was evident at the assembly elections in 2021.In all the subsequent elections held in the state, first Kolkata Municipal Corporation, then polling in four […]

The post Decoding Trinamool Congress’s Massive Victory In Latest Civic Polls In Bengal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The confrontation over Ukraine between Russia and the United States has reached a decisive stage with President Putin recognizing the two breakaway regions Donetsk and Luhansk and soon after President Joe Biden announcing strong sanctions aimed at crippling the leading Russian banks and the financial institutions. The U.S. and the NATO aim […]

The post 2015 Minsk2 Agreement Is The Only Basis Now For Averting War On Ukraine first appeared on IPA Newspack.