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By Amulya Ganguli   The enforcement directorate’s relentless pursuit of the Congress and other opposition parties can prove to be counter-productive in the long run.   For a start, the impression can grow that the supposedly autonomous  agency is being less than professional in its targeting of the non- BJP parties. The narcotic bureau’s botched […]

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  By Arun Srivastava   While Narendra Modi’s buddies and his Andha Bhakts have been striving hard to project him as one of the most visionary political leader India has ever produced, his actions portray a different picture that strengthen the impression of his being a leader who does not possess the basic element of […]

The post Narendra Modi Is Making All Efforts To Make India ‘Opposition Mukta’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday accused the Congress of appeasement politics, declaring their black-clothes protest was actually against the foundation ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. Pointing out that today is the anniversary of the foundation ceremony, he said the Congress, by holding the protest in black clothes, “is sending a subtle […]

The post Amit Shah says Cong protest has anti-Ram temple message first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Parliament has been witnessing a standoff between the government and the opposition over the issue of price rise and inflation, with the opposition demanding urgent debate on the issue and the Modi government showing the inclination to go to any extent, including suspension of over a scores of members belonging to the […]

The post Modi Govt Continues To Run Away From Vexed Inflation Issue first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra The incidence where Health Minister of Punjab rebuked the Vice Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences and asked him to lie down on the bed with torn mattress has brought shame to the nation. Dr. Raj Bahadur Gaur, the Vice Chancellor is an upright person against whom not a […]

The post Punjab Incident Relating To Dr. Gaur Speaks Bad Of The State Govt first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Myanmar’s military rulers on July 252 reported the execution of four pro-democracy activists — Phyo Zeya Thaw, Kyaw Min Yu, Hla Myo Aung, and Aung Thura Zaw. Ko Jimmy and Phyo Zeya Thaw were convicted under counter-terrorism laws in January while Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw were convicted for […]

The post Indian Govt At Last Expresses Concern At Myanmar Junta Killings Of Activists first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Binoy Viswam After assuming the office, President Droupadi Murmu tweeted, “Johar! Namaskar, I humbly greet all the fellow citizens from this sacred Parliament, a symbol of the hopes, aspirations, and rights of all the citizens of India. Your affection, trust and support will be my greatest strength in discharging my functions and responsibilities.” In […]

The post Indian People Are Looking Forward To President Murmu With High Hopes first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dipankar Bhattacharya Fifty years have elapsed since the death of Comrade Charu Mazumdar in Kolkata’s Lalbazar police lock-up. Back then, the Indian state must have heaved a huge sigh of relief, expecting his death to mark the end of the revolutionary wave that had spread across India in the wake of Naxalbari. But five […]

The post Remembering CPI(ML) Leader Charu Mazumdar Fifty Years After His Death first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Twenty suspended Rajya Sabha members Wednesday started a 50-hour relay protest inside the Parliament complex, with sources saying the Opposition declined the Chairman’s offer that they express regret over their members’ behaviour in the House to get the suspension revoked. They were later joined by four Congress MPs who have also been suspended from Lok […]

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By Kalyani Shankar Dynastic politics is perhaps the antithesis of democracy. Critics say it is amongst many political evils in the Indian democratic setup where most parties, including the Congress, are being run like family enterprises. The paradox is many regional satraps have emerged in the past 75 years and co-exist in a democracy. More […]

The post Major Theme For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Is ’Dynast Free Bharat’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A political showdown is brewing between the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government and the Union Government over the latter’s attempt to weaken the former through partisan use of the Enforcement Directorate(ED). CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan fired the first salvo by declaring the CPI(M)’s intent to legally and politically counter the […]

The post Standoff Over Centre’s Attempt To Target KIIFB first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Amulya Ganguli An unprecedented event in January, 2018, saw four Supreme Court judges hold a Press conference – the first and last, in their view – to announce that democracy in India is in peril because “things are not in order” in the judiciary. Four years later, Chief Justice N.V. Ramana, has also voiced […]

The post Indian Judiciary Is Still Failing To Act As The Custodian Of Democracy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Uttam Kumar Verma The Narendra Modi-led Union Government professes the credo of ‘minimum government, maximum governance’, popularized and propagandized by large sections of mainstream news media and the ideologues of English-speaking public officers who usually support government decisions in every step. This is another example of ‘Modinomics’, which comes up with new ideas on […]

The post Privatizing Public Sector Assets Is Against Society’s Interests first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Hilary Goodfriend In January 2022, Xiomara Castro became Honduras’s first woman president, restoring electoral democracy to the country after more than a decade of dictatorship. Running with the leftist Liberty and Refoundation (LIBRE) party, Castro’s election breaks with the century-old two-party system that traded power between elites in the establishment National and Liberal Parties. […]

The post Socialist President Xiomara Castro Reviving Democracy In Honduras first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The rupee struck 80 and trespassed into the BJP’s ‘Margdarshak Mandal’ territory, and the opposition parties took note of it. But none from the BJP cared to respond, even when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a swipe, tweeting “Amritkaal at 80”, and newly-minted Congress Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Surjewala tweeted “Marg Darshak […]

The post Narendra Modi Is No Boris Johnson, BJP Has No Rishi Sunak To Resign first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated Droupadi Murmu on winning the presidential election. “India scripts history,” PM Modi tweeted after the National Democratic Alliance candidate – now the first tribal President of India – defeated the joint opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. “At a time when 1.3 billion Indians are marking Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, a […]

The post PM says Murmur win ray of hope for citizens first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sankar Ray A clear win in 15 out of 20 seats in the bye-elections to Punjab provincial assembly by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has unnerved the 13-party ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement.It indicates that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is not at all formidable in its home turf. It was thrashing late swinger by the former Pakistan […]

The post Imran Khan’s PTI’s Massive Win In Bypolls Is A Big Jolt To Pak Ruling Coalition first appeared on IPA Newspack.

An all-party meeting on the turmoil in Sri Lanka has been called on Tuesday evening, with briefings by Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Dr S Jaishankar, the government said on Sunday, following appeals by Tamil Nadu-based parties to intervene in the crisis. At a meeting of parties ahead of the Monsoon Session of parliament, the […]

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By James M Dorsey US and European acquiescence in Turkey’s long-standing refusal to honour Kurdish ethnic, cultural, and political rights came home to roost when Turkey initially objected to Finnish and Swedish membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Ultimately, Turkey postponed potential conflict in NATO by dropping its initial objection to Finland and […]

The post Spotlight on U.S. Double Standards In Dealing With Turkey And Middle East first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup The Thackeray-Shinde feud has split the Nation. While some commentators are critical of Eknath Shinde’s departure, terming it as a subversion of party politics, others find it to be a correction of Uddhav Thackeray’s departure from the alliance with the BJP in 2019. The dissension within the Shiv Sena is not uncommon. […]

The post Final Status On Control Of Shiv Sena Party Depends On Supreme Court first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Those who wrote the PFI document, currently in circulation, to convert India into an Islamic state by 2047 know their English. The grammar is clean and it took the author just eight pages to conquer India lock, stock and barrel. The long and short of it is, Indian Muslims want to rule […]

The post ‘Alleged’ PFI Document Makes Some Dangerous Observations About India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A flaming political row has erupted over the controversial comment made by former minister and CPI(M) MLA M M Mani against Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) MLA K K Rema in the Kerala  Assembly. The Opposition United democratic Front (UDF) has demanded an apology from Mani, who had remarked that the CPI(M) […]

The post Controversy In Kerala Over CPI(M) Leader’s ‘Anti-Women’ Remark first appeared on IPA Newspack.

A Delhi court while granting bail to Alt News fact-checker Mohammed Zubair in a 2018 tweet case on Friday said Hinduism is one of the oldest and most tolerant religions and rejected the prosecution’s argument that  Zubair’s use of “Before 2014” and “After 2014” in a tweet had hurt sentiments of Hindus. The BJP had […]

The post Court upholds dissent while granting bail to Zubair first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu has so far received the backing of BJP, BJD, YSR Congress, TDP, Janata Dal (Secular), Shiromani Akali Dal, JDU, AIADMK, Lok Jan Shakti Party, Apna Dal (Sonelal), Nishad Party, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Republican Party. Other parties like India (Athawale), NPP, NPF, MNF, NDPP, SKM, AGP, PMK, […]

The post NDA Presidential Candidate Droupadi Murmu Is Set To Win On July 18 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.