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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav blamed BJP government gross misuse of official machinery and breakdown of democratic institutions to win Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha by-elections. Akhilesh Yadav said that voters of Azamgarh and Rampur we’re in favour of Samajwadi Party but BJP government used all possible methods to win […]

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By Eoghan Gilmartin “A very hard blow.” Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez couldn’t mask his disappointment at the resounding defeat for his Socialist Party (PSOE) in its traditional stronghold of Andalusia last Sunday. In a seismic shift in the country’s electoral politics, the conservative Partido Popular (PP) swept to victory in Spain’s most populous region, […]

The post Right-Wing Takeover In Andalusia Is A Setback To Spain’s Coalition Govt first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Amulya Ganguli A feature of the present ruling dispensation at the centre is the fear that it has generated even among the rich and famous. The late tycoon, Rahul Bajaj, was perhaps the only one who had referred to this phenomenon of “new India” at a gathering where the BJP’s bigwigs were present. It […]

The post Fear And Sycophancy Stalking Present India Under BJP Regime first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The opposition candidate for the presidential election, Yashwant Sinha, reached out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday, seeking their support for the July 18 polls. Sinha also dialled Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and reminded him of the commitment that the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) had made when he […]

The post Yashwant Sinha dials PM, Rajnath Singh for support first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha There are reports, released by Oxfam a few months back, to be exact, on January 23, 2022, that reveal that seventy percent of the national wealth is in the hands of select ten per cent. For the rest, it is thirst, hunger and a bleak present. Dragging themselves towards the end of […]

The post Unemployment Of Youth And Inequality In Indian Society Is Rising first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Shaoni Das On November, 2020 The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020 came into being, which was subsequently passed by the UP Legislative Assembly in 2021 as an Act. Under this Act, a person can’t change their religion without giving a prior notice to the district administration. In fact, a […]

The post Hate Campaign Against Minorities Is Being Normalised first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sankar Ray Pakistan’s new foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s speech at the foundation ceremony of Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad marks a complete hyphenation from his maternal grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who took over as the foreign minister in the early 1960s following the death of Mohammad Ali Bogra under the Chief Martial […]

The post Bilawal Bhutto Has Put Pak Foreign Policy In A Fresh Perspective first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava It would be simply an act of naiveté to believe that the BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma has dented the image of Narendra Modi or his government.  It is Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah who had prepared the backdrop and handed over the brief, to malign the Muslims, to their subjugates. Of […]

The post Speeding Up Hindutva Programme Before 2024 Polls, Is Backfiring first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha Why the state needs to crush a section of innocent people? Perhaps to set an example to show that any violation, even those imagined, cannot be taken without any reassertion of unbounded power and create fear. Bulldozer, a huge, faceless machine that can run uninterrupted, turning people’s settlements into debris has its […]

The post Demolition Of Minority Houses At Prayagraj Is Totally Illegal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have decided to ramp up their agitation seeking the resignation of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. On its part, the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front(LDF) has  taken a decision to counter the motivated agitation politically. As part of the plan, the […]

The post Congress Ramps Up Anti-Government Agitation In Kerala first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar Elections and defections go together despite stringent anti-defection laws in the country. The law proves ineffective as the legislators are lured by money and position. The lawmakers skirt around the rules, find loopholes to their advantage, and defy them. In last week’s Rajya Sabha polls, Rajasthan’s BJP legislator Shobharani Khushwaha, Congress’s Haryana […]

The post Parliament Must Plug Loopholes In Present Anti-Defection Law first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava In the New India of RSS and Narendra Modi it is the lathi and not the rule of law that defines and underlines the character of India. Though the RSS and BJP leaders are not tired of claiming that India has not deviated from its traditional path and continues to be a […]

The post Bulldozer Is The New Power Symbol In India Of Narendra Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty “Of course, you were not spreading rumours, the charge is you were spreading facts.” That’s the blurb on an RK Laxman cartoon of 1962, 60 years ago. Today’s cartoonists should take a kerchief out of Laxman’s pocket-cartoons. Lampooning is serious business. It should tickle the cerebral cells. The sarcasm should be biting, […]

The post Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Is A Judge, Jury And Executioner In Uttar Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.

10 People pelted stones at police personnel in Prayagraj and Saharanpur and protests broke out after Friday prayers in at least four other cities in Uttar Pradesh over a now-suspended BJP leader’s recent remarks on Prophet Mohammad. Police have arrested more than 130 people from six districts of the state. In Prayagraj, some motorcycles and […]

The post Over 130 held in UP’s Prayagraj, Saharanpur first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sanjay Roy The possibilities of persistent inflation seem to be looming large and a resultant contraction in demand primarily because of a cost-of-living squeeze is going to impact the growth rate, the forecast of which undergoes a downward revision in recent rounds by most rating agencies. The Russia-Ukraine war and the consequent rise in […]

The post High Inflation Is Eroding The Real Wages Of The Working People In India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra Strong differences of opinion continue to widen the gulf between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his ally BJP. After CM Nitish’s initiative on caste census compelled alliance partner BJP to also come to the fore on the issue, the canny CM has now said that there was no need for […]

The post Nitish Kumar Says No Need For Anti-Conversion Law In Bihar, Stumps BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Branko Marcetic Allow me, for a moment, to indulge my inner Tom Friedman. A few weeks back, I was exchanging the usual banter with a taxi driver, Amandeep, an Indian immigrant who had lived in New York nearly two decades, when the conversation turned to politics. After telling me about the racist and sexist […]

The post Bernie Sanders Should Run For President A Third Time In 2024 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Steve Sweeney US President Joe Biden’s so-called Summit of the Americas has been branded “a neoliberal failure” after some regional leaders refused to attend over his exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The leaders of Bolivia, Honduras and Guatemala are boycotting the week-long event, which opened in Los Angeles on Monday. Some are sending […]

The post Joe Biden’s Summit Of The Americas Turns Out To Be A Big Flop first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey United States of America and European acquiescence in Turkey’s long-standing refusal to honour Kurdish ethnic, cultural, and political rights has come home to roost with Turkish opposition to Finnish and Swedish NATO membership. The opposition has sparked debates about Turkey’s controversial place in the North Atlantic defence alliance. Turkey’s detractors point […]

The post Double Standards Haunt US, Europe In NATO Dispute With Turkey first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran Unfazed by fresh ‘revelations’ in the diplomatic channel gold smuggling case, the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government has demanded a probe into the conspiracy to discredit it. The Government’s demand has come following the ‘new’ allegations levelled by Swapna Suresh, an accused in the smuggling case. In her statement given […]

The post There Is A Calculated Conspiracy To Discredit Kerala Chief Minister first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Julian-Nicolas Calfuquir With France’s parliamentary elections scheduled on June 12, Jean-Luc Mélenchon looks in a stronger position than ever. Where other left-populist challengers around the West have struggled to build lasting organization, or even to repeat their initial electoral scores, his France Insoumise movement has established itself as a key force in national politics. […]

The post Broad Left Coalition Has An Edge In French National Assembly Poll On June 12 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is celebration time for the Congress and the party-led united Democratic front (UDF) after a long drought of election victories. The Congress has just scored a spectacular victory in the Thrikkakara assembly by-election with its candidate Uma Thomas defeating CPI(M)’s Dr Jo Joseph by a record margin of 25,016 votes. […]

The post Congress Win In Thrikkakara Bypoll Is A Big Boost To The Party And UDF first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra The names of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, BSP Supremo Mayawati, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and a few others have been circulating as possible presidential candidates for the last few months. Adding to that list are the names of socialist veteran Sharad Yadav and TMC leader Yashwant Sinha, who are touted to […]

The post Sharad Yadav, Yashwant Sinha Are In Opposition List On Presidential Nominee first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Binoy Viswam The Modi government under the control of RSS has completed eight years. The Prime Minister and his companions have mobilised every propaganda means to boast about their ‘tremendous’ achievements. The sufferings and sorrows of the masses are cunningly drowned with the flood of propaganda gimmicks. During the last eight years when the […]

The post During Eight Years Of His Rule, Narendra Modi Has Encouraged Divisive Forces first appeared on IPA Newspack.