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By Arun Srivastava Already made has been the strong demand on the floor of the Bihar assembly that the Enforcement Directorate [ED] and the Central Bureau of Investigation [CBI] should be asked to seek permission from the respective state government before proceeding against anyone in the state, similar to the legal proviso enacted by the […]

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By Ashis Biswas After a tense truce, the war of words between American liberal lobbyists and the Bangladeshi ruling establishment over the Nobel laureate economist Mohammad Yunus has returned in full fury. 50 Dhaka-based thinkers have strongly countered a recent statement issued in a leading American daily in favour of Dr. Yunus, calling it a […]

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will address a rally of AAP in Bhopal on Tuesday as he kicks off the party’s campaign for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, due later this year. The rally, to be held at BHEL Dussehra Maidan in the state capital, is expected to be a show of strength by the […]

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Launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress’ Rajasthan in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Monday levelled allegations against PM Modi, questioning the Pulwama incident. He said that if Modi is finished the country will be saved, however, if Modi stays then the country will be ruined. Randhawa said, “Our fight is not with […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee The arrest of Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia last month by a federal agency, CBI, for alleged financial corruption connected with the change in the state’s liquor policy, has understandably upset a large section of opposition parties across the country. Last year, Delhi’s health minister Satyendra Jain was arrested by another […]

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By K R Sudhaman Whenever joblessness arises, parochial issues like migrant labour raise their ugly head in different parts of the country. Be it the attack on South Indians in Mumbai in the 1960s by the late Bal Thackeray-led Shiv Sainiks, or on UP bhaias and Biharis in 2000s. Migration has always taken place in […]

The post Anti-North Indian Worker Bias Raises Its Ugly Head Again In Tamil Nadu first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty So, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ‘ek akela sab par bhari’! Does that make him ‘God’? The Creator’? Perhaps, the ‘One’ who makes the Sun rise? The Congress says any such thoughts in the Prime Minister’s head should be squelched, cleansed right away, because Modi is behind the “dead democracy” in India! […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a veiled swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his recent remarks in the UK and said that questioning India’s democracy amounts to insulting the tradition and legacy of the country and also its citizens. Speaking at a public meeting in Karnataka ahead of the state assembly elections […]

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Taking a serious note of the clashes and violence in the aftermath of the elections in BJP-ruled Tripura, a Left-Congress delegation on Saturday said it will raise the issue in Parliament to bring the matter to the knowledge of all countrymen. Members of the delegation, who had come under an attack of miscreants in Nehalchandranagar […]

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By Arun Srivastava The BJP leadership going bonkers and hurling all kind of insinuation against Rahul Gandhi, even to the extent of implicitly accusing him of working against the interest of India, makes it explicit that the Congress leader has hit the bull’s eye. His mission to use his UK visit as an extension of […]

The post Rahul Gandhi’s UK Outreach Was An Extension Of Bharat Jodo Yatra first appeared on IPA Newspack.

A fact-finding team of MPs and MLAs from the Left parties and the Congress, which arrived here on Friday to look into post-poll violence in Tripura, was attacked in Sepahijala district, police said. No one of the eight-member team was injured in the attack in Nehalchandrangar, Assistant Inspector General (AIG), Law & Order, Jyotishman Das […]

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K Kavitha, Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader and daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, appeared before Enforcement Directorate this morning in the Delhi liquor policy case. Manish Sisodia has been arrested in the same case. It is learnt that ED will question Kavitha in the presence of middleman Arun Ramachandran Pillai, who the agency […]

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By Arun Srivastava There is a famous Sanskrit adage, “Ati Barjayet”; meaning excess is forbidden. But looking at the practices and politics of Narendra Modi it could safely be construed, though he claims to follow principles of Sanatan Dharma and Hindutva that it does not apply to him. Else instead of pursuing wisdom of political […]

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Two well-known, articulate MLAs in their early forties of the Aam Aadmi Party, Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj, have been sworn into the Arvind Kejriwal cabinet as ministers, two days after the President of India accepted the resignations of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and former minister Satyendar Jain. Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj took their […]

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K Kavitha, senior leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), is holding a hunger strike in New Delhi today to demand the introduction of Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament. Leaders of several parties, including Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, National Conference, Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party, are expected to participate in Ms Kavitha’s […]

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By Prakash Karat The orgy of violence unleashed in Tripura after the assembly election results were announced on March 2 was an act foretold once the BJP got a majority, albeit a narrow one.  As of March 6, around a thousand incidents of attacks and violence by the BJP gangs took place all over the […]

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By Binoy Viswam Tripura is once again thrown into the pool of disarray. The innocent people of the north-eastern state are experiencing what the BJP has in store for them, once back in power. For a short span of time during the election campaign the people there hoped to breathe peacefully. They expected the BJP […]

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By K R Sudhaman The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party may be upset by the utterances of noted economist and former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan that India may be heading towards Hindu rate of economic growth meaning the economy is drifting towards an era of low growth. But this is something worth pondering over by the […]

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Ahead of the second leg of the Parliament’s budget session that will begin on March 13, the Trinamool Congress led by Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has chalked out their strategy to corner the BJP government. The Chief Minister and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee held an informal meeting with MPs Sudip Banerjee and Derek O’Brien […]

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The ties between AIADMK and the BJP have slid to an all-time low, with the BJP workers in Tuticorin burning photos of AIADMK chief E Palaniswami, accusing him of violating “coalition dharma’. Last week, five BJP leaders had joined the AIADMK – among them was the BJP’s state IT wing chief CRT Nirmal Kumar. On […]

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Surveys indicate that Congress is projected to win over 140 out of a total of 224 seats in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly polls, party state unit president DK Shivakumar claimed on Tuesday, as he also suggested that several sitting legislators of the ruling BJP will be joining the party in the coming days. He was […]

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The Bharatiya Janata Party has already started various campaigns in the country in its preparations for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The party is targeting voters from every section of society. As part of this, the BJP will now start a ‘Ghar Ghar Chalo’ outreach programme for the scheduled caste population of the country. To […]

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