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By Sushil Kutty It’s a month since the Maha Vikas Aghadi government fell and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis took over replacing the Uddhav Thackeray alliance. They haven’t yet started governing Maharashtra in earnest as there is no ministry formation. The two appear to be enjoying the honeymoon while […]

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The controversial law to link Aadhaar and Voter Identity Card has been challenged in the Supreme Court, with Congress’s Randeep Singh Surjewala demanding that it be scrapped. In his petition, Mr Surjewala has called the law “unconstitutional” and a violation of the rights to privacy and equality. The top court will hear the case tomorrow. […]

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By Arun Srivastava Indian media’s unwillingness to question the rulers, the people in power and also its reluctance to uphold the cause of the common people is a deliberate move to conceal the illegal scheming of the capitalist economy and the manoeuvring of the RSS and Modi government to trample democracy and crush democratic institutions. […]

The post Corporate Media In India Not Taking Strong Position Against Attacks On Human Rights first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sitaram Yechury The horrendous killing in Udaipur has been universally condemned. While the authorities have acted in rounding up those involved, the culprits must receive severe punishment. The growing incendiary atmosphere of hate and violence in the country is dehumanising our society. This spiral of hate must end. The union government ordering the NIA […]

The post Punish Culprits For Gruesome Killing Of Tailor In Udaipur first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty At last the Delhi Police has gone and done the unpardonable. The capital’s constabulary, which answers to the Union Home Ministry, summoned AltNews co-founder Muhammad Zubair from Bengaluru to Delhi and Monday, June 27, took him into custody in what looked like a sleight of the ham-handed. If it was a non-BJP […]

The post AltNews Co-Founder’s Arrest By Delhi Police Is A Violation Of All Laws first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The ordeals Rahul Gandhi has been facing in the National Herald money laundering case are yet to dissipate. The probe pertains to alleged financial irregularities in the Congress-promoted Young Indian Private Limited, which owns the National Herald newspaper. The ED probe is more of the nature and intent of insulting Rahul for […]

The post Entire ED Exercise Over National Herald Issue Is Meant To Demean Rahul first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Thirty-five WhatsApp groups have been banned for allegedly spreading fake news about the Centre’s new Agnipath scheme, sources have said. The ban comes amid violent protests over the planned short-term recruitment in the armed forces, which is set to start this year.  The military has accused coaching centres of instigating the young people. Over the […]

The post Crack down on WhatsApp groups over Agnipath protests first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The spate of violence that erupted across the country, in which two persons lost their lives in Ranchi on Friday is an ugly blot on the fabric of inclusive India. It ought to not have occurred in the first place. This has provided wide space of manoeuvring by the Hindutva forces who […]

The post Friday Violence By Muslims Is A Gift In Disguise For The Hindutva Forces first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain was on Tuesday sent to ED custody till June 9 in connection with a money laundering case. Jain was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday in connection to the case. The AAP leader’s arrested drew sharp reactions from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which called it a political […]

The post Jain sent to ED custody, Kejriwal says charges fake first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Actually, it shouldn’t have been breaking news. The clean chit to Aryan Khan was on expected lines. Nothing on earth could have overturned the outcome. The only two questions remaining were ‘Who in his sound mind chose to slam-dunk Aryan Khan s/o Shahrukh Khan with a narcotics charge? Look at what happened […]

The post Aryan Khan Episode Exposes The Working Of Narcotics Control Bureau first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan pulled no punches as he took on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday for “exhorting” states to cut their share of taxes on petrol and diesel, saying his state did not need “dictation from people who perform worse than us”. “We have one of the best statistical outcomes […]

The post TN minister challenges Nirmala Sitharaman on fuel tax cuts first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharati was named after the infamous Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA). The dreaded MISA was invoked to send many to jail before it was consigned to the pages of history. Lalu himself has had several jail visits, and it was only recently that he stepped out […]

The post Behind The Bars: Time Looms For Sidhu, Karti And Even Lalu Prasad first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Majoritarian nationalism can go wrong and it can land the leaders in a hot soup! This is the unmistakable message from the Sri Lankan crisis. The Rajapaksa family was the darling of the majority Singhalese and it indulged in hate politics against Hindus and Muslims. The isolation of the minority came […]

The post Majoritarian Nationalism Of Rajapaksa Family Has Failed In Sri Lanka first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today blamed the BJP for the recent communal incidents in the state, including yesterday’s violence in Jodhpur, which marred the Eid celebrations in the city. Curfew was declared in Jodhpur today following two consecutive days of communal clashes. “This is the agenda of the BJP because inflation, unemployment has gone […]

The post BJP diverting attention from economy, says Gehlot first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ravi Nair The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act [AFSPA] was passed by the Indian Parliament on September 11, 1958. The Parliament was told it would last no longer than a year. In 2022, we are still waiting for that year to end. The Act contains immunity clauses for the armed forces even if they […]

The post AFSPA In North East Is A Never Ending Trauma For Activists And Citizens first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The United States has “deep concerns” about “alignment” between Russia and China, a senior US official said Monday after high-ranking US and Chinese officials met for seven hours on the Ukraine war and other security issues. Russia unleashed a barrage of airstrikes Monday on cities across Ukraine as the warring sides traded blame for a […]

The post US ‘concerned’ over China’s alignment with Russia first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Independent journalism – the kind that favours public interest over political, commercial, or factional agenda – is in peril, due to erosion of business models, increasing crackdowns on press freedom, and ongoing threats against the safety of journalists. The coming decade, therefore, will be decisive for the survival of a democratic […]

The post Independent Journalism In Peril, Right To Information At Risk first appeared on IPA Newspack.