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By Sushil Kutty They don’t look like lost and found brothers. Edappadi K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam share nothing in common other than that they were “dual leaders” of the AIADMK, the party that MGR founded and J Jayalalithaa carried in her aura. Now, her two self-proclaimed protégés have in less than two years of […]

The post The Big Battle In AIADMK Is Set To Continue Despite E K Palaniswami’s Win first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The presidential election to be held on July 18 in the real sense is a royal battle between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the former BJP minister Yashwant Sinha. It would be wrong to construe that Sinha has a tough challenger in Draupadi Murmu. But there is no doubt that by […]

The post NDA’s Tribal Candidate Draupadi Murmu Has Divided The Opposition Camp first appeared on IPA Newspack.

A day after firefighting in Goa to keep its flock together, leaders of the Congress, off the record, described the “Operation Lotus” the ruling BJP allegedly attempted. Sources said the BJP had a chartered flight ready to move six Congress MLAs out of Goa — all the MLAs had been incommunicado on Sunday, setting alarm […]

The post Rs 25-30 cr offered to lure Goa Cong MLAs, say sources first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sarah Thanawala On July 7, a special National Intelligence Agency (‘NIA’) court in Mumbai presided by Special Judge Rajesh Kataria, rejected the plea filed by Gautam Navlakha and Sagar Gorkhe, to use mosquito nets in prison. The court allowed Navlakha and Gorkhe to use mosquito repellant ointments and natural mosquito incense sticks. Special judge […]

The post Bhima Koregaon: NIA Court Rejects Plea To Use Mosquito Nets In Prison first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy It is symptomatic of the ultra-nationalistic indoctrination of China under Xi that news of the attack on former Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, was greeted with celebrations on their internet social media. Shinzo Abe had reversed two of Japan’s self-inflicted restraints or flagellation. Shinzo Abe had visited the Yakusuni Temple and he […]

The post Shinzo Abe Played A Leading Role In Adapting Japan To Needs Of New Century first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Political signals emanating from Bihar are important for two major reasons – first, these could drastically alter the contours of politics in the state, and secondly, it could potentially impact the communal politics across the country. The most recent changes include defection in All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) led by Asaduddin […]

The post RJD’s Expanding Base Is Worrying Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava US congress accepting a resolution commemorating the life of the  rights defender and Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy, on his first death anniversary and seeking an independent investigation into his death has been a matter of disgrace for the Modi government which only a week back had signed a resolution along with […]

The post Resolution On Stan Swamy’s Death In US Congress Has Global Implications first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The last time the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) piled on the heat on the Modi government was ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, promising to relegate the BJP to second or even third place. That did not happen. Other factors set the trend for the poll outcome despite the vestiges […]

The post Samyukta Kisan Morcha Is Again In A Mood To Fight Modi Government first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar Just as Shiv Sena split in Maharashtra, the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu is engaged in a power struggle between two former chief ministers, E. Palaniswami (EPS) and O. Panneerselvam (OPS). In a fast-developing drama, the EPS camp would like to relieve OPS of his present post of party treasurer and deputy leader […]

The post AIADMK Is Facing Another Split As EPS Marginalises OPS In Power Struggle first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Uddhav Thackeray gathered the Shiv Sena — at least the part that he still commands — at its office in Mumbai on Monday evening and dared the new government led by party rebel Eknath Shinde to mid-term elections. This came hours after the Team Shinde-BJP coalition proved its majority comfortably as some more Shiv Sena MLAs crossed over […]

The post Uddhav Thackeray dares Shinde, BJP for mid-term poll first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Hyderabad or Bhagyanagar? Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the city for the big BJP meet, referred to Telangana capital as Bhagyanagar during his address to the delegates from across the country. The Prime Minister said that it was in Bhagyanagar that Sardar Patel, the freedom fighter icon, had coined the term “Ek Bharat”. “PM Modi […]

The post Modi’s Bhagyanagar name for Hyderabad sparks buzz first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to see that a host of large Indian business houses and public sector enterprises have rapidly stepped up imports from Russia taking full advantage of hefty price discounts offered by Russian suppliers on a host of goods in the face of multiple trade sanctions from the NATO countries, European […]

The post Top Indian Business Houses, PSUs Push Up Imports From Russia first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Several things were happening when the BJP was holding its national executive in Hyderabad, targeting Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao with an eye on the Telangana assembly elections slated for 2023. Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid low KCR with attacks on dynastic politics, resistance was building up against the […]

The post Hard Core Hindutva Is Making Governance Difficult For Narendra Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Now that ‘Operation Lotus’, Maharashtra edition, has successfully added the richest state in the realm to the 2024 BJP war-chest, ‘Operation Lotus’, Telangana edition, is ready for launch. And Telangana is in the neighbourhood, right next to Maharashtra. Therefore, the Bharatiya Janata Party is holding its national executive in Hyderabad with Prime […]

The post K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Strong Enough To Keep BJP Away From Telangana first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty What next for Shiv Sena? Will the Eknath Shinde faction grab the party from “rightful owners”, the Thackeray’s, and run with it? That must be in Shinde’s mind. The fellow is no angel. It requires a stout mean heart to rebel and run roughshod over shallow sentiments. Shinde wants the Shiv Sena […]

The post Testing Time For Uddhav Thackeray As The Battle For Shiv Sena Control Begins first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar Is the ongoing Maharashtra political crisis an ideological battle within the Shiv Sena or the inability of  Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to convince his Sainiks about his soft Hindutva? Or is it the BJP’s ambition to eliminate all non-BJP governments, or is it for the realignment of political forces? It is […]

The post Uddhav’s Soft Hindutva Is Being Challenged By Shiv Sena Hardliners first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ben Beckett On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and making abortion illegal in at least eighteen states, with more potentially to follow. Despite ample warning, based both on the justices’ histories and the leak of the decision almost two months before it became official, national […]

The post United States Supreme Court Is Using Its Unchecked Power Against People first appeared on IPA Newspack.

As both sides have refused to blink and appear prepared for a long fight, sources say Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari may ask the Maharashtra government to prove majority in the house sometime this week. Sources claim that the Eknath Shinde camp is consulting lawyers over the Constitutional provisions for holding a floor test. Shinde, the leader of […]

The post Governor may ask for trust vote in Maharashtra tussle first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Had the Modi Government not been undergoing some fresh resistance from the unemployed youths for yet another disastrous policy experiment in defence recruitment, the rules under four controversial labour codes would have been notified by now for their implementation from July 1, as it had been earlier planned, despite stiff resistance […]

The post Central Trade Unions Get Ready To Fight New Rules For Workers first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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.