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By Harihar Swarup The outcome of the recent round of elections for 75 Rajya Sabha seats offers significant political insight into lay of the land in India’s states and at the Centre, and highlights the institutional paradoxes at the heart of India’s bicameral Parliamentary system. Take the political fallout and four of its features. The […]

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By Sushil Kutty June 19 Rahul Gandhi turns 52. And it called for a perspective on the life and times of Rahul Gandhi. Not everybody’s cup of tea, because Rahul Gandhi doesn’t leave much to the imagination. He is in a class all his own. First and foremost, Rahul Gandhi is not a ‘chaiwala’, his […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Has Turned 52 : He Is Still Young As A Politician But What Next? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

General VP Malik, the Army chief who led India to victory during the Kargil War, expressed support for the Agnipath scheme today and said the Army is not interested in recruiting hooligans responsible for the violence taking place during the protests against the short-term recruitment plan. Violence was reported from five states — Bihar, Uttar […]

The post People burning buses not fit for armed forces: Ex-Army chief first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik The craftiness of imperialism is boundless. In several countries of the world at present there are neo-fascist governments, propped up by their respective big bourgeoisie (all aligned to globalized capital), and implementing neo-liberal policies with their characteristic ruthlessness; in many other countries, there are neo-fascist outfits attempting to get into power by […]

The post Unemployment In India Today Is Worse Than Any Year Since Independence first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty If it   is not broke, don’t fix it. That, and let sleeping dogs lie. Modi could have walked away, let sleeping dogs lie. But he chose to fix that what didn’t need fixing, could it be that our Prime Minister thinks he’s got the answers for everything, and that everything about India […]

The post Our Prime Minister Is A Fixer In Chief In The Country For Every Vexed Issue first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The meeting of the seventeen opposition parties of the country on June 15 at the instance of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to decide on nominee for Presidential elections due on July 18, has been a big success considering the problems which the regional parties were having with the Congress […]

The post June 15 Meet Of Opposition Parties Is A Positive Step Towards 2024 Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The decision of the Modi government to introduce the Agnipath scheme and raise a strong band of Agniveer ought to be seen in the present political perspective in India when the ruling party BJP is openly talking of establishing a Hindu Rashtra. This move of the Modi government would not only drastically […]

The post Agnipath And Agniveer Are Designed To Saffronise Indian Military first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prakash Karat Kerala is witnessing the dubious spectacle of Congress and BJP protesters out in the streets demanding the resignation of the chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan. In several places, the protesters have turned violent and clashed with the police. The agitation has been motivated by the ludicrous allegations made by an accused, Swapna Suresh, […]

The post Both Congress And BJP Are Following Bankrupt Policies In Kerala first appeared on IPA Newspack.

A day after the Centre launched Agnipath, a radical recruitment plan for the armed forces, protests have erupted at various parts of the country, with youngsters accusing the government of making a fool of them. Protests broke out in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur and Buxar today, with the protesters asking what they will do after four years. […]

The post Widespread protests over Agnipath scheme for military jobs first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Agnipath and Madhushala! Two poems of Harivansh Rai Bachchan, actor Amitabh Bachchan’s father. Agnipath is about ‘hope’, while Madhushala spells ‘drunken despair’. But, with “Tu na thakega kabhi / Tu na rukega kabhi / Tu na mudega kabhi / Kar shapath, Kar shapath, Kar shapath / Agnipath agnipath agnipath”, is the Modi […]

The post Agnipath Is Our Prime Minister’s Seminal Contribution To Defence Programme 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.

By James M Dorsey Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al-Baqr, a man known for his pithy retorts, pretended to quiver in his pants. Hindu nationalists had called for a boycott of the Gulf airline after Qatar took India to task for derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed and Muslim worship by two spokespeople of the country’s […]

The post India-Gulf Spat Over Prophet Remarks: Protagonists In Glass Houses first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The BJP clinched victories in three of the four states where a close contest for the 16 Rajya Sabha seats saw cross-voting and alleged breach of election rules. The Congress retained three seats in Rajasthan, but suffered setback in Haryana. Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal, and former state minister Anil Bonde, and Dhananjay […]

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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 Aditya Amir Is Section 66A of the Information Technology Act making a comeback? This at a time when restrictions on Freedom of Expression are beginning to get the upper hand over free speech. The return of Section 66A is bound to lead to further restrictions and keep people from posting critical remarks on the […]

The post Bringing Back Section 66A Through The UN Convention Route first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Reserve Bank of India has done a delicate pirouette in formulating its monetary policy in the context of extreme volatility and uncertain turn of events. All that RBI has done on Wednesday is to raise the policy interest rate —called the repo rate— by half a percentage point.  This rate hike comes […]

The post Rise In Interest Rate By RBI Again Is A Part Of Its Plan To Deal With Global Headwinds first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government might in all probability be able to bring the friendly Arab governments round to softening their initial response to what they consider to be the most sacrilegious remark by BJP leaders against Prophet Mohammed. The government has already intensified the firefighting, with special efforts being made to explain […]

The post Narendra Modi Govt’s Image Has Got A Big Jolt In Gulf Nations In Last Few Days 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 […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are confronting each other to poach vote bank to the advantage of BJP in next Lok Sabha polls. At a time Samajwadi Party is facing tough challenge from BJP in two crucial by-elections in Azamgargh and Rampur won by the party in 2019, BSP national […]

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The BJP has set new boundaries for its spokespersons and leaders joining TV debates as its government faces a huge international backlash over party leader Nupur Sharma’s comments on Prophet Muhammad. Only authorized spokespersons and panelists will participate in TV debates, BJP sources say, and they will be assigned by the media cell. The spokespersons […]

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By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: With the announcement of election schedule of local bodies, Madhya Pradesh is in the grip of election fever. Because of Covid-19 election is late by two years. During the last two years local bodies were being governed by officials. Besides the two major parties – BJP and Congress – several other […]

The post Madhya Pradesh Is In The Grip Of Election Fever For Local Bodies Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas With Panchayat elections due early next year in West Bengal, there are ominous signs that the polling process could be just as violent and troublesome as the last time in 2018. That year parties opposing the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) could not put up candidates for 34% of the seats in contention, […]

The post Opposition Parties Are No Match To Trinamool In Coming Panchayat Polls In Bengal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sankar Ray The monolithic dictatorship of the Taliban shows cracks as the compulsion for compromises on certain issues looms large. There is bitter opposition within the top leadership. It was apparent months ago when the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, publicly pulled up the Taliban high command for banning girls from […]

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