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By Arun Srivastava The RSS has now emerged as the prime driver of the BJP poll campaigns in the elections and with the Lok Sabha polls scheduled in April/ May 2024, its role is getting expanded in the electoral strategy of the BJP. It was visibly evident in the assembly elections to the three north-eastern […]

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By Amitabha Sen The World’s second largest economy, China is currently holding more than half of the global wheat stocks leaving much behind the combined stocks of the US and the European Union’s 27 member states. If excluded China, the global stocks can take care less than two months consumption. This is revealed in the […]

The post China Dominates Global Wheat Market With Its Record Stocks In 2022-23 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava RSS which claims to be the nation’s conscience keeper and beholder of the highest order of morality utterly lacks moral conviction to explain the reasons for its strident opposition to the caste census which basically aims at ascertaining the correct socio-economic position and to reflect on population size of the OBCs, EBCs, […]

The post RSS Is Strongly Opposed To Adoption Of Caste Census At National Level first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Soma Marla In India, landownership is crucial for the upliftment of the rural poor. Even after seven decades of independence from British colonialism, the rich landed sections occupy vast tracts of land while the small and landless, who form 80 percent of the farmer community possess only a negligible portion. The landless situation […]

The post Suspension Of Earlier Land Reforms Measures Has Adversely Affected Rural India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prakash Karat There is much talk about opposition unity these days.  Such talk has gathered momentum after a series of meetings of various leaders of opposition parties.  This comes in the background of the united stand of eighteen opposition parties in parliament during the second half of the budget session, where they all demanded […]

The post Opposition Parties Must Work On A Clear Cut Alternative To Fight BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Trinamool Congress leaders were irate on hearing Union home minister Amit Shah’s call to his party activists to ensure victory from 35 constituencies in Lok Sabha elections next year and usher in a BJP government in 2025. But had these Trinamool leaders taken a little pause and watched Shah’s subsequent words, the […]

The post Amit Shah’s Claim Of 35 Lok Sabha Seats In Bengal In 2024 Poll, Is Meant To Soar Up Sagging Morale Of State BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak International Labour Organization (ILO) has categorically told the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) that social justice is indispensable in protecting the workforce since inequality has been growing worldwide. The importance of the statements lies in the fact that these have been delivered at a time when the world labour […]

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By Sushil Kutty Ever since Covid happened to humans, the World Health Organization has disappointed a lot of people. First it seemed to let off China with a light rap on the wrist. Then, it floundered in the number-crunching. So much so, it gave to our own high-flying Prime Minister Narendra Modi the blushes when […]

The post Latest Surge In Covid Virus Poses Fresh Challenges In Dealing With Variants first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran A graph tweeted by Rahul Gandhi, sourced to ‘India’s Consumer Economy 360 Survey’, and showing that between 2016 and 2021 income of the poor class decreased by about 50 per cent has put the focus on the think-tank that produced the survey report.  Rahul cited the graph to back his claim that […]

The post Minefield Of Labour Statistics: Confusing Signals And Conflicting Claims first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Government of Punjab has just started compensating farmers of the state for their crop losses due to inclement weather conditions in March and April. AAP government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann kept their assurance to do it at lightning speed in transparent manner and met the deadline of Baisakhi, […]

The post Farmers Across States Must Be Compensated As In Punjab first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra As per the reports, Somalia with a Population of 17 Million is passing through serious crisis of food security.  Over 200,000 people are facing catastrophic levels of food crisis. ‘Due to starvation they are dying, falling prey to diarrhoea, measles or malaria etc. Number of deaths last year is estimated to […]

The post Famine In Somalia Once Again Focuses On The Need For Global Food Security first appeared on IPA Newspack.

On the birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday took a swipe at the government, saying the “culture of forcing silence” and branding people “anti-nationals” is a dangerous trend that will finish our democracy and destroy the Constitution.  In his message on Ambedkar Jayanti, Kharge also alleged that Parliament has […]

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The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which has lost recognition as a national party, is currently in a state of confusion. From senior party leaders to first-time MLAs, all are anxious, even as informal meetings are underway to brainstorm. As the current government of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde completes nine months, there are many theories […]

The post Confused NCP awaits next Pawar move to avert crisis first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, before she left for the United States to defend the Narendra Modi government on a number of charges levelled against the   nine-year-old government, spent some time in poll-bound Karnataka and explained the special bond her party and her government shared with the state and its people. Ms. […]

The post Corruption Issue Dogs Bommai Administration As Karnataka Assembly Polls Are Nearing first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Indian children have fundamental right to education and the number of incidences of violation has crossed 12.5 lakhs in the form of out of school students during the education session 2022-23 just ended. Equity and inclusion thus remain important issues, apart from quality and relevance of the India’s education system that […]

The post India Needs To Be Worried About Its Children first appeared on IPA Newspack.

It seems a Punjab repeat happening in Rajasthan for the Congress. Sachin Pilot will sit on a day-long fast today asking for action by his own government against the ‘corruption’ of the former Vasundhara Raje government. The events seem erringly similar to the ones in Punjab two years ago when the state Congress chief, Navjot […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The 26th tranche of the electoral bonds is on sale from April 3 and it will continue till April 12. Karnataka assembly elections are scheduled on May 10. The principal beneficiary of the electoral bonds, will be in a position to make full use of the money available from the bonds for […]

The post Supreme Court Must Come Out With An Interim Stay On The Sale Of Electoral Bonds first appeared on IPA Newspack.