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By Harihar Swarup About 3,000, registered unrecognized parties exist in India. Most of them are sham entities which rarely take part in any democratic exercise, but misuse legal exemptions offered to them and perpetuate huge scams ranging from tax evasions to money laundering, running into thousand crores of rupees. For instance, there is commercial establishment […]

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By Subrata Majumder Till Mr Shinzo Abe took Japanese Prime Minister-ship for the second term, India-Japan relation was confined to economic cooperation on bilateral issues. Given the bonhomie between the two Prime Ministers, the relations reached deeper on geopolitics to downplay China’s global influence. Many political and economic analysts observed the old approach of India-Japan […]

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By K Raveendran Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget has played truant with the gold trade, which is in the throes of a crisis for what the finance minister has not done rather than any act of commission in her last full-fledged budget of her current tenure. The gold trade had been looking for a cut in the […]

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By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Who will be the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh? This question is being asked in political circles – both in the BJP and Congress. While this question is almost settled in BJP the issue is still open in Congress. While it is certain that the BJP will contest the next […]

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By Krishna Jha It was the continuing process of instability in the economy that was more obvious with CMIE data showing the country’s unemployment rate touching a four month high, at 7.9 percent in December, 2021, the urban employment rate rose from 8.21 in November 2021, to 9.3 percent in December 2021.  In December, 2022, […]

The post All Economic Data Indicate That The Real Wages Of The Poor Are Falling first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava During the last one month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited poll-bound Karnataka three times, notwithstanding the top leadership’s consistent reiteration that the state leaders would design and spearhead the campaign. Union home minister Amit Shah is also not far behind PM Modi. Shah has visited Karnataka for no fewer than half […]

The post Poll Campaigning In Karnataka Gets Challenging For Ruling BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said there is a big drop in terror incidents in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 and a record number of tourists are visiting the Union Territory. Presenting the President’s Colour to the Haryana Police in recognition of its exceptional service, Shah also said the […]

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Religion is at the center of a political controversy in Maharashtra now as the Opposition has hit out at the BJP-Eknath Shinde combine for an advertisement by the Assam government which claims that India’s sixth Jyotirlinga lies in the state. The advertisement has triggered opposition parties, with several political leaders from Congress, NCP and Shiv […]

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By Sushil Kutty It has started. The Empire has struck back, the undeclared emergency is out in the open. Teams of Income Tax officials landed in BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai on Valentine’s Day to conduct what it called ‘surveys’, and not ‘raids’. The “surveys” were on at multiple locations. Recall that the Modi […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his pride and magnanimous words when the country took the responsibility of G20 in the beginning of December 2022, and now UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said with great poignancy to turn “words into action” to get the world back on track for 2030 SDG […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee With government banks and financial institutions involved in massive funding in the lately stock-crashed Adani group enterprises, legislators from India’s main opposition parties are understandably concerned. Last week, even the Supreme court sought to know from the government and market regulator the steps needed to improve the regulatory and statutory mechanisms to […]

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By Arun Srivastava With India facing a diabolical threat from the  rightwing  RSS and BJP, the immediate and most urgent task for the revolutionary communists is to save the country from this flurry of fascist disaster and destruction and to accomplish this it is imperative that all democratic forces and ideological streams should come together […]

The post CPI(ML) Liberation Calls For Broadest Unity Of Democratic Forces To Fight RSS-BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The human body is 80 percent water. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s is 80 percent hubris, the remaining 20 percent hot air for ballast, also called ‘bombast’! Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma and qualities to inspire are garnished with enough narcissism to sink INS Vikrant! And his breadth of vision matched only by […]

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In a stinging attack on the Gandhi family, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked why they do not use “Nehru” as their surname and said India is not a slave to any family. The Prime Minister also accused the grand-old-party of toppling several state governments during their rule at the Centre. “If in some […]

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Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday asked Rajya Sabha chairperson, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, why parts of his speech on Prime Minister Narendra Modi were scrubbed from parliament records, a day after similar action against party leader Rahul Gandhi. “I don’t think there was anything unparliamentary or accusatory against anyone in my speech… But a […]

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By Krishna Jha Prime Minister Narendra Modi has blocked the demand raised by the Opposition in the Parliament for an enquiry to be monitored by the Supreme Court or to set up Joint Parliamentary Committee to investigate the Adani group’s manipulations of the stock market and fraud and into the allegations levelled against the industrialist […]

The post Prime Minister’s Refusal To Probe The Fraud In Adani Group Smacks Of An Unholy Alliance first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The newly formed political party Tipra Motha is likely to emerge as the kingmaker after the Tripura assembly polls, in which it will fight a triangular contest with the BJP-IPFT and Congress-Left Front alliances. Tipra Motha, headed by erstwhile royal scion Pradyot Manikya Debbarma, refused to stitch an alliance with either the BJP or foes-turned-friends […]

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After a third attempt, the mayor and deputy mayor of Delhi could not be successfully elected by the Delhi Assembly. A brand-new date will now be fixed once again by the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi in the coming days. This is the third time in a month that the municipal House failed to elect a […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee The Russia-Ukraine war will complete a full year on February 23, this year. And, there is no sign of the war coming to an end any time soon. In fact, the armed conflict between the two East European neighbours is becoming deadlier by day. As of January 29, this year, the UN […]

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