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By Sushil Kutty The problem with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is that he thinks and dreams elections, only elections. Winning elections. And setting electoral records! Not that setting a record in elections has helped the people who voted the BJP, or helped those who did not vote the BJP. Like the Muslims of India, both […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 needs to address the rising inequality in India that has acquired an alarming trend at a time when economic growth of the country is projected to decelerate during the next fiscal. The World Economic Forum in Davos 2023 (January 16-20) is in progress that has also brought the […]

The post Union Budget 2023-24 Must Address Rising Inequality In India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

BJP president J P Nadda’s term was extended till June next year at the party’s national executive meeting on Tuesday, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserting that it will win the 2024 Lok Sabha polls with a bigger mandate than 2019. The widely expected development underlines the party’s preference for continuity as it gears […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global economic slowdown is most likely to force workers to accept lower quality jobs in place of decent works. It has already adversely impacted the global employment growth which has been faltering, and pressure on decent work has considerably increased. Pressure on decent working conditions are even undermining social justice. It […]

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By K Raveendran Vice-president Jagdeep Dhankar and law minister Kiren Rijiju are decidedly waging a proxy war on behalf of the Narendra Modi government. The Collegium happens to be just a prop and the real target is the Constitution, which the ruling party considers as a hindrance to the pursuit of its isolationist agendas. While […]

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By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s virtual speech to the Global South leaders has come in for a degree of praise not expected for a leader under siege in his home country. A large constituency of Indians consider Prime Minister Modi’s nearly nine years in power not worth the calendars they were published in. […]

The post Prime Minister’s Address At Global South Leaders Meet Is Inspirational first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Joshimath has been sinking for months, but could grab attention of the governments at the Centre and the State only recently that too after the subsidence started dangerously manifesting itself. Warnings served in 1976, 2001, and 2013 were grossly ignored. Human greed continued to explore the natural resources hastening the sinking […]

The post Supreme Court Has A Greater Role To Save Joshimath first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran There is one thing common among the Indian CEOs of global IT giants: all of them completed their higher education from a leading foreign university. Such exposure decidedly put them into the big league and the corollary is that the lack of a foreign degree is as good as a disqualification for […]

The post Indian Universities Need To Break Out Of Text Book Education first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak India would be going downhill for the next two years, if Global Economic Prospect just released by the World Bank is of any indication. GDPs for 2023and 2024 have been revised down to 6.6 per cent and 6.1 per cent respectively, which are below 0.5 and 0.4 per cent compared to […]

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By Sushil Kutty It’s Kurukshetra. And Mahabharata. Bharat Jodo yatri Rahul Gandhi alleges the RSS are “21st Century Kauravas in khaki half pants”. And RSS Chief Mohan Mohan Bhagwat says Hindus are not finished with the “1000-year war with foreign invaders, foreign aggressions, foreign influences and foreign conspiracies.” The 21st century war is political, with […]

The post Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra Success Triggers Ideological War Within Sangh Parivar first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Indira Jaising On January 10,  a curative petition was filed by the Union of India versus the Union Carbide Corporation (‘UCC’), and American Chemical Corporation now owned by Dow Chemical Company, an American multinational chemical corporation, pertaining to the Bhopal Gas Disaster. The disaster occurred on December 3-4, 1984 and the victims have been […]

The post Curative Petition In Supreme Court Is No Relief For Bhopal Gas Victims first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a veiled attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and dubbed them as “21st century Kauravas”. Addressing a street-corner meeting after the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by him reached Ambala district Monday evening, Mr Gandhi said Haryana is the land of the Mahabharata and went on to take […]

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By James M Dorsey An official visit to Xinjiang to assess the fate of Turkic Muslims in the troubled north-western Chinese Province is a risky proposition by any definition. Even so, it would be worth the risk if China and Turkey could agree on the terms of a visit. The problem is that the terms […]

The post Turkey Walks A Fine Line To Challenge China On Uighur Repression first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, the main contending formations in the coming Assembly elections have stepped up efforts to secure an alliance with the pace-setting tribal Tipra Motha (TM) party. So far, the TM has maintained an equidistance from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)/IPFT alliance and the Left front/Congress grouping. Observers find such tactics […]

The post In Tripura, All National Parties Vying With Each Other To Woo Tipra Motha first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran 2023 may well be a year of gold. This is because despite several negatives the yellow metal has outperformed everything else. And with the New Year expected to unravel all that traditionally has worked in favour of gold, this asset class appears to be non-stoppable right now. IMF has warned that a […]

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By Prakash Karat India abstained on a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 31, 2022 that asked International Court of Justice (ICJ) to render its opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territories. The resolution was passed with 87 countries supporting and 26 opposing.  India abstained along […]

The post Under PM Narendra Modi, India Resiles Itself From Palestinian Cause first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The government has been shifting the goal posts of demonetization from black money elimination to greater tax realization and finally digitization to suit its arguments from time to time for justifying the mindless decision, whose parentage is being disowned by every party involved. Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had at one stage […]

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By Sushil Kutty Will the Bharatiya Janata Party ever get more than a foothold in states south other than in Karnataka? The number of times the BJP has undertaken serious forays down south has been equalled only by the number of times the  Congress has launched Rahul Gandhi in politics, of which the ongoing Bharat […]

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