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By Rahil Nora Chopra The storm of disagreement between NDA allies BJP and JDU shows no signs abating, with both parties bitterly disputing over Nitish Kumar’s future vis-à-vis staying on as the Bihar Chief Minister beyond 2025. In this context, the chairman of the parliamentary board of Janata Dal (United), Upendra Kushwaha, has indicated his […]

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BlueArk Staking Pool Offers 45% APY for Investors Achieved a Record-breaking Total Staking Value of HK$100 million in 10 Days HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 8 April 2022 – BlueArk (“BlueArk” or “the Company”) was officially launched on the 1st of September 2021. Its platform token, BRK, recorded a surge in market value of over 400% in 6 months since its listing. The BlueArk Concept […]

By Sushil Kutty It’s come to where it does not matter if the slip is showing. The fiery Shiv Sena seems to be reconciled to paralysis, incapable of protecting its own from the trepidations of CBI and ED. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is as if nowhere in the picture. The question is shouldn’t the Shiv […]

The post Shiv Sena Thwarts The BJP From Bringing Down The MVA first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha Even long before independence, in 1888, Sir John Stratchy told the Cambridge undergraduates “…There is not and never was an India, or even any country of India, no Indian nation, no people of India about whom we hear so much…that men of Punjab. Bengal, north west provinces and Madras…should ever feel that […]

The post Narendra Modi’s Recent Comments Indicate A Process Of Oligarchy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By D. Raja On behalf of the Communist Party of India, I extend REVOLUTIONARY greetings to the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). I express my sincere thanks for inviting me to the inaugural session. The 23rd Congress of the CPI(M) is taking place in Kerala, which made history for democratically electing […]

The post CPI Greets The 23rd Congress Of CPI(M) In Kannur Which Began On April 6 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Sri Lanka’s opposition dismissed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s invitation to join a unity government as “nonsensical” and instead demanded his resignation over the country’s worsening shortages of food, fuel and medicines. The Lankan President has named four ministers to maintain the legitimacy and stability of Parliament until a full Cabinet is appointed. An emergency health situation […]

The post Lanka Opposition spurns offer to join govt, protests continue first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav After an economic crisis, Sri Lanka has plunged into a political crisis now. On Monday morning, news reports said that the entire Sri Lankan Cabinet has resigned. There were also rumors that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa had resigned or would resign soon but his office denied the rumours. Another rumor that […]

The post Economic Crisis In Sri Lanka Turns Into A Major Political Imbroglio first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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By Sushil Kutty Even King Soloman wouldn’t succeed in breaking this stalemate. There is one baby, Chandigarh, and two states claiming to be mothers, Punjab and Haryana, both unwilling to sacrifice the baby or hand it over to the other. By right, Punjab is the “mother” and should get the ‘baby’. Everyone, from Indira Gandhi […]

The post Punjab Government Has Every Right To Claim Inclusion Of Chandigarh In The State first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The U.S. boasts one of the most promising real estate markets globally, gaining a record $6.9 trillion in 2021 alone. Things are certainly looking up for real estate, and everybody’s trying to hop on the real estate bandwagon. The problem is real estate investments need loads of cash, or so you thought? Real estate wholesaling presents a simple way to break into the real estate market without significant capital. […]

All ministers of the Sri Lankan cabinet have resigned in the wake of the mass agitation against the policies of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Protesters have been demanding the resignation of the Rajapaksa family as they defied a curfew to take to the streets in several cities. The country […]

The post Entire Lankan cabinet quits as protests refuse to abate first appeared on IPA Newspack.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 4 April 2022 – foodpanda today released its first Social Impact Report, titled pandapurpose, highlighting initiatives the company has taken to contribute to socio-economic and environmental sustainability challenges in Asia. As the largest food and grocery platform in Asia (outside China), foodpanda dedicated over US$35 million to support communities, help Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) digitalise, train and upskill delivery riders […]

By K Raveendran The proposed rupee-rouble trade for oil will be a key ingredient, along with Russian insistence on rouble payments from European gas customers, in Putin’s sanctions-busting programme. The Biden administration has obviously seen the implications of an India-Russia oil deal and it is no surprise, therefore, that Washington is trying to put pressure […]

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By Harihar Swarup Last week, Union house minister Amit Shah introduced a brand new bill within the Lok Sabha to unify the three municipal bodies of Delhi (MCDs). Whereas the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) says that the bill was brought to rid the MCD of its perennial monetary disaster, the contents of the bill and […]

The post Amit Shah’s New MCD Bill Spells Doom For Delhi Local Bodies first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman The Narendra Modi government may be elated at the ever increasing GST collections in recent months with the revival of the economy. A record GST collections of Rs 1.42 lakh crore in March this year is good and it also indicates that more and more industries and traders are getting into […]

The post Fuel Price Hike Rekindles Debate On Balancing Direct And Indirect Taxes first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik In the five days ending March 26, petrol and diesel prices in the country had been hiked four times, with more such daily hikes in the offing. On each occasion the hike had been by 80 paise per litre, so that the total increase during the week had been Rs 3.20 per […]

The post Centre Has To Opt For Alternative Pricing Mechanism For Petro-Products first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha History is always a series of justice for one and the injustice for the other. It is the way evolution moves. Finding new ways amidst the darkest clouds, leaving them behind and move on. The days of March 28 and 29 were the similar days in the year of 2022 when once […]

The post In Pandemic Period, The Injustices To The Underprivileged Have Increased first appeared on IPA Newspack.

People in Sri Lankan capital Colombo, suffering for weeks under a terrible economic crisis, erupted in protest late this evening. More than 2000 people held a protest march in the Lankan capital near the President’s house demanding that he step down, and clashed with the police. The paramilitary police unit, a Special Task Force, had […]

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By K R Sudhaman Mercurial Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress Supremo, appears to have climbed down a bit to realize that she cannot on her own bring about opposition unity under her umbrella without main opposition Congress being in the pack. The fact that she had contacted DMK supremo and Tamil […]

The post Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Can Save Opposition Unity By Taming Mamata Banerjee first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar The BJP has reposed faith in the incumbent chief ministers in all the four states where it won in the recently concluded Assembly elections. Whether it was a coincidence or by design, the big picture is clear: the party high command did not want to disturb the winning formula in these states. […]

The post BJP Opts For Continuity, Stability And Youth In CMs Choice first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The two-day nationwide strike, called for by a joint forum of central trade unions to protest against central government policies has evoked mixed response, with some states like Kerala reporting complete shutdown while life in the metros went on without much disruption. Amarjeet Kaur, All Indian Trade Union Congress General Secretary, told PTI that they […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik The juggling which US imperialism has to do to maintain its hegemony becomes more bizarre by the day. First, it kept needling Russia (“provoking the bear”) “on behalf of the western alliance” by expanding NATO to its very borders, knowing full well that Ukraine’s joining NATO would be totally unacceptable to Russia. […]

The post The Bizarre Case Of United States Imposing Sanctions Against Russia first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak World Air Quality Report 2021 has unmasked the Modi government showing its ugly face which has been masked since April 7, 2015 by a so called flagship scheme to monitor air pollution in the country with the launch of National Air Quality Index. Despite the big claims, air quality in the […]

The post World Air Quality Report Unmasks Modi Government’s Incompetence first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar Will the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal emerge as a challenger to  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress Party, or both? No doubt winning Punjab will encourage him to spread his Aam Admi Party’s wings to other states, but can he achieve his ambition? It may be difficult as the other regional […]

The post Arvind Kejriwal Is Young, He Has Time In His Favour, He Should Work For 2029 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sankar Ray The more the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan Niazi zooms in on 25 March (if not earlier),the fateful voting for no-confidence motion at the National Assembly, the more rattled is the hierarchical order of the main ruling party, Pakistan Tehreek-i- Insaf, headed by the PM. As if sensing that his prime […]

The post Panicky Imran Khan Bracing Himself For Possible Shock In No-Trust Vote first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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