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By Sushil Kutty In the mid-1990s and about the time when the Bharatiya Janata Party was still building its formidable cadre, the Telugu Desam Party’s N. Chandrababu Naidu used to be the busiest political body in Delhi and everybody knew if something political was cooking it would be in Naidu’s kitchen. Current Congress leader Rajiv […]

The post Cornered In South After Karnataka Debacle, BJP Woos TDP For Telangana, Andhra Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though India is currently the third largest polluter in the world in terms of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) emission as estimated in 2020 after China and the United States, its pollution is less than half of the US and one-fourth of the China. Moreover, if taken historically, India’s contribution in pollution between […]

The post Developed Nations Should Appreciate India’s Work In Fighting Pollution first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Pakistan seems to be teetering on the edge of an abyss of crisis with none its political parties offering a policy prescription of course correction. Uncertainties abound even as industrial sector contraction is likely to rise, former prime minister Imran Khan despite being bogged down in a number of litigations not asking […]

The post National Elections In Pakistan In October This Year May Not Ensure Stability first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda has accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of running a “nafrat ka mega shopping mall (shopping mall of hate)” rather than his touted “mohabbat ki dukaan (shop of love)”. The latter is the theme of Rahul Gandhi’s ongoing trip to the United States. “Rahul Gandhi can’t swallow our country’s glory. […]

The post BJP counters Rahul’s ‘Mohabbat dukaan’, with ‘Nafrat mega mall’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Days after an under-construction bridge over the Ganga river collapsed in Bihar’s Bhagalpur, Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) leader and state Minister Tej Pratap Yadav alleged the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) demolished it. “The bridge has been demolished by BJP. We are building the bridge and they are demolishing it,” said Yadav on the collapse of the Aguwani-Sultanganj bridge. The […]

The post Tej Pratap blames BJP for collapse of Bihar bridge first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Rujira Banerjee, wife of Trinamool leader Abhishek Banerjee, was allegedly stopped by immigration authorities here from boarding a flight to Dubai citing a “lookout” notice by a central investigating agency, her lawyer said. According to sources, Rujira reached Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport with her two children around 7 am to board a flight […]

The post Abhishek Banerjee’s wife stopped from Dubai flight first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Rajasthan rebel Congress leader  Sachin Pilot is ready to sever ties with the Congress and form his own party, various media reports hinted. According to these reports, Pilot is being helped in the process by Prashant Kishor’s political consultancy firm I-PAC. Volunteers of I-PAC are believed to have helped Pilot in planning his one-day hunger […]

The post Speculation over Sachin Pilot plan to launch new party first appeared on IPA Newspack.

India is a vibrant democracy and anybody who happens to go to New Delhi can see that for themselves, the White House said Monday, as it appeared to dismiss concerns about the health of democracy in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a state visit to the US later this month. “India is […]

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Mounting pressure on the Centre over the Odisha train tragedy that claimed 275 lives, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that roping of another agency without expertise shows that the government has no intent to address systematic safety malaise. His remarks came a day after Union Railway Minister […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the BJP and RSS are “incapable” of looking at the future and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to drive the Indian car by only looking in the rearview mirror which will lead to “one accident after another.” Gandhi addressed a massive community event at the Javits Centre […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee The cat is out of the bag. India is not the only country using imported Russian oil to export processed petro-products. West Asian oil giants, led by Saudi Arabia, are buying millions of barrels of Russian diesel oil, which is banned in Europe, to sell the product to buyers in the European […]

The post More Russian Oil Is Making Backdoor Entry Into NATO Nations Via Saudi Arabia, UAE first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Sulking is common to non-BJP Chief Ministers. And opposition unity suffers. Right now the tribe of non-BJP Chief Ministers sees opportunity in Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s problems. The Modi government’s ordinance upturning the Supreme Court’s verdict that gave Delhi’s AAP government control over “services” is the magnet for opposition unity and […]

The post Questions Galore About BRS Decision Not To Join Crucial Opposition Conclave first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Only few years ago, the Union Minister of Railways had claimed in the Parliament of India that they made railway journey safe, though the trains were running late in the country. The claim had come in reply to a question as to why trains were being run late. The Minister had […]

The post Secure Railway System To Prevent Balasore Like Deadly Accidents first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava For nine long years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been dictating political actions in India, but the expected opposition meet will not only redefine the nature of the political discourse of the country, but would set a completely new political narrative, engineering a different political activism and vision in the public domain. […]

The post Opposition Is Looking Confident Of Defeating RSS-BJP Combine In 2024 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Odisha police has filed a case with charges of “causing death by negligence and endangering life” in the Balasore train accident which killed 275. The investigation will soon be taken over by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). “At present, culpability of specific railway employees has not been ascertained, which will be unearthed during […]

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Karnataka’s Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences minister, K Venkatesh, on Saturday asked if buffaloes can be slaughtered, then what is wrong with slaughtering cows. The Minister was referring to the difficulties farmers face maintaining aged cattle and disposing of the dead. According to an India Today report, Venkatesh also said that the amendment of the bill […]

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India’s top wrestlers, who have been protesting against BJP MP and chief of the country’s wrestling federation Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, met Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday. Olympian Bajrang Punia told NDTV that they met the Home Minister late on Saturday evening at his Delhi home. Sources say the meeting that began at 11 […]

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