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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 […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra In an attempt to bring back the politics of social justice before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi have raised the demand that the Union government should go ahead for a caste census with immediate effect. Kharge has written to Prime Minister […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” is set to embark on a three-day visit to India starting on April 28, 2023, in what is seen as a significant step in strengthening bilateral ties between the two neighbouring countries. So far, India-Nepal relations have either in the context of its poor […]

The post Nepal Prime Minister’s Coming Three Day Visit To India Has Special Significance first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Gujarat police have arrested Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Yuvrajsinh Jadeja in Bhavnagar city of the state for allegedly extorting Rs 1 crore from two persons, one of whom is accused of being the mastermind of the dummy candidates racket that was exposed recently, an official said. AAP’s youth wing leader Jadeja was arrested […]

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With her acquittal in the second and last case against her in the 2002 riots cases, doors are now open for former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Maya Kodnani to stage a comeback in Gujarat’s active politics, a decade after her political graph nosedived following allegations related to the post-Godhra communal violence. Gujarat BJP leaders on […]

The post Kodnani’s political career set for revival after acquittal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

After dreaded gangster Atiq Ahmed, another mafia-politician from Uttar Pradesh — Mukhtar Ansari — is in the spotlight. The focused shifted to Punjab after chief minister Bhagwant Mann refused to clear a file with a bill of Rs 55 lakh incurred on “facilitating” the stay of the gangster in Ropar jail. Mann accused the previous […]

The post Punjab CM refuses to sign Rs 55 lakh bill for don’s jail comforts first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Congress state president D K Shivakumar on Friday hit out at the BJP government in Karnataka for giving sanction to the CBI to prosecute him in a disproportionate assets case, calling it “vindictive”. The High Court of Karnataka on Thursday dismissed the petition by Shivakumar challenging the sanction. Shivakumar claimed that the government did not […]

The post Karnataka govt permits CBI to prosecute state Cong chief first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Trinamool Congress on Friday claimed that central agencies are not keen on taking action against BJP leaders despite having evidence of their involvement in the cattle smuggling scam. “The CBI and ED are very prompt in acting against TMC leaders and those from the opposition parties, whether in Bengal or other states. But, whenever […]

The post TMC alleges flip-flop by central agencies in cattle smuggling 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. Gyan Pathak The acquittal of all living 67 accused in a Special Court in Ahmedabad has clearly showed that the riot victims of Naroda Gam massacre have been served injustice in place of justice. As the case stands now, prosecution has miserably failed in producing evidence against the accused persons, while judiciary failed […]

The post Once Again, The Rioters In 2002 Gujarat Massacre, Go Scot-Free first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik Government officials never tire of repeating that India is currently the fastest growing major economy in the world. What they never mention is the fact that India had witnessed perhaps the sharpest absolute drop in GDP among the major economies of the world in 2020-21 because of its draconian lockdown; and the […]

The post More Fund Transfers To The Working Poor Can Boost Growth In Ailing Indian Economy 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.

Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar has conveyed to the party that he is unable to attend its day-long convention in Mumbai on Friday due to his prior commitments elsewhere, which has raised eyebrows in political circles as speculation about his next political move refuses to die down. Speaking to reporters in Pune, […]

The post Buzz about next political move as Ajit Pawar skips NCP meet first appeared on IPA Newspack.

In what could be termed as an image spoiler for the Congress ahead of the Karnataka assembly elections on May 10, BJP leader Amit Malviya tweeted a 2.09-minute video of Rajya Sabha MP Imran Pratapgarhi, a star campaigner for the Congress, in which he can be heard praising gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed. Besides, the video tweeted […]

The post Don-backer on Cong ‘star campaigner’ list draws fire first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Ahead of the Karnataka assembly elections next month, former Congress leader Yousuff Sharif alias KGF Babu’s home received an Income Tax (IT) department knock, after which several shocking recoveries were made. Sharif recently quit the grand old party and filed his nomination as an Independent candidate. On Wednesday, reports said that the home of KGF […]

The post Raids at K’taka Cong ex-leader yield thousands of voter IDs first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Denied a ticket to contest next month’s Karnataka assembly election, KS Eshwarappa, a senior leader of the BJP, got a call from Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself on Friday. PM Modi thanked Eshwarappa, a five-time member of the legislative assembly from Shivamogga in central Karnataka, for accepting the party’s decision and praised his loyalty and […]

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By Satyaki Chakraborty The United States of America is steadily losing its diplomatic battle in the Middle East against China as more and more warring nations in the region are looking to China for acting as the facilitator for establishing peace in the region. After the big success of brokering a peace deal between Iran […]

The post China Emerging As The Prime Mediator In Easing Tensions In Middle East 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 Dr. Nilanjan Banik Recently, numerous articles have been written on the demise of the dollar. The argument is that China, the second largest economy after the US, is increasingly convincing the world’s largest suppliers of energy, including Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela to trade in Chinese Yuan. This, according to the commentators, will […]

The post Who Will Be The Ultimate Winner In Currency War? Dollar Or The Yuan? first appeared on IPA Newspack.