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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is travelling to Delhi today for talks. The U.S. and Australia criticized India for considering a Russian proposal that would undermine sanctions imposed by America and its allies, showing a deepening rift between the emerging security partners as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov traveled to Delhi for talks. “Now is the […]

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By K Raveendran The currency stand-off in the global gas market, triggered by Russian president Vladimir Putin’s announcement that Russian gas will henceforth have to be paid in roubles instead of dollar and euro is keeping the market on tenterhooks. It has upset the calculations of all important stake holders, including India, which has been […]

The post Putin’s Gambit In Demanding Rouble Payments Takes Issues Beyond Pricing first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Is the rope in the game of tug of war slipping through Mamata Banerjee’s hands? At least Mamata gives this impression as she once again asks every political party opposed to “BJP’s oppressive rule” to unite. The problem is the only fly in the ointment of opposition unity is Mamata herself! The […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW:AICC general secretary and in charge of Uttar Pradesh  Priyanka Gandhi has taken the full responsibility  of worst performance of her party in UP Assembly elections  and asked the state leaders to prepare road map to face Lok Sabha polls in 2024. Soon after the results were announced Priyanka Gandhi convened the […]

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By Ashis Biswas Major opposition parties including the Congress and the Left, have responded negatively to Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee’s call to put up a broad anti-BJP alliance. State Congress and CPI(M) leaders strongly question the TMC’s true intent and especially the timing of its latest appeal, seeking a stronger opposition consolidation against the […]

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By Harihar Swarup When Lisa Calan—clad in a traditional white Kurdish grown and stylish turban— walked onto the inaugural stage of the International Film Festival of Kerala in Thiruvanthapuram to receive first-ever ‘Spirit of Cinema’ award, there was a standing ovation. Not many among the audience had seen her films but everyone could feel the […]

The post Lisa Calan, The Rebel Film Maker Of Turkey Is A Symbol Of Grit And Courage first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: After the humiliating performance in UP Assembly polls, Mayawati is giving a facelift to party organisation with an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. After a review meeting held on March 27, BSP national President Mayawati appointed her brother Anand as national vice-president and nephew Akash as the powerful national […]

The post Mayawati Turns To Her Own Parivar In Bid To Revive Party Organisation first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 Rahil Nora Chopra After meeting with G-23 leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress president Sonia Gandhi reached out to other members of the group. Gandhi held a meeting with Manish Tewari, Anand Sharma and Vivek Tankha on Tuesday, as she stepped up efforts to placate the leaders of the G-23 dissident group to find unity […]

The post Sonia Placates G-23, But Urges Against Public Criticism first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It’s been a month since Russia invaded Ukraine. So long in the battlefield and even Changez Khan’s hordes would have ended their campaign and returned home to the Manchurian steppe. But Putin’s army is not returning home even as we are being told that the Russian troops do not have their hearts […]

The post President Putin Is Still In His Own Created Mess In Ukraine After One Month Of War first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha With the beginning of the third decade of the new century, there is a blatant effort to distort the history of the country, surprisingly, without any historicity. The latest indicator is the call to rewrite the Constitution. Implicit in this call is the BJP government’s bid to make people remember only what […]

The post BJP Call To Rewrite The Constitution Has Ominous Tones For Democracy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup In the opaque ecosystem of the Congress, to be eyes and ears is as big a compliment as it gets. That’s what K C Venugopal is, party insiders say. The AICC general secretary in-charge of the organization is to Rahul Gandhi what the late Ahmed Patel was to Sonia Gandhi. Which means […]

The post K C Venugopal, Eyes And Ears Of Rahul Gandhi, Is On Hot Seat In Congress first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Clouds of confrontation have thickened over Kerala’s political sky with the Opposition deciding to intensify the agitation against the SilverLine project and the Government equally determined to go ahead with the project. An unfazed Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has signalled his government’s intent to go ahead with the project despite the […]

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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.

By Sushil Kutty We’ve heard of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 56” chest, and we’ve heard of how Modi can stand on one leg and give Baba Ramdev a run for his Yoga. Modi’s superhuman exploits would fill a tome the size of a NYT bestseller, and if people never tire of ‘Modi hai toh mumkin […]

The post Narendra Modi, The Superhuman Who Only Works And Rarely Sleeps first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Ukraine has rejected an ultimatum to surrender the besieged port city of Mariupol to Russian forces, its deputy prime minister told Ukrainian media today. “There can be no talk of surrendering weapons. We have already informed the Russian side of this,” Iryna Vereshchuk told Ukrainska Pravda newspaper. Mariupol, a strategic, mostly Russian-speaking port in the […]

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Australia on Sunday said the Quad member countries have accepted India’s position on the Russian attack on Ukraine and that no country would be unhappy as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been using his contacts to call for an end to the conflict. Separately, diplomatic sources said India’s position on the Russian invasion appeared to […]

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By Ashis Biswas It is their shared colonial past that brings together the three major South Asian countries — India, Pakistan and Bangladesh — into adopting a neutral, hands-off approach on the current war raging in Ukraine. Ignoring bitter local disputes and a notoriously conflicted relationship affecting all three countries at times, three disparate ruling […]

The post View From Dhaka: Is South Asia Defying Western Bloc On Ukraine? first appeared on IPA Newspack.