News related to
attack

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 […]

The post Ukraine rejects Russian ultimatum to surrender first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Australia says Quad members accept India’s Ukraine stand first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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.

By Binoy Viswam A party that leads a rightist government at the Centre has come out victorious in four out of five states in the recently-held elections. That party with its undeniable fascist characteristics is known for its manoeuvring skills too. They have proven expertise in the management of election machinery through various means. Immense […]

The post Left Parties Have To Take Proper Lessons From Outcome Of State Assembly Poll first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas Bangladesh will not halt the construction of the Russia-aided $12 billion Ruppur nuclear power plant regardless of recent anti-Moscow Western sanctions announced in the wake of the ongoing war in Ukraine. The long awaited unit, considered an absolutely essential project in Bangladesh’s plans to address its chronic power shortage, has been under […]

The post Bangladesh Defies U.S. Pressure, Russian-Aided Nuclear Plant Work On first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Sonia Gandhi offering to step back along with his son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi has been a strategic move of Sonia to shield the Gandhi family from being accused of liability of Congress and to ensure that her son continues to call the shots and direct the party.  On paper […]

The post For Congress High Command, Assembly Poll Results Leave No Escape Route first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The United States has “deep concerns” about “alignment” between Russia and China, a senior US official said Monday after high-ranking US and Chinese officials met for seven hours on the Ukraine war and other security issues. Russia unleashed a barrage of airstrikes Monday on cities across Ukraine as the warring sides traded blame for a […]

The post US ‘concerned’ over China’s alignment with Russia first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The Russian attack on Ukraine seems to have given a wakeup call to countries in Europe and Asia to substantially step up their annual defence expenditure to protect themselves from possible external assault. Given the ominous security situation in Europe, a number of countries, including Germany, Sweden, Romania, Latvia, Finland, the Netherlands […]

The post Several Countries Plan To Step Up Military Spending first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Extensive campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh countered the anti-incumbency against Yogi government which is evident from substantial fall in seats in 2022 polls as against 2017 elections. There is a feeling in BJP rank and file that had Modi not campaigned the way he did it would […]

The post Modi Helped BJP To Counter Anti-Incumbency Against Yogi Government first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prakash Karat The US-led NATO’s attempts to seek the high moral ground against aggression by the “brutal dictator Putin” reeks of hypocrisy and double-standards. Going by the shrill pronouncements of President Biden and Prime Minister Johnson, this is the first time peace has been shattered in Europe after the Second World War and the […]

The post President Biden’s Attempt To Seek High Moral Ground Against Putin Reeks Of Hypocrisy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Independent journalism – the kind that favours public interest over political, commercial, or factional agenda – is in peril, due to erosion of business models, increasing crackdowns on press freedom, and ongoing threats against the safety of journalists. The coming decade, therefore, will be decisive for the survival of a democratic […]

The post Independent Journalism In Peril, Right To Information At Risk first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Election results to five state assemblies have exhibited many firsts. For the first time the Aam Admi Party sprang a surprised when it romped home with a majority in Punjab, leaving far behind the Congress, Akali Dal and other parties. This is also for the first time that APP has stepped out […]

The post There Are Many Lessons For Congress To Learn From Its Debacle In Five Assembly Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Matein Khalid Unlike Hitler’s Panzer blitzkrieg against France/Benelux in May 1940, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has not been a pushover. Putin’s battle tanks have not taken Kiev or decapitated the Zelenskyy’s government. NATO is a far greater threat to Russia now that Germany has decided to rearm and send anti-tank/stinger missiles to the Ukrainian […]

The post Post-Ukraine NATO Threat To Russia Is Far Greater Than Before first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The maverick film director of Bengal Mrinal Sen, the second most important member of the famous troika in the cinema world that included Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, will step into his 100th year on May 14, 2023. Significantly, Ray was born just two years before in 1921, on May 2, the […]

The post Remembering The Debate Between Satyajit Ray And Mrinal Sen Over ‘Akash Kusum’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held another high-level meeting on Saturday evening to discuss the situation in war-hit Ukraine and India’s evacuation efforts to bring back its citizens, officials said. Since Sunday, PM Modi has chaired a number of such meetings, as his government works to bring back Indian students who have been scrambling to leave […]

The post Modi holds another meeting on Ukraine evacuation first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury has termed the Russian military action in Ukraine as ‘invasion’ and  has been unequivocal in mentioning that ’A full-fledged military operation on such a big scale mounted by Russia, whatever may be the provocations and perceived security threats, is not the way […]

The post CPI(M) Calls For The First Time Russian Action In Ukraine As ‘Invasion’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik The security concerns of Russia arising from Ukraine’s intentions of joining NATO have been widely discussed in the media. But the IMF’s link with Ukraine which is a parallel issue has scarcely received much attention. The IMF, as is well-known, “opens up” economies around the world for the penetration of metropolitan capital […]

The post International Monetary Fund Played A Crucial Role In Precipitating Ukraine War first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra Amid a lot of buzz for the coming presidential elections, names of political veterans such as Sharad Pawar, BSP Supremo Mayawati and a few others have been doing the rounds and discussed as possible candidates for the post. Speculations have been rife of late with Bihar chief minister and long-time BJP […]

The post Nitish Dismisses Buzz About His Candidature For President first appeared on IPA Newspack.