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By Arun Srivastava Apprehension has come true. Just within forty eight hours of Supreme Court refusing to pass any interim order on the Maharashtra government’s plea that there should not be any floor test in the Assembly, the BJP leader Devendra Fadavis, tipped to comeback as the person to replace Uddhav Thackeray, called on the […]

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By Kalyani Shankar Is the ongoing Maharashtra political crisis an ideological battle within the Shiv Sena or the inability of  Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to convince his Sainiks about his soft Hindutva? Or is it the BJP’s ambition to eliminate all non-BJP governments, or is it for the realignment of political forces? It is […]

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By Sushil Kutty At last the Delhi Police has gone and done the unpardonable. The capital’s constabulary, which answers to the Union Home Ministry, summoned AltNews co-founder Muhammad Zubair from Bengaluru to Delhi and Monday, June 27, took him into custody in what looked like a sleight of the ham-handed. If it was a non-BJP […]

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By Ben Beckett On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and making abortion illegal in at least eighteen states, with more potentially to follow. Despite ample warning, based both on the justices’ histories and the leak of the decision almost two months before it became official, national […]

The post United States Supreme Court Is Using Its Unchecked Power Against People first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arvind Narrain Senior advocate Fali S. Nariman, described civil rights activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad as a “foot soldier of the Indian Constitution”. Today, the foot soldier has been arrested for zealously pursuing justice for one of independent India’s most egregious wrongs, namely the Gujarat pogrom, which was unleashed following the Godhra train burning […]

The post Supreme Court’s Judgment In Gujarat Riots Case Bodes Ill For Democracy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

As both sides have refused to blink and appear prepared for a long fight, sources say Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari may ask the Maharashtra government to prove majority in the house sometime this week. Sources claim that the Eknath Shinde camp is consulting lawyers over the Constitutional provisions for holding a floor test. Shinde, the leader of […]

The post Governor may ask for trust vote in Maharashtra tussle first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, among the most vociferous backers of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray amid a revolt in the party, has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Mumbai for questioning tomorrow in a case of alleged money laundering. Team Thackeray has been saying that the mutiny led by Eknath Shinde is a […]

The post Key Uddhav aide Raut summoned by ED for ‘money laundering’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who is facing a massive mutiny in the Shiv Sena ranks, has stripped nine rebel ministers of their portfolios. Among these nine are five cabinet ministers and four Ministers of State. The responsibilities of these rebel ministers, now stationed at a hotel in Guwahati along with other rebel MLAs, have […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee It is a matter of concern that India, sitting over the world’s fifth largest proven coal reserves of well over 111 billion tonnes, produces only around 800 million tonnes of coal per annum and continues to be a major global coal importer year after year. China, ranked 4th in coal reserves with […]

The post There Is Little To Justify India’s Coal Shortage first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Eoghan Gilmartin “A very hard blow.” Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez couldn’t mask his disappointment at the resounding defeat for his Socialist Party (PSOE) in its traditional stronghold of Andalusia last Sunday. In a seismic shift in the country’s electoral politics, the conservative Partido Popular (PP) swept to victory in Spain’s most populous region, […]

The post Right-Wing Takeover In Andalusia Is A Setback To Spain’s Coalition Govt first appeared on IPA Newspack.

With rebel MLA Eknath Shinde moving the Supreme Court against the Shiv Sena’s move to disqualify him and 15 other MLAs, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s team too upped the ante for a legal battle. The Eknath Shinde camp has also challenged the rejection of the no-confidence motion against Deputy Speaker Narahari Zirwal. The rebels have […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav is responsible for the defeat of his party candidates in Azamgarh and Rampur. Since Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha seats were won by Akhilesh Yadav himself and another important leader Mohd Azam Khan, the defeat of the Samajwadi candidates in the traditional strongholds  of SP […]

The post Akhilesh Failed To Give Proper Leadership In Campaign For Bypolls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, whose tweets often land him in trouble, has courted a fresh controversy. A case has been filed against him for a controversial tweet with a ‘Mahabharata‘ reference on Droupadi Murmu, the presidential candidate of the BJP. “If DRAUPADI is the PRESIDENT who are the PANDAVAS? And more importantly, who are the […]

The post Ram Gopal Varma in trouble over tweet on Droupadi Murmu first appeared on IPA Newspack.

A day after the Supreme Court upheld the all clear given by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots cases, the Gujarat police on Saturday arrested former Director General of Police R B Sreekumar and took in custody social activist Teesta Setalvad for allegedly conspiring to falsely implicate […]

The post Gujarat ex top cop, activist held within a day of SC verdict first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Congress Saturday asked if a chief minister or a state government will ever be held accountable even if the state is thrown into a circle of pre-meditated violence and riots, a day after the Supreme Court upheld an SIT clearance to then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots case. The party […]

The post Cong raises points about SC clean chit to Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Marlon Ettinger Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s left-wing alliance elected 142 MPs to France’s National Assembly on Sunday. In some ways this was a success: the broad left more than doubled its number of MPs and helped strip President Emmanuel Macron of his majority, though it also fell way short of the 289 seats needed to make […]

The post Broad Left Unity Achieved Before French National Assembly Polls Sees Strains first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has been served a court notice by Rajasthan Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in an alleged case of horse-trading relating to the allegations of a conspiracy to pull down the Ashok Gehlot government in 2020. The notice was issued by a Jaipur court after the ACB filed a revision petition seeking […]

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Shiv Sena rebel leader Eknath Shinde met BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis in Gujarat last night to discuss possible government formation in Maharashtra, sources have said. Eknath Shinde flew to Vadodara on a special flight last night from Assam’s Guwahati where he is camping with nearly 40 rebel MLAs. Home Minister Amit Shah was also in Vadodara […]

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By K Raveendran The ground on which the conspiracy charge has been thrown out in the in the appeal filed by Zakia Jafri in the Supreme Court challenging the clean chit given by the SIT to Narendra Modi and 63 other state functionaries in the Gujarat riots case leaves no scope for ambiguity, but some […]

The post SC Remarks On Gujarat Riot Case Liable To Be Misused As Condoning Of Failures first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The committee probing the security breach of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the last stages of collecting evidence. So far the probe is heading towards “planning failure” on PM Modi’s visit to Punjab in January this year. “The committee is collecting evidence from all stakeholders concerned and compiling it together. So far it appears […]

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By Sushil Kutty Now, there is one more reason why the Muslim minority will not trust the Supreme Court of India. Earlier, there was Afzal Guru, as cited by Afreen Javed, Prayagraj riots kingpin Muhammad Javed’s daughter. June 23, the apex court should have thought twice before it upheld the “clean chit” given to Prime […]

The post Supreme Court Has Acted In Haste In Upholding Gujarat High Court’ Clean Chit To Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The political crisis in Maharashtra grew deeper Friday with the Shiv Sena alleging that a Union Minister has “threatened” Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar. Rebel leader Eknath Shinde, meanwhile, has claimed the support of 50 MLAs. “He is the son of Maharashtra. They are threatening him. Modi ji, Amit Shah, have you heard? Your […]

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By Abhishek Mishra and Hrithwik Singh The recent invocation of the phrase ‘uncooperative federalism’ by the Supreme Court in its judgment last month in Union of India &Anr. versus M/s Mohit Minerals Pvt. Ltd. Through Director marks an important moment in the study of Indian federalism. This also adds value to literature across the globe […]

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By Prabir Purkayastha The UNAIDs executive director, Winnie Byanyima had appealed before the 12th WTO Ministerial of WTO in Geneva that the world would face a grim future if patent waivers did not take place. At a press conference, Byanyima had said, “In a pandemic, sharing technology is life or death, and we are choosing […]

The post In WTO’s 12th Ministerial Meeting, Rich Countries Blocked Production Of Cheap Vaccines first appeared on IPA Newspack.