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By Nitya Chakraborty The year 2023 has ended with two big wars and a few local conflicts including one in Myanmar bordering India. While the world was looking for the end of war in Ukraine during 2023, a new war with much severe death toll began in Gaza strip of Palestine in October 2023 giving […]

The post Global Politics May Witness Further Shift To Right And Authoritarianism In 2024 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

The BJP on Sunday alleged that members of the Christian community who recently joined the party in Kerala are facing online attacks from supporters of the Congress and the CPI(M). The saffron party, which has been actively courting the Christian community in the state, issued a warning of strong retaliation against those involved in the […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The central investigating agency, the enforcement Directorate (ED), which is on a rampage against the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in Kerala, suffered a highly embarrassing double defeat in the Kerala High Court. In the latest rebuff to the ED, the Kerala High Court stayed the fresh summons issued […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Priyanka Gandhi, a severe critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is the latest political personality to be brought under the yoke of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a case of, what else, money laundering under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). It is for the judiciary to decide the legitimacy […]

The post Even Priyanka Gandhi Is Not Spared By Modi’s ED-Driven Witch-Hunt first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sarah Thanawala The heat of the flames of violence that flared up in Manipur in May this year quickly reached the Supreme Court of India. It all started on March 27, when the Manipur High Court directed the state government to consider the inclusion of the Meitei community in the list of Scheduled Tribes. […]

The post Manipur Burned, Govt Failed, Supreme Court Tried first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Andrew Stoughton Javier Milei became Argentina’s president this month promising “shock therapy” to curb inflation and resolve the country’s foreign debt and currency reserve woes. Last Wednesday, the Argentine public got its first taste of what that therapy will look like. Declaring a state of economic emergency, the Milei administration issued a Decree of […]

The post Javier Milei A Disaster For Working Class Argentinians first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sudhir The year 2023 ends with the dark shadow of the genocidal massacre of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli war-machine. Nearly three months of Israel’s brutal aggression has led to (till December 26) 20,915 people killed in Gaza, of which more than 8,000 are children; another 53,918 have been wounded and an […]

The post 2023 Going On 2024, The Great Battles Against Injustice Ahead first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

The BJP is trying to broaden its political canvas by finding ways to reach out to sub-minority groups among Muslims and Christians, while the Opposition, in its effort to address its diverse support base at the regional level, seems to be pushing Hindus away through a series of statements about the religion, Ram Temple and […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today met the country’s prominent wrestlers, including Olympic bronze medallist Bajrang Poonia, at a gathering in Haryana’s Jhajjar district. The meeting comes amid several wrestlers returning their awards to protest the election results of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). Sanjay Singh, an aide of BJP MP and former wrestling boss Brij […]

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By Kalyani Shankar The recent security breach in Parliament has severe political, electoral, legislative, and security implications. The resultant unprecedented suspension of 146 MPs has now united the Opposition coalition, the INDI-Alliance. Lok Sabha witnessed two intruders jumping from the visitor’s gallery and uncorking smoke canisters inside the Lok Sabha. It is a mystery how […]

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By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr The vaulting ambition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to overturn existing structures is the hallmark of his nearly 10 years at the helm. Take the case of the three new laws that have replaced three colonial-era laws and the authoritarian streak in Modi sticks out like a sore thumb. The […]

The post The Three New Criminal Laws Betray A Narrow Spirit Of Nationalism first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik A country with relatively unrestricted trade will face two problems: the first is a balance of payments problem because its exports are insufficient relative to its imports. And the second, the creation of unemployment, and more generally of domestic resources remaining idle, because domestic goods cannot compete with imports. These two are […]

The post The Vacuity Of The Free Trade Argument first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in Kerala has upped the ante against Governor Arif Mohammed Khan by seeking President Droupadi Murmu’s intervention in the crisis involving the Governor and the State government, at the root of which are Khan’s alleged gubernatorial excesses; the Governor is not even sparing varsities and […]

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday attacked the opposition for “boycotting” a debate in Parliament on the three criminal law bills by “making excuses” and also hit out at them for mimicking the vice president. Shah also said that these three laws will bring a huge change in the country’s criminal justice system. “Our […]

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By Arun Srivastava Passing legislation by resorting to suspensions is a kind of authoritarianism’. Knocking down the March 2 directive of the Supreme Court that said that the panel which picks election commissioners and their chief “shall” include the Chief Justice of India was clear manifestation of the autocratic mindset of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak For the last few years, the Narendra Modi-led Government has been empowering itself through changes in various laws relating to crime and evidence to such an extent that it can arbitrarily apply certain laws to raid, arrest, seize, detain, prosecute – even pardon anyone it may like to. The passage of […]

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By P. Sudhir Governors in Opposition-ruled states are becoming tools for the ruling party at the Centre to advance its political agenda and to create difficulties for the concerned state government for implementing its welfare programmes and development schemes. The role of Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan is particularly disruptive and obnoxious.  He had sat […]

The post Kerala Governor Bent On Making Universities His Fiefdoms first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha Our democracy has lost each of its basics. From the recent crisis that proved to be an assault on not only federalism, but also its most relevant constitutional principles. The Supreme Court judgment on the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and the dismantling of the state of Jammu and Kashmir […]

The post India’s Top Court Straying From Role Of Guarding Democracy With Its Article 370 Verdict first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Lok Sabha has passed the Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, 2023 bill, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita, 2023 and Bharatiya Sakshya (Second) Bill (BSB) 2023. Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke on the criminal bills and majority of MPs present in the Lower House voted in favour of the bills. Referring to IPC, CrPc, Indian Evidence […]

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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal responded to the Enforcement Directorate summons and mentioned that they are “illegal”, “politically motivated” adding that they “should be withdrawn”. He said that he is willing to abide by all the legal summons, however these illegal ones should be withdrawn. “This ED summon is also illegal like the previous summons,” Kejriwal […]

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By Sushil Kutty There is political turmoil in India and American politics is coming to a boil. The fate of democracy, yeah? Should it bother us, common Indians, what happens in the USA? The excitement and the daily rumblings. If in India, it is theatrics on the steps of Parliament, in the United States, it […]

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By Satyaki Chakraborty The Narendra Modi Government’s decision to freeze the accounts of the news portal NewsClick through the actions of the Income Tax Department is nothing but the continuation of the organized attack by the central agencies on this leading news portal to make it dysfunctional before the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.The latest […]

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Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi has demanded Chief Minister MK Stalin drop K Ponmudi from his cabinet after the Higher Education Minister was convicted in a corruption case, sources told NDTV Wednesday afternoon. The demand is likely to develop into the latest Governor Vs government flashpoint in the southern state; the two sides are locked […]

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Allegations an Indian national conspired to murder an American-Canadian citizen – Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun – will be examined, but “a few incidents” cannot derail ties between India and the United States, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday, in his first public remarks since US federal prosecutors last month announced murder-for-hire charges against Nikhil […]

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