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By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is no longer a Member of Parliament. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla took the decision to disqualify the Gandhi Family scion following his conviction in a case of criminal defamation, with two-year jail sentence. Less than two years of jail and he wouldn’t have ended up in this […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak What is ‘understanding’ an utterance and what is ‘misunderstanding’? The answer is obvious – if someone understands exactly the same as to what was uttered is ‘understanding’ and if someone derives any other meaning is ‘misunderstanding’. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for two years of imprisonment with a fine of Rs […]

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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday held a meeting with opposition leaders and deliberated on the strategy going forward in the wake of Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 defamation case. Besides the Congress, senior leaders of parties such as the DMK, National Conference, RSP, VCK, JDU, CPI(M), SP, SS, IUML, AAP and CPI attended […]

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Showing a shift in stance, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday openly supported Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after he was sentenced to two years in jail in a defamation case and alleged a conspiracy was being hatched to “eliminate” non-BJP leaders and parties by prosecuting them. The Congress and the AAP have in the […]

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In the span of about a week, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is meeting three important leaders from the opposition camp. It began with Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav on March 17. Then on Thursday, Mamata met Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik. And on Friday, she will have a meeting with Janata Dal (Secular)’s HD […]

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By Sushil Kutty They hate his guts, and that was reason enough to plaster the walls in Delhi with posters demanding ‘Modi Hatao/Desh Bachao’. Tens of thousands of these posters carrying the message appeared overnight in the city where Prime Minister Narendra Modi lives, and rules from. The BJP should have taken it in the […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will appear before a court in Gujarat’s Surat city on Thursday when it is expected to deliver its verdict in a 2019 criminal defamation case filed against him over his “Modi surname” remarks, party leaders said on Wednesday. Senior state Congress leaders, including GPCC president Jagdish Thakor, legislature party leader Amit […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Putting democracy on hold in the National Capital Territory of Delhi by Modi government is not new. We have been witnessing it for the last nine years since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India in 2014, but his party has been kept out of the Delhi Vidhan Sabha and Municipal […]

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By Sushil Kutty “You bring me the man, I’ll find you the crime.” That was Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet secret police, boasting during one of his more expansive moods. After Rahul Gandhi returned from London, it seems like there’s an Indian Lavrentiy, who has found a crime to fit Rahul Gandhi. The Congress […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Has The Right To Offer A Personal Explanation In Lok Sabha first appeared on IPA Newspack.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that she would sit in a dharna for two days on 29th and 30th March in Kolkata to protest the ‘neglect’ of West Bengal by the Central government. On her way to Odisha on Tuesday, she said, “This time also in the Budget, they have not given any […]

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The Supreme Court Monday clubbed three FIRs lodged against Congress leader Pawan Khera for allegedly making objectionable remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and transferred them to the Hazratganj police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow. Extending the interim bail till April 10, a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha […]

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With the hunt for Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh entering the fourth day, his uncle Harjit Singh was flown to Dibrugarh in Assam this morning. On Sunday, his other four arrested associates were also taken to Dibrugarh Central Jail. Amritpal Singh’s uncle and six other aides have been charged under the stringent National Security Act (NSA), […]

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The name of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi wanted in a Rs 13,000-crore scam in the Punjab National Bank is understood to have been removed from the Interpol database of Red Notices on the basis of his plea to the Lyon-headquartered agency, people in the know of the development said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee Notwithstanding Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s repeated statements during his recent tour in the UK saying that Indian democracy is under threat, the growing trend of elected political authoritarianism poses a big challenge to the system. The trend is also being witnessed in many other democracies outside the developed world. India would have […]

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By   Debabrata Biswas BOSTON: Donald Trump, on Saturday morning, March 18, posted a message on his social media platform Truth Social that “leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States (himself) will be arrested on Tuesday next week”. The imminent arrest would be in connection to a year-long investigation by the Manhattan district […]

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No Opposition front to take on the BJP is possible without the Congress and if a coalition is formed for the 2024 general elections, the party will have a central role in it, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has said. In an interview with PTI, Ramesh, however, said it was too early to talk about […]

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By Arun Srivastava Home minister Amit Shah’s setting the condition at the India Today conclave on March 17 that Rahul Gandhi must apologise for his UK remarks before he can be allowed to defend them in Parliament, is just like confessing the crime which the person has not committed at all. After maintaining a passive […]

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The government on Friday batted for holding simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and state assemblies, saying it would result in huge saving to the public exchequer, as it listed out “imperatives” such as amending the Constitution and bringing all political parties on board before carrying out the gigantic exercise. In a written reply in Lok […]

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The Kremlin has denied the allegations of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and said the arrest warrant was legally “void” since Moscow does not recognise ICC’s jurisdiction. The  ICC has issued a warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being responsible for war crimes in Ukraine, which was attacked by […]

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By Arun Kumar India’s per capita income, representing the average income of an Indian citizen, has risen from INR 79,000 in 2013–14 to INR 1,71,000 in 2022–23 — an increase of 116 percent. Therefore, some claim that incomes have more than doubled in India since the present ruling dispensation took office. The catch is that: […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik For a large part of the dirigiste period, the gross domestic product of the Indian economy grew at a rate of around 4 per cent per annum or less, which, though an improvement compared to the colonial era that had witnessed virtual stagnation, was not very impressive. This low steady growth over […]

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After skipping the summons in a corruption case thrice, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav today agreed to appear before the CBI on March 25 as the central investigating agency assured it won’t arrest him this month. Tejshwi Yadav’s lawyer told the court that the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader will join the CBI investigation at […]

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By Prakash Karat Heralding a new offensive against the opposition by the Modi government, there has been a spate of activities by the central agencies – particularly, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED). In the past two weeks, the CBI summoned for questioning Manish Sisodia, deputy chief minister of Delhi, […]

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