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By Prabhat Patnaik All regimes based on class antagonism require a discourse to legitimise class oppression and this discourse in turn requires a vocabulary of its own. The neoliberal regime too has developed its own discourse and vocabulary and a key concept in this vocabulary is “populism”. This concept is given great currency by the […]

The post Capitalists Are Terming Social Welfare Schemes ‘Populist’ To Deny Benefits To Poor first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Binoy Viswam Stating that there are nearly 400 days left for the 2024 elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi masked himself by exhorting the BJP cadres to keep aside electoral aims and work for all sections of people. He was addressing the recently concluded national executive meeting of the BJP. It is one example of […]

The post Two-Day BJP National Executive Discussed Only Elections, No Urgent Economic Issues first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty As a part of the tradition of the global CEO’s body World Economic Forum (WEF), the annual five day jamboree at Davos has started and the Global Risk Report 2023 has been released mentioning both the existing risks as also the new dangers threatening the global economy. As a journalist who attended […]

The post WEF’s Global Risk’s Report 2023: What It Means For Indian Economy? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy China’s population has shrunk in 2022 for the first time in six decades. That has sent bells ringing about the prospects China should be facing henceforth. There is a long and tortuous history culminating in the phase when population is shrinking. China had imposed strict rule in 1985 allowing couples to have […]

The post China’s Population Dip In 2022 Has Long Term Impact On Economic Growth first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 needs to address the rising inequality in India that has acquired an alarming trend at a time when economic growth of the country is projected to decelerate during the next fiscal. The World Economic Forum in Davos 2023 (January 16-20) is in progress that has also brought the […]

The post Union Budget 2023-24 Must Address Rising Inequality In India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Before the Lok Sabha elections in April/ May 2024, the RSS and Narendra Modi government have launched the most ruthless operation to saffronise the judiciary, turn it subservient to the Modi government and rob its independent identity and authority. The veil of chastity which wrapped the plan unfolded only a few days […]

The post Rijiju’s Letter To CJI Is Part Of RSS Design To Have A Pliant Judiciary first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman As is the practice, there is a demand galore before the 2023-24 budget for tax sops, whether justified or not. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has a difficult task cut out for her as she may have to address some of the genuine demands this time as it will be the last […]

The post Sitharaman Must Balance Pre-Poll Compulsions With Fiscal Challenge first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested to the party leaders present in the BJP’s national executive meeting on January 15 to undertake tasks that will be instrumental in unifying the country in the true sense in the context of the 2024 Lok Sabha poll. PM will address the concluding session of the BJP’s National Executive Meeting […]

The post Modi talks about unifying country at BJP’s key meet first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s year-end assurance that China is ready to work with India for the “steady and sound growth” of bilateral ties and it is committed to upholding stability at the border areas where a stand-off has prevailed since 2020. The statement, believed to have been meant for an international […]

The post No Need To Trust In China’s Assurance To Work With India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Defending Rahul Gandhi’s ability to become Prime Minister of India, just like his great-grandfather, his grandmother and his father, is getting difficult and difficulter as the Bharat Jodo Yatra gets closer and closer to Srinagar’s famed Lal Chowk, the yatra’s final destination. The Hollywood movie of the same name was built on […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Has Vastly Improved His Stature In The Course Of Bharat Jodo Yatra first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global economic slowdown is most likely to force workers to accept lower quality jobs in place of decent works. It has already adversely impacted the global employment growth which has been faltering, and pressure on decent work has considerably increased. Pressure on decent working conditions are even undermining social justice. It […]

The post Economic Slowdown To Force Workers Into Lower Quality Jobs first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava BSP chief Mayawati’s announcement that her Bahujan Samaj Party would contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and other assembly elections all alone has not come as surprise. What has been really intriguing is her accusing the Congress and Samajwadi Party of spreading rumours about a “possible tie-up” with the BJP in the […]

The post BSP Supremo Mayawati Has Been Losing The Trust Of Dalits Through Confused Actions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra “If they answer not your call, walk alone, walk alone” one of Rabindranath Tagore’s great poems, set to music used to be one of the favourite songs of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the most famous Congressman to don khadi. If the charismatic prophet of  non-violence sang it in many a trying times, another […]

The post Congress Should Not Have Excluded Any Non-BJP Party From January 30 Programme first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Matein Khalid King Dollar that saw a 20% rise in the world’s reserve currency (our currency, your problem) died in late September 2022 and the greenback is now 8% below its high on US dollar index (DXY). All G10 currencies have risen at least 7% against the USD. So its weakness is just not […]

The post Dethronement Of King Dollar Result Of A Sequence Of Events first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman World Bank and International Monetary Fund might be gung ho about Indian economy, but emerging geo political situation in the neighbouring countries is a major source of concern and tottering economies in the sub-continent make the situation worse. India might be in a bright spot in otherwise sagging and recessionary global […]

The post Economic Instability In Neighbouring Countries Is Worrying For India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Joshimath has been sinking for months, but could grab attention of the governments at the Centre and the State only recently that too after the subsidence started dangerously manifesting itself. Warnings served in 1976, 2001, and 2013 were grossly ignored. Human greed continued to explore the natural resources hastening the sinking […]

The post Supreme Court Has A Greater Role To Save Joshimath first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik The IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva has now openly admitted that the year 2023 will witness the slowing down of the world economy to a point where as much as one-third of it will see an actual contraction in gross domestic product. This is because all the three major economic powers in […]

The post Contraction Of GDP In One-Third Of Global Economy In 2023 Is Ominous first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava After a fortnight, the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi would culminate with the national flag hoisting in Srinagar. But this finish would be purely an allegory. The real political Yatra (journey) of Rahul will begin after this stage. The political analyst, scribes,  intellectuals, fellows of RSS and Narendra Modi’s think […]

The post Panicky RSS Taking Up Crash Programmes To Combat Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra Impact first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak India would be going downhill for the next two years, if Global Economic Prospect just released by the World Bank is of any indication. GDPs for 2023and 2024 have been revised down to 6.6 per cent and 6.1 per cent respectively, which are below 0.5 and 0.4 per cent compared to […]

The post Economic Slowdown To Haunt India The Next Two Years first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee It is rather depressing to note that the unemployment rate in the country reached 8.30 percent in December, the highest over the last 16 months. In urban areas, the unemployment rate exceeded 10 percent. The number of people looking for jobs last month increased to 40.48 percent, the largest in 2022, reported […]

The post Surging Imports Are Behind India’s Growing Unemployment first appeared on IPA Newspack.