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By Sankar Ray The four-day visit of the eight-member team of the Communist Party of China in Kathmandu, led by Liu Jianchao, the new head of CPC’s international liaison department, as well as a meeting with the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center),Pushpa Kamal Dahal, at the latter’s residence in Khumaltar both […]

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By Arun Srivastava The presidential election to be held on July 18 in the real sense is a royal battle between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the former BJP minister Yashwant Sinha. It would be wrong to construe that Sinha has a tough challenger in Draupadi Murmu. But there is no doubt that by […]

The post NDA’s Tribal Candidate Draupadi Murmu Has Divided The Opposition Camp first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Mohan V Katarki An unprecedented political crisis has arisen in Sri Lanka, leading to the breakdown of constitutional governance. Unorganised angry protesters, who are deeply affected by economic meltdown, have forced two Prime Ministers Mahinda Rajapaksa and his successor Ranil Wickremesinghe to resign, and have driven out the executive President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to high […]

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The anti-government protesters in Sri Lanka who broke into embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence have claimed to have recovered millions of rupees inside his mansion, according to a media report on Sunday. A video is being shared on social media showing the protesters counting the currency notes that were unearthed. The recovered money was […]

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By K Raveendran It was an open secret that the oil companies have been minting money on account of the rising crude prices, although they have been dishing out doctored numbers to show losses. Now that the government has decided to enforce a windfall tax on the companies for the undue profits that have accrued […]

The post Windfall Tax Lets The Cat Out Of The Bag Of Petroleum Companies first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup The impact of the ongoing Russia—Ukraine war on energy and commodity prices has caused great global economic turmoil. Some countries are facing food shortage and all oil-importing countries have been adversely affected. The invasion has come at an unfortunate time for India. Just when we all dealt with our double balance sheet […]

The post Indian Policy Makers Facing Big Test In Dealing With Inflation In Current Fiscal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

About 15,000 pilgrims have been moved to safety from near the holy cave shrine of Amarnath after a flash flood triggered by a cloudburst swept away scores of people, killing at least 15. More than 40 people are still missing, officials said. The Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, or ITBP, continued the rescue […]

The post 15,000 rescued, 40 still missing in Amarnath cloudburst first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abewas feared dead on Friday after apparently being shot at a campaign event in the Nara region, local media reported. National broadcaster NHK said a man in his 40s had been arrested for attempted murder and a gun had been confiscated from him, citing police sources. Shinzo Abe was delivering […]

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By Arun Srivastava It is not yet clear whether the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words would prove to be prophetic that Draupadi Murmu’s candidacy could become unifying factor in bringing together all parties, but one thing is certain that Nitish Kumar and Narendra Modi have started the process of coming closer and reshaping their relations […]

The post Nitish Kumar Is Blowing Hot And Cold In His Relationship With BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Gyan Pathak Social protection for rural workers in ‘remains a dream’ though 80 per cent of the poor of the world live in rural areas. Inadequate safety at work, low wage, lack of stability and security, and excessive working hours are the grinding stones for them in which women and young workers are the […]

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By Sushil Kutty ‘Why do we obey rules?’ asks The New Yorker and then stretches the answer till one of the rules is about how everybody has the right to let go of the rules too strenuous to live by. And, from what is happening in our own country at, we can assume that we […]

The post In India, Rules Are Meant To Be Obeyed By Leaders Of Opposition Only, Not Ruling Party first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Political signals emanating from Bihar are important for two major reasons – first, these could drastically alter the contours of politics in the state, and secondly, it could potentially impact the communal politics across the country. The most recent changes include defection in All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) led by Asaduddin […]

The post RJD’s Expanding Base Is Worrying Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By D. Imran Khalid Indubitably, Pakistan is nowadays passing through one of the most turbulent periods in its recent history. On the surface, it is a serious political turmoil. But, intrinsically, it is an amalgamation of financial and political tribulations which are dragging the country into the slough of uncertainty. The whole saga started in […]

The post Pakistan Has Landed In An Unprcedented Eco-Political Crisis first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Renowned US based bank, J.P. Morgan, has observed that oil prices could top $380 per barrel in a short time. The bank made its prediction on the basis of trends in the oil markets and supplies from major producers. The current geo-politics, in which Russia faces extensive sanctions from America and its […]

The post Further Steep Rise In Energy Prices Looms Large As Ukraine War Continues first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Several things were happening when the BJP was holding its national executive in Hyderabad, targeting Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao with an eye on the Telangana assembly elections slated for 2023. Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid low KCR with attacks on dynastic politics, resistance was building up against the […]

The post Hard Core Hindutva Is Making Governance Difficult For Narendra Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said that mid-term polls are likely in Maharashtra as the government led by rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde may fall in the next six months. He made the statement while addressing NCP legislators and other leaders of the party in Mumbai in the evening. “The […]

The post Pawar gives Shinde govt 6 months time before collapse first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Over the past decades, the Hindu-Muslim axis has once again emerged as the Central pole of Indian politics. But now, a period of churn has set in, following a raft of incidents, the latest being the brutal daylight murder of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur by two Muslim men, because the […]

The post BJP Leadership Is Under Pressure To Aggressively Pursue Hindutva Agenda first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Now that ‘Operation Lotus’, Maharashtra edition, has successfully added the richest state in the realm to the 2024 BJP war-chest, ‘Operation Lotus’, Telangana edition, is ready for launch. And Telangana is in the neighbourhood, right next to Maharashtra. Therefore, the Bharatiya Janata Party is holding its national executive in Hyderabad with Prime […]

The post K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Strong Enough To Keep BJP Away From Telangana first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran There is no mistaking it. The drastic decline in migrant remittances over the last few years has affected Kerala’s fiscal health. While the world which came to a standstill due to Covid 19, Kerala was hit the hardest by the reverse migration which the pandemic triggered. An immediate corollary has been the […]

The post Steep Decline In Foreign Remittances Impacts Kerala Economy first appeared on IPA Newspack.