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By Harihar Swarup Democracy in India is a “global public good”. Rahul Gandhi added as an afterthought. It can’t fail. Speaking in British Parliament to a packed hall with politicians, diaspora leaders, students and academic, he’d just outlined why India’s democratic structures are under threat. From the Hindu right’s institutional capture to its stifling of […]

The post Rahul Has Matured Over The Years But Many Inconsistencies Remain first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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: […]

The post Indian Economy Is Showing Rising National Income With Decline In Social Welfare Of People first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabir Purkayastha The recent Australia, US and UK 368 billion dollar deal on buying nuclear submarines has been termed by Paul Keating, a former Australian PM, as the worst deal in all history. It commits Australia to buy conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines which will be delivered earliest in the 2040s. These will be based on […]

The post US, UK and Australia’s Nuclear Submarine Deal Is Aimed Against China first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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, […]

The post Central Agencies Have Been Reduced To Modi’s Anti-Opposition Weapons first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi, known for his histrionics, trying to equal the record of Jawaharlal Nehru, by becoming the prime minister for the three successive terms, simply by reactivating the dormant Sangh sympathisers and modules to ensure his victory During his never die campaign in Karnataka, during the last two months, Modi visited the […]

The post Battle For Karnataka: BJP’s Struggle For Survival Amid Infighting first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Did Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader K Kavitha make a mistake by missing her March 16 date with the Enforcement Directorate? Till as long as the ED was summoning Kavitha and subjecting her to long hours of relentless questioning, eight to nine hours per session at least, the perception battle was in her, […]

The post K Kavitha Misses Date With ED, Citing ‘Setback To Health’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy One swallow does not make a summer, the old proverb goes. But even a single swallow can give some hopes for a return to better times. A softer trend in the wholesale prices, as revealed in the latest figures, had ignited demands for a softer stance in monetary policy of the Reserve […]

The post Blunt Tool Of Interest Rate Hikes: Case For A Relook first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman It is now clear that Chinese data are quite overstated and the Chinese economy now at over $18 trillion as officially announced, is grossly overestimated. Recently reports appeared in some newspapers including popular Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, to suggest that Chinese growth figures were exaggerated by two percentage point […]

The post Is Chinese Economy As Large As It Is Projected To Be? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Bhushan Desai, son of former industries minister Subhash Desai, joined Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena faction on Monday. Subhash has been a trusted lieutenant of Uddhav Thackeray’s family for several years. Reacting to the development, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray said Bhushan was not with Uddhav’s faction. “Subhash Desai is our big leader. we follow […]

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By Kalyani Shankar After the recent Assembly results, all parties in the tiny State of Nagaland formed an Opposition- free government to get a share in the power pie. All the parties unconditionally supported the ruling alliance, and all parties were in the Government with no Opposition. It isn’t the first time Nagaland has chosen […]

The post Nagaland’s Opposition-Free Government Must Remain One-Off first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday, demanding that certain remarks of Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Pralhad Joshi seeking Rahul Gandhi’s apology over his “democracy under attack” comments be expunged. In a letter to the speaker, the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha said […]

The post Cong seeks expunction of remarks on Rahul by ministers first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The arrest of Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia last month by a federal agency, CBI, for alleged financial corruption connected with the change in the state’s liquor policy, has understandably upset a large section of opposition parties across the country. Last year, Delhi’s health minister Satyendra Jain was arrested by another […]

The post Political Opposition Faces Witch-Hunt From Parties In Power first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy A prominent private bank in the United States — the country’s sixteenth largest— has failed and this can have significant impact on the Indian technology industry. Silicon Valley Bank —better known by its acronym SVB— has gone into liquidation. This was one of the 20 largest banks in the USA and its […]

The post Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Sends Chills Down Indian Tech Sector first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman Whenever joblessness arises, parochial issues like migrant labour raise their ugly head in different parts of the country. Be it the attack on South Indians in Mumbai in the 1960s by the late Bal Thackeray-led Shiv Sainiks, or on UP bhaias and Biharis in 2000s. Migration has always taken place in […]

The post Anti-North Indian Worker Bias Raises Its Ugly Head Again In Tamil Nadu first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday defended the benefits reserved for the martyrs’ families under a state scheme saying that the BJP leaders are misguiding the people and maligning the image of Rajasthan. “The kind of package given by Rajasthan government to the war widows, be it of the Pulwama, Balakot, or Kargil, doesn’t […]

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By Ben Burgis The republican theory of freedom is the idea that the most important kind of freedom is freedom from domination. It’s important for the Left talk about freedom in the first place. We see “freedom” invoked to defend everything from the right of corner gun shops to sell AR-15s without background checks to […]

The post Socialism Is All About Expanding Our Degrees Of Freedom first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Mark Gruenberg In an unprecedented decision, the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the entire “safety culture” at Norfolk Southern Railroad, not just the individual NS crashes that landed it in hot water, notably the Feb. 3 massive and dangerous freight car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. It was the first of two wrecks […]

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