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By Dr Arun Mitra As per the reports, Somalia with a Population of 17 Million is passing through serious crisis of food security.  Over 200,000 people are facing catastrophic levels of food crisis. ‘Due to starvation they are dying, falling prey to diarrhoea, measles or malaria etc. Number of deaths last year is estimated to […]

The post Famine In Somalia Once Again Focuses On The Need For Global Food Security first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Any activist and leader of West Bengal unit of CPI(M) will face strong disciplinary action in the event of any understanding with BJP in the panchayat elections The riot act being read out at the recently concluded state committee meeting of the CPI(M) is a clear pointer to the growing murmurs in […]

The post CPI(M) Bengal Leadership Faces A Big Dilemma Over Strategy In Panchayat Poll first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sudhir The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi on Easter day was notable, as it was his first visit to a church since becoming prime minister over nine years ago. On the same day, Easter Sunday, BJP leaders conducted an outreach in different places by […]

The post BJP Is Taking A Cynical Approach Towards Christians In Kerala first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Less than a month ahead of the assembly elections in Karnataka scheduled on May 10, the state unit of the BJP is vertically split between the loyalists and turncoats and between believers and nonbelievers of Hindutva. While the turncoats through their patrons at Delhi have been striving hard to side-line the loyalists, […]

The post Factional Battles Intensify In Karnataka BJP After The List Of 189 Is Out first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Debabrata Biswas from Boston On April 4, citizen Trump surrendered, formally arrested and arraigned in a mundane court room on the 15th floor of Manhattan Criminal Court in New York .He was spared of procedural mug shot and handcuff as a courtesy to a former president. And with this, ‘a new, dangerous chapter of […]

The post Court Indictment Of Donald Trump Has Not Affected His Popular Base first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Indian economy, politics, and media was in transition when I joined India Press Agency in March 1993 led by O P Sabherwal as its Chief Editor. I had been sent there by Sumit Chakravartty, Editor of the weekly Mainstream. The transition of the 1990s had then just begun, and as the […]

The post Remembering O P Sabherwal, A Dedicated Journalist In His Centenary Year first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, before she left for the United States to defend the Narendra Modi government on a number of charges levelled against the   nine-year-old government, spent some time in poll-bound Karnataka and explained the special bond her party and her government shared with the state and its people. Ms. […]

The post Corruption Issue Dogs Bommai Administration As Karnataka Assembly Polls Are Nearing first appeared on IPA Newspack.

RJD leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav Tuesday attacked the Centre after his questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, saying all this will continue till the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as the BJP-led government was “afraid” of the election. He was questioned for about nine hours at ED’s office […]

The post Tejashwi says BJP afraid of 2024 elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Indian children have fundamental right to education and the number of incidences of violation has crossed 12.5 lakhs in the form of out of school students during the education session 2022-23 just ended. Equity and inclusion thus remain important issues, apart from quality and relevance of the India’s education system that […]

The post India Needs To Be Worried About Its Children first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas There has been a mixed diplomatic response from various foreign countries attending the recent G20 sessions in different states of India’s lush-green Northeast. Most among the attending foreign ministers and diplomats preferred discussing local/regional   development and tourism-related matters. This was in consonance with the generally agreed upon format of the G20 sessions, […]

The post Positive Vibes At G20 Meet In India’s Northeast, But With A Twist first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Congress on Monday accused the government of using a new software to spy over people opposed to it and damage India’s political and democratic system. Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera alleged that the Modi government first used Cambridge Analytica (CA), then Pegasus, then Israeli Contract Hackers led by “Team Jorge” and now it is vying […]

The post Govt using new software to spy over critics, alleges Cong first appeared on IPA Newspack.

After losing the national party status, the Trinamool Congress is exploring legal options to challenge the decision of the Election Commission, a party source said. The EC withdrew the national party status of the TMC, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Monday. “The party is exploring legal options to […]

The post TMC to challenge EC decision to deny national party status first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative to substantially boost India’s manufacturing industry has impacted little on the country’s growing dependence on merchandise imports and large trade deficits. It is no wonder that the government and its commerce minister say little on the country’s growing annual merchandise imports bill and trade deficit while highlighting […]

The post India’s Merchandise Imports Continue To Grow Big first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rapid advances in the development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have also triggered a rapid labour market and workplace transition. At the labour market level, it is likely to increase productivity and create new jobs, but at the same time it is likely to replace or at least alter […]

The post AI Triggers Rapid Labour Market And Workplace Transition first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Last weekend a piece in a top newspaper asked “who will challenge Narendra Modi?” implying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had no alternative other than himself. However, even as the post posed the question, the answer had been out twisting in the wind for months. A section of Modi’s Hindutva vote-bank had […]

The post Split Among Hindutva Fanatics Bodes Ill For BJP In 2024 Lok Sabha Election first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey America is in decline. Eclipsed by China’s rise, it is shifting attention from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific. That is one refrain in the analysis of three seemingly paradigm-challenging developments in the past month: a Chinese-mediated restoration of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the kingdom’s association with the […]

The post The Fallacy Of US Policy To Effect A Withdrawal From Middle East first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava On April 6, in 1980, the two stalwarts of erstwhile Jana Sangh, Atal Behari Vajpayee and LK Advani established Bharatiya Janata Party with the maxim “the party with a difference” but after 43 years of long journey, the destiny of the party is being shaped yet by two men, Narendra Modi and […]

The post Congress Failures In Last Four Decades Have Made BJP The Largest Political Party first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar has suddenly cancelled all his party and has reportedly left his official convoy too, sparking speculations of a 2019-like Maharashtra political crisis when he had quietly joined hands with BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis to form a government that lasted for only 72 hours. According to information, NCP supremo Sharad […]

The post Rumours of another Maha crisis around Ajit Pawar first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Trinamool Congress on Friday accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of adopting “double standards” while addressing incidents of violence during Ram Navami in various states. Ram Navami was celebrated across the country last week with grand processions and special pujas, but the festivities were marred by the deaths of 14 people in separate incidents […]

The post TMC alleges Shah double standards on violence first appeared on IPA Newspack.