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By Subodh Verma The union budget for 2023-24 has unveiled a big assault on lives and livelihoods of the people. Spending on schemes and programmes that provide direct economic benefit to people has been slashed across the board. But even bigger and more alarming are the sins of omission. Key problems confronting the people have […]

The post Modi Govt’s 2023-24 Budget Proposals Have No Clue To Dealing With Job Crisis first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty ‘Hindu-versus-Hindutva’, and the ‘casteism’ that plagues Hindu society are the issues for the 2023 9-states’ assembly elections, as well as for the 2024 general elections. Ask people from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and they will agree. Especially after the Bharat Jodo Yatra of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. It does not need rocket science, […]

The post Can BJP Afford To Depend On Hindutva Campaign For Assembly Elections? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey A recent survey of Iranian public opinion suggests that the lack of confidence in a Middle Eastern regime is starkest in Iran, although crisis-wracked Lebanon, Egypt, or Syria may compete. Surveyed in late December by the Netherlands-based Gamaan Institute, an overwhelming majority of the 158,000 respondents in Iran and 42,000 Diaspora […]

The post Survey Finds Iran To Be Ripest Country In Middle East For A Revolution first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The courts of the land should watch their words. The Supreme Court, especially. The top court cannot utter words that put a question mark on its integrity and its motives. More than any entity, the topmost court must be responsible. Observations such as “there is no room for hate crimes based on […]

The post Hate Crimes Have No Place In Any Country, Secular Or Religious first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The newly formed political party Tipra Motha is likely to emerge as the kingmaker after the Tripura assembly polls, in which it will fight a triangular contest with the BJP-IPFT and Congress-Left Front alliances. Tipra Motha, headed by erstwhile royal scion Pradyot Manikya Debbarma, refused to stitch an alliance with either the BJP or foes-turned-friends […]

The post Tripura heads for triangular contest in assembly polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty After the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government was forced out by the breakaway Eknath Shinde Shiv Sena in June 2022, revenge has been exacted. The BJP has been defeated in the Nagpur legislative elections. But while some are calling it a “major electoral setback for the BJP”, others are surprised that […]

The post BJP’s Reverses In Legislative Council Elections In Nagpur Is A Bad Omen For Ruling Alliance first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Within a week of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s vow that he “would prefer to die instead of having an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) once again”, rumour of prime minister Narendra Modi offering a very senior position in his cabinet to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, probably next to […]

The post Nitish Kumar Is A Victim Of Trust Deficit Amongst His Coalition Leaders first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Eric A. Gordon You have to hand it to people like Eran Kolirin. He’s the film director who in 2007 gave us The Band’s Visit, about an Egyptian military band that by some fluke managed to find itself in a sad, godforsaken Jewish desert town in Israel, whose residents unexpectedly were able to find […]

The post ‘Let It Be Morning,’ A Stunningly Powerful Almost All-Palestinian Israeli Film first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Since his 3,506-km Bharat Jodo Yatra ended on January 30 in Srinagar, it is time to assess its impact. Rahul Gandhi has shown incredible stamina, a will to complete what he embarked on, instead of, running abroad halfway—which he was known for. The Yatra also showed another side of the usually inaccessible […]

The post BJY Has Improved Rahul’s Image To The Congress Supporters But That Is Not Enough first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr K R Shyam Sundar The Economic Survey (ES) 2022-23 prepared the ground for the focus points in the Union Budget 2023-24 presented on February 1… Labour law reforms were implemented. It is not a question of the Union Government’s failure. It is the duty of the Union Government to pass laws and frame […]

The post 2023-24 Budget Keeps Key Issues Of Indian Workers Unaddressed first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik The most outstanding feature of the Indian economy today is the sluggish increase in real consumption expenditure. Between 2019-20 and 2022-23 for instance the per capita real consumption expenditure has grown by less than 5 per cent which is less than the rate of growth of the gross domestic product. Even the […]

The post Modi 2’s Last Full Budget Ignores Indian Economy’s Basic Problem first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 is deceptive. The very presumptions of revenue and growth are overestimated, promises made are too high to be realized, allocations made are inequitable for different sectors as well as social groups, and the higher allocations made for certain sectors are being energetically overplayed. If the Indian Economy is […]

The post Deceptions In Plenty In The Union Budget 2023-24 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 betrays India’s workforce though it sings its song of achievement under Modi rule since 2014 and eulogizing its “Big Tent accommodating all”. In contrast this “Big Tent” is too small to accommodate the majority of the workforce. The budget tried to create hope for the workforce by simply […]

The post Union Budget 2023-24 Betrays India’s Workforce Once Again first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra Much was expected from the budget presented by the Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 2023. As this was the last budget of the present government before the upcoming elections to the parliament next year, people had high hopes of relief in various sectors including the health. Thumping the […]

The post Poor Allocation To Health In The Budget Will Have Serious Implications first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sudhir A small US investor firm has challenged the Indian behemoth, the Adani group, and shaken it to its foundations.  The Hindenburg Research, a short selling firm, brought out a 129-page report on the Adani group marshalling evidence of all the funding operations and offshore activities of the 578 subsidiaries and shell companies […]

The post Investigation Into The Entire Business Activities Of Adani Group Is Imperative first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The massive boost in infrastructure spending proposed in the 2023-24 budget is expected to be the biggest growth driver of the county’s economy with several sectors such as steel, coal, power, engineering, automobile and banking are expected to do well. The infrastructure spending along with the focus on tourism, urban development covering […]

The post 2023-24 Budget Provides Big Boost For Industry, Tourism first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak “The fundamentals of the Indian Economy are sound as it enters its Amrit Kaal, the 25-year journey towards its centenary as a modern, independent nation. Policies pursued carefully and consciously to ensure …” was of course noisy and highly opinionated statement of the Economic Survey 2022-23, but the Union Budget 2023-24, […]

The post Union Budget 2023-24 Is Not Fair To The Vulnerable Sections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The central government today made the much-awaited mega announcement on increasing the earnings level up to which no income tax is payable: Rs 7 lakh a year from the 2023-24 financial year. It was Rs 5 lakh so far. Under a new five-slab structure, those making even a rupee above it will have to pay tax. For […]

The post Income tax rebate limit up to Rs 7 lakh in New Regime first appeared on IPA Newspack.