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By Ashis Biswas As the pre Assembly poll campaign warms up in Tripura, the state seems to be heading for a sharper ethnic divide in 2023 between the majority Bengalis and native tribal groups. New poll entrants Tipra Motha (TM) fighting for a greater separate Tripura (Tipraland) state, have confirmed the worst fears of the […]

The post Division Among Tribals In Tripura Has Special Significance For 2023 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi is silently, and certainly irreversibly, moving towards his goal, to transmute the basic identity and character of Indian judicial system. There are many aces on his chess board, but the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju is a rare exception to perform the task more diligently. In his exuberance […]

The post Rijiju Planning To Bring A New Law To Empower The Govt To Appoint Judges first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Finally, megastar Amitabh Bachchan has spoken truth to power! And in the city where he spent a part of his youth…Kolkata! Then, early in his tinsel-town career, after moving to ‘Bombay’, when his screen roles demanded, he was the “angry young man”, who in real-life was known to dodge issues of civil […]

The post Amitabh Bachchan’s Remarks At Kolkata Film Festival Have Big Significance first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas With crippling power cuts continuing, Bangladesh Government is going all out to buy more power from its regional neighbours , and also examining the possibility of producing ‘green energy’ by using hydrogen, following recent measures taken in advanced Western countries. The ruling Awami League (AL) Government has been subjected to stinging attacks […]

The post Bangladesh Takes Up Power Sector Reforms Focusing On Green Energy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dylan James The Cuban government has established an extensive network of biotechnology labs that have developed cutting-edge medical advancements to reinvent traditional cancer and diabetes treatments. For the U.S., a country that tops lists for the prevalence of cancer and diabetes among its population, these advancements would be great news for the millions of […]

The post Cuba Has Made Big Advances In Cheap Treatment Of Cancer And Diabetes first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Pakistan Peoples Party leader Shazia Marri has threatened a nuclear war with India, news agency ANI reported quoting Bol News, a day after India strongly condemned the neighbouring country’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto for his “uncivilised outburst” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “India should not forget that Pakistan has an atom bomb. Our nuclear status is […]

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By K Raveendran After taking on the Supreme Court for the impasse on Collegium, which he described as ‘alien’ to the Constitution, Law Minster Kiren Rijiju has played another bite from His Master’s Voice – prime minister Narendra Modi’s favourite simultaneous elections. Rijiju said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha the other day […]

The post Modi Govt May Be Dusting Out Its Plan For One-Nation, One-Poll By 2024 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Hitting back at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for claiming that India is ignoring the threat of war from China, the BJP on Friday accused him of trying to demoralise the military and took a swipe at his great-grandfather former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Speaking to journalists at a stopover during his Bharat Jodo Yatra earlier […]

The post BJP accuses Rajiv Foundation of being on Chinese payroll first appeared on IPA Newspack.

India on Friday blasted Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto over his offensive personal attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling it a “new low even for Pakistan”. In a firm and unsparing condemnation of Bilawal Bhutto’s remarks at the UN, New Delhi said Pakistan lacks the credentials to cast aspersions on India and added that […]

The post India slams Bilawal Bhutto’s comments against Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik The fact that income and wealth inequalities have increased quite dramatically under the neo-liberal regime is beyond dispute. The empirical work by Piketty’s team bears out the increase in income inequality. They use income tax data to infer about the share of the top 1 per cent of the population of a […]

The post Income And Wealth Inequalities Increase Substantially Under Neoliberal Regimes first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha In almost every act of development, there keeps flowing an undercurrent of loss. Every beginning is based on the negation of its preceding one. One glaring example is that of global warming. There is smog, wide spread and dense, erosion destroying the course of streams and rivers that had sheltered the human […]

The post Proposed Changes In Forest (Conservation) Rules Will Hit The Dwellers first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The morning of December 14 ex-RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan hitched his wagon to Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. The timing made sense. One, the Bharat Jodo Yatra was traversing through Congress-ruled Rajasthan. Two, the Congress had just a couple of days ago defeated the BJP in Himachal Pradesh. Three, of the three […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Led Bharat Jodo Yatra Will Be 100 Days Old On December 16 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

“Only we can defeat the BJP” — For Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s new national general secretary, organisation, Dr Sandeep Pathak, the goal and the roadmap to achieve it are clear. Pathak, who was made a permanent invitee to AAP’s 11-member political affairs committee ahead of the party gearing up for assembly elections in more than […]

The post AAP claims it caused more damage to Cong than BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas Ahead of the Meghalaya and Tripura state Assembly elections in 2023, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo  Mamata Banerjee , currently visiting the Northeast,  is sending out  mixed signals to  major national  parties like the BJP and Congress . Steps taken by the TMC  so far  in Meghalaya and Assam, indicate a flexible, carefully […]

The post Mamata’s Meghalaya Visit Focuses On Alliance Strategy To Defeat BJP In North East first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra The group of 20 countries, nick named as G20 includes Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union. So far seven summits of the G20 have been held. […]

The post Nuclear Disarmament Should Be Priority Agenda Of India Led G20 In 2023 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The AAP strategy is to make lots of noise and hope that it registers with the voters. It worked in Gujarat where it got 13 percent of the vote share to technically become a national party though in terms of impact it remains “regional” with the distinction of being in the company […]

The post AAP Can Not Fight Both BJP And The Congress In 2024 Lok Sabha Elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Six weeks are certainly not the sensible time frame to judge a new prime minister’s performance, that is too in the case of United Kingdom, which has been suffering economic malaise that has turned endemic during the decade with Conservatives in the power. But still Rishi Sunak, the first Prime Minister of […]

The post Rishi Sunak Has Taken Few Positive Steps In Stopping Economic Downslide first appeared on IPA Newspack.