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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India celebrated 14 November as Children’s Day, and exactly five months after on 14 April, 2023 would surpass China crowning itself the world’s most populated county. The world has already celebrated the arrival of 8 billionth baby on Earth, as it signified a milestone for humanity in terms of achievement in […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The draft text on CoP27 agreement released on Monday, November 14, clearly shows the division. Countries are still fighting on the most contentious issue of agreement on “funding arrangements for loss and damage”. The UN climate conference is still swinging between hope and despair. At one point of time, the head […]

The post CoP27 Draft Agreement Shows Clear Divide On Options To Meet Climate Goals first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra Humanity is on a “highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator”, the UN secretary general has warned, saying ‘the fight for a liveable planet will be won or lost in this decade.’ He told world leaders at the opening of the Cop27 UN climate summit in Egypt, “We […]

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By Sushil Kutty Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice of India Chandrachud have two years facing each across the aisle. The rightwing Prime Minister, and the left-liberal CJI described as progressive and ’woke’. Head to head, the two are as different as chalk and cheese, and the stuff on Chandrachud’s plate could taste […]

The post CJI Chandrachud And Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears The Crown first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas In Meghalaya, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as a small entity within the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government, starts its pre-2023 Assembly poll campaign with a handicap against rival, the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Led by former Congress leader Mukul Sangma, the TMC has 12 members in the 60-strong state Assembly and […]

The post As Meghalaya Heads For Polls, Political Theatrics Heat Up first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava It is not a secret what made the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju to question the functioning of the collegium of the Supreme Court and malign the face of the judiciary in public. For a fortnight he has been targeting the judges and judiciary and accusing them of transgressing into the domain […]

The post Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju Is Defaming The Judiciary To Protect Centre first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP and AAP have rolled out very competitive promises to the voters of Delhi ahead of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi polls scheduled for December 4, the result of which would be declared on December 7. Congress has alleged conspiracy in the delimitation process that would ultimately reduce the significance […]

The post Stakes Are Very High For BJP And AAP At Delhi Civic Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Thursday said the party’s campaign planning for the Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls could have been “much better” with the deployment of senior leaders, and rued that his services were not fully utilised. However, Sharma said Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has led a spirited campaign in the state […]

The post Anand Sharma regrets his ‘under-utilisation’ in HP Cong campaign first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Do we get the sneaking feeling that the G-20 has been roped in to be part of the BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’; an opportunity to electorally cash in on the universal appeal of the lotus, which also happens to be India’s national flower? The Opposition is bristling, and does not like it one […]

The post Narendra Modi Seeks To Convert The Nation As A BJP Ground In Global Arena first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty In today’s divided world, an independent foreign policy can be possible only when pressure from the US and EU can be countered with the “what works to my advantage” doctrine, which is why Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t stop himself from praising Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not falling prey to […]

The post Jaishankar Has Done A Good Job In Pushing ‘What Works To My Advantage’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The COP 27 meet in Egypt is on its fourth day on November 9 India has been in the forefront in demanding climate justice from the developed countries ever since the Paris Agreement on Climate Change 2015. Now Island nations have demanded India along with China too to pay for climate […]

The post COP27 Has Brought Indian Agenda Into A Tighter Spot first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak November 8, is the sixth anniversary of Demonetisation, and yet the Indian economy is haunted by black money, counterfeit notes, and cash-economy. The decision of a five-judge bench hearing a bunch of petitions regarding Modi’s decision of Demonetisation to further examine the 2016 move has therefore greater relevance than we presume, […]

The post Demonetisation Haunts India Even After Six Years first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nilanjan Banik and Guido Cozzi By the end of this century, planet earth may not be a liveable place, with the average temperature rising at least 2.5 Celsius higher than what it is now. This is according to the latest published UN Climate Change Report. With the climate change set to become worse, the […]

The post Green Energy – An Antidote For Inflation And Economic Uncertainty first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By L.S. Herdenia The Indian Journalists Union has expressed serious concern over persistent attacks on media and the shrinking space for independent media in the country. In a resolution passed at the two-day plenary session at Chennai last week, the union appealed to the democracy loving people  in the country to raise their voice against […]

The post Indian Journalists Union Calls Upon The Centre To Enact National Law For Journalists first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Medea Benjamin and Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan Immoral, illegal, archaic, coercive, intimidating, criminal, absurd, reckless, brutal — even genocidal. These were some of the adjectives used by global leaders at the United Nations as they took to the podium at the United Nations General Assembly to rail against US policy toward Cuba. Then yesterday, […]

The post Entire World Is Demanding Again An End To The US Blockade Of Cuba first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Soaring international gas prices in recent weeks have caused much concern in consumer countries like India, but the latest trends indicate that power prices may be reversing course. Although Indian gas prices, particularly in terms of supplies for vehicles as well as cooking, have remained moderated, thanks to government intervention, consumers in […]

The post Mild Weather Prompts Soaring International Gas Prices To Reverse Course first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The perception battle surrounding the Aam Aadmi Party and its assault on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s poll prospects in the state, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut his teeth in politics, may at the end of the day be nothing more than an expedition to snatch national party recognition from the Election […]

The post AAP Is Generating Big Hype In Gujarat On Poll Eve But Congress Is Doing A Good Silent Campaign first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The month of October this year in which fell the two great Indian festivals – Dussehra and Diwali – failed to bring much expected happiness to the common people of India. Rather, it turned India’s job market much more perilous that only a month ago in September. Unemployment surged from 6.43 […]

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By Arun Srivastava Certainly it is not less than bizarre that the Narendra Modi administration which has been using the ED, CBI and IT to terrorise and coerce his opponents to fall in line, only a couple of days back asked the top Railway officials to direct Railway Protection Force to issue notices to the […]

The post Owners Will Face Legal Action For The Defiance Of Railway Laws By Their Cattle first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Veteran Congress leader Karan Singh on Friday hit back at party colleague Jairam Ramesh for criticising his recent article on Jammu and Kashmir’s accession to India and said the “unsavoury remarks” regarding his father were “unacceptable”. In a statement, Singh said he had hoped his views will be taken in the spirit in which he […]

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By Sushil Kutty Five years back in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, the BJP and the Congress were face to face and people were asking the question “what does Gujarat and Himachal mean for the two national parties? In 2017, Aam Aadmi Party was limited to Delhi and nobody thought much of AAP other than to […]

The post Gujarat And Himachal Poll Results On December 8 Are Crucial For Rahul Gandhi first appeared on IPA Newspack.