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  By Pradeep Kapoor   Bihar developments leading    to the formation of   new government without BJP will impact the politics in neighbouring Uttar   Pradesh before 2024 Lok Sabha polls.  Significantly, the main opposition party7 Samajwadi Party welcomed the latest    turn   of events resulting in humiliation of BJP.   Enthused by the developments in Bihar, Samajwadi […]

The post Bihar Developments Are Going To Have Impact In Uttar Pradesh In 2024 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The second “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” — named so by Prime Minister Narendra Modi — passed in bitter recriminations between the BJP and the Congress over who was responsible for the division of the country in 1947. It started in the morning after the BJP tweeted a video that focused on Jawaharlal Nehru. The day […]

The post Cong responds to BJP’s Partition video featuring Savarkar first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey   When Prime Minister Victor Orban recently spelled out his vision of Hungary’s frontiers, he joined a club of expansionist leaders such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, and members of the Indian power elite who define their countries’ borders in civilisational rather than national terms.   Speaking on Romanian […]

The post Echoes Of Demand For Civilisational Rather Than National Boundaries first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty   Two headlines stood out. One in an Israeli newspaper, ‘No one will any longer dare offend Islam: The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie’. And the other in a New York daily, ‘NJ man, Hadi Matar, with sympathies toward Iranian government ID’d as suspect in Salman Rushdie stabbing’. The second emphasized on […]

The post Stabbing Salman Rushdie In Open Stage By A Fanatic Gives Ominous Signal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Author Salman Rushdie was taken off the ventilator last night as he remained hospitalised with serious injuries after being stabbed at a literary event in New York, multiple reports said. Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, confirmed that the author was taken off the ventilator and could be able to talk, without giving further details, according to […]

The post Rushdie off ventilator, attacker pleads ‘not guilty’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Harihar Swarup   Friday August 5 was the third anniversary of the nullification of Article 370. It  was  also the date on which Hamin Ast? a Biography of the Article 370 published by Vidhi Centre for legal policy. was released. The book could create an enormous stir because it argues that “nullification of […]

The post Vidhi Centre’s New Book Says Nullification Of Article 370 Unconstitutional first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra   Since independence our country has progressed in many fields. The British colonial rulers squeezed our economy and left the nation with poor education and health status. According to Sanjay P Zodpey and Preeti H Negandhi  as per the 1951 Census, India’s population was 36.1 crores. Only 18.33% of the total […]

The post After 75 Years Of Independence, Health Is Not A Fundamental Right first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By D Raja   As the country is celebrating the 75th anniversary of independence, it’s an irony of history that the RSS, which remained loyal to the British, is now trying to appropriate the legacy of our secular and inclusive struggle for independence. Seventy-five years ago, our country reached an important milestone, when people of […]

The post RSS And BJP Are Trying To Appropriate Legacy Of India’s Freedom Struggle first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee   Some may disagree but India has failed to cash in on its spirited struggle for freedom from over-a-100-year-old British Raj to convert the country into an abode of peace and prosperity for its citizens in the last 75 years. Official claims apart, India continues to be a poor country with almost […]

The post India Lacked Policy Focus For Growth With Equity, Grass Root Development first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai will stay in the top post at least till the next assembly election, which is less than a year away, sources in the Delhi BJP have confirmed amid much speculation on the matter in the state. There has been a buzz about a change by August 15, but sources in […]

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  By Binoy Viswam   Indian politics takes a new turn with the fall of the BJP-led government in Bihar. The BJP-led NDA crumbled down there when the JD(U) bid farewell to BJP.  Even though for several months, the conflict between BJP and JD(U) was brewing, nobody expected that it would pull down their government […]

The post Bihar Developments Have Wider Implications For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava   One liner puzzling remark from Nitish Kumar, after being sworn in chief minister, “the person who came to power in 2014 will not come back in 2024” while has brought about a major shift overnight in the political culture and dynamics of the country, his divorcing the alliance in Bihar has […]

The post BJP Will Find It Difficult Now To Get Bills Passed In Rajya Sabha first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Amulya Ganguli   It might not be churlish to say that the celebration of the 75th year of Indian independence is more an official event associated with the BJP than a national occasion.   The fact that the BJP was ousted from Bihar while facing an angry opponent in Telangana showed that the festivities […]

The post BJP And Sangh Parivar Had Never Any Faith In An Integrated Inclusive India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran   The rate of urbanisation in India has so far been slower than other emerging countries. But this is expected to change drastically in the coming decades. So much so that in the next two decades, the country is expected to add a new city of the size of Los Angeles every […]

The post Rapid Urabanisation To Reshape India’s Energy Consumption Pattern first appeared on IPA Newspack.

A total of 18 MLAs — 9 each from the BJP and Shiv Sena faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde — are being sworn-in as ministers at a grand ceremony in Mumbai today. This much awaited cabinet expansion comes 40 days after a rebellion by the Sena faction led by Shinde brought down the […]

The post Maharashtra gets ministers after 40-day gap first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Nantoo Banerjee   Why is it a matter of such a tearing hurry for Indian Railways that it has to rush to China to import 39,000 wheels while the same could have been locally produced? The Railways were well aware of the shortage of wheels for Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) coaches for passenger […]

The post Chinese Exporters’ Dragon Grip Entangles India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Amulya Ganguli   The enforcement directorate’s relentless pursuit of the Congress and other opposition parties can prove to be counter-productive in the long run.   For a start, the impression can grow that the supposedly autonomous  agency is being less than professional in its targeting of the non- BJP parties. The narcotic bureau’s botched […]

The post Congress Must Stand Up To Modi Government’s ED Terrorism first appeared on IPA Newspack.