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By Ashis Biswas Nepal and Bangladesh are feeling the negative impact of the uncertainties plaguing power generation and related operations in India, in the wake of the Ukraine war. Neither Nepal, nor Bangladesh can expect much relief from long power cuts until more supplies can be sourced from India later this year. For the present, […]

The post Bangladesh And Nepal Badly Hit By Power Shortages, Seeking Help From India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The best way to stabilise the Indian Rupee is to contain inflation and imports. Simply put: the inflation rate should be below four percent and the country’s massive annual trade deficits need to be reduced to zero. The country should totally focus on making goods in India to reduce avoidable imports and […]

The post Internationalising Rupee Is Unlikely To Stabilise The Currency first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sankar Ray A clear win in 15 out of 20 seats in the bye-elections to Punjab provincial assembly by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has unnerved the 13-party ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement.It indicates that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is not at all formidable in its home turf. It was thrashing late swinger by the former Pakistan […]

The post Imran Khan’s PTI’s Massive Win In Bypolls Is A Big Jolt To Pak Ruling Coalition first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By L S Herdenia There are several highlights of the results of local body election announced on July 17. The first and most important highlight is the gain made by the Congress which captured Mayors post in three municipal corporations. The second is the humiliating defeat suffered by Jyotiraditya Scindia in Gwalior where he and […]

The post BJP Clear Winner In Civic Polls, But Congress Captures Scindia’s Gwalior first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty ‘Ashamed’, ‘abused’, ‘corrupt’ and ‘betrayed’. These and other select words cannot be used in Parliament. Against each other and against the Lok Sabha Speaker and the Rajya Sabha Chairman, starting Monday, July 18, the first day of the Monsoon Session. For example, honourable MPs cannot term the Prime Minister ‘Covid-spreader’, or ‘jumlajeevi’. […]

The post Latest Chart Of ‘Unparliamentary Words’ Will Make A Mockery Of Debate first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kanad Sinha Professor Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya who passed away in Kolkata on July 13 at the age  of 82,was one of the two pillars on whom our understanding of Early Medieval India stood, the other being Professor Ram Sharan Sharma. The concept of the ‘Early Medieval’ is immensely important in Indian historiography which was long […]

The post Prof. B D Chattopadhyaya Imparted Fresh Dimension To Understanding Of Indian History first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha India’s unemployment rate has risen to 7.80 percent in June. Haryana and Rajasthan are at the top. The other worrisome data point about the rate of unemployment, seen in June, 2022,was a fall of 2.5 million jobs among salaried employees. Unemployment has risen mainly in the agrarian sector, according to data released […]

The post Unemployment And Hunger Haunt The Indian Masses Under Modi Regime first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Debabrata Biswas BOSTON: Last month, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the Roe v Wade judgment of 1973. SCOTUS issued its decision with regards to the case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Centre (Mississippi). Abortion rights will cease to be a federal affair from now and it will be left to the […]

The post US Supreme Court’s Abortion Judgment Is An Assault On Women’s Rights first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is entering into a major cost of living crisis due to multiple domestic and international crises, which included soaring food and energy prices, rising poverty, joblessness, endangered food security, disincentive to farmers growing food articles, and lopsided policy interventions. The way the government is responding to the issues lack holistic […]

The post Soaring Food And Energy Prices Accentuate Cost Of Living Crisis first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty They don’t look like lost and found brothers. Edappadi K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam share nothing in common other than that they were “dual leaders” of the AIADMK, the party that MGR founded and J Jayalalithaa carried in her aura. Now, her two self-proclaimed protégés have in less than two years of […]

The post The Big Battle In AIADMK Is Set To Continue Despite E K Palaniswami’s Win first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The presidential election to be held on July 18 in the real sense is a royal battle between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the former BJP minister Yashwant Sinha. It would be wrong to construe that Sinha has a tough challenger in Draupadi Murmu. But there is no doubt that by […]

The post NDA’s Tribal Candidate Draupadi Murmu Has Divided The Opposition Camp first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Mohan V Katarki An unprecedented political crisis has arisen in Sri Lanka, leading to the breakdown of constitutional governance. Unorganised angry protesters, who are deeply affected by economic meltdown, have forced two Prime Ministers Mahinda Rajapaksa and his successor Ranil Wickremesinghe to resign, and have driven out the executive President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to high […]

The post Breakdown Of Constitutional Governance In Sri Lanka – What Is The Way Ahead? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty One, the Bharatiya Janata Party does not need the current kerfuffle in Goa. It is already in power there. But the fact that Goa is a neighbouring state to Maharashtra does betray that the disease is contagious. If Maharashtra was engineered to overturn a post-poll “unnatural” alliance, Goa is a straightforward attempt […]

The post Goa Crisis Again Shows How Congress High Command Is Clueless On States first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s bravado and brinkmanship turned fatal last Saturday. Not only was he reported missing from his office and residence, but the palatial President’s house in Colombo was also invaded by the protestors. Twitter is flooded with amusing pictures and videos of the incident. Protestors taking a plunge […]

The post Acute Political Instability Stares At Sri Lanka Even After President’s Resignation Offer first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Soma Marla Taking clues from finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s last year’s budget speech on the government’s intention to privatise a few PSU banks, media reports appeared last week on the government’s intention to introduce a Bill during the coming monsoon session to privatise them and relax the cap on foreign equity holdings I  […]

The post Narendra Modi Govt Is Keen To Revive Pre-Nationalisation Days first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup The impact of the ongoing Russia—Ukraine war on energy and commodity prices has caused great global economic turmoil. Some countries are facing food shortage and all oil-importing countries have been adversely affected. The invasion has come at an unfortunate time for India. Just when we all dealt with our double balance sheet […]

The post Indian Policy Makers Facing Big Test In Dealing With Inflation In Current Fiscal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Uddhav Thackeray’s challenge to the man who replaced him, Eknath Shinde, to hold fresh elections in Maharashtra hasn’t elicited response, and likely would not because the Shinde-Fadnavis dispensation cannot for all the money in the BJP’s war-chest hazard a guess on which alliance will win the civic body elections, which is where […]

The post Uddhav Thackeray Is Right In Calling For Fresh Polls In Maharashtra first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak India finds itself in an unenviable position. Choosing an option has become ever more difficult. Financial sector crisis continues and the country has been suffering from negative shocks to credit growth which pushes up the macro vulnerability and increases downside risks to the growth in GDP. However, as the economy recovers […]

The post Weak Credit Growth In Indian Economy Is Hurting Recovery Process first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty One servant to the other: Blame it on the British. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said July 7, that the education system India inherited was designed by the British Raj to create a “servant class”. The Prime Minister couldn’t have justified his ‘pradhan sevak’ title in a more succinct manner. However, contrary to […]

The post Narendra Modi’s Sermons On Colonial Education Contain Half-Truths first appeared on IPA Newspack.