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By Arun Srivastava Apprehension has come true. Just within forty eight hours of Supreme Court refusing to pass any interim order on the Maharashtra government’s plea that there should not be any floor test in the Assembly, the BJP leader Devendra Fadavis, tipped to comeback as the person to replace Uddhav Thackeray, called on the […]

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By K Raveendran Enthused by the sudden crash in crude prices, oil bears are daring to imagine oil at $50 a barrel. Their optimism is boosted by tanking stock markets, soaring inflation and mounting recession fears. Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, oil prices have maintained a steady climb, hitting $127 per […]

The post Oil Bears See $50 Barrel As Within The Realm Of Possibility first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ben Beckett On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and making abortion illegal in at least eighteen states, with more potentially to follow. Despite ample warning, based both on the justices’ histories and the leak of the decision almost two months before it became official, national […]

The post United States Supreme Court Is Using Its Unchecked Power Against People first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arvind Narrain Senior advocate Fali S. Nariman, described civil rights activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad as a “foot soldier of the Indian Constitution”. Today, the foot soldier has been arrested for zealously pursuing justice for one of independent India’s most egregious wrongs, namely the Gujarat pogrom, which was unleashed following the Godhra train burning […]

The post Supreme Court’s Judgment In Gujarat Riots Case Bodes Ill For Democracy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee It is a matter of concern that India, sitting over the world’s fifth largest proven coal reserves of well over 111 billion tonnes, produces only around 800 million tonnes of coal per annum and continues to be a major global coal importer year after year. China, ranked 4th in coal reserves with […]

The post There Is Little To Justify India’s Coal Shortage first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Eoghan Gilmartin “A very hard blow.” Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez couldn’t mask his disappointment at the resounding defeat for his Socialist Party (PSOE) in its traditional stronghold of Andalusia last Sunday. In a seismic shift in the country’s electoral politics, the conservative Partido Popular (PP) swept to victory in Spain’s most populous region, […]

The post Right-Wing Takeover In Andalusia Is A Setback To Spain’s Coalition Govt first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Amulya Ganguli A feature of the present ruling dispensation at the centre is the fear that it has generated even among the rich and famous. The late tycoon, Rahul Bajaj, was perhaps the only one who had referred to this phenomenon of “new India” at a gathering where the BJP’s bigwigs were present. It […]

The post Fear And Sycophancy Stalking Present India Under BJP Regime first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Global learning poverty has further increased to 70 per cent in 2022 with largest increases in South Asia and the Latin America and the Caribbean, as per the simulation result based on the latest available data and evidence. It means the world has lost the gains during 2000-2015 when it […]

The post Learning Poverty Increases To 70 Per Cent, Inequality Widens first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sagarneel Sinha Despite a few stray incidents, the bypolls for the four assembly seats in the northeastern state of Tripura have seen a voter turnout of more than 78%. The four seats where bypolls were held are — Agartala, Town Bardowali, Jubarajnagar and Surma (SC). The assembly elections in the northeastern state of Tripura […]

The post Results Of Four Bypolls In Tripura Will Impact The 2023 Assembly Elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Abhishek Mishra and Hrithwik Singh The recent invocation of the phrase ‘uncooperative federalism’ by the Supreme Court in its judgment last month in Union of India &Anr. versus M/s Mohit Minerals Pvt. Ltd. Through Director marks an important moment in the study of Indian federalism. This also adds value to literature across the globe […]

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By Prabir Purkayastha The UNAIDs executive director, Winnie Byanyima had appealed before the 12th WTO Ministerial of WTO in Geneva that the world would face a grim future if patent waivers did not take place. At a press conference, Byanyima had said, “In a pandemic, sharing technology is life or death, and we are choosing […]

The post In WTO’s 12th Ministerial Meeting, Rich Countries Blocked Production Of Cheap Vaccines first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha There are reports, released by Oxfam a few months back, to be exact, on January 23, 2022, that reveal that seventy percent of the national wealth is in the hands of select ten per cent. For the rest, it is thirst, hunger and a bleak present. Dragging themselves towards the end of […]

The post Unemployment Of Youth And Inequality In Indian Society Is Rising first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava BJP’s latest move to throw out Maha Vikas Aghadi from power in Maharashtra has a different contour and political necessity.  The move was driven not only with the maxim to have a BJP government and revenge the two year old action of Uddhav Thackeray to foil its effort to rule Maharashtra. Instead […]

The post Maharashtra Developments Are A Big Booster For BJP On Prez Poll Eve first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The ordeals Rahul Gandhi has been facing in the National Herald money laundering case are yet to dissipate. The probe pertains to alleged financial irregularities in the Congress-promoted Young Indian Private Limited, which owns the National Herald newspaper. The ED probe is more of the nature and intent of insulting Rahul for […]

The post Entire ED Exercise Over National Herald Issue Is Meant To Demean Rahul first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas With only two days left for the by-elections for four Tripura assembly seats on June 23, the war of words between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its main challenger Trinamool Congress (TMC) reached a climax of sorts this week. While TMC’s top leader Mamata Banerjee has not visited Tripura, other […]

The post Trinamool Congress Giving Stiff Fight To Ruling BJP In Tripura Bypolls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Decrying modern Indian history and accusing the eminent historians of distorting the historical facts has turned into an obsession for the BJP leaders and cadres. Every individual in the party, right from the lower level to the top leaders, is busy finding fault with the history and dictating an infantile discourse about […]

The post Rewriting History Is The Brain Child Of RSS To Refurbish Its Image first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty ‘Unreachable’ is what mobile phones communicate when the tower can’t connect. But when a bunch of Shiv Sena MLAs went “incommunicado” midnight on Monday, the future looked grim for Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who couldn’t get through to Eknath Shinde, a key Sena MLA and a strongman of no mean clout […]

The post Shiv Sena Supremo Uddhav Thackeray Is Facing His Biggest Political Crisis first appeared on IPA Newspack.