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By Harihar Swarup Election results to five state assemblies have exhibited many firsts. For the first time the Aam Admi Party sprang a surprised when it romped home with a majority in Punjab, leaving far behind the Congress, Akali Dal and other parties. This is also for the first time that APP has stepped out […]

The post There Are Many Lessons For Congress To Learn From Its Debacle In Five Assembly Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Forgetfulness is bliss. Of all faculties, the ability to forget is the basis of human progress, whether for an individual, institution, or a nation. It is the fountainhead of forgiveness, perhaps the greatest of all virtues. And Indians are particularly endowed with it, whether it is due to their obsession with spirituality, […]

The post Narendra Modi Flourishes On Indian People’s Short Memory first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra That the students from Sumy have been evacuated and are on way to western Ukraine is a matter of great satisfaction not just for the family but for the country as a whole. Better late than never; finally the Indian government woke up and took effective steps to plan this evacuation. […]

The post Need To Make A Thorough Review Of Medical Education Following Ukraine Crisis first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey The Russian Orthodox Church blesses rather than fires weapons. In doing so, it has emerged as a powerful weapon in its own right in President Vladimir Putin’s civilisationalist arsenal. Putin justified his 12-day-old invasion of Ukraine in part by asserting that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government had been preparing for the “destruction” […]

The post Putin Adds A Religious Front In His Expansionist Agenda first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM¨ There is no mistaking the signs. The four-day CPI(M) state conference, which concluded the other day, signals a major policy shift.  The party is clearly in a mood to modify its strategies in accordance with the changing times. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan put it succinctly: “Time will not wait for anyone.” […]

The post Kerala State CPI-M Conference Signals Major Policy Shift first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The US-led western trade, economic and financial sanctions on Russia seem to be working instantly, but less to the discomfort of Russia than the rest of the world. The sweeping sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have led to a massive spurt in global oil and gas prices — over 20 percent […]

The post Sweeping US, EU Sanctions Hit World Economy More Than Russia’s first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Years from now, when the present will become history, generations will wonder how the world could have survived, if so lucky, with such hyper nationalists like Putin  in power. Russia’s Ukraine war is no longer a limited affair now. The distant thunder from the fringes of Eastern Europe is reverberating across the […]

The post Double Debacle Could Undo All Rational Calculations Made Before first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The maverick film director of Bengal Mrinal Sen, the second most important member of the famous troika in the cinema world that included Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, will step into his 100th year on May 14, 2023. Significantly, Ray was born just two years before in 1921, on May 2, the […]

The post Remembering The Debate Between Satyajit Ray And Mrinal Sen Over ‘Akash Kusum’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Mumbai, Maharashtra after a roadshow in Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency, where he hopes all the assembly constituencies will vote BJP. The seventh and last phase of the assembly elections in UP happened March 7 and the phenomenon of ‘aware pashu (stray cattle)’ mustn’t have escaped Modi’s […]

The post Maharashtra Governor B S Koshiyari Is A Tool Of State BJP And RSS first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Matein Khalid If Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin was the epicentre of the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact satellite states, Ukraine is the crucible of the geopolitical confrontation between the West and Putin’s Russia. Putin weaponized Gazprom’s gas exports to Ukraine as far back as 2006, fomented secessionist militias […]

The post A New Global Energy Order Emerging With US Supplies As Pivot first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Subrata Majumder Supply chain has become the core issue in Make in India. In the forthcoming new foreign trade policy, it will play a prominent role to increase exports. But, unless India reinvents its perception towards Free Trade Agreement (FTA) it will be difficult to emerge as a competitive alternative supply chain hub against […]

The post Russia-Ukraine War Poses Big Challenges To Supply Chain Industry first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman Indian students going abroad for studies cost approximately $80 billion foreign exchange, which broadly equals forex received by way of NRI remittances annually. This is a staggering figure spent by about 11 lakh students who go abroad for higher studies. This figure is only growing year after year and unlike in […]

The post India Loses About $80 Billion Forex Yearly On Students Studying Abroad first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav As the Russian invasion of Ukraine rages on and a catastrophe looks near than ever, Twitter is where the latest news, analysis, and perspectives can be found. These are coming from the powerful and the most cerebral people of our time. It’s fascinating and engrossing to read the tweets, for example, […]

The post Financial Sanctions: Bitcoin Is A Big Gainer In The Russia-Ukraine War first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik The security concerns of Russia arising from Ukraine’s intentions of joining NATO have been widely discussed in the media. But the IMF’s link with Ukraine which is a parallel issue has scarcely received much attention. The IMF, as is well-known, “opens up” economies around the world for the penetration of metropolitan capital […]

The post International Monetary Fund Played A Crucial Role In Precipitating Ukraine War first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra Amid a lot of buzz for the coming presidential elections, names of political veterans such as Sharad Pawar, BSP Supremo Mayawati and a few others have been doing the rounds and discussed as possible candidates for the post. Speculations have been rife of late with Bihar chief minister and long-time BJP […]

The post Nitish Dismisses Buzz About His Candidature For President first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy I never tire of recalling what Joseph Schumpeter, one of the greatest economists and scholars, wrote in his monumental tome: The nearer we are to an epoch the less we understand. Our own we understand the least. It is too early to make an assessment of Russia’s Ukraine war and its implications […]

The post Russia’s Financial System Takes Big Hits On Eighth Day Of Ukraine War first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman The killing of an Indian Student Naveen Shekharappa in a Russian shelling in Kharkiv in Ukraine recently is a wake-up call to the country’s rampant and unending caste-based and communal-based politics that is ruining the educational system. It is time for the nation as a whole to have a relook at […]

The post Indian Student’s Killing In Ukraine Is A Wake-Up Call To Review Medical Admission Policy first appeared on IPA Newspack.