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The BJP on Thursday slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the controversial remarks of a member of his Cabinet on Ramcharitmanas, alleging that his government has been hurting Hindu sentiments and wondering if the minister will dare to make similar comments on holy books of other religions. Bihar’s Education Minister Chandrashekhar, who is from […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Joshimath has been sinking for months, but could grab attention of the governments at the Centre and the State only recently that too after the subsidence started dangerously manifesting itself. Warnings served in 1976, 2001, and 2013 were grossly ignored. Human greed continued to explore the natural resources hastening the sinking […]

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By Binoy Viswam ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’ of RSS-BJP mould has decided to open its doors before foreign universities to “come, see and conquer” India.  The University Grants Commission (UGC) has published the ‘proposed regulations for establishing and running campuses of foreign higher education institutions’ in the country.  Now any foreign university ranked within 500 in […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik The IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva has now openly admitted that the year 2023 will witness the slowing down of the world economy to a point where as much as one-third of it will see an actual contraction in gross domestic product. This is because all the three major economic powers in […]

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was on Wednesday aghast over a petition challenging the ambitious survey of castes, ordered by his government, filed before the Supreme Court. He pointed out that what was being undertaken in Bihar was a “ganana” (headcount) and not a “janganana” (census), indirectly debunking the PIL’s contention that the state government […]

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The tussle between Tamil Nadu’s ruling party DMK and Governor RN Ravi escalated on Tuesday after the governor’s remarks suggesting ‘Tamizhagam’ is an appropriate name for ‘Tamil Nadu’ and his omission of certain parts of his speech in the state Assembly on Monday became flashpoints. A DMK delegation is likely to meet the President in […]

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By Arun Srivastava After a fortnight, the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi would culminate with the national flag hoisting in Srinagar. But this finish would be purely an allegory. The real political Yatra (journey) of Rahul will begin after this stage. The political analyst, scribes,  intellectuals, fellows of RSS and Narendra Modi’s think […]

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By Indira Jaising On January 10,  a curative petition was filed by the Union of India versus the Union Carbide Corporation (‘UCC’), and American Chemical Corporation now owned by Dow Chemical Company, an American multinational chemical corporation, pertaining to the Bhopal Gas Disaster. The disaster occurred on December 3-4, 1984 and the victims have been […]

The post Curative Petition In Supreme Court Is No Relief For Bhopal Gas Victims first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Congress strategy to defeat the BJP and dislodge Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his pedestal is three-pronged. One, Muslims must be made to vote for the Congress, the Congress alone. Two, the Hindu voter should be convinced that the ‘Tapasvi Rahul’ is the alternative to the ‘Pujari Modi’. Three, the rest […]

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By Dr. Arun Mitra It is to utter to dismay that only about 23.8 % families of the doctors who lost their life fighting COVID-19 have received the insurance amount announced by the Prime Minister under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP). This is as per the information received by Dr Babu K V, […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee It is rather depressing to note that the unemployment rate in the country reached 8.30 percent in December, the highest over the last 16 months. In urban areas, the unemployment rate exceeded 10 percent. The number of people looking for jobs last month increased to 40.48 percent, the largest in 2022, reported […]

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By K R Sudhaman The preliminary official estimates by Ministry of Statistics has corroborated multilateral and other rating agencies forecast that India’s economic growth would be around 7 per cent in financial year 2022-2023. This only confirms that Indian economy is on a revival mode. The projected GDP growth may be less than 8.7 per […]

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BJP is embarking on a mission to woo the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) by visiting each and every village and household with the significant number of voters from the community to showcase the measures taken by the Modi government for their welfare. The party has managed to make in-roads into the community over years and […]

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By Sushil Kutty The Lt. Governor, Delhi, VK Saxena, acts as if he’s a power unto himself. But everybody knows his loyalty to the Union Ministry of Home is absolute. The Delhi Government is at the mercy of frequent interventions, call them interferences. And if Delhi is suffering, it is because of this unwavering subservience […]

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By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, the main contending formations in the coming Assembly elections have stepped up efforts to secure an alliance with the pace-setting tribal Tipra Motha (TM) party. So far, the TM has maintained an equidistance from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)/IPFT alliance and the Left front/Congress grouping. Observers find such tactics […]

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By K Raveendran 2023 may well be a year of gold. This is because despite several negatives the yellow metal has outperformed everything else. And with the New Year expected to unravel all that traditionally has worked in favour of gold, this asset class appears to be non-stoppable right now. IMF has warned that a […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik India’s current account deficit for the second quarter (July-September) of 2022-23 has reached a massive $36.4 billion which is 4.4 per cent of the gross domestic product, higher than at any time in the last nine years. It is only in October-December 2012 that the absolute level of the current deficit had […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak South Asia still needs to prepare for the worst since there are increasing signs of geo-economic fragmentations. Expenditure needs to meet the Sustainable Development Goals; equity needs to be improved through labour market and social protection reforms as well as gender policies, appropriate measures needed to mitigate and adapt to climate […]

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By Sushil Kutty Union Home Minister Amit Shah has spoken. And the timing is telling, just in time for a clutch of assembly elections in 2023, and the big one in 2024. Shah announced that a grand Ram temple will be inaugurated in Ayodhya on January 1, 2024. That means the Bharatiya Janata Party will […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra There is a chance of a massive rejig in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet after January 14, when the ongoing Kharmas period, which is believed and considered to be inauspicious as per the Hindu calendar concludes . According to sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi may expand his Cabinet and add leaders […]

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Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi sparked a fresh controversy when he commented that the name of the State “Thamizhagam would be more appropriate than Tamil Nadu.” Following the Governor’s comments, Twitter buzzed with #TamilNadu where DMK IT wing and Dravidian party supporters started to post #TamilNadu. Meanwhile, DMK Treasurer and MP TR Balu slammed Governor […]

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