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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW:AICC general secretary and in charge of Uttar Pradesh  Priyanka Gandhi has taken the full responsibility  of worst performance of her party in UP Assembly elections  and asked the state leaders to prepare road map to face Lok Sabha polls in 2024. Soon after the results were announced Priyanka Gandhi convened the […]

The post Congress Preparing New Roadmap In Uttar Pradesh To Face Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

With some right wing groups now giving a call to boycott ‘Halal’ meat, BJP national general secretary CT Ravi likened Halal food with ‘economic jehad’. For the past few days, there was a flurry of messages on social media appealing to Hindus to shun Halal meat, especially after Ugadi, which is the Hindu New Year […]

The post After hijab, it is turn of halal in Karnataka first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Akhilesh Yadav needs no introduction. But in the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, he is a newcomer, just like Yogi Adityanath was in 2017. Yogi remained a non-member of the assembly the entire five years he was CM the first time, just like Akhilesh Yadav when he was Chief Minister from 2012-2017. The […]

The post Akhilesh Yadav As The Opposition Leader In Assembly Has A Tough Task Ahead first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra After meeting with G-23 leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress president Sonia Gandhi reached out to other members of the group. Gandhi held a meeting with Manish Tewari, Anand Sharma and Vivek Tankha on Tuesday, as she stepped up efforts to placate the leaders of the G-23 dissident group to find unity […]

The post Sonia Placates G-23, But Urges Against Public Criticism first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Indira Jaising Law performs both a normative function and a descriptive function. Criminal law constitutes offences which are punishable with imprisonment and/or fine. The law of rape is normatively defined in Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code [IPC] as being a sexual act performed on a woman against her will, or without her […]

The post Criminalizing Marital Rape: When Is An Exception Not An Exception? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Yogi Adityanath, who took oath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second time consecutively on March 25, is generally referred to as “Maharaj ji”. He earned his new tag of “bulldozer baba” during the recent elections due to his frequent reference of the heavy JCB machine which his government […]

The post Bulldozer Politics Is Getting Institutionalised In Uttar Pradesh Under Yogi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It’s been a month since Russia invaded Ukraine. So long in the battlefield and even Changez Khan’s hordes would have ended their campaign and returned home to the Manchurian steppe. But Putin’s army is not returning home even as we are being told that the Russian troops do not have their hearts […]

The post President Putin Is Still In His Own Created Mess In Ukraine After One Month Of War first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha With the beginning of the third decade of the new century, there is a blatant effort to distort the history of the country, surprisingly, without any historicity. The latest indicator is the call to rewrite the Constitution. Implicit in this call is the BJP government’s bid to make people remember only what […]

The post BJP Call To Rewrite The Constitution Has Ominous Tones For Democracy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Malicious and capricious violence and killing of the rivals has acquired the quintessence character of new political ethos.  Erosion of the traditional political ethics has been so intense that the basic culture of politics has become indiscernible. There is a common notion that politics is the game of urban areas. But it […]

The post Rampurhat Massacre Has All The Traditions Of Political Violence In Bengal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Supreme Court today refused an early hearing on pleas challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict on the Karnataka government’s ban on hijabs inside classrooms. The petitioners had sought early listing of the issue citing upcoming school examinations. The Chief Justice of India chided Advocate Devdutt Kamat, who was representing the petitioner Muslim student Aishat […]

The post Supreme Court refuses early hearing on hijab ban first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran As predicted, the ’synchronised’ fraud by the Modi government and the petroleum marketing companies has resumed even before the state assemblies which went to poll in the recent round have been officially constituted. The open market policy, which has been kept in ‘suspended animation’ has come alive and the results are already […]

The post ‘Synchronised’ Fraud By Government And Oil Companies Is Back first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak World Air Quality Report 2021 has unmasked the Modi government showing its ugly face which has been masked since April 7, 2015 by a so called flagship scheme to monitor air pollution in the country with the launch of National Air Quality Index. Despite the big claims, air quality in the […]

The post World Air Quality Report Unmasks Modi Government’s Incompetence first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Earlier this month, China announced a 7.1% increase in its defence budget to about $230 billion. The news generated concerns in relevant quarters in India. China maintains the highest number of active military personnel in the world and its defence budget is the 2nd largest in the world for many years […]

The post Rising Defence Budget Is Making The World A More Dangerous Place first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar Will the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal emerge as a challenger to  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress Party, or both? No doubt winning Punjab will encourage him to spread his Aam Admi Party’s wings to other states, but can he achieve his ambition? It may be difficult as the other regional […]

The post Arvind Kejriwal Is Young, He Has Time In His Favour, He Should Work For 2029 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy The Reserve Bank governor, Shaktikanta Das, has reiterated that the primary objective of the monetary would continue to be price stability. In an environment of unprecedented uncertainty and flux, maintaining stable price line could be a daunting task. All principal variables which would critically determine the curse of prices in the economy […]

The post Ensuring Price Stability In Economy Must Be RBI’s Prime Focus first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Clouds of confrontation have thickened over Kerala’s political sky with the Opposition deciding to intensify the agitation against the SilverLine project and the Government equally determined to go ahead with the project. An unfazed Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has signalled his government’s intent to go ahead with the project despite the […]

The post Kerala Opposition Intensifies Stir Against SilverLine first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The COVID-19 pandemic has “severely affected” the education system in India, however, Modi government has failed so far to take proper remedial response in the post-pandemic grim situation that has taken all level of education under its grip. The response so far is much less than the requirement, and whatever, Union […]

The post Future Of Students In Post-Pandemic India Still Uncertain first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee There were writings on the wall. Only India’s official economists seemed to have failed to read and report to the government. Oil rally was expected to continue through 2022 as demand outstripped supply. By January 29, this year, oil posted its sixth straight weekly gain as a growing global chorus predicted the […]

The post Surging Inflation Can Upset India’s Economy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The pace at which India is moving forward in providing social safety net for workforce is too slow to cover entire workforce in years to come. The monthly provisional data just released by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) reveals that the situation is still volatile since exit and entry from […]

The post EPFO Payroll Data Reveals A Slow Pace Of Formalisation Of Labour first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty We’ve heard of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 56” chest, and we’ve heard of how Modi can stand on one leg and give Baba Ramdev a run for his Yoga. Modi’s superhuman exploits would fill a tome the size of a NYT bestseller, and if people never tire of ‘Modi hai toh mumkin […]

The post Narendra Modi, The Superhuman Who Only Works And Rarely Sleeps first appeared on IPA Newspack.