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After meeting Congress leadership, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav met Delhi CM and Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Nitish Kumar as part of his efforts to bring other opposition parties together to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “We will unite as many opposition parties as possible,” Kumar after meeting Kejriwal and […]

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Deeply upset veterans, growing dissent, and threats to fight the May 10 Karnataka elections as independents have forced the BJP to seek the assistance of their troubleshooter BS Yediyurappa in the state unit. “Like in the Mahabharata where Vidhura has been the Margadarshak and counsellor for both the Pandavas and the Kauravas, Yediyurappa has been […]

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As temperatures soar in Rajasthan, the heat is on the Congress in Delhi to pilot a solution to the Gehlot-Sachin Pilot crisis. More than 24 hours after a warning that the Congress saw Pilot’s ‘anshan’ as an anti-party activity, the Grand Old Party is yet to figure out whether he should be issued a show-cause […]

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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of indulging in double standards, saying that when the daughters of BJP leaders get married to Muslims, they call it love, but if anybody else does so then it’s dubbed as “jihad”. Talking to reporters in Bilaspur town of the state, he […]

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By Arun Srivastava For naysayers it was a the doomsday as the “historic meet” between Nitish Kumar and Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday in presence of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge not only sent a vibrant message that opposition unity was no more an illusion but would strengthen the ideological narrative of the opposition fight against the […]

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By P. Sudhir The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi on Easter day was notable, as it was his first visit to a church since becoming prime minister over nine years ago. On the same day, Easter Sunday, BJP leaders conducted an outreach in different places by […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Om Prakash Sabherwal, more known as OP in Delhi’s media circles, was a leading journalist in the national capital for more than five decades in the last century. He joined India Press Agency (IPA) in1959 at the call of IPA founder Nikhil Chakravartty and was connected with the organization till his last […]

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By Sushil Kutty Following opposition parties’ feelers to each other, and after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s meeting with Congress party’s disqualified Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi in the company of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav, the Bharatiya Janata Party was in some degree of nervousness as was apparent […]

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By Arun Srivastava Less than a month ahead of the assembly elections in Karnataka scheduled on May 10, the state unit of the BJP is vertically split between the loyalists and turncoats and between believers and nonbelievers of Hindutva. While the turncoats through their patrons at Delhi have been striving hard to side-line the loyalists, […]

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By Debabrata Biswas from Boston On April 4, citizen Trump surrendered, formally arrested and arraigned in a mundane court room on the 15th floor of Manhattan Criminal Court in New York .He was spared of procedural mug shot and handcuff as a courtesy to a former president. And with this, ‘a new, dangerous chapter of […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Indian economy, politics, and media was in transition when I joined India Press Agency in March 1993 led by O P Sabherwal as its Chief Editor. I had been sent there by Sumit Chakravartty, Editor of the weekly Mainstream. The transition of the 1990s had then just begun, and as the […]

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By Sushil Kutty Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, before she left for the United States to defend the Narendra Modi government on a number of charges levelled against the   nine-year-old government, spent some time in poll-bound Karnataka and explained the special bond her party and her government shared with the state and its people. Ms. […]

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RJD leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav Tuesday attacked the Centre after his questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, saying all this will continue till the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as the BJP-led government was “afraid” of the election. He was questioned for about nine hours at ED’s office […]

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Adopting an aggressive posture on the summons issued to him by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau, former chief minister and senior Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi hit out at the Bhagwant Mann government, claiming that he was being maligned by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to divert attention from its failure on several fronts in the […]

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After defying party leadership with a public protest against his party-led government in Rajasthan, senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot is heading to Delhi today, reportedly to meet the party leadership. While the possibility of Pilot meeting senior party leader is not scheduled so far, sources in the party have not ruled out the possibility of […]

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Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday lamented that politics today has lost its “civilized tone,” and said the kind of language used today was unheard of earlier. He was speaking at a discussion to commemorate the acclaimed 1979 Marathi film “Simhasan” (Throne) directed by Jabbar Patel. The film revolves around Maharashtra’s politics in […]

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Four deaths have been reported in an incident of firing inside Bathinda Military Station in Punjab early this morning. The area has been cordoned off and quick response teams are conducting a search, the Army’s South Western Command said in a statement. “Firing incident reported in the early hours of the morning around 0435h inside […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Indian children have fundamental right to education and the number of incidences of violation has crossed 12.5 lakhs in the form of out of school students during the education session 2022-23 just ended. Equity and inclusion thus remain important issues, apart from quality and relevance of the India’s education system that […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra No stranger to intra-party squabbles, BJP leaders of West Bengal unit have often differed over internal matters of the party. But fissures are now discernible in the state saffron camp leadership over actions of governor, CV Anand Bose in the recent communal violence which erupted in the state. Disagreement between leader of […]

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By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in for a couple of 2024 surprises when the country goes for yet another general election. The surprises will come courtesy the hardcore cache of the Hindu electorate that the BJP and the Modi government have been taking for granted during the course of Prime Minister Modi’s […]

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By Kalyani Shankar When Arvind Kejriwal launched his Aam Admi Party in 2012 and bid for power the following year for Delhi assembly in 2013, no one thought he would find political space and sustain himself for long years. Now, on Monday, the Election Commission has granted AAP national party status on the basis of […]

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By Arun Srivastava “We will win all the 40 seats” is the clarion call of the BJP Chanakya Amit Shah to his cadres and sympathisers in Bihar. But the task ahead is arduous. Riding on the shoulders of the RSS, Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Shah may talk of accomplishing the mission, but the ground […]

The post Amit Shah’s Strategy To Gain Majority Seats In Bihar In Lok Sabha Polls Floundering first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas There has been a mixed diplomatic response from various foreign countries attending the recent G20 sessions in different states of India’s lush-green Northeast. Most among the attending foreign ministers and diplomats preferred discussing local/regional   development and tourism-related matters. This was in consonance with the generally agreed upon format of the G20 sessions, […]

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By Satyaki Chakraborty Ten national governments of Latin America including a few left wing regimes are having discussions to evolve a common strategy in dealing with the economic issues facing the countries. Most of the countries are facing the problem of high prices of essential commodities and there are areas in the economy dominated by […]

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It seems a Punjab repeat happening in Rajasthan for the Congress. Sachin Pilot will sit on a day-long fast today asking for action by his own government against the ‘corruption’ of the former Vasundhara Raje government. The events seem erringly similar to the ones in Punjab two years ago when the state Congress chief, Navjot […]

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The Congress on Monday accused the government of using a new software to spy over people opposed to it and damage India’s political and democratic system. Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera alleged that the Modi government first used Cambridge Analytica (CA), then Pegasus, then Israeli Contract Hackers led by “Team Jorge” and now it is vying […]

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Rahul Gandhi will visit Wayanad on Tuesday along with his sister and AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi. This is the first time since his disqualification from the Lok Sabha that the Congress leader will meet people in his former constituency. The Gandhi siblings will hold a road show and a conference in Kalpetta during their […]

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday held multiple rounds of meetings to finalise a list of its candidates for the Karnataka Assembly polls. However, it all went in vain as the leaders could not reach a consensus, sources said. Surprisingly, when Karnataka’s top BJP leaders met Union Home Minister Amit Shah, veteran BS Yediyurappa was […]

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After losing the national party status, the Trinamool Congress is exploring legal options to challenge the decision of the Election Commission, a party source said. The EC withdrew the national party status of the TMC, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Monday. “The party is exploring legal options to […]

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In a big boost to its national ambitions, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday was officially recognized as the “national party” by the Election Commission. The Nationalist Congress Party, Trinamool Congress and CPI lost the “national party” tag. Meanwhile, sources said that the TMC is exploring legal options to challenge the EC’s decision. Lok Janshakti […]

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Congress leader Sachin Pilot opened a fresh line of attack on his rival Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday, announcing that he will sit on a one-day fast against corruption on Tuesday. He has demanded that the Gehlot government act against the alleged corruption of the previous BJP government led by Vasundhara Raje. Mr Pilot […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative to substantially boost India’s manufacturing industry has impacted little on the country’s growing dependence on merchandise imports and large trade deficits. It is no wonder that the government and its commerce minister say little on the country’s growing annual merchandise imports bill and trade deficit while highlighting […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The 26th tranche of the electoral bonds is on sale from April 3 and it will continue till April 12. Karnataka assembly elections are scheduled on May 10. The principal beneficiary of the electoral bonds, will be in a position to make full use of the money available from the bonds for […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rapid advances in the development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have also triggered a rapid labour market and workplace transition. At the labour market level, it is likely to increase productivity and create new jobs, but at the same time it is likely to replace or at least alter […]

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