Anjan Roy

A video of Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury riding a bike, without a helmet while his hands were off the handle, went viral on social media for all the wrong reasons. As the netizens called off the Congress leader’s irresponsible road safety behaviour, Chowdhury said “There was no one there.” In the video, Adhir can […]

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By Anjan Roy Whatever you have thought about Nirmala Sitharaman and the budget she presented earlier this year, one point you have to concede. She is an honest person. After presiding over the government of India’s expenses, running over into lakhs of crores, the finance minister admitted she did not have enough money to fight […]

The post 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Will Be The Costliest One Till Now In The Whole World first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Japan, once the most highly rated economy, is officially in recession, with its GDP shrinking for two consecutive quarters. United Kingdom, currently a pale shadow of its past glory and long discounted as a major economy, has also just landed in recession posing questions about Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s economic policies. Underlying […]

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By Anjan Roy The interim budget presented on February 1 is a hopeful document, pinning its faith on the continued buoyancy of the Indian economy. At the outset, the finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, should be complimented for presenting the shortest and a crisp budget speech, instead of a meandering one of at least one and […]

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By Anjan Roy After fiddling with the Indian economy for years, Raghuram Rajan, former governor of Reserve Bank of India, finds himself in a kind of Hamlet moment. Rajan had observed that India would be lucky to reach a 5% growth rate during the current fiscal year. He was heaped with criticism for his pessimism […]

The post Indian Economy Has Shown Its Own Strengths Through High Growth In 2023-24 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Economic forecasting is always hazardous. It is more so in the current scenario. There are always any number of uncertainties about the future. But currently these are multifarious. No one really knows, including the dramatis personae, what will happen in the next week, let alone in course of the coming year. Take […]

The post New Year 2024 May Witness Far More Turmoil In Global Economy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy If you have a political bent  opposed  to  the Prime Minister  you might just as well sniff a sort of complicity between the Narendra Modi government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Particularly in the context of the parliament incidence involving some youth protestors, clamouring for decent jobs, and the cavalcade of […]

The post IMF Report On Indian Economy Is Positive For Modi Government Before 2024 Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy The Indian stock market is looking like unstoppable, for now. The equity markets are scaling new heights and along with that, the investors are reaping riches. The BSE Sensex has increased by close to 1000 points in intra-day trading on Friday. The NSE index has climbed by close to 300 points. The […]

The post Steep Rise In Indian Stock Markets Is Based On Positive Outlook In Both Domestic And Global Economy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy It was a contradiction in terms. One of the largest producers of fossil fuels, UAE, was hosting the UN talks on limiting use of such fuels to cut down CO2 emissions and thereby help keep earth’s temperature rise within the stipulated 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.   At the end of the […]

The post COP28’s Agreed Document Is A Bundle Of Contradictions On Major Issues first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy One of the most powerful global credit agencies, Moody’s, has downgraded China’s economic outlook to negative from stable. This has major implications for a country in the financial markets and as a reliable destination for global investors. Immediately, this change might not affect China’s investments or borrowings. But a downward revision of […]

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By Anjan Roy China’s is staring in the face of a possible financial sector crisis, with its largest privately owned non-banking financial company unable to meet its obligations. Zhongzhi financial company, having widespread exposure to China’s real estate sector, has failed to honour its obligations to its investors and defaulted. As such, the bankruptcy of […]

The post China’s Largest Private NBFC Zhongzhi Fails Leading To Crisis In Financial Sector first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Sam Altman has become globally known overnight not because of what he had achieved already, which was seminal, but because he was summarily sacked by the board of directors of the startup firm he had established. Sam Altman had become a legend at his young age for his role in developing software […]

The post Why Sacking Of A Single Man Is Rocking The Global Big Tech Operations? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Ukraine war and more immediately the Hamas-Israeli conflict had driven many things from out of the public view. One of these is the Nobel Prize in Economics in this year to a not widely known academic. Claudia Goldin is only the third woman to get a Nobel prize in economics. That itself […]

The post Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin’s Work Has Big Relevance To Indian Policy Makers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Not unexpectedly, Israel-Hamas war has sparked off a battle of words and ideas between two mainline political parties in India. The prime minister’s statement on the Hamas attack as a terrorist act and full support to Israel came face to face from criticisms from the Congress. In its statements, India’s grand old […]

The post Decoding The Origin Of The Hamas-Israel War Through Tumultuous Past History first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy This is all about what a super is. An internal politicking in the American capital —Washington— results in the overthrow of the US House Speaker and it puts countries across the world in a flutter. US House speaker, Rep Kevin McCarthy, was thrown out of his position as House speaker by a […]

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By Anjan Roy Behind all the rhetoric and claims of red lines for negotiations, some underlying geo-political realities had resulted in the consensus at the G20 meet in Delhi held on September 9 and 10. The final document is full of compromises from all sides. It is a success of the middle of the road […]

The post Global South Led By Saudi Arabia, Brazil And South Africa Played Key Role In G20 Summit first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy The strong GDP growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year is a hopeful augury, though there are some intriguing aspects in the detailed figures as well. The quarterly growth has hit 7.8% which in itself is remarkable for a large economy. At the same time, one swallow does not […]

The post India’s High GDP Figures In First Quarter Sending Some Positive Signals first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Now that India has soft landed on the south pole of moon, the dust it will raise will travel from moon surface to the earth. The landing of a rover vehicle will kick up lot of moon dust —called regolith for its typical characteristics— which is minute and sticky and will cover […]

The post After Soft Landing On Moon, India Has Now Better Bargaining Power In Space Diplomacy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy China is walking into a  real financial crisis. A major part of Chinese financial architecture, the shadow banks, are facing serious liquidity problems and they have not paid their investors the amounts of returns they promised. This has raised doubts over their future. Three real estate companies, which placed their funds with […]

The post China Is Walking Into A ‘Lehman Brothers’ Type Financial Meltdown first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy One misses Atal Behari Vajpayee sometimes. When price of tomatoes is going through the roof, we hardly hear any of those ringing metaphors. No one is turning puns on tomato prices as effectively as Vajpayee had once done on onion prices. A general election is fast approaching and prices are a basic […]

The post RBI Is Trying To Be Politically Correct In The Year Before General Elections first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy   Morgan Stanley, a widely respected global investment bank, has upgraded India’s rating. This essentially means the bank now is now arguing it is worthwhile investing in India on the basis of the macro-economic data on the performance of the Indian economy. At the same time, Morgan Stanley has downgraded China and […]

The post Morgan Stanley Upgrading India Is A Good Signal For Foreign Investors first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy India is working out local currency trade deals with an increasingly larger group of countries, thereby avoiding invoicing in US dollars for every trade. This is a move towards internationalisation of the Indian currency when the country is opening up its external sector. India has agreed on local currency invoicing of trade […]

The post India Is Working On Global Currency Trade Deals Widening Its Coverage first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has formally cleared a bail-out package for Pakistan yesterday of $3 billion. The bail-out facility was worked out after protracted negotiations with the country when at times the package looked increasingly uncertain. No one will ask for a IMF ail out unless the situation is grim. Pakistan’s […]

The post Is Pakistan Government Politically Prepared To Implement IMF Proposed Reforms? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Goldman Sachs is at its old game again — that is, exceedingly long term projections of the comparative growth of economies and trying to foresee the shape of the global economy over, say, fifty years. The global investment bank’s latest projections show India in an exceedingly happy colour. It will be the […]

The post Goldman Sachs Projection On India Emerging As Second Largest Economy By 2075 Is A Great News first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Global confidence in the India growth story is getting vindicated, as foreign portfolio investors (FPI) put their faith the Indian market by placing their money here into Indian stocks. As a result, the Indian equity market is rising to unprecedented levels. The Bombay Stock Exchange index, which is the best gauge for […]

The post Indian Economy Is Showing Buoyancy Getting Confidence Of Foreign Investors first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy China could just as well be contesting with the United States as the new super power, however internally it is facing serious problems with its younger generations turning away from traditional social norms. China has just witnessed fewest marriages in decades. The Chinese state has an elaborate machinery for gathering information on […]

The post Chinese Youth Losing Interest In Marriage Will Hit The Country’s Demographic Advantage first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy The global financial circles are agog with speculation about the prospects of the US government defaulting on its payments. This is because the two major parties in America have so far failed to agree on raising the ceiling of US government borrowing. This is currently at $25 trillion. The Biden  government has […]

The post US Debt Default May Be Unlikely But India Has To Be Ready With Precautions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Some of the most successful practitioners and developers of “artificial Intelligence” are now calling for its regulation by the government. These creators of the strikingly advanced AI systems are underlining immediate need for global regulation. That the fears of AI generated materials could go berserk are based on principally two fears. The […]

The post Alarmed At The Impact, Creators Of AI Are Now Talking Of Strict Regulation first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy A hundred year old story has become a hot topic in China, which is finding sympathies among young people. It has been trending on the Chinese internet. A short video based on the story was viewed over three million times. It has become a huge favourite in a musical format. So much […]

The post Kong Yiji Story Of China Can Be Replicated In India Also As Problems Are Same first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy So much for the much vaunted solidarity in the free world. The liberal and democratic nations of western Europe and America had vowed they were all standing firmly behind the besieged Ukraine to defend the free world against alleged Russian autocracy. The wide-ranging sanctions against Russia are starting to bite the western […]

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