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By James M Dorsey Israel wasn’t slamming the door on renewed indirect prisoner swap negotiations with Hamas when it this week barred David Barnea, the head of Mossad, the country’s foreign intelligence agency, from travelling to Qatar to explore possibilities for renewed exchanges. Instead, it was manoeuvring for greater leverage in potential talks and expressing […]

The post Hamas Manoeuvring Complicates Efforts To Secure Prisoner Swaps With Israel 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 Girish Linganna Speaking at a conference held at the Maldives President’s Office after a Cabinet meeting on Thursday (December 14, 2023), Maldives’ Under Secretary for Public Policy, Mohamed Firuzul, said that the archipelagic nation would not renew the earlier government’s agreement on the Third Joint Hydrographic Survey of Maldives’ waters signed with India on […]

The post Maldives Decision Not To Renew Hydrographic Survey Pact Is A Jolt To Indian Maritime Strategy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak In a written reply on December 11, 2023 in the Lok Sabah during the current winter session, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment Rameshwar Teli claimed that unemployment rate in the country has a declining trend over the year, obviously to give a political message to the electorate in […]

The post Modi Government Plays With Data Before Election To Show Unemployment Declining first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Congress having a massive rally in Nagpur to celebrate its foundation day on December 28 is unlikely to have any significant political or electoral bearing on the RSS. Congress was born in Bombay in 1885. But the party leadership chose Nagpur as the venue of celebration for obvious reason to send a […]

The post Congress Foundation Rally In Nagpur Must Send Strong Message To RSS first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup BJP’s top leadership seems to act in unconventional ways. That relates to its unexpected choice of chief ministers in three states, Vishnu Deo Sai in Chattisgarh, Mohan Yadav in Madhya Pradesh and Bhajan Lal Sharma in Rajasthan. To the public at large, and often the know-it-all media, these names could have been […]

The post BJP High Command Opted For A Long Term Planning In Deciding On New Chief Ministers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty So after all the “jalsas” to crown chief ministers of three states — Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, forget Telangana, it is ‘Congressi’ — a probe has been ordered on the Parliament security breach, with the Modi government’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi telling the country, shamed by a bunch of unemployed […]

The post The So-Called ‘High Level Probe’ Assured By Minister Pralhad Joshi Is Nothing But A Hoax first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava With a sankalp (pledge) at KV temple of Varanasi to get rid of the anti-people government of the BJP, the Uttar Pradesh Congress will launch its UP Jodo Yatra on December 20 from Shakumbhari Devi temple in Saharanpur and culminate at Naimisharanya (Sitapur) after covering 16 parliamentary constituencies in 10 western and […]

The post Congress Yatra In Uttar Pradesh Beginning December 20 Will Be A Big Opposition Show first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Only a few months ago, RSS-BJP clan had created hype around “Nari Shakti Vandan”, just after PM Narendra Modi government had introduce Women’s Reservation Bill, 2023 on September 19 in a special session of Parliament. Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam was the new epithet for the Bill which was brought forward as […]

The post Woman Judge’s Seeking Permission To Die Exposes ‘Nari Shakti Vandan’ Hype first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Parliament attack ‘mastermind’ Lalit Mohan Jha is in police custody. Four of his underlings – if he is ‘mastermind’, indeed – have been charged with terrorism under various sections of the UAPA, supposedly one of the toughest anti-terror legislations anywhere in the world. Does that mean, Neelam Devi, Sagar Sharma, Manoranjan D., […]

The post The Curious Case Of ‘Hindu Terrorists’ Involved In Breach Of Parliament’s Security first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Come winter, a season of mellow fruitfulness, Kolkata springs up pleasant surprises. A three day festival on Sahir Ludhianvi, whose lines of love and protest are still hummed began on December 15 at Dhana Dhanyo stadium. Tributes are paid to an individual’s memory usually on his/her birth anniversary or the day he […]

The post Kolkata Remembers The Legendary Lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi Through Three Day Festival 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 Arun Srivastava This is the second time in two decades that the security of Parliament has been breached. Nevertheless, the two incidents are distinctly different from each other in nature and probably in intention. The first was planned by terrorists “to wipe out the entire political leadership of India,” to quote the then home […]

The post Unemployed Youths Intruding Parliament Is A Desperate Cry For Help first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The way PM Narendra Modi’s growth narrative is being boastfully brought forward is nothing but mere politics, since it tries to put the stark reality of incidents of hunger and malnutrition in the country under carpet. As per the growth narrative India is the fourth biggest economy of the world, growing […]

The post Fourth Biggest Economy Has Largest Number Of Hungry And Malnourished first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Neelam ‘Azad’ is 42 and a student forever. Armed with a string of educational qualifications, Neelam couldn’t land a job and may not ever land one now that a case under UAPA has been lodged against her and the five others who planned and carried out the attack on Parliament on the […]

The post The Gang Of Six Breaching Parliament Security Needs Patient Hearing From Govt first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The impressive gains in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan could not blind the BJP leadership to the fact of its declining share of votes in all the states in November 2023 elections compared to Lok Sabha Election 2019, and hence it was compelled to bring new faces as Chief Ministers as […]

The post Declining Share Of Votes Compelled BJP To Choose New Chief Ministers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty All indications available from the Congress and Trinamool Congress sources on the eve of the INDIA constituents meeting in New Delhi on December 19 suggest that the Congress high command is itching to form an electoral alliance with the Trinamool Congress in Bengal for fighting the BJP jointly in the 2024 Lok […]

The post Congress May Opt For Alliance With Trinamool In Bengal For Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Is Kashmir now settled issue? The Supreme Court verdict says ‘Yes’ and National Conference Chief Farooq Abdullah put his seal of approval to the Supreme Court verdict on the abrogation of Article 370. Nobody could have put it more succinctly than Farooq Abdullah, not even his son Omar Abdullah. In King’s language, […]

The post Irrespective Of Supreme Court Verdict, Kashmir Remains An Unsettled Issue first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran It is no surprise that COP28 Dubai has proceeded the way it has. As member countries grappled with how to formalise and approach towards the most sensitive issue of fossil fuels, the climate summit had to be extended to try and work out a consensus. According to latest reports emerging the vibrant […]

The post COP28 May Have Avoided A Showdown, But Conflict Points Remain Largely Unresolved first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Supreme Court upholding abrogation of Article 370 in its verdict on December 11 has multifaceted implications. For Mehbooba Mufti if it was not the defeat of Kashmiris but of the idea of India, it was certainly not a defeat for Kashmir and Its cultural ethos, the Kashmiriyat. Instead it was a setback […]

The post By Upholding Abrogation Of Article 370, Supreme Court Has Kept Many Issues Unanswered first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Three-terms in a row and knowing well that he faced the axe, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan thought long and short and took the dive for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who dumped him to safeguard his own future. Modi fought on his own “name and face” to guarantee a third-time for himself […]

The post Will Depriving Shivraj Singh Chouhan Of Chief Ministership Help BJP In 2024 Polls? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak COP28 draft negotiation text released on reduction of fossil fuel has generated great criticism and fury, since it stops short of phasing out fossil fuels, and therefore no agreement was reached within the deadline. Negotiators are now awaiting new text, talks continue beyond the deadline, but there is no sign that […]

The post COP28 Draft Negotiation Text Frustrates Hope Of Phasing Out Of Fossil Fuel first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.