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By Girish Linganna Yemen’s Houthi rebels have carried out hijackings, missile strikes, and drone attacks on ships, leading Danish shipping and logistics company AP Moller-Maersk and German shipping and container transportation firm Hapag-Lloyd to temporarily suspend shipments via the Red Sea. The announcements made on Friday by AP Moller-Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd indicate that large companies […]

The post Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Attack On Ships Poses Threat To Trade Through Red Sea first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Roger McKenzie Former South African president Jacob Zuma has denounced the governing African National Congress (ANC) and vowed to vote for a new political formation in next year’s general election. Mr Zuma, who led the ANC from 2007 to 2017, said on Saturday that he was backing the newly formed Umkhonto we Sizwe party, […]

The post South Africa’s Ruling Party Faces Split Before National Elections In 2024 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The restoration of statehood for Jammu and Kashmir, without the Union Territory of Ladakh, and an expected elected government by September, next year, come at a time when J&K has established its position as one of India’s top performing provinces in terms of economic growth. J&K’s state GDP is lately growing at […]

The post J&K Has Potential To Become One Of India’s Economically Strong States first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Opposition INDIA Block is coming back on negotiation table on December 19, after a long gap of 80 days since Mumbai Meet on September 1, a crucial time that it has already lost, without moving forward on the resolution made, including launching joint rallies across the country and finalization of seat […]

The post INDIA Block Needs To Pick Up Threads On December 19 From Where It Left In September first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Some of the politically powerful Reddys of Andhra Pradesh have a grouse with fellow Reddy and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy who also faces anti-incumbency just like K Chandrashekar Rao of Telangana faced and lost. So, the YSR Congress Party is kind of vulnerable right now and the Congress […]

The post Congress Buoyed With Telangana Win, Finding It Tough In Andhra Pradesh first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra The Patanjli has been in the news not just for advertising its products and misleading claims in the media but also for criticising modern scientific medicine. This went on to the extent that the Hon’ble Supreme Court had to reprimand the Patanjli on 21st November 2023, for continuing to publish misleading […]

The post Misleading Advertisements In Medicine Pose A Serious Health Hazard first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The imposition of extra tariff on Chinese gold jewellery exports by the United States has helped the Indian jewellery export trade to dislodge the United Arab Emirates as the country’s leading export market. The tariff on Chinese jewellery has made Indian exporters more competitive on the one hand, while the Comprehensive Economic […]

The post Tariff On Chinese Gold Jewellery Helps U.S. Replace UAE as India’s leading export market first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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.