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By K Raveendran The Supreme Court’s displeasure with the way the Centre is using its agencies to suppress criticism or force adversaries into submission is finding expression at increasing frequency. “It can’t be a State that is run only through its agencies,” Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said while hearing a petition urging the court to […]

The post Court Observations Against Agencies Set A Trend Ahead Of Upcoming Review Petitions first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Once again, the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has proved that his bête noire Narendra Modi could not match his political craftsmanship and administrative acumen. Though the middle class bhakts of Modi claim that he has perfect understanding of the time, when to strike and how to mutilate his opponent, the Tuesday […]

The post Nitish Trumps RSS, Modi With Caste-Based Socio-Economic Report first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Election campaigns reach its mid-way, with only a week left for campaigning, Congress seems to have emerged even stronger than previously expected just one week ago, or even likely to perform better than in the last election held in 2018. Even the latest poll survey results […]

The post Congress Emerging Stronger In Madhya Pradesh, Closer To Power first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party despairs that the opposition INDI-Alliance is dividing Hindus into caste to rob the BJP a chance at victory in the five states’ assembly elections. The moral high-ground the saffron party took by championing a casteless Hindu society, however, does not fetch votes in enough numbers to win elections. […]

The post Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Playing The OBC Card In Telangana Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna As Israel grieved in the aftermath of the October 7 tragedy, where more than 1,400 citizens lost their lives due to the actions of Hamas terrorists, US President Joe Biden visited Tel-Aviv to pledge American support. However, during an appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden also emphasized the need for […]

The post Israel Will Be Doing A Terrible Blunder If It Extends The War To Iran And Lebanon first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar A hypothetical President Joe Biden versus his predecessor, Donald Trump, contest in the 2024 U.S. presidential race is too close to call. Elections will be held on November 5, 2024, just a year away. News agency Reuters says this election promises to be like no other modern U.S. election. New York Times […]

The post American Presidential Election In November 2024 Promises To Be A Tumultuous One first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal is bound for prison. The Delhi Chief Minister is reconciled to his fate. The enforcement directorate will question him, arrest him and put him behind bars, period. There are no two ways about it. Kejriwal has convinced himself and he has also convinced his flock of […]

The post Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Is Reconciled To His Term In Tihar Jail first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Contestants arrayed in the electoral battlefield of Rajasthan is almost clear. The Congress and the BJP are engaged in a bitter, closer, no holds barred contest than expected earlier. Hitherto sidelined BJP leader and former CM Vasundhara Raje has come back to the centrestage, while challenges go on multiplying for  the […]

The post Bigger Challenges Lying Ahead For Congress In Rajasthan first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The problem with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has been his own overblown ego. He treats himself as the most astute politician possessing the highest order of intellect and wisdom. He also nurtures the feeling that no other politician could read his mind and make out of his future moves. None had […]

The post Egoistic Akhilesh Yadav Is Emboldening Anti-Secular Organisations first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee Increasing secret business donations to political parties to help fight state and general elections threaten to harm India’s democratic system. The practice protects the anonymity of contributors. If France, one of the world’s most vibrant democracies, can ban political donations by business corporations, why do political parties in India need to raise […]

The post Anonymous Political Donations Are Harming India’s Democratic System first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Last heard, the NDA had taken a massive lead in the Maharashtra Gram Panchayat elections with the BJP, the NCP Ajit Pawar faction and the Shinde Shiv Sena going great guns while the Congress, Shiv  Sena (UBT) and NCP Sharad Pawar were way behind, underlying the reality that the INDI-Alliance has a […]

The post Expanded NDA’s Lead In Maharashtra Panchayat Polls Is A Bad Signal For India first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Mizoram and Chhattisgarh may vote for peace and development. Elections to all the 40 Vidhan Sabha seats in Mizoram and 20 out of 90 in Chhattisgarh are scheduled to be held on November 7. During the entire election campaigns for this phase of election, violence dominated the minds of electorates – […]

The post Mizoram And Chhattisgarh To Vote For Peace And Development first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava It appears that Narendra Modi has lost his political sense and prudence; else how could he choose to launch a ruthless attack on the opposition, and even target a section of his own party, just while the Lok Sabha election was hovering on his head. This observation may appear to be quite […]

The post Modi More A Threat To His Own Party, Less Prime Danger To Opposition first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak ILO has moved one step closer to social justice and decent work by adopting a proposal to establish a Global Coalition for Social Justice in the ongoing 349th Session (30 October – 9 November, 2023) of its Governing Body at Geneva, Switzerland. It is just a beginning, and the Coalition will […]

The post ILO Moves One Step Closer To Social Justice And Decent Work first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran A failure by Russia to fulfil its commitment of 300,000 barrels per day of voluntary cut in crude exports as per the understanding with OPEC is likely to cause friction between Moscow and Saudi Arabia, the prime driver of the cartel’s supply control strategy to shore up crude prices. Any problem in […]

The post Overshooting Russian Oil Exports May Cause Friction In Saudi-Led Supply Cut Mechanism first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has, once again, lived up to its reputation of being a trail blazer. The State has shown the way to defeat determined attempts to disturb communal harmony, a hallmark of the State. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government lost no time in nipping in the bud the sinister designs of […]

The post Kerala Frustrates Attempt To Disturb Communal Amity first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey Israel’s options are central to discussions about the day after the guns fall silent in Gaza. Absent from the debate is what Palestinians want. Also absent is any discussion of funding for Gaza’s reconstruction, although the assumption is that oil-rich Gulf states will step up to the plate. The significance of […]

The post Israel In Gaza: Only Limited Options Available When The Guns Fall Silent first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The regularity with which the Enforcement Directorate discovers alleged wrongdoings of opposition parties on the eve of elections should be a matter of investigation. But that calls for a regime change; the Narendra Modi government should be divested of power for discovering a nexus, if any. The ED, sometimes working in tandem […]

The post ED Raid Aimed To Involve Chief Minister Baghel Before Polls Is Ominous first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna Along the border between Lebanon and Israel, a missile expert from Hezbollah is currently preparing for a war situation with a level of intensity and readiness he has never experienced before. Dressed in black tactical pants, green camouflage attire, and armed with a pistol, the officer from the Iran-backed Shiite militia wears […]

The post Hezbollah’s Intensified Preparations Suggest Impending War With Israel first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Nawaz Sharif’s celebratory return to Pakistan after several years in exile will turn into a political triumph only if the country’s military establishment, which had banished him from politics six years ago and now facilitated his recent insurrection, fundamentally changed its behaviour. So far, it seems that the establishment sees Sharif as […]

The post Pakistan Army Wants Former PM Nawaz Sharif To Contest And Win Elections first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava “Listen, Bihar is not a BIMARU state”. This message was sent on Friday to Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah by none else but Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The two leaders from Gujarat have a habit of deprecating Bihar and describe it as a state with no hope under Nitish, […]

The post Providing Jobs To 1.22 Lakh Bihar Youths By Cm Nitish Kumar Augurs Well Before Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Nikhil Chakravartty, a pioneering figure in Indian journalism for more than four decades of the last century, is being deeply missed by sections of the media fighting hard to protect the hard-won freedom of the press against the onslaughts of the Narendra Modi government. In the second half of the twentieth century, […]

The post Remembering The Icon Of Indian Journalism Nikhil Chakravartty On His 110th Birth Anniversary first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.