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By Sushil Kutty Anumula Revanth Reddy is the new Telangana Chief Minister. Also known as ‘Tiger’ Revanth, he took Bharat Rashtra Samithi supremo K Chandrashekar Rao’s place. Reddy is the first Congress Chief Minister of Telangana and faces the daunting task of reviving Telangana’s financial fortunes. For those who believe ‘KCR’ left Telangana in the […]

The post New Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy Has To Deliver In Lok Sabha Polls For Congress first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The impressive win of the BJP in Madhya Pradesh and humiliating loss of the Congress conceals a disturbing ground reality for both the political parties, since the results hide a disturbing ground reality that they will have to face in the months to come during the Lok Sabha election 2024. BJP’s […]

The post Madhya Pradesh Results Hide Disturbing Ground Reality For Both BJP And Congress first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Hyperbole is one of the chief traits of Narendra Modi. For this reason his latest boast that BJP’s “hat-trick” of victories in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh “is a guarantee for a hat-trick in 2024” and that he would get a third consecutive term in power in next year’s Lok Sabha election, […]

The post RSS’s Tribal Connect Helped BJP Score Hat-Trick In 3 Heartland States 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 […]

The post Moody’s Downgrading China’s Economic Outlook Has Big Significance first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Celebrations in the BJP rank and file after sweeping the Rajasthan polls by winning 115 seats out of election held in 199 constituencies in a 200-seat Legislative Assembly has a hidden discomfort for the party leadership, while the loss of power has greatly shocked the Congress that could win only 69 […]

The post Rajasthan Makes Political Uncertainty Wider For Lok Sabha Polls 2024 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas In an ironic reversal of their assigned roles, regional Congress leaders are currently handling a scathing political attack on their party by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with greater confidence than their supposedly exalted High command Delhi-based leadership, post recent Assembly elections. Its recent drubbing in the five state Assembly elections, as […]

The post Regional Congress Leaders Defending The Poll Debacle In Their Own Ways first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dipankar Bhattacharya The outcome of the five Assembly elections held in November has proved almost all opinion polls and ground reports wrong. Even the few exit polls that predicted a thumping BJP victory in Madhya Pradesh gave the Congress a comfortable majority in neighbouring Chhattisgarh. The clean BJP sweep of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and […]

The post Congress Has Performed Much Better In State Polls Compared To 2019 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election result for Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly reveals that the electorates in Chhattisgarh have driven the Congress and the BJP towards a tougher contest for Lok Sabha election 2024 by reducing the difference in their shares in total votes polled to merely 4.04 per cent from 9.94 per cent in the Lok […]

The post Chhattisgarh Poll Results Drive Congress And BJP For A Stiff Contest In 2024 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The first thing Prime Minister Narendra Modi did after cornering three states in the ‘Hindi heartland’ was to address Indian Navy personnel on Navy Day and proclaim that ranks in the Indian Navy will be renamed so that the ranks reflected Indian culture. The uniforms of sailors and officers of the Indian […]

The post Are The Uniforms Of Indian Navy Personnel Being Changed To Suit The BJP first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna Israel has conflicting goals of neutralizing Hamas and rescuing its civilians kidnapped during the October 7 storming of its territory in a surprise—and vicious—attack after they broke through the heavily guarded perimeter fence, landing by sea and using paragliders, killing about 1,200 people and taking 240 hostage. In order to achieve both […]

The post Israel And Hamas Have Different Objectives About What To Achieve During Truce first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup The results of the assembly elections to the five states announced on December 3 and 4 led to many winners and losers for the time being. All of them will be getting another chance to prove their mettle in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Narendra Modi: Modi was the face of BJP’s […]

The post Assembly Elections To The Five States Have A Set Of Winners And Losers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Let us call the spade a spade. The results of the five state assemblies announced on December 3 and 4 are sending ominous signals to the anti-BJP opposition just four months before the Lok Sabha elections due in April/May 2024. To be frank, the final results leading to the defeat of the […]

The post For Congress And Its Allies, The Signals For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Are Ominous first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee In his recent Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was troubled by the trend of some “big families” conducting weddings abroad, and urged people to hold such celebrations on Indian soil so that the country’s money does not leave its shores. “The wedding season as well has […]

The post India Needs A Strong Resolution To Protect Its Currency first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar After the Five States Assembly poll results, speculation about who the new chief ministers will be is rife. The BJP has won three states and the Congress one. In Mizoram, the XDF has won defeating the ruling MNF. Although the B.J.P. has strengthened itself in the North, it has yet to find […]

The post After December 3 Results, Focus Has Shifted To The Choice Of Chief Ministers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman Government statistics released this week paint a rosy picture of the Indian economy with GDP growth clocking 7.6 per cent in the second quarter of this financial year 2023-24 on the back of strong manufacturing sector. This also strengthens India’s position as the fastest growing major economy, a position held by […]

The post Growth Data For This Fiscal’s Second Quarter Has Many Encouraging Signs first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak A two-volume new ILO research has revealed that participation of India in Global Value Chains (GVCs) has resulted into social downgrading of the workforce, chiefly due to non-integration of labour standards into trade and investment. It is just opposite our expectation, since GVCs are a prominent feature of international trade, which […]

The post New ILO Research Found Social Downgrading Of Workforce In India first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Kunal Bose India’s unreserved opposition to China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative launched across four continents over ten years ago by President Xi Jinping with great fanfare was given vent to from time to time by powers that be, including prime minister Narendra Modi. More recently, India’s external affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi […]

The post Despite Hiccups, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s OBOR Project Making Good Progress first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey Spanish philosopher George Santayana didn’t have Palestine in mind when he coined the phrase, ‘history repeats itself. ‘Yet, Santayana’s maxim may apply to Hamas when comparing the group’s political evolution to the 16-year-torturous road traversed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from classification by Israel and its Western allies as a […]

The post Counterintuitive Palestine Politics: Hamas May Be Treading A Path Paved By PLO Earlier first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi bhakts are absolutely correct in saying “Modi hai to mumkin hai” (everything possible with Modi around). Elections to the Madhya Pradesh assembly were held on November 17, thirteen days ahead of the Telangana elections. During the intervening days, political analysts and even some of the pollsters predicted a clear victory […]

The post War Of Nerves Between BJP And Congress Day Before Election Results first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty There is some confusion on whether India should consider itself “Vishwaguru” or be wise and hold back on the boast? One view is why go the extra mile with the “present government’s exaggerated sense of the country’s global power and indigenous capability”, i.e., Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “macho manner” and muscular foreign […]

The post Indian Foreign Diplomacy Is In A Mess Despite All The Talk Of Vishwaguru first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup As the polls for five Assemblies elections are over— and Rajasthan and Telangana have become unexpectedly exciting, with the Congress putting up a fight—it’s time to capture some broad trends. What is striking are the areas where consensus is now developing across parties, and one of them is the need to provide […]

The post State Assembly Polls Showed Congress And BJP Competing On Granting More Freebies first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The renewed escalation of the Israel-Palestine conflict is providing additional impetus for gold to climb higher levels. The yellow metal has already been trending higher over the past two months, but the end of truce between Hamas and Israeli forces, unleashing new bomb attacks and destruction of lives and properties, particularly on […]

The post Resumption Of Gaza Fighting Adds To Gold’s Impetus To Rise, Hitting Record Levels first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The still nascent state of Telangana is up for its first great opportunity with Telangana Chief Minister, the great K. Chandrashekar Rao – ‘KCR’ for short – poised to make his exit if the exit polls of November 30 are to go by. The exit polls have given Telangana to the Congress […]

The post Congress Will Have A Big Breakthrough If The Party Wins In Telangana first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.