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By Girish Linganna In a significant development toward easing the ongoing conflict in Gaza, a meeting took place on Thursday at an elegant white-domed palace in Qatar. The Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, hosted the spy chiefs of the United States and Israel, namely CIA Director William J. Burns and […]

The post Qatar Is Playing A Key Role In Facilitating The Release Of Hostages first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Having lost hope of winning the assembly elections to the five states and haunted by the ghost of bleak prospect of coming back to power at the centre in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, RSS is seriously contemplating to resort to the design of rousing the sensibility of ultra-nationalism.and foreign bogey Though […]

The post RSS Focusing On Foreign Interference To Weaken Modi As Campaign Issue first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The Supreme Court strictures against the Punjab governor for sitting over the bills passed by the state assembly by questioning the validity of the house session that passed those bills are a verdict against what has come to be regarded as the standard operating practice of the Union home ministry to use […]

The post SC Strictures Against Gubernatorial Abuse Must Bring Some Sense To Centre-State Ties first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Politics makes strange bed fellows. But eyebrows were certainly raised when Subhendu Adhikari, a state leader of BJP which makes no secret of his outfit’s affinity for Hindutva recently spoke of supporting a representative from another political outfit at Lok Sabha constituency of Diamond Harbour to defeat Trinamool Congress’s Abhishek Banerjee. Peopled […]

The post Bengal BJP Not Averse To Supporting Naushad Siddiqui Against Abhishek first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The way the lay of the land lies, courts have the last word and among the courts, the Supreme Court. So, it’s a “big victory” for the AAP government and a lesson for the Punjab Governor who had withheld consent to four bills passed by the Punjab assembly while also ruling an […]

The post Supreme Court Reads The Riot Act To The Governor Of AAP Led Punjab first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas For Bangladesh, an inexorable decline of its economy during the last couple of years has added to the present tensions it faces in its uneasy relationship with the US. This has rendered the position of the ruling Awami League (AL) politically more vulnerable as it continues its pre-election campaign for the 2024 […]

The post American And Western Diplomats Are Openly Supporting Opposition In Bangladesh first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The Lok Sabha Ethics committee has made Mahua Moitra a martyr. The indiscreet decision proves beyond doubt that the personal and political life of an individual daring to raise an accusing finger towards Narendra Modi and his tycoon friend Gautam Adani would have to face the wrath of the combined establishment. The […]

The post BJP Ecosystem Using All Its Might To End Mahua Moitra’s Political Career first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik In an economy like ours where the work-force is not neatly divided into “the employed” and “the unemployed”, and instead there is massive and growing casualisation of work, measuring unemployment is a tricky business. It necessarily means asking a person how much work that person got over a certain period in the […]

The post India’s Working Force Has Remained Stagnant Over The Last Five Years first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election campaigns are at peak in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh going to polls on November 17 in the second phase, and only five days are left for the chief contestants – the Congress and the BJP. As of now, Congress seems to be maintaining its lead in both the states. BJP […]

The post Congress Maintains Its Lead In Second Phase Of Election Campaign first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to believe that there has been no listed ‘code-of-conduct’ for the directly elected representatives of Lok Sabha since the country held its first general elections between October 21, 1951 and February 21, 1952. Paradoxically though, Lok Sabha has an ethics committee with the members remaining in the dark about […]

The post Lok Sabha Ethics Committee Functions Without Code Of Conduct For Members first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sudhir One of the ways federalism and the powers of the elected state legislatures are being undermined, is by governors sitting over the bills passed by the legislatures without taking any decision regarding them. According to the constitution, bills passed by the state legislatures have to be given assent by the governor in […]

The post Arbitrary Powers Of The State Governors Must Be Ended first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Dhruba Narayan Ghosh, known as D N Ghosh, the young official who played the leading role in preparing the draft of the ordinance on bank nationalisation issued on July19, 1969, passed away in Kolkata on November 6. He was 95. Originally, a member of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IAAS), Ghosh […]

The post Remembering D N Ghosh, The Architect Of Bank Nationalisation In 1969 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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 – […]

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