ARABIAN POST SPECIAL

By Zoya Teirstein A 16-month-old boy was playing in a splash pad at a country club in Little Rock, Arkansas, this summer when water containing a very rare and deadly brain-eating amoeba went up his nose. He died a few days later in the hospital. The toddler wasn’t the first person in the United States […]

The post Global Warming Linked To A Spate Of Rare Disease Outbreaks In 2023 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna On December 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set for a historic journey, edging closer to the Sun than any other man-made object before. Achieving record-breaking speeds of 195 km/s (435,000 mph), it will be the fastest artificial object in history. The probe aims to approach the Sun at a distance […]

The post Unprecedented Solar Proximity Is Being Made Possible In December This Year first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey History repeats itself. Palestinian airplane hijackings and attacks on Israeli civilians in Israel as well as on Israeli and Jewish targets abroad pockmarked the 1970s and 1980s. The violence put the Palestinian issue on the world agenda. The violence erupted, and at times, was driven by fierce debate among Palestinian guerilla […]

The post History Repeats Itself With The Killing Of Senior Hamas Official Saleh Al-Arouri first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The Enforcement Directorate’s report alleging police ‘failure’ to rescue its sleuths at Sarberia in North 24-Parganas, from the murderous attack of the angry mob on Friday morning and Governor C V Anand Bose’s threat – “I reserve all my constitutional options for appropriate action at appropriate moment”–are quite ominous and certainly do […]

The post Modi-Shah Looking To Use Anti-ED Violence Against Mamata Govt first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Every court judgment is supposed to be delivered without ‘fear or favour’ and ‘affection or ill-will’, but insights provided by Chief Justice of India Justice D Y Chandrachud on the Ayodhya Ram Mandir land judgment reveal how some of the disapproved tendencies did creep into the making of the final verdict. With […]

The post Ram Mandir Ahead Of Consecration: Persisting Issues Of Heart, Mind, Fear And Favour first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup As Bangladesh prepares for its 12th parliamentary polls on January 7, speculation abounds on the impact of the election outcome on Dhaka’s relationship with Delhi. From historic landmarks such as the 2015 land boundary agreement to lows during 2001-2006, when a coalition led by the current Opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party […]

The post India Needs To Impart Dynamism To Its Bilateral Ties With Bangladesh first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Something always is happening with West Bengal Governors. There was Jagdeep Dhankar who is now Vice President and whose mimicry by a Trinamool Congress leader has immortalized Dhankar whether he likes it or not. Now, there’s Governor CV Ananda Bose. And, by gosh, Ananda Bose can be as chillingly fiery like the […]

The post Trinamool Workers Attacking The ED People Reveals The State Of Law And Order In Bengal first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The RSS leadership is happy that its electoral strategy has paid rich dividend in three states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in just concluded assembly elections Now the RSS chief is concentrating on Bihar, Bengal and Odisha taking in view the coming Lok Sabha polls. Apart it is the threat perception […]

The post RSS Is Working On State Specific Electoral Strategy In The Eastern States first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister Y S Sharmila is not what her name suggests—shy, placid… She has been a rebel after a cause, and so has done what she had set out to do, become a part of the Congress—which was her father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s […]

The post Can Sharmila’s Entry Into Congress Revive The Fortunes Of The Party Before Lok Sabha Polls? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra Since Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took over the reins of the party, the Mahagathbandhan alliance partners are wondering whether the decision was deliberately engineered to create a conducive atmosphere for Kumar to switch over, once again to the NDA, or put pressure on the INDIA bloc, or just to hog the […]

The post Nitish Driving INDIA Bloc Decisions, To Hit The Road For 2024 Campaign first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik Argentina’s new president Javier Milei proposes to use US dollars as the currency of his country, while abolishing its central bank altogether. What is involved in this proposal is not just maintaining a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and the domestic currency, but an abolition of the domestic currency altogether. The […]

The post Dollarisation Programme Of Argentina Will Impose Additional Burden On Its Workers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has just coined this attractive slogan to its gullible constituency – Teesri Baar Modi Sarkar, ab ki baar 400 paar. Some national and international political analysts are declaring “almost an inevitability” of PM Narendra Modi’s win for the third time, supporting the first part of the slogan, while PM Modi’s […]

The post BJP’s Crossing 400 Seats Slogan Is A Hype, Far Away From Ground Reality first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sudhir The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have announced that the military operations in Gaza will continue throughout 2024. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has repeatedly stated that the war in Gaza will continue till the Hamas is totally finished. He has also stated that Israel will control the Gaza border with Egypt which […]

The post Israel Is Seeking To Cleanse Gaza Of Palestinians Through Unending Bombings first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha Forensic investigations by Amnesty International’s Security Lab have come out with surprising revelations about continued and increasing use of Pegasus, a type of highly invasive spyware, developed by Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group. It has come amid an unprecedented crackdown by the Indian authorities on freedom of peaceful expression and assembly, which […]

The post Pegasus Spyware Is Again Being Used Against Indian Civil Rights Activists first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s “imminent arrest” has been on the cards for two-three days and the AAP convener has been milking every drop of sympathy from talk of his imminent “arrest”. That said, while half of Delhi is convinced Kejriwal is corrupt to the core, the other half is still making […]

The post Delhi Chief Minister’s Arrest By Friday By ED Is A Distinct Possibility Now first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The Supreme Court verdict in the keenly-awaited petitions against the adequacy of the SEBI probe into the charges against the Adani group is neither convincing nor conclusive. A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has given the market regulator another three months to complete its investigations. The court has also […]

The post Supreme Court’s Adani Case Verdict Fails To Inspire Confidence To Detractors first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Narendra Modi government had successfully avoided any meaningful discussion on the three new criminal laws in the Lok Sabha by resorting to suspension of almost entire opposition members in the Lok Sabha, but had to face a serious roadblock even before their implementation enforcing the Centre to give a second thought […]

The post Drivers’ Protest Shows The Three New Criminal Laws Are Pandora’s Box first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava With their malicious design to engage Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar in a psychological war proving to be absolutely ineffective, the Narendra Modi and Amit Shah combine has tossed a new type of conceptual war against Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. While the duo failed to muster courage to direct their parrot […]

The post Soren Checkmates Modi-Shah’s Design To Dislodge Him From Office first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It sounds odd calling Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’, “nationwide east-to-west yatra”. The yatra is east-to-west, but not nationwide. Cutting through 14 states and 85 districts is not the entirety of India. It is another matter if it has a nationwide impact. Also, the claim that the Congress “hopes” to win 150 […]

The post Congress’s Bharat Nyay Yatra Will Clash With 2024 Poll Preparations At Ground Level first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: India’s electronics manufacturing sector is set to grow 15 per cent to be worth USD 115 billion in 2024, with players continuing to focus more on higher levels of value addition in terms of components and development of products. The production of mobile phones, the poster boy of the country’s electronics manufacturing, is […]

The post Electronics Manufacturing Sector To Be Worth $115 Billion In 2024 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar The grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya is all dressed up for the inauguration on January 22 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is fulfilling a longstanding dream of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar. A Hindu mob destroyed the Babri Masjid in 1992, claiming it was built on an ancient Hindu temple […]

The post Ram Mandir Inauguration At Ayodhya On January 22 Is A Big Political Achievement For Narendra Modi first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak EVM concerns have cropped up again, because the older Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are still in use in large numbers, newer EVMs that come with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT) paper record are not comprehensive enough, and even all the VVPATs are not counted to match the actual votes polled. […]

The post EVM Concerns Crop Up Again, Votes Polled Must Match VVPAT Counting first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Watch out. Will Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections throw up surprises? The state dangles like a ripe fruit for the taking. Everybody is just waiting. The alliances, they seem they’re many. What happened to the Maha Vikas Aghadi, and did the BJP and the Shinde Shiv Sena combine have a name before Ajit […]

The post INDIA Bloc Has Lot Of Issues To Sort Out For Arriving At An Agreement In Maharashtra first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Like all his other jumlas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pledge to ensure the women of their basic rights and protect them from oppression and torture has proved to be yet another empty promise. Had he really been concerned and committed to protect the honour and prestige of women, by now the message […]

The post Indian Women Continue To Remain Unsafe, Unfree Under Modi-Yogi Raj first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The year 2023 has ended with two big wars and a few local conflicts including one in Myanmar bordering India. While the world was looking for the end of war in Ukraine during 2023, a new war with much severe death toll began in Gaza strip of Palestine in October 2023 giving […]

The post Global Politics May Witness Further Shift To Right And Authoritarianism In 2024 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The world is finally recognizing India’s economic strength and its fast-growing market size. Going by the overall development trend, the economy is capable of growing close to 10 percent annually over the next several years. In 2023-24, the economy may reach a growth rate of seven percent. Both domestic and foreign investors […]

The post Surging Demand, Rising Investment Put India’s Economy On Top Gear first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress is running against time on seat-sharing arrangement with India alliance partners, which is likely to be delayed further. A crucial meeting has been scheduled by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on January 4, in which presidents of its state units and the leaders of its legislative members will be sharing their […]

The post Congress Running Against Time On Seat-Sharing With India Alliance Partners first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Chasing Nazi spokesperson Joseph Goebbel’s famous maxim that people tend to believe a lie as a biblical truth if it is insistently repeated for hundred times, the RSS and BJP’s ecosystem have launched a psychological war against Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Saffron vilification campaign launched by the saffron ecosystem against Nitish […]

The post Nitish Kumar Taking Over JD(U) Presidentship Will Help India Bloc In 2024 Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Number of Bank frauds in 2022-23 in India reached 13,576 as against just 4306 in 2013-14, and has even broken the record of the last year in only first six months of the current financial year 2023-24 when the fraud cases have already risen to 14,483. Obviously, UPA government was no […]

The post Bank Frauds In Modi Regime Continues At Record High first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.