Arabian Post Staff The IMF announced in the World Economic Outlook’s press briefing that the baseline forecast for global output growth is 0.1 percentage point lower than predicted in the January 2023 WEO Update, before rising to 3.0 percent in 2024. “The world economy is still recovering from the unprecedented upheavals of the last three years, and the recent banking turmoil has increased uncertainties. We expect global output […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Indian children have fundamental right to education and the number of incidences of violation has crossed 12.5 lakhs in the form of out of school students during the education session 2022-23 just ended. Equity and inclusion thus remain important issues, apart from quality and relevance of the India’s education system that […]
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By Tirthankar Mitra No stranger to intra-party squabbles, BJP leaders of West Bengal unit have often differed over internal matters of the party. But fissures are now discernible in the state saffron camp leadership over actions of governor, CV Anand Bose in the recent communal violence which erupted in the state. Disagreement between leader of […]
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By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in for a couple of 2024 surprises when the country goes for yet another general election. The surprises will come courtesy the hardcore cache of the Hindu electorate that the BJP and the Modi government have been taking for granted during the course of Prime Minister Modi’s […]
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By Kalyani Shankar When Arvind Kejriwal launched his Aam Admi Party in 2012 and bid for power the following year for Delhi assembly in 2013, no one thought he would find political space and sustain himself for long years. Now, on Monday, the Election Commission has granted AAP national party status on the basis of […]
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By Arun Srivastava “We will win all the 40 seats” is the clarion call of the BJP Chanakya Amit Shah to his cadres and sympathisers in Bihar. But the task ahead is arduous. Riding on the shoulders of the RSS, Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Shah may talk of accomplishing the mission, but the ground […]
The post Amit Shah’s Strategy To Gain Majority Seats In Bihar In Lok Sabha Polls Floundering first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Ashis Biswas There has been a mixed diplomatic response from various foreign countries attending the recent G20 sessions in different states of India’s lush-green Northeast. Most among the attending foreign ministers and diplomats preferred discussing local/regional development and tourism-related matters. This was in consonance with the generally agreed upon format of the G20 sessions, […]
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By Satyaki Chakraborty Ten national governments of Latin America including a few left wing regimes are having discussions to evolve a common strategy in dealing with the economic issues facing the countries. Most of the countries are facing the problem of high prices of essential commodities and there are areas in the economy dominated by […]
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By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative to substantially boost India’s manufacturing industry has impacted little on the country’s growing dependence on merchandise imports and large trade deficits. It is no wonder that the government and its commerce minister say little on the country’s growing annual merchandise imports bill and trade deficit while highlighting […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty The 26th tranche of the electoral bonds is on sale from April 3 and it will continue till April 12. Karnataka assembly elections are scheduled on May 10. The principal beneficiary of the electoral bonds, will be in a position to make full use of the money available from the bonds for […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rapid advances in the development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have also triggered a rapid labour market and workplace transition. At the labour market level, it is likely to increase productivity and create new jobs, but at the same time it is likely to replace or at least alter […]
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By Sushil Kutty Last weekend a piece in a top newspaper asked “who will challenge Narendra Modi?” implying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had no alternative other than himself. However, even as the post posed the question, the answer had been out twisting in the wind for months. A section of Modi’s Hindutva vote-bank had […]
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By James M Dorsey America is in decline. Eclipsed by China’s rise, it is shifting attention from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific. That is one refrain in the analysis of three seemingly paradigm-challenging developments in the past month: a Chinese-mediated restoration of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the kingdom’s association with the […]
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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) thinks it has made a prize catch by getting the elder son of senior Congress leader A K Antony, Anil Antony to join the party. But the ground reality being what it is, the party will realize sooner than later, that such tinkering won’t fetch the […]
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By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both BJP and Congress are promising ‘moon’ on the eve of assembly election. In Madhya Pradesh by October/ November this year. BJP has already promised Rs. 1000 per month dole to women. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is going from place to place explaining the details of the scheme. He […]
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By Harihar Swarup In May 2005, a Griha Puja — a family only affair — was organized at 12, Tughlak Lane. Soon after Rahul Gandhi moved into the house in Lutyens Delhi allotted to him months earlier as a newly member of the Lok Sabha. It was a time when Rahul, winning from the family […]
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By Arun Srivastava On April 6, in 1980, the two stalwarts of erstwhile Jana Sangh, Atal Behari Vajpayee and LK Advani established Bharatiya Janata Party with the maxim “the party with a difference” but after 43 years of long journey, the destiny of the party is being shaped yet by two men, Narendra Modi and […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment rate in India rose in March 2023 to its highest level in the last three months. It rose from 7.14 per cent in January to 7.8 per cent in March. Over 26 lakh people have lost their jobs in the meantime, and many more are likely to lose theirs in […]
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By Sushil Kutty Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar has come to the aid and rescue of Adani Group. He asked the Opposition to stop targeting the Adani Group. This is not what the Congress and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wanted. For Gandhi, Gautam Adani is in the eye of the fish and direct beneficiary […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The pre-draft of the National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023 prepared by the National Steering Committee for National Curriculum Frameworks and released by the Union Ministry of education is objectionable in several counts including vagueness and contradictions that they contain in themselves. A modern education system must not be based […]
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By Sushil Kutty The Congress party says the BJP-led Modi government “tutored” Padma Shri awardee Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri of Bidar in Karnataka to praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi in lieu for the Padma Shri, which had been eluding the master Bidri craftsman for years despite investing Rs 12,000 every year, for 10 years in […]
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By Rahil Nora Chopra The political buzz around the formulation of a National Front is back, with the major difference being that this time the Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is discussing with like-minded parties and trying to forge a viable alternative to take on the BJP. According to sources, talks are already underway […]
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By Prabir Purkayastha The British saw the Mysore Kingdom of Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali as a significant obstacle to the British Empire in India. The British lost the first three Anglo-Mysore wars before defeating Tipu in the fourth war. The British allies were the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Peshwas. Cutting to the present, […]
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By Anjan Roy So much for the much vaunted solidarity in the free world. The liberal and democratic nations of western Europe and America had vowed they were all standing firmly behind the besieged Ukraine to defend the free world against alleged Russian autocracy. The wide-ranging sanctions against Russia are starting to bite the western […]
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