ARABIAN POST SPECIAL

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.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak UN Climate Change Conference – United Arab Emirates (November 30 – December 12, 2023), popularly known as COP28, has begun with first major milestone on the day-one, by delivering a historic agreement that made the Fund operational, which was agreed upon during COP27 last year. The agreement was reached by parties […]

The post COP28 Has Begun With First Major Milestone Generating Great Hope first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava If the exit polls on the five state assembly polls relating to Telangana are to be believed, the BJP’s grandiose plans to conquer South as envisaged by both the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Home Minister Amit Shah, will be in tatters after December 3. Following the resounding defeat in Karnataka […]

The post BJP’s Grandiose Plans To Conquer South May Lie In Tatters After December 3 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra The peoples verdict for the five state assembly elections will frame future political course of Rahul Gandhi. A win for Congress in these elections will direct the path for Rahul Gandhi’s political ascendance and recognition as the potent eligible and desired national leader. A win will also make other opposition parties […]

The post Congress High Command’s Rahul Project Depends On Dec 3 Results first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The release of a book on November 29 in New Delhi brought the focus back on the INDI-Alliance, which was seen to be losing its direction and purpose in recent weeks much to the chagrin of those who wanted to see the back of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government come […]

The post Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge Has Earned The Trust Of INDIA Bloc first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Any amount of money that is being spent on the Dalits and poor in the management of RSS-BJP’s political perception is a national waste. During the UPA era, the Sangh had used its might to try foil Dr Manmohan Singh’s move to get the Food Security Bill passed by the Parliament. While […]

The post Modi’s Design To Deny Education To His Favoured Electoral Base first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra The Bengal unit of BJP is in dire straits now as the leadership has no face to face its supporters after the big flop of the party rally addressed by the Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday afternoon. All the earlier big hype made by the big guns of the party came […]

The post Bengal BJP’s Morale Is Further Down After Amit Shah’s Flop Rally first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha November 3 this year marked the centenary of the great trade union leader in banking, H L Parwana. On this day we recall him and his contributions to the history of banking industry in our country. For the cause of banking he sacrificed his life, and toiled to emancipate the bank employees […]

The post Decoding The Famous Trade Union Leader H L Parwana In His Birth Centenary Year first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Oil markets are eagerly awaiting the outcome at the forthcoming OPEC+ meeting this week, after internal troubles forced a postponement of the meeting originally scheduled for November 26. The meeting assumes great significance both for producing as well as importing countries, especially amidst assessments that a new agreement to cut production is […]

The post All Eyes On OPEC Meeting As Cartel Struggles To Continue Voluntary Supply Cuts first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty In these days of political significance, ‘appeasement’ is the word, the favourite of the rightwing to beat the leftwing with –- who in turn, while disapproving of appeasement, openly embraced Muslim minority appeasement for electoral dividends. Other minorities like the Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh and Parsi are considered too politically insignificant for […]

The post Bihar Chief Minister’s Decision On School Holidays Is Not Politically Wise first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas In dramatic contrast to the frenzied anti-India celebrations in Bangladesh following India’s loss to Australia in the one-day cricket final at Ahmedabad on November 19,, people in Pakistan have reacted far more soberly: in the lively Pakistani social media , there have been some expressions of sympathy for India’s hard loss, unlike […]

The post Bangladesh Social Media Celebrated India’s Defeat To Australia In World Cup Final first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By M. A. Hossain In the catastrophic context of Hamas-Israel conflict, China had stepped forward to mediate between the parties. Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, discussed the conflict situation with officials in Washington, perceiving the fear of a wider regional war. The US counterpart has assured full support for working with China to find a […]

The post Exploring China’s Role In Facilitating A Truce In Israel-Hamas Conflict first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy China’s is staring in the face of a possible financial sector crisis, with its largest privately owned non-banking financial company unable to meet its obligations. Zhongzhi financial company, having widespread exposure to China’s real estate sector, has failed to honour its obligations to its investors and defaulted. As such, the bankruptcy of […]

The post China’s Largest Private NBFC Zhongzhi Fails Leading To Crisis In Financial Sector first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava As the exit polls of the four states, where the elections to the assemblies were held this month, send a distressing signal that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personality cult, that was painstakingly built over the last nine and half years by the RSS and its frontal organs, has failed to carry along […]

The post RSS Leaders Are A Bit Confused On Their Role In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna Ever since militant group Hamas’s most audacious attack ever to be launched from Gaza blindsided Israel on October 7 this year, people have been questioning who the brains are behind masterminding this deadly strike. Notwithstanding their varied and checkered backgrounds and antecedents, they all have one thing in common: They are all […]

The post Hamas Military Command Members Are Highly Skilled Militarymen first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra It is a morning knock but is no less sinister than a midnight one as Dublin microbiologist Eilish Stack comes face to face with state’s totalitarianism as powers that seek to interrogate her trade unionist husband Larry. It is in this way Paul Lynch, an Irish author begins the book ’Prophet Song’ […]

The post Booker Prize Winning Book ‘Prophet Song’ Is A Reflection Of Current Era Of Violence first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The announcement of a prisoner swap deal between warring Hamas and Israel mediated by Qatar and Egypt and agreed by Israel, Hamas and the United States may have led to a temporary armistice in the region and selective exchange of captives from both the sides , the issue of a viable state […]

The post A Viable Palestinian State Under Present Conditions Looks Difficult first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar As the Telangana elections approach their final week, the youngest state in India is ready for a Triangular electoral contest. The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (B.R.S.), Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) compete for victory. Since its inception in 2014, B.R.S. chief K. Chandrashekhar Rao has been at the helm. He […]

The post In Telangana Assembly Polls, Congress Has Moved Fast In The Last Leg Of Campaigning first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Telangana votes on November 30. Two days later votes cast will be counted and by afternoon of the same day, which party will be ruling Telangana would be known. If it is the Bharatiya Janata Party, the party has promised an Other Backward Caste Chief Minister. The party will also end “Muslim […]

The post BJP Chanakya Amit Shah Has Offered A Redesigned Package Of Hindutva To Telangana Voters first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava It would be presumptuous to say that the elections to the five-state assemblies are a semi-final clatter for Prime Minister Narendra Modi; but one thing is certain that the peoples’ verdict for these elections will outline the political future of Rahul Gandhi. A negative mandate will certainly erode the credibility and image […]

The post Assembly Polls Are Electoral Test Of Rahul Gandhi’s Political Acumen first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Irrespective of the outcome of the batch of petitions in the Supreme Court against the SEBI investigations into the charges levelled by US-based short-selling firm Hindenburg Research against the Adani group of companies regarding violations of stock market regulation, it is most likely that short selling would emerge as the villain of […]

The post Pleas Against SEBI’s Adani Probe: Greater Focus On Investor Loss Than Market Efficiency first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Nothing seems to be going right for the Congress in Kerala. As if the plethora of problems already plaguing the party were not enough, the Congress is caught in a major controversy over the election of the Youth Congress state president. The charge against the Youth Congress is that YC activists […]

The post Congress In Kerala Caught In Row Over YC Chief’s Election first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Kunal Bose Holding conferences of investors with attempts made to induct representation of as many foreign countries as possible have become an annual or biennial ritual with states in this country. Closing ceremonies will be marked by state chief ministers proudly announcing promised investments, in most cases of astronomical sums, not necessarily justified by […]

The post Odisha Under Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Has Achieved Success In Wooing Investors first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel has not just divided Muslim political leaders. It’s also solicited diverse responses from religious figures and institutions, reflecting deeper divisions about what Islam stands for in the 21st century. At the core of the differences is the ability and willingness to empathise with innocent victims […]

The post Gaza Conflict Ends Up Separating Wheat From Chaff Among Religious Leaders first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty The results of the general elections in Netherlands held on November 22 indicating the emergence of the far right Party for Freedom (PVV) headed by Geert Wilders sent a shock wave across Europe. PVV became the biggest party in the Netherlands winning 37 of the 150 seats in parliament. Never in Dutch […]

The post Far Right Victory In Netherlands Elections Signals Bad Omen For European Liberals And Left first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Results of 199 Rajasthan Assembly seats where polling took place on Saturday will decide which party rules the state for the next five years. Since 1998 no party has been repeated twice in succession in Rajasthan. By that token, the Congress would be taking a break from December 3. But Rajasthan Chief […]

The post For Ashok Gehlot, The Outcome Of Assembly Polls In Rajasthan Will Determine His Future first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.