ARABIAN POST SPECIAL

By K Raveendran  When empires fall, they don’t exactly come crashing down. It is a process that takes time to complete. So when rating agency Fitch decided to lower the credit rating of the United States triple A to AA+, the market was not expecting the heavens to fall. But it is a clear disapproval […]

The post Fitch downgrade of U.S. Debt hastens Dollar’s Displacement as Default Global Currency first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Arun Srivastava   Notwithstanding Rahul Gandhi reiterating his absolute belief that ultimately truth had prevailed, as Supreme Court suspended his defamation conviction allowing him to return to Parliament, it would be sheer naiveté to believe that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would accept this humiliation lying low. The manner in which Rahul was framed […]

The post Challenges From Modi Awaiting Rahul On His Way To Parliament first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Sushil Kutty   Lalu Prasad Yadav fed him Champaran-style mutton curry and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said Rahul Gandhi is the only opposition leader who can trounce Narendra Modi and become the Prime Minister of 2024 India. “He is the Congress party’s Prime Ministerial Face,” Gehlot said, quite willing to stick his […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Is Emerging As The Defacto Congress Face Of Prime Minister In 2024 Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup   India is on the move, on the fast lane. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focus on boosting infrastructure as an engine of growth, the country added more than 50,000 lane kilometers (length of each new lane built) to its highway system in the past nine years. New expressways are being built […]

The post Nitin Gadkari Is The Best Performing Minister In Narendra Modi Cabinet first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has stayed Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in the Modi defamation case and restored his Lok Sabha membership. The apex court also questioned the wisdom of the trial judge and the higher court in awarding the maximum punishment in the alleged offence, which made the Congress leader lose his MP […]

The post Yes, We Got It Right: IPA Predicted Supreme Court Stay On Rahul’s Conviction first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Arun Srivastava   For andha bhakts (blind disciples) of Narendra Modi, Supreme Court staying the conviction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a 2019 defamation case over his Modi surname remark and restoring his status as an MP must have come as a rude shock to the RSS and the BJP political ecosystem. […]

The post Supreme Court Verdict Staying Rahul Gandhi’s Conviction Has Shaken BJP, RSS first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy   Morgan Stanley, a widely respected global investment bank, has upgraded India’s rating. This essentially means the bank now is now arguing it is worthwhile investing in India on the basis of the macro-economic data on the performance of the Indian economy. At the same time, Morgan Stanley has downgraded China and […]

The post Morgan Stanley Upgrading India Is A Good Signal For Foreign Investors first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By D Raja   More than seven decades back, Dr Ambedkar had warned that “on the 26th of January, 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality.” In our times too, we continue to face these […]

The post The Very Foundation Of Our Great Nation Is At Stake Under BJP Rule first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Gyan Pathak   Space economy for the ‘new space’ is now face to face with mounting concerns which include the fragility of current growth and the worrying rate of increase in orbital debris.   An OECD report prepared for the G20 Space Leaders’ Meeting under India’s G20 Presidency titled “Harnessing ‘New Space’ for Sustainable […]

The post Space Economy For The New Space Faces Mounting Concerns first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Girish Linganna   China and Russia’s aggressive actions   against the West have caused problems, like conflicts over spy balloons, and have also led to NATO becoming stronger. One important result of this has been the West’s effort to develop a closer relationship with India. In June, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, visited Washington […]

The post European Countries Are Keen To Get Increasing Share Of Indian Defence Market first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra     Post Karnataka victory and the success of Bharat Jodo Yatra, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s personal stature has grown remarkably and he emerged as the opposition face against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Bharat Jodo Yatra’s message of love and fraternity has emerged as the alternative vision with which to […]

The post Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi Is MP Again After Conviction Stayed By SC first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra   In the aftermath of Wagner rebellion Sino-Russian relations is not what it used to be earlier.. It was a “bromance” between two most powerful authoritarians, President Xi Jingping of China and President Vladimir Putin of Russia and the uprising was the most significant to the latter’s authority in the past two […]

The post India And China Can Start The Process Of Active Engagement In Geopolitics first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty   Banking on the Muslim voter pool alone is a faux pas. Opposition alliance INDIA’s quest to pitch one-on-one unified opposition candidates against BJP nominees in all 543 parliamentary seats in 2024 will work only if a big enough portion of the Hindu electorate responds positively. There is no need to pursue […]

The post Opposition Bloc India Must Have A Strategy To Defeat BJP’s Polarising Bid first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Krishna Jha   The BJP-RSS government is moving aggressively with its privatization policy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it explicit in one of his remarks when he said recently in one of his meetings: ‘Hamare Desh me public sector ka marne ke liye Janma hota hai’ (In our country, public sector is born […]

The post Public Sector Getting Stepmotherly Treatment Under Nine Years Of NDA Rule first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Ramya Vijaya and Pooja Rangaprasad   The Paris Summit, convened last month by French president Emmanuel Macron, failed to make much headway on its ambitious goal of retooling global finance and jump-starting climate investments. A major stumbling block is the lack of progress on relief for the nearly 60 percent of low-income economies […]

The post Global South Countries Need A New Legal Framework For Debt Relief first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By P Sudhir   The Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, has virtually declared that a new front is being opened up in the temple-mosque issue.  This time, it is the Gyanvapi mosque and the Vishwanath temple in Varanasi. Adityanath, in an interview, has said that there is sufficient proof in the Gyanvapi complex […]

The post Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Has Opened A New Front Over Gyanvapi Mosque first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak   Several irregularities have been found in the pattern of the General Election 2019 results that suggest either the election results underwent electoral manipulation or precise control of the ruling establishment under PM Narendra Modi. The irregularities have been found in a research paper recently published under the title ‘Democratic Backsliding […]

The post Study Finds Irregular Patterns In 2019 Lok Sabha Election Results first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran   The Supreme Court last week came down heavily on the Modi government for taking ‘extreme stands’ against non-BJP rules states while doing nothing in the case of constitutional violations by its own governments in the other states. But as one would have expected, the stricture came not in relation to Manipur, […]

The post Supreme Court Cannot Run Away From Blame For Deterioration Of Manipur Situation first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty   The Supreme Court is smart. On August 1, after nearly three months of Manipur burning, after killings running rampant, after untold atrocities committed on Manipuri women, the top court took the Manipur Police to task and called out the Centre and the state government for the “absolute breakdown of law & […]

The post After Manipur, Haryana Also Witnessing Gross Failure Of Law And Order first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Arun Srivastava   Liberating the country from the clutches of the rightist forces — the RSS and the BJP — using the electoral contest is undoubtedly the primary task of the opposition front, INDIA; but it is not enough. Rightwing fanatics have turned a huge populace of the Hindus into ideological slaves by […]

The post Hindutva-Indoctrinated Police Personnel Is Modi-Shah’s Ugly Legacy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar   The Speaker has admitted the notice given by the new Opposition coalition (INDIA) last week against the Narendra Modi government. It will be the second he has faced since 2014. Earlier this month, 26 opposition parties formed Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). Opposition parties are increasing the pressure on Modi […]

The post Indian Parliament Has A Chequered History Of No-Confidence Motions first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Gyan Pathak   The ‘Persona’ in ancient Greece was the mask worn by the artists while performing drama on stage. The real persons always remained behind those masks from which came the word personality, which meant the character they played. In the light of this one can see the personality of our Prime […]

The post PM Narendra Modi’s ‘Pain’ And ‘Shame’ Exposed Again first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By   Sushil Kutty   Prime Minister Narendra Modi was honoured with the Lokmanya Tilak National Award in Pune. The big news was NCP Chief Sharad Pawar was there at the award ceremony while Congress and Pawar’s NCP leaders waved black flags. The thing is, Modi will go anywhere for an award. The Prime Minister’s cupboard […]

The post Sharad Pawar’s Presence At Narendra Modi’s Award Ceremony Is Confusing To Allies first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra   KOLKATA: Having flexed all its organisational muscles in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP secured 18 MPs from West Bengal; with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister, Amit Shah making almost daily trips to the state before 2021 Assembly elections, the saffron camp had 77 victorious legislators. Falling far short […]

The post BJP Bid To Organise More Durga Pujas In Bengal This Year May Lead To Tensions first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Nantoo Banerjee   It is good to note that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised upward India’s economic growth projection for 2023 from 5.9 percent to 6.1 percent. The projection is still well below the Reserve Bank of India’s economic growth forecast of 6.5 percent. The revised IMF estimate will help India […]

The post India Yet To Become Preferred FDI Destination Despite Good GDP Growth first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By S.Sethuraman   CHENNAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems increasingly obsessed with the needed numbers in Lok Sabha for him to make sure of his third term in 2024 Lok Sabha polls.,with the emergence of an apparently effective opposition alliance, INDIA. The kind of rhetoric the BJP head of Government indulges in running down […]

The post Anti-BJP Alliance India Raises The Stakes For Modi-Led NDA first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty   Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been using All India Radio to give an edge to Bharatiya Janata Party over rival political parties; specifically in broadcasting government schemes that impress certain vote-banks to vote for the BJP. In his July 30 ‘Mann Ki Baat’ PM Modi highlighted the Modi government’s Muslim appeasement, […]

The post Prime Minster Has Copied Mamata’s “’Mamati Manush’ Slogan In His Latest Campaign first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Gyan Pathak   The suspension of the Director of International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) K S James is yet another example that no data, how authentic they are, would be allowed to tarnish the image of PM Narendra Modi and the government he has been leading since 2014. Data scientists are expected to […]

The post Narendra Modi Govt Wants Data To Be Collated To Suit Political Interests first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.