ARABIAN POST SPECIAL

By P. Sudhir The Quad, consisting of four countries, the United States, Japan, Australia and India is gradually taking the shape of a security alliance which was the intent of the original name of the grouping – the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. The security angle was highlighted by the recent meeting of the military chiefs of […]

The post Quad Is A US Led Security Alliance Aimed To Counter China In Asia-Pacific first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The WHO’s warning on precipitous adoption of AI must serve as a wake-up call for the world. These new AI-based tools require vigilance, especially in light of such rapidly expanding platforms such as ChatGPT, Bard, BERT, and many others that imitate understanding, processing, and producing human communication, World Health Organization has […]

The post WHO Warning On Precipitous Adoption Of AI Is A Wake-Up Call first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey With Saudi-hosted talks to end Sudan fighting producing minimal results and Arab states supporting rival forces, de-escalation in the Middle East faces a major test. So does Gulf states’ ability to employ dollar diplomacy to persuade poorer Arab brethren to align with the policies of countries like Saudi Arabia and the […]

The post Sudan Tests The Limits Of Middle Eastern De-Escalation, Dollar Diplomacy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Branko Marcetic One of the defining features of our era has been the loss of a domestic political appetite for more US wars. But a similar pushback to Washington’s use of sanctions has been slow to follow, despite the fact that US sanctions are demonstrably cruel, indiscriminate, ineffective, and often illegal. The near-term prospects […]

The post More And More Democrat Law Makers Protest US Sanctions Against Cuba, Venezuela first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup We are at Mumbai’s newest landmark, Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, on a Monday evening. Preparations are in full swing for award winning Broadway musical—Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Magic of Music – which will begin playing early May. Ambani says this will be first time an international Broadway production will be staged […]

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By Arun Srivastava As if the ruthless drubbing which RSS and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s politics of Hindutva met at the hands of the Hindus in Karnataka assembly elections, Modi and RSS are moving to implement  the Hindutva campaign  in Bihar for getting better results in the coming Lok Sabha polls through a Guru. This […]

The post BJP and RSS Have Got Hold Of A Guru To Act As Hindutva Icon In Bihar first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Less than 12 months are left for general elections 2024 and those of us asking what’s gonna propel voters to the election booths are being too smart by half. We all know one camp’s strategy has come a cropper, while the other camp has won the derby by a couple of horse’s […]

The post Karnataka Poll Results Show That PM’s Outreach To Muslims Did Not Give Dividends first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The call by ChatGPT founder Sam Altman a US Senate committee meeting for heavy regulation of the use of artificial intelligence by governments across the world to mitigate the risks from the new technology takes the current debate about generative AI to a new dimension. While the potential of the new technology […]

The post Job-Taking Is Only A Small Part Of Threat Posed By Generative Artificial Intelligence first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty Sheetla Singh who founded the Hindi language daily Jan Morcha based in Faizabad in 1958 and nurtured it for the last 65 years turning it into a real people’s paper passed away on Tuesday. He was 91 and active in his editorial responsibilities till the end. His demise is being mourned by […]

The post The Grand Old Editor Of Hindi Journalism, Sheetla Singh Is No More first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Report on International Religious Freedom 2022, a Congressional-mandatory annual report by the US State Department has placed India in the group of countries where the governments have been freely targeting religious communities. The report provides a comprehensive review of state of religious freedom in nearly 200 countries and territories of […]

The post India Among ‘Governments Freely Targeting Faith Communities’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Contrary to what is considered to be the general perception, post-millennial Gen Z-ers, meaning those who are aged between eight and 23 years, are more likely than other generations to cite negative feelings about social media. They are also more likely to report having poor mental health. These are among the findings […]

The post Gen-Z More Aware Of Negative Aspects Of Social Media Platforms Than Other Generations first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Sri Lanka is still grappling with an unprecedented economic crisis, and is expected to witness a contraction in its economic growth in 2023. The country’s economy already contracted by 7.8% in 2022 and is projected to shrink by an additional 3% this year. The challenges are related to debt restructuring and […]

The post Sri Lankan Economy Has Started Picking Up With Rise In Tourism And Remittances first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Devriş Çimen People around the world are waking up to news that Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is nearly certain to spend another five years strengthening his grip on power. In Sunday’s first-round vote, Erdoğan took 49.5 percent support, while his challenger Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu received 44.9 percent. Runoff elections have been announced for May […]

The post Turkey’s Political Future Depends On National Polls Run Off On May 28 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar Could the United States also favour an Indian American for the top job in the 2024 polls? It is a million-dollar question. But it does not stop the American Indians from dreaming about it. The United Kingdom has chosen an Indian-origin Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, last year. As for the Indian Americans, […]

The post President Joe Biden Is Favourite In The Present Campaign For 2024 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Even before Hanuman’s ‘gada (mace)’ could smash and decimate Bajrang Dal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is gearing to strike a brutal assault on the Congress leaders and social activists. Contrary to the common belief that Modi will restrain use of the police, ED and CBI against his political detractors, his choosing the […]

The post PM Appointing Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood As New CBI Chief Sends Ominous Signals first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi was slated to distribute appointment letters via video conferencing to 71,000 newly-inducted recruits on Tuesday, May 16. Less than a year short of the 2024 general elections, Modi is acutely aware he might not be the 2024 favourite. Modi’s numero uno position is up for grabs and the […]

The post PM Modi’s Rozgar Melas Will Now Be Regular Features In States first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra It has been many summers since Mamata Banerjee floated Trinamool Congress in 1998, thus leaving the Congress a pale shadow of its former self in West Bengal, and no longer a political force to be reckoned with in the eastern state. However, post Congress’s decisive victory in Karnataka assembly elections, Chief Minister […]

The post Mamata’s Olive Branch To Congress Has Many Significant Dimensions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The resounding victory of the Congress Party in the Karnataka assembly elections less than a year before the holding of the Lok Sabha polls in April/May 2024 has given a big boost to the Party and its leaders the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi. For the Grand Old Party, this […]

The post After Karnataka, Combined Opposition Can Now Face Lok Sabha Polls With Bigger Confidence first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee It is unfortunate that manufacturing is losing focus in India while all eyes are on so-called rapid growth of the services sector. Advertising and marketing campaigns have been peaking to impress consumers as well as investors while the manufacturing sector continues to struggle silently for growth. Barring in the areas of defence […]

The post Time Looks Tough For India’s Manufacturing-Led Growth first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty ‘What a wonderful world’ must have been the feeling in the Aam Aadmi Party after it won the Jalandhar bye-election by a devastating margin, which has been the Aam Aadmi Party’s signature calling card election after election. ‘Landslide’ is AAP’s default position. Twice (thrice?) in a row in Delhi, then in Punjab, […]

The post AAP’s Big Victory In Jalandhar Lok Sabha Bypolls Is A Boost For Its National Role first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Losing the Karnataka assembly election literally has been a visceral shock for Narendra Modi. He did not ever imagine that his politics of Hindutva would loose its appeal and fail to enamour the common Kannadigas. Ironically while Modi was moving whirlwind with his pet slogan Hindutva, a section of the state BJP […]

The post Karnataka BJP Leadership Averse To Go Into Indepth Scrutiny Of Defeat first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has thwarted a move by market regulator SEBI to delay its investigation into the alleged manipulation of shares by the Adani group and issues that have been raised against the group in the wake of the Hindenburg report, which saw the share price of Adani companies nosedive. In March, […]

The post Supreme Court Sees Through SEBI’s Delaying Tactics In Probe Against Adani first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman The welcome development in Indian economy is that Inflation, riding on base effect, has moved below five per cent mark in April this year. But worrying factor is slowdown in Industrial and consumer goods production as IIP growth decelerated to 1.1 per cent in March this year. As a result rating […]

The post Moderation In Inflation May Lead To Pause In Interest Rate Hike This Fiscal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas Union Home Minister Mr Amit Shah’s belated announcement assuring that no official decision would be made regarding a proposed alteration in the status of Meitei tribespeople in Manipur state without a comprehensive discussion among all concerned groups and stakeholders is most welcome. However, the violent Manipur episode has left several disturbing questions […]

The post BJP Leaders’ Vote Bank Politics In Manipur Contributed To Ethnic Conflict first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when hearts beat faster whenever Imran Khan charged in to bowl or looked the way the red ball moving at him as he raised his bat to send it to the ropes or outside the stadium. One does not recall too many occasions when the outstanding all rounder was stumped. […]

The post Former Prime Minister Imran Khan Is On Front Foot In Politics Again first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Yes. The verdict in the Karnataka assembly polls announced on May 13 is emphatic. The Congress has won majority in the 224 member house comfortably.  The Congress winning figure is   around 139 seats as against 62 by the BJP and 20 by JD(S) around afternoon. The final figures may  see a small […]

The post Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is The Biggest Loser In Karnataka Assembly Elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Congress has romped home in Karnataka convincingly ousting the BJP in the state assembly elections   held on May 10. This means there will be no presence of BJP in south India in any state government and it will remain only a North Indian party. If this trend continues, the Congress may do […]

The post Congress Victory In Karnataka Polls Augurs Well For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP has consolidated its position in Uttar Pradesh with capturing of four mayor seats and leading in remaining 13 seats out of total 17 seats. Significantly BJP won mayor seats in Lucknow, Jhansi, Ayodhya and Ghaziabad and was leading in rest of seats which not only strengthened the position of chief […]

The post BJP Gives Its Reply To Karnataka Defeat By Sweeping Civic Bodies Polls In Uttar Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the light of the unanimous judgement of a constitutional bench of the Supreme court of India delivered on May 11, 2023on powers of Elected government of Delhi, Narendra Modi government must now desist from – usurping the legislative and executive powers of the states and using governors as its pawns. […]

The post Narendra Modi Govt Must Now Desist Using Governors As Its Pawns first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who heads the Biju Janata Dal, can make a salutary contribution to the combined opposition’s goal of ousting Prime Minister Narendra Modi only if his party makes a clean sweep of Odisha’s Lok Sabha seats in 2024. That being said, Naveen Patnaik is smarter than Bihar Chief […]

The post Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Has Genuine Reasons To Remain Unattached first appeared on IPA Newspack.