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By Arun Srivastava Passing legislation by resorting to suspensions is a kind of authoritarianism’. Knocking down the March 2 directive of the Supreme Court that said that the panel which picks election commissioners and their chief “shall” include the Chief Justice of India was clear manifestation of the autocratic mindset of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, […]

The post Passing Important Legislations By Suspending Opposition MPs Is Authoritarianism first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr.  Gyan Pathak Prices of vehicles on-road vary vastly across the states in India, which not only encourages evasion of taxes but also makes the process of compliance cumbersome. Varied taxes imposed by the states is the main reason for this distortion and it must be replaced by a uniform road tax regime in […]

The post Uniform Road Tax Across India Must For Uniform Vehicle Prices first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas Despite four rounds of prolonged talks, unity eludes, even on basic issues, potential partners in the much-hyped opposition alliance – famously christened INDIA – in east and northeast India. Major opposition parties of Assam   and Bihar have rejected two proposals, one on seat-sharing and the other on projecting a “PM face” for […]

The post INDI-Alliance In Assam, Bihar Cannot Agree On Seat-Sharing, PM Face first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra The stage has been set for 2024 Lok Sabha polls and the fourth meeting of the INDIA Bloc saw high drama with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stating that Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will be the bloc’s PM candidate. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Shiv Sena (UBT) Chief Uddhav […]

The post Kharge Gets The Nod, Nitish-Lalu Find It Odd first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak For the last few years, the Narendra Modi-led Government has been empowering itself through changes in various laws relating to crime and evidence to such an extent that it can arbitrarily apply certain laws to raid, arrest, seize, detain, prosecute – even pardon anyone it may like to. The passage of […]

The post Grabbing Absolute Power By Executive Is Undemocratic first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sudhir Governors in Opposition-ruled states are becoming tools for the ruling party at the Centre to advance its political agenda and to create difficulties for the concerned state government for implementing its welfare programmes and development schemes. The role of Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan is particularly disruptive and obnoxious.  He had sat […]

The post Kerala Governor Bent On Making Universities His Fiefdoms first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha Our democracy has lost each of its basics. From the recent crisis that proved to be an assault on not only federalism, but also its most relevant constitutional principles. The Supreme Court judgment on the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and the dismantling of the state of Jammu and Kashmir […]

The post India’s Top Court Straying From Role Of Guarding Democracy With Its Article 370 Verdict first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman After the G20 flagged off the Global South at its New Delhi Summit earlier this year, hunger and poverty eradication will be back on the global centre-stage at the 2024 G20 Summit in Brazil. “Brazil’s presidency offers something new: social issues, the fight against poverty and the resolution of the hunger […]

The post Fighting Hunger And Poverty Back In Focus As G20 Sherpas Meet Under Brazilian Presidency first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak AAP Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s assertion in the December 19 INDIA Block Meet in Delhi about the need of either a Convener or PM face, and his impromptu support for TMC chief Mamata Banerjee’s proposal to make Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s name as Prime Minister face for the […]

The post Congress-AAP Together May Block BJP’s Electoral Fortune In Delhi And Punjab first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty There is political turmoil in India and American politics is coming to a boil. The fate of democracy, yeah? Should it bother us, common Indians, what happens in the USA? The excitement and the daily rumblings. If in India, it is theatrics on the steps of Parliament, in the United States, it […]

The post Republican Presidential Campaign In US Is In Turmoil As Vivek Ramaswamy Backs Trump first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty The Narendra Modi Government’s decision to freeze the accounts of the news portal NewsClick through the actions of the Income Tax Department is nothing but the continuation of the organized attack by the central agencies on this leading news portal to make it dysfunctional before the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.The latest […]

The post Income Tax Department’s Action Against NewsClick Bank Accounts Is Nothing But An Illegal Seize first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy If you have a political bent  opposed  to  the Prime Minister  you might just as well sniff a sort of complicity between the Narendra Modi government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Particularly in the context of the parliament incidence involving some youth protestors, clamouring for decent jobs, and the cavalcade of […]

The post IMF Report On Indian Economy Is Positive For Modi Government Before 2024 Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The India Wine Awards 2023, now in its fifth edition, recently concluded with an extravagant celebration of the finest wines in the country. Organized by the Sonal Holland Wine Academy in collaboration with ProWine, this prestigious event showcased 219 exceptional wines across various categories, carefully selected from an impressive list of […]

The post Lower Excise Duty Boosts India’s Thriving Wine Culture To New Heights first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Mriganka M Bhowmick Since 1989, when the BJP adopted Hindutva as an ideology in the Palampur Resolution, it has consistently propagated it in elections. The RSS has significantly contributed to the evolution of Hindutva as the cultural identity of the nation. With the advent of Modi Politics in 2014, new economic policies, social welfare […]

The post Can BJP Win Lok Sabha Elections Without Hard Hindutva Narrative? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna Yemen’s Houthi rebels have carried out hijackings, missile strikes, and drone attacks on ships, leading Danish shipping and logistics company AP Moller-Maersk and German shipping and container transportation firm Hapag-Lloyd to temporarily suspend shipments via the Red Sea. The announcements made on Friday by AP Moller-Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd indicate that large companies […]

The post Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Attack On Ships Poses Threat To Trade Through Red Sea first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Roger McKenzie Former South African president Jacob Zuma has denounced the governing African National Congress (ANC) and vowed to vote for a new political formation in next year’s general election. Mr Zuma, who led the ANC from 2007 to 2017, said on Saturday that he was backing the newly formed Umkhonto we Sizwe party, […]

The post South Africa’s Ruling Party Faces Split Before National Elections In 2024 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The restoration of statehood for Jammu and Kashmir, without the Union Territory of Ladakh, and an expected elected government by September, next year, come at a time when J&K has established its position as one of India’s top performing provinces in terms of economic growth. J&K’s state GDP is lately growing at […]

The post J&K Has Potential To Become One Of India’s Economically Strong States first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Opposition INDIA Block is coming back on negotiation table on December 19, after a long gap of 80 days since Mumbai Meet on September 1, a crucial time that it has already lost, without moving forward on the resolution made, including launching joint rallies across the country and finalization of seat […]

The post INDIA Block Needs To Pick Up Threads On December 19 From Where It Left In September first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Some of the politically powerful Reddys of Andhra Pradesh have a grouse with fellow Reddy and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy who also faces anti-incumbency just like K Chandrashekar Rao of Telangana faced and lost. So, the YSR Congress Party is kind of vulnerable right now and the Congress […]

The post Congress Buoyed With Telangana Win, Finding It Tough In Andhra Pradesh first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra The Patanjli has been in the news not just for advertising its products and misleading claims in the media but also for criticising modern scientific medicine. This went on to the extent that the Hon’ble Supreme Court had to reprimand the Patanjli on 21st November 2023, for continuing to publish misleading […]

The post Misleading Advertisements In Medicine Pose A Serious Health Hazard first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The imposition of extra tariff on Chinese gold jewellery exports by the United States has helped the Indian jewellery export trade to dislodge the United Arab Emirates as the country’s leading export market. The tariff on Chinese jewellery has made Indian exporters more competitive on the one hand, while the Comprehensive Economic […]

The post Tariff On Chinese Gold Jewellery Helps U.S. Replace UAE as India’s leading export market first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey Israel wasn’t slamming the door on renewed indirect prisoner swap negotiations with Hamas when it this week barred David Barnea, the head of Mossad, the country’s foreign intelligence agency, from travelling to Qatar to explore possibilities for renewed exchanges. Instead, it was manoeuvring for greater leverage in potential talks and expressing […]

The post Hamas Manoeuvring Complicates Efforts To Secure Prisoner Swaps With Israel first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy The Indian stock market is looking like unstoppable, for now. The equity markets are scaling new heights and along with that, the investors are reaping riches. The BSE Sensex has increased by close to 1000 points in intra-day trading on Friday. The NSE index has climbed by close to 300 points. The […]

The post Steep Rise In Indian Stock Markets Is Based On Positive Outlook In Both Domestic And Global Economy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna Speaking at a conference held at the Maldives President’s Office after a Cabinet meeting on Thursday (December 14, 2023), Maldives’ Under Secretary for Public Policy, Mohamed Firuzul, said that the archipelagic nation would not renew the earlier government’s agreement on the Third Joint Hydrographic Survey of Maldives’ waters signed with India on […]

The post Maldives Decision Not To Renew Hydrographic Survey Pact Is A Jolt To Indian Maritime Strategy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak In a written reply on December 11, 2023 in the Lok Sabah during the current winter session, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment Rameshwar Teli claimed that unemployment rate in the country has a declining trend over the year, obviously to give a political message to the electorate in […]

The post Modi Government Plays With Data Before Election To Show Unemployment Declining first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Congress having a massive rally in Nagpur to celebrate its foundation day on December 28 is unlikely to have any significant political or electoral bearing on the RSS. Congress was born in Bombay in 1885. But the party leadership chose Nagpur as the venue of celebration for obvious reason to send a […]

The post Congress Foundation Rally In Nagpur Must Send Strong Message To RSS first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup BJP’s top leadership seems to act in unconventional ways. That relates to its unexpected choice of chief ministers in three states, Vishnu Deo Sai in Chattisgarh, Mohan Yadav in Madhya Pradesh and Bhajan Lal Sharma in Rajasthan. To the public at large, and often the know-it-all media, these names could have been […]

The post BJP High Command Opted For A Long Term Planning In Deciding On New Chief Ministers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty So after all the “jalsas” to crown chief ministers of three states — Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, forget Telangana, it is ‘Congressi’ — a probe has been ordered on the Parliament security breach, with the Modi government’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi telling the country, shamed by a bunch of unemployed […]

The post The So-Called ‘High Level Probe’ Assured By Minister Pralhad Joshi Is Nothing But A Hoax first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava With a sankalp (pledge) at KV temple of Varanasi to get rid of the anti-people government of the BJP, the Uttar Pradesh Congress will launch its UP Jodo Yatra on December 20 from Shakumbhari Devi temple in Saharanpur and culminate at Naimisharanya (Sitapur) after covering 16 parliamentary constituencies in 10 western and […]

The post Congress Yatra In Uttar Pradesh Beginning December 20 Will Be A Big Opposition Show first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.