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By K Raveendran Having been confirmed as the finance minister in the Modi 3:0 cabinet, Nirmala Sitharaman is more pressed for time compared to her other colleagues as the budget of the new government is hardly a month away. And her budget-making this time is more complex as she has to accommodate the compulsions of […]

The post Coalition Dynamics Adds New Compulsion To Sitharaman’s Budget-Making first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that the NDA’s return to power after a decade in office was a testimony to the good things that happened on its watch. This is beyond comprehension. How could he claim that the NDA governed the country? Nothing could be more bizarre. The people of India […]

The post Mohan Bhagwat’s Muted Warning To Modi Is Too Little, Too Late first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Centre has authorized the release of tax devolution of Rs 1,39,750 crore to states for June, and has tried to appear as if doing a great favour via a statement of the Union Ministry of Finance stating that this would “enable state governments to accelerate development and capital spending.” The […]

The post States Need Faster Devolution For Accelerated Development, Critical Spending first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas Sikh separatist Amritpal Singh is the winner from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib parliamentary constituency, putting the central government in a fix. The government appears undecided on what should be done with him. Speculation is rife over whether he would be released on interim bail from Dibrugarh Central jail in Assam, where he is […]

The post Centre In A Fix Over ‘Khalistani’ Lok Sabha MP Amritpal Singh first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas At the end of the bitterest general elections in recent times, it is only in Assam that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the main opposition, the Congress, are broadly satisfied with the outcome. The BJP won 11 out of 14 Lok Sabha seats while the badly divided, and always under-estimated […]

The post Desperate Contests Later, Win-Win For Both BJP, Congress In Assam first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak India, under Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna, has been giving free foodgrains to 80 crore poor people who are dependent for food on government, because they don’t earn enough to support their needs for food. Their number remained the same for the last 10 years of the Modi regime. Children […]

The post PM Modi Must Address Severe Child Poverty In His Third Term first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The country’s industrial outlook for the current year as well as the next few years will depend on the stability of the new government and how the Bharatiya Janata Party deals with its alliance partners and the opposition, which will have a formidable presence in the newly-elected Parliament. At stake are several […]

The post India’s Industrial Progress Will Depend On Government Stability first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar The NDA coalition government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has just taken office, and it’s too early to predict how it will perform, even whether it will run its five-year term. It is common knowledge that India has a messy history of multi-party governments. Late BJP leader Atal Behari Vajpayee also […]

The post Modi’s ‘NDA Govt’ Starts Third Term, Reined In By Coalition Politics first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Narendra Modi is now Prime Minister of India for the third time. He took the oath of office Sunday evening at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. As many as 30 cabinet ministers, 36 ministers of state (MoS) and 5 MoS (independent charge) were also sworn in along with Narendra Modi, who seemed unusually accommodating […]

The post Modi 3.0 Compelled To Cut Corners By Coalition Compulsions first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It is the same old story. The boringly repetitive drama of Congress leaders imploring Rahul Gandhi to take on a plum post – this time that of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. The two sides never tire of the game. On one side, Congress leaders and on the other side, […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Is Set To Take Over Leader of Opposition Post In Lok Sabha first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has now decided to go ahead alone and has started reviewing relationship with INDIA bloc. The party’s path ahead is already embattled with legal battles, with its three key leaders – CM Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and Satyendra Kumar Jain – put behind the bar. The Enforcement […]

The post AAP Is Now On An Uncertain Rocky Political Terrain, To Go Ahead Alone first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Fuel consumers would do well to be ready to loosen their purse strings and face the post-election nuanced reality after they enjoyed a Rs 2 per litre cut in prices before the Lok Sabha elections. There has been a pattern in the price behaviour during and after every election. The most curious […]

The post With Elections Behind Us, It’s Time For ‘Market Forces’ To Take Control Of Fuel Prices first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey The coming week or two could determine Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s political fate and reshape the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s Gaza war. That is, if Netanyahu fails to comply with war cabinet member Benny Gantz’s demand that the prime minister produce a plan for the post-war administration of GaIf Gantz […]

The post Next Week Could Mark A Make Or Break For Netanyahu’s Political Future first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra The regional satraps, JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar and the TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu, have been made kingmakers by the Lok Sabha election results. With the BJP short of majority in Lok Sabha elections, no government can come to power without them. Both parties — JD(U) and TDP —have re-pledged their […]

The post Nitish, Naidu Kingmakers As BJP Is Cut Short By Indian Voters first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava It was shocking to see incarnation of Lord Vishnu, who is even followed and revered by Lord Jagannath of Puri, prostrating before two mortal politicians Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu for their support to satiate his desire for becoming prime minister for third consecutive term. During a phase when the saints and […]

The post Narendra Modi’s Battle With Sangh Parivar Shows No Signs Of Easing first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Nothing odd, but reports speak of unrest in the ranks of the Shinde Shiv Sena. The Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Sena looks the better bet. Amidst this, the crowning of Narendra Damodardas Modi as the leader of the NDA parliamentary party. Were the Shinde Sena MPs present in the Central Hall of the […]

The post Uddhav Thackeray And Sharad Pawar Have Emerged Taller In Maharashtra first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Hansgeorg Hermann PARIS: As the European Parliament elections are on from June 6 to June 9, the bourgeois party Les Republicains, founded by Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president and adviser to current President Emmanuel Macron, is plummeting, as is the latter’s Renaissance formation. So far, Le Penʼs Rassemblement National, with its top candidate and […]

The post Far Right Dominates In France As European Parliament Elections Are On first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unprecedented unemployment crisis under PM Narendra Modi’s first two terms since 2014, is most likely to continue in his third term , unless the jobless growth model is changed. Out of about one billion working age population, the number of people in employment has been hovering around 40 crore for the […]

The post Unemployment Crisis To Continue In PM Narendra Modi’s Third Term first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty In a span of three days this week, three largely populated countries — South Africa, Mexico and India got the results from the national elections and all three signalled the triumphant march of the vibrant democracy in each country. The results showed how the vigilant electorate punished the majority Hindu right party […]

The post Three National Elections In Three Continents Signal March Of Vibrant Democracy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.