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By Anjan Roy Sam Altman has become globally known overnight not because of what he had achieved already, which was seminal, but because he was summarily sacked by the board of directors of the startup firm he had established. Sam Altman had become a legend at his young age for his role in developing software […]

The post Why Sacking Of A Single Man Is Rocking The Global Big Tech Operations? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Ukraine war and more immediately the Hamas-Israeli conflict had driven many things from out of the public view. One of these is the Nobel Prize in Economics in this year to a not widely known academic. Claudia Goldin is only the third woman to get a Nobel prize in economics. That itself […]

The post Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin’s Work Has Big Relevance To Indian Policy Makers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Not unexpectedly, Israel-Hamas war has sparked off a battle of words and ideas between two mainline political parties in India. The prime minister’s statement on the Hamas attack as a terrorist act and full support to Israel came face to face from criticisms from the Congress. In its statements, India’s grand old […]

The post Decoding The Origin Of The Hamas-Israel War Through Tumultuous Past History first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy This is all about what a super is. An internal politicking in the American capital —Washington— results in the overthrow of the US House Speaker and it puts countries across the world in a flutter. US House speaker, Rep Kevin McCarthy, was thrown out of his position as House speaker by a […]

The post US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Ouster Is A Bad Sign For American Politics first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Behind all the rhetoric and claims of red lines for negotiations, some underlying geo-political realities had resulted in the consensus at the G20 meet in Delhi held on September 9 and 10. The final document is full of compromises from all sides. It is a success of the middle of the road […]

The post Global South Led By Saudi Arabia, Brazil And South Africa Played Key Role In G20 Summit first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy The strong GDP growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year is a hopeful augury, though there are some intriguing aspects in the detailed figures as well. The quarterly growth has hit 7.8% which in itself is remarkable for a large economy. At the same time, one swallow does not […]

The post India’s High GDP Figures In First Quarter Sending Some Positive Signals first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Now that India has soft landed on the south pole of moon, the dust it will raise will travel from moon surface to the earth. The landing of a rover vehicle will kick up lot of moon dust —called regolith for its typical characteristics— which is minute and sticky and will cover […]

The post After Soft Landing On Moon, India Has Now Better Bargaining Power In Space Diplomacy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy China is walking into a  real financial crisis. A major part of Chinese financial architecture, the shadow banks, are facing serious liquidity problems and they have not paid their investors the amounts of returns they promised. This has raised doubts over their future. Three real estate companies, which placed their funds with […]

The post China Is Walking Into A ‘Lehman Brothers’ Type Financial Meltdown first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy One misses Atal Behari Vajpayee sometimes. When price of tomatoes is going through the roof, we hardly hear any of those ringing metaphors. No one is turning puns on tomato prices as effectively as Vajpayee had once done on onion prices. A general election is fast approaching and prices are a basic […]

The post RBI Is Trying To Be Politically Correct In The Year Before General Elections 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 Anjan Roy India is working out local currency trade deals with an increasingly larger group of countries, thereby avoiding invoicing in US dollars for every trade. This is a move towards internationalisation of the Indian currency when the country is opening up its external sector. India has agreed on local currency invoicing of trade […]

The post India Is Working On Global Currency Trade Deals Widening Its Coverage first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has formally cleared a bail-out package for Pakistan yesterday of $3 billion. The bail-out facility was worked out after protracted negotiations with the country when at times the package looked increasingly uncertain. No one will ask for a IMF ail out unless the situation is grim. Pakistan’s […]

The post Is Pakistan Government Politically Prepared To Implement IMF Proposed Reforms? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Goldman Sachs is at its old game again — that is, exceedingly long term projections of the comparative growth of economies and trying to foresee the shape of the global economy over, say, fifty years. The global investment bank’s latest projections show India in an exceedingly happy colour. It will be the […]

The post Goldman Sachs Projection On India Emerging As Second Largest Economy By 2075 Is A Great News first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Global confidence in the India growth story is getting vindicated, as foreign portfolio investors (FPI) put their faith the Indian market by placing their money here into Indian stocks. As a result, the Indian equity market is rising to unprecedented levels. The Bombay Stock Exchange index, which is the best gauge for […]

The post Indian Economy Is Showing Buoyancy Getting Confidence Of Foreign Investors first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy China could just as well be contesting with the United States as the new super power, however internally it is facing serious problems with its younger generations turning away from traditional social norms. China has just witnessed fewest marriages in decades. The Chinese state has an elaborate machinery for gathering information on […]

The post Chinese Youth Losing Interest In Marriage Will Hit The Country’s Demographic Advantage first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy The global financial circles are agog with speculation about the prospects of the US government defaulting on its payments. This is because the two major parties in America have so far failed to agree on raising the ceiling of US government borrowing. This is currently at $25 trillion. The Biden  government has […]

The post US Debt Default May Be Unlikely But India Has To Be Ready With Precautions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Some of the most successful practitioners and developers of “artificial Intelligence” are now calling for its regulation by the government. These creators of the strikingly advanced AI systems are underlining immediate need for global regulation. That the fears of AI generated materials could go berserk are based on principally two fears. The […]

The post Alarmed At The Impact, Creators Of AI Are Now Talking Of Strict Regulation first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy A hundred year old story has become a hot topic in China, which is finding sympathies among young people. It has been trending on the Chinese internet. A short video based on the story was viewed over three million times. It has become a huge favourite in a musical format. So much […]

The post Kong Yiji Story Of China Can Be Replicated In India Also As Problems Are Same first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy So much for the much vaunted solidarity in the free world. The liberal and democratic nations of western Europe and America had vowed they were all standing firmly behind the besieged Ukraine to defend the free world against alleged Russian autocracy. The wide-ranging sanctions against Russia are starting to bite the western […]

The post French President Macron’s Visit To China Divides Western Nations On Ukraine Issue first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy The world has suddenly been pushed into a deeper crisis by a sudden decision of Saudi Arabia to cut oil production. Following the Saudi decision, the OPEC-plus members have also announced commensurate reduction in their oil production. Russia, Kuwait, UAE, Iraq, Algeria and Oman have also declared production cuts. The cuts will […]

The post Oil Producers Send The Global Economy In A Tizzy With Sudden Production Cut first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Now that the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England have all raised their policy interest rates to fight inflation, there might be further flutters in the financial sector and several other banks might be nervous about the future. However, the central bankers have flatly stated that their primary responsibility […]

The post Indian Economy Is Still In A Position To Insulate Itself From Global Turmoil first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Overshadowed by the news of Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from parliament, March 24 witnessed another unique parliamentary episode. For the first time in 75 years history of independent India, the general budget was passed without a debate on the provisions of the budget. It has bypassed all established customs and precedents associated with […]

The post Passing Of 2023-24 Budget In Lok Sabha Without Debate Was A Subversion first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy US policy-makers quick move to rescue the beleaguered Silicon Valley Bank is an object lesson in what can be described as “real economics” in parallel to real-politic. Real-politic is the art of playing politics in realistic manner. Real economics is similarly handling of economic issue realistically. We have of course seen some […]

The post US Policy Makers Acted Fast In Averting Contagion Effect Of SVB Collapse first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy One swallow does not make a summer, the old proverb goes. But even a single swallow can give some hopes for a return to better times. A softer trend in the wholesale prices, as revealed in the latest figures, had ignited demands for a softer stance in monetary policy of the Reserve […]

The post Blunt Tool Of Interest Rate Hikes: Case For A Relook first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy A prominent private bank in the United States — the country’s sixteenth largest— has failed and this can have significant impact on the Indian technology industry. Silicon Valley Bank —better known by its acronym SVB— has gone into liquidation. This was one of the 20 largest banks in the USA and its […]

The post Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Sends Chills Down Indian Tech Sector first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy In a significant move, at the on-going China’s National People’s Congress, which is a gathering of legislators, the top leaders of the Communist Party  of  China  have set a pared down growth target for China at only 5% for the current year. NPC is meeting in Beijing is weeklong. This is a […]

The post Chinese National People’s Congress Deeply Worried At Slowing Down Of Population first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy China’s population has shrunk in 2022 for the first time in six decades. That has sent bells ringing about the prospects China should be facing henceforth. There is a long and tortuous history culminating in the phase when population is shrinking. China had imposed strict rule in 1985 allowing couples to have […]

The post China’s Population Dip In 2022 Has Long Term Impact On Economic Growth first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy If any one thing defines 2022 it is Russia’s Ukraine war. Coming close on the heels of the covid pandemic, unleashed by China’s callus and lackadaisical handling of the initial outbreak, world’s woes are brimming over. Bad luck would not come alone, in the very closing days of the year, the wildfire […]

The post Global Economy Hit By Ukraine War In 2022 Is Entering Another Uncertain Phase In 2023 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy Energy shortage could become a thing of the past and so could be the concerns about global warming if what the US scientists have achieved could really be rolled out commercially. US department of energy has announced that its scientists have at last achieved a breakthrough in “fusion technology” for generating electricity. […]

The post Fusion Technology For Generating Electricity Can Change The Future first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy The global oil market is entering a critical phase as the European Union’s price cap for Russian oils comes into immediate effect.  The EU has set a price cap of $60 per barrel for Russian oils. Oil prices have hovered around $80 per barrel, and the EU price is not far below […]

The post Western Price Cap On Russian Oil May Lead To Further Global Recessionary Pressure first appeared on IPA Newspack.