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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 […]

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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.

The Opposition, specially the Congress, is watching the developments in the NDA camp very closely as the BJP looks to find new alliances. The Congress, which hosts the Opposition meeting in Bengaluru next week, will ensure that its old friends and new potential allies remain together. There are two important developments to substantiate this. One, […]

The post Cong softening towards AAP, but ties with TMC turn knotty 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 Tirthankar Mitra Declaration of the schedule of 2023 panchayat election has come during the Jan Jowar Yatra of Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee which apparently gives TMC a leg up in West Bengal rural polls scheduled to be held on 8 July. The polling date can be rescheduled to July 14 if Calcutta High […]

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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 […]

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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.