By Anjan Roy I never tire of recalling what Joseph Schumpeter, one of the greatest economists and scholars, wrote in his monumental tome: The nearer we are to an epoch the less we understand. Our own we understand the least. It is too early to make an assessment of Russia’s Ukraine war and its implications […]
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By Anjan Roy As Russian military moves into Ukraine, our familiar world vanishes. The world order returns to the point when Winston Churchill had said “an iron curtain” was falling across Europe. The single step of a Russian soldier in Ukraine brings back the Cold War dispensation in international affairs. To be sure, the Russian […]
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CHINESE SLOWDOWN HAS TO BE MONITORED
By Anjan Roy
At long last the US Federal Reserve – America’s central bank—has raised the interest rates, albeit hardly. This is the first hike in interest rates by the US central bank in over a decade.
The US Fed rate hike has been by a very small margin – from zero to just about 0.25% to 0.5%. It was so gradual and soft that the rate hike did not cause the disruptions in the global financial markets that everyone expected from such a decision.
The first question here is how will it affect India? It should not, and this has been borne out by what happened in the day after the Fed rate hike. The stock market remained more or less flat. The exchange rate also remained stable. The fund managers did not immediately think of taking money out of India and that left the financial markets unruffled.
But then w
BENGALURU: Top Indian information-technology (IT) services companies are betting on large and mega deals, which enable them to sharpen their focus on clients, leading to higher revenue, faster growth, and more cost savings in the long term. Typically, IT companies consider deals at or above $100 million as large ones while those at or above […]
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INDIA FACES MORE COMPETITION IN EXPORT MARKET By Anjan Roy China has shocked the world by suddenly devaluing its currency…
RENMINBI WILL TAKE MORE TIME AS RESERVE CURRENCY By Anjan Roy Whoever might have lost out in the weird saga…
By Anjan Roy China is riding the crest of its economic success currently. It has taken one more step to make its currency globally traded and thus acceptable. China has announced what is known as the Hong Kong-Shanghai Stocks Connect from November 17. This in effect means off shore trading in the Chinese currency for purchase of stocks in Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges. Earlier, […]
By Anjan Roy It began with a bang and appears to be ending with a whimper. The huge noise about cash stashed away in Swiss banks by Indians, hoodwinking the tax authorities had kept the media and the common man salivating. There was this utter glee about knowing the names of those –presumably high and mighty—who might have salted away the nation’s money. We were seeing the […]
By Tirthankar Mitra Reduced to a single Lok Sabha member from West Bengal post 2024 elections, the state Congress unit is busy picking up the pieces of the jigsaw which would help it arrive at the causes of its dismal state and chart its path of revival. Apart from an organisational rejig and the search […]NEW DELHI: The Jnanpith Award Selection Committee announced the 58th Jnanpith Award for the year 2023. This year it has been decided to award two eminent writers: Jagatguru Shri Rambhadracharya for Sanskrit and famous lyricist Gulzar for Urdu respectively. The decision was taken in a meeting of the selection committee chaired by Jnanpith awardee, noted […]
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said anyone having faith in Lord Ram can visit the Ayodhya temple any day and added the BJP was attacking his party over the decision to decline the invite to the January 22 consecration ceremony as part of “a conspiracy”. The Congress has never hurt any religion or guru, […]
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Backed by government spending on infrastructure, building, and construction, domestic steel demand is expected to remain strong in 2024. Realisations in the domestic market are expected to remain strong, even though imports could remain elevated. Eports will remain stretched across key markets, beyond Europe, in view of the global slowdown in demand. Market sources peg […]
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By Sushil Kutty Parliament attack ‘mastermind’ Lalit Mohan Jha is in police custody. Four of his underlings – if he is ‘mastermind’, indeed – have been charged with terrorism under various sections of the UAPA, supposedly one of the toughest anti-terror legislations anywhere in the world. Does that mean, Neelam Devi, Sagar Sharma, Manoranjan D., […]
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By K Raveendran It may not have been as high-profile as the ‘call of national duty’ press conference by the four senior most judges of the Supreme Court about six years ago. But the renewed controversy about the master of the roster, prompting two senior advocates of the apex court to write to Chief Justice […]
The post Master Of Roster Controversy: History Repeats Itself After A Gap Of Six Years first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi grows more desperate and aggressive by the day as he feels the perception of power slipping away from his vice-like grip. For Modi, retaining power and continuing to occupy the office of the prime minister has acquired such an obsessive dimension that instead of facing his opponents politically, […]
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By K Raveendran Confidentiality versus anonymity is a central issue in the consideration of the petitions against the electoral bond scheme as it exists today and may well have a bearing on the verdict by the five-member constitution bench under Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, which has reserved the judgement. The petitioners, who include the […]
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By Tirthankar Mitra Come late September and October, kash flowers are in bloom in parts of Maidan in Kolkata together with a few more spots in the city yet to be invaded by concrete jungle heralding the arrival of the biggest festival of West Bengal – Durga Puja. Yet the fact remains preparations for the […]
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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, […]
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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 Sagarneel Sinha Despite a few stray incidents, the bypolls for the four assembly seats in the northeastern state of Tripura have seen a voter turnout of more than 78%. The four seats where bypolls were held are — Agartala, Town Bardowali, Jubarajnagar and Surma (SC). The assembly elections in the northeastern state of Tripura […]
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By Arun Srivastava Assembly of around 5 thousand clerics, Imams and Islamic scholars from all over the country in Deoband of Uttar Pradesh to deliberate on issues related to demolition of mosques and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) during a two-day session organised by Ulema-i-Hind on May 28, was shocked to see with tears rolling […]
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Tomorrow, April 24, 2017, Malaysians will once again witness a historical event on the coronation of the country’s sovereign, the Sultan of Kelantan, Sultan Muhammad V, who replaces Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah as the 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong. It will be the second coronation ceremony of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to be held at the throne room or Balairong Seri of the Istana Negara, Jalan Tuanku […]
Photo Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in 2016. Credit Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images Relations between the United States and Iran, which improved under President Obama to the point where the two sides were able to strike a nuclear deal, were already facing an uncertain future under Donald Trump, who has taken a tough line against Tehran. The death on Sunday of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi […]
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BHOPAL: Psychiatrists can play a major and decisive role in checking suicides by farmers. This claim was made at the conference of Psychiatrists held in Bhopal. It was suggested that governments should seek the help of Psychiatrists and use a holistic multipronged approach to prevent farmers from taking such an extreme step.
The four-day conference of Indian Psychiatric society discussed various issues relating to mental problems of the people, the lack of doctors, social stigma attached to mental disease, absence of research and effect of internet over use and mobile in triggering mental problems. Shortcomings in the Mental Care Bill pending in the Rajya Sabha was yet another item which was discussed at the conference.
The World Psychiatric Association’s first-ever Indian-origin president
