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By Nantoo Banerjee The RBI’s monetary policy meeting, last week, just days before the expected release of the monthly consumer price index data by the government came as a surprise. Food prices in India have been constantly peaking. Lately, India’s high food inflation has been featured in the global media, including BBC. However, they seemed […]

The post RBI May Have Underassessed Inflationary Trend To Retain Bank Rate first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar Can the Manipur crisis impact the newly formed opposition coalition I.N.D.I.A. to its advantage? Can Congress leader Rahul Gandhi utilize it as another Opposition leader Mamata Banerjee did in Singur and Nandigram Moment in West Bengal to win in 2011 assembly elections? These significant moments are rare and unforgettable. Rahul Gandhi may […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Is Emerging Stronger As Potential Leader Of The Opposition first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The idea of Congress-AAP alliance has travelled one step forward. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal’s expression of intent before the Congress leadership Sonia Gandhi to have an alliance with the Congress is a significant development, since the birth of Congress-AAP alliance could imperil BJP’s political prospects in 5 states […]

The post Birth Of Congress-AAP Alliance May Imperil BJP’s Prospects In 2024 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Meta-Man versus X-Man. The Mark Zuckerberg-Elon Musk fight everybody was waiting for is off. The two gladiator billionaires with too much on their plates but not enough patience to make it a battlefront fight. Of both, Musk is the braggart and Mark self-effacing. The Meta billionaire says he has given up on […]

The post The Curious Case Of Cage Fight Of World’s Two Top Billionaires first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The New York Times does a hit piece on a left-liberal news outlet and a grateful Modi Government picks it up and makes an announcement in the Lok Sabha, including naming the three journalists whom the media of the Modi government immediately label “anti-national.” In episode 2, the police of BJP-ruled Haryana […]

The post Corporate Media And Premier TV Channels Have Been Turned Into BJP Mouthpieces first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Manipur is passing through the worst of times. The border state in one of the hinges of India’s North East needs special treatment from the centre. Bordering Myanmar, after having witnessed one of the bloodiest battles of freedom struggle where Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose led Indian National Army fought with British forces, […]

The post Suffering People Of Manipur Need Concrete Action On Ground, Not Lipservices first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey An Indonesian push for a Southeast Asian return to values rooted in an ancient Indo civilisation amounts to an innovative attempt to manage polarisation. Exploiting its rotating chairmanship of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Indonesia this week inaugurated the ASEAN Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue. The dialogue opened by […]

The post Indonesia Pushes A Civilizational Approach To Countering Polarisation first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Eric Peterson Near the start of Netflix’s now-long-running reality show Selling Sunset, real estate agent Heather Rae El Moussa (née Young) pans to the camera and makes a rather Marxian observation about labour in a wage-based economy. The impeccably made-up agent (it has been reported that she and her coworkers, not Netflix, pay for […]

The post Netflix’s ‘Selling Sunset’ Is A Window Into The Real Estate World Of Los Angeles first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Over the last year, Rahul Gandhi has been attempting political resurrection. First, via the five-month walkathon of Bharat Jodo Yatra that saw him play the role of a doughty fighter. Second, a subsequent five month spent outside of Parliament which allowed Gandhi to assume the role of a martyr. The martyrdom parade […]

The post Congress Has A Big Dilemma For 2024 Polls: How Far It Can Go To Restore Its Space? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Home Minister Amit Shah’s legislative package in relation to the country’s criminal law system, hailed by his ruling party as pathbreaking, has more symbolism than real reform and even includes a good measure of deception. Of course, there are a couple of good things, such as stringent punishment for mob lynching, though […]

The post Indian Govt Steps Into Mould Of British Who Considered Themselves As Aliens first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak ‘Quit India’ anniversary on August 9, 2023 saw a massive mobilization of workers and farmers across the country against the ruling establishment led by PM Narendra Modi. CTUs and farmers’ unions said it the beginning of a “united struggle of non-cooperation and defiance to anti-worker, anti-farmer, anti-people and anti-national policy of […]

The post Central Trade Unions Have Served Stern Warning To Modi Government first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Subrata Majumder Morgan Stanley in its recent review portrayed India as the most attractive destination for foreign investment in Asian emerging market. It upgraded India from 6th position to top in the region. Macroeconomic stability and faster growth in the post COVID years were reasons. India proved resilient to global volatility, stoked by US […]

The post India Emerges As A Better Bet For Foreign Investment Alternative To China first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally opened his mouth on Manipur violence in Lok Sabha on August 10 to reply the no-confidence motion brought by the opposition INDIA alliance, but only to expose himself to be sanctimonious – talking piously and giving assurances – in the backdrop of inaction and ‘complete breakdown […]

The post Prime Minister Has Let Down The Suffering People Of Manipur Once Again first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty To multitudes, nothing beats the scare more than the one that he’ll be in the Lok Sabha in 2028 fighting yet another no-confidence motion and looking for yet another prime ministerial term. As if India’s electorate couldn’t have more of him. As if two Modi stints weren’t enough with another one waiting […]

The post Prime Minister Is Confident That The Opposition Will Again Face Him In 2028 With This Motion first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is once again in the spotlight. He received immense welcome after being reinstated as the Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad, Kerala, with the slogans of “Na Darenge, Na Jhukenge” and “NafratHatao, Bharat Jodo” being heard at the AICC headquarters in Delhi. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge distributed sweets […]

The post Rahul Back In Lok Sabha, Accuses Modi Of Destroying The Country 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 Dr. Gyan Pathak   Only five months after the judgement of the Supreme Court of India, Prime Minister  Narendra Modi led Centre has come out with a bill that not only   removes  the Chief Justice of India from the committee that was empowered to appoint Election Commissioners of Inda, but also kills democracy […]

The post Transparency In Appointment Of Election Commissioners Is Removed By Modi Govt first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Arun Srivastava   It would be a simplistic evaluation to describe Rahul Gandhi’s 9 August 2023 speech on the non-trust motion in Lok Sabha as merely tearing into Narendra Modi’s style of governance. No amount of class theatrics and master oratory would be able to eradicate the imprint that Rahul managed to create […]

The post Rahul Gandhi’s Fiery Lok Sabha Speech Tore Off Modi’s Nationalst Mask first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By P. Sudhir   Continuing with its avowed policy of throwing open the country’s natural resources for exploitation by private capital without regard to either the people or the environment, the Modi government has rushed through parliament two laws that will have dire consequences. One is to amend the Forest (Conservation) Act (FCA) and […]

The post NDA Govt Has Rushed Through Two Laws In Parliament Serving Corporates first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Sushil Kutty   Sharing a first name with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is just one reason why UBT Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi cannot be anything but “sisterly” to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi unlike Union Minister for Minority Affairs Smriti Irani who finds in Rahul Gandhi’s every gesture an invitation – to […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Vs Smriti Irani Over ‘Flying Kiss’ Is The Follow Up Of Her Old Battle first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran   A spurt in crude oil prices, which appeared menacing to importing countries such as India, has lost steam, thanks to the emerging realities about the Chinese economy as well as the shock of the American rating downgrade. In the net effect, the optimism imparted by a much-hyped Chinese move to support […]

The post Chinese Growth Slow-Down Holds Back Tendency Of Oil To Climb Further first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Gyan Pathak   Potential threat to continuance of the BJP rule under Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the 2024 Lok Sabha election tends to surge despite the BJP trying to reenergize the NDA and reaching out to even non-NDA political parties, to widen and strengthen NDA. PM Modi is also trying to get outside […]

The post Potential Threat To BJP To Surge In The Coming Months first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.