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By Kalyani Shankar A hypothetical President Joe Biden versus his predecessor, Donald Trump, contest in the 2024 U.S. presidential race is too close to call. Elections will be held on November 5, 2024, just a year away. News agency Reuters says this election promises to be like no other modern U.S. election. New York Times […]

The post American Presidential Election In November 2024 Promises To Be A Tumultuous One first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal is bound for prison. The Delhi Chief Minister is reconciled to his fate. The enforcement directorate will question him, arrest him and put him behind bars, period. There are no two ways about it. Kejriwal has convinced himself and he has also convinced his flock of […]

The post Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Is Reconciled To His Term In Tihar Jail first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Contestants arrayed in the electoral battlefield of Rajasthan is almost clear. The Congress and the BJP are engaged in a bitter, closer, no holds barred contest than expected earlier. Hitherto sidelined BJP leader and former CM Vasundhara Raje has come back to the centrestage, while challenges go on multiplying for  the […]

The post Bigger Challenges Lying Ahead For Congress In Rajasthan first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The problem with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has been his own overblown ego. He treats himself as the most astute politician possessing the highest order of intellect and wisdom. He also nurtures the feeling that no other politician could read his mind and make out of his future moves. None had […]

The post Egoistic Akhilesh Yadav Is Emboldening Anti-Secular Organisations first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee Increasing secret business donations to political parties to help fight state and general elections threaten to harm India’s democratic system. The practice protects the anonymity of contributors. If France, one of the world’s most vibrant democracies, can ban political donations by business corporations, why do political parties in India need to raise […]

The post Anonymous Political Donations Are Harming India’s Democratic System first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Last heard, the NDA had taken a massive lead in the Maharashtra Gram Panchayat elections with the BJP, the NCP Ajit Pawar faction and the Shinde Shiv Sena going great guns while the Congress, Shiv  Sena (UBT) and NCP Sharad Pawar were way behind, underlying the reality that the INDI-Alliance has a […]

The post Expanded NDA’s Lead In Maharashtra Panchayat Polls Is A Bad Signal For India first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Mizoram and Chhattisgarh may vote for peace and development. Elections to all the 40 Vidhan Sabha seats in Mizoram and 20 out of 90 in Chhattisgarh are scheduled to be held on November 7. During the entire election campaigns for this phase of election, violence dominated the minds of electorates – […]

The post Mizoram And Chhattisgarh To Vote For Peace And Development first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava It appears that Narendra Modi has lost his political sense and prudence; else how could he choose to launch a ruthless attack on the opposition, and even target a section of his own party, just while the Lok Sabha election was hovering on his head. This observation may appear to be quite […]

The post Modi More A Threat To His Own Party, Less Prime Danger To Opposition first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak ILO has moved one step closer to social justice and decent work by adopting a proposal to establish a Global Coalition for Social Justice in the ongoing 349th Session (30 October – 9 November, 2023) of its Governing Body at Geneva, Switzerland. It is just a beginning, and the Coalition will […]

The post ILO Moves One Step Closer To Social Justice And Decent Work first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran A failure by Russia to fulfil its commitment of 300,000 barrels per day of voluntary cut in crude exports as per the understanding with OPEC is likely to cause friction between Moscow and Saudi Arabia, the prime driver of the cartel’s supply control strategy to shore up crude prices. Any problem in […]

The post Overshooting Russian Oil Exports May Cause Friction In Saudi-Led Supply Cut Mechanism first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has, once again, lived up to its reputation of being a trail blazer. The State has shown the way to defeat determined attempts to disturb communal harmony, a hallmark of the State. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government lost no time in nipping in the bud the sinister designs of […]

The post Kerala Frustrates Attempt To Disturb Communal Amity first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey Israel’s options are central to discussions about the day after the guns fall silent in Gaza. Absent from the debate is what Palestinians want. Also absent is any discussion of funding for Gaza’s reconstruction, although the assumption is that oil-rich Gulf states will step up to the plate. The significance of […]

The post Israel In Gaza: Only Limited Options Available When The Guns Fall Silent first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The regularity with which the Enforcement Directorate discovers alleged wrongdoings of opposition parties on the eve of elections should be a matter of investigation. But that calls for a regime change; the Narendra Modi government should be divested of power for discovering a nexus, if any. The ED, sometimes working in tandem […]

The post ED Raid Aimed To Involve Chief Minister Baghel Before Polls Is Ominous first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna Along the border between Lebanon and Israel, a missile expert from Hezbollah is currently preparing for a war situation with a level of intensity and readiness he has never experienced before. Dressed in black tactical pants, green camouflage attire, and armed with a pistol, the officer from the Iran-backed Shiite militia wears […]

The post Hezbollah’s Intensified Preparations Suggest Impending War With Israel first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Nawaz Sharif’s celebratory return to Pakistan after several years in exile will turn into a political triumph only if the country’s military establishment, which had banished him from politics six years ago and now facilitated his recent insurrection, fundamentally changed its behaviour. So far, it seems that the establishment sees Sharif as […]

The post Pakistan Army Wants Former PM Nawaz Sharif To Contest And Win Elections first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava “Listen, Bihar is not a BIMARU state”. This message was sent on Friday to Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah by none else but Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The two leaders from Gujarat have a habit of deprecating Bihar and describe it as a state with no hope under Nitish, […]

The post Providing Jobs To 1.22 Lakh Bihar Youths By Cm Nitish Kumar Augurs Well Before Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Nikhil Chakravartty, a pioneering figure in Indian journalism for more than four decades of the last century, is being deeply missed by sections of the media fighting hard to protect the hard-won freedom of the press against the onslaughts of the Narendra Modi government. In the second half of the twentieth century, […]

The post Remembering The Icon Of Indian Journalism Nikhil Chakravartty On His 110th Birth Anniversary first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Concerns expressed during the final three days hearing on petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Electoral Bond Scheme case were too serious to be resolved immediately, and hence the Bench hearing the case decided not to announce the verdict instantly at the conclusion of hearing on November 2, but reserved […]

The post Concerns Expressed Were Too Serious In The Electoral Bond Case first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Never before in the history of parliamentary functioning the prolocutor of any legislative panel has come under such blistering criticism of character assassination and misogynistic perversion as Vinod Kumar Sonkar, the chairman of the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee. There is no apparent reason to suspect the allegation levelled against him by TMC […]

The post Mahua Moitra’s Harassment By BJP-Led ‘Ethics Committee’ Is A Shame first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna China’s position on the Gaza conflict has left Israel disappointed. As Israeli forces have carried out airstrikes and ground operations in response to Hamas’ early October attack, Beijing has consistently accused Israel of exceeding the bounds of self-defence in its retaliation. Furthermore, China vetoed a U.S.-led United Nations resolution that reaffirmed the […]

The post China-Israel Relations Are Changing Substantially In The Wake Of Gaza War first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election campaigns in India are no longer free and fair. There is no level playing field for  the opposition parties   s    against   the    ruling   BJP. Dominant share of funds is collected by the BJP under electoral bond scheme chiefly on account of its being privileged ruling political party. Opposition just can’t […]

The post Election Campaigns In India Are No Longer Free And Fair first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sudhir Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, by seeking to make communal capital out of the bomb blasts at a Christian group gathering in Kalamassery in Kerala, has exposed the vicious nature of the campaign the BJP-RSS circles are conducting regarding Israel’s war on Gaza. Chandrasekhar, immediately after the blasts, hinted that jihadi elements had […]

The post Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar Takes Communal Stand On Gaza War first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna Israel has reinforced its air defences in the Red Sea region using Navy missile boats due to multiple missile and drone attacks by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, the army announced on Wednesday. The deployment of these vessels took place on Tuesday, as it was deemed necessary in response to the situation. This […]

The post Israel-Hamas War Extends To Yemen As Iran-Backed Houthis Start Drone Attacks first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha It was the largest mass involvement in the world that was engaged in Freedom struggle in our country, except the rightist forces. They had no share in it. Nor did they have any share in strengthening the secular democracy borne out of the freedom struggle or in the national reconstruction. And yet, […]

The post RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Has No Answer To The Crucial Issues Of Indian Freedom Movement first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava RSS approach and discernment of the elections, particularly the Lok Sabha polls, has undergone significant paradigm shift after the Modi-led BJP government coming back to power in 2019. While the BJP win in 2014 Lok Sabha elections primarily owed to the failures of the Congress party to keep neoliberal policies of the […]

The post Why RSS Wants The Lok Sabha Election Moved Ahead Of Schedule first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.