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By Sushil Kutty There was Pegasus, now it’s Apple and if Pegasus was a winged horse, the nearly half-eaten Apple is a mobile phone by another name. The one similarity is that both come under “Snoopgate”, in other words surveillance without the target’s knowledge. And the target remains India’s Opposition, today identified as the INDIA […]

The post Apple Alerts Opposition Leaders, Journalists Of ‘State-Sponsored’ Attacks first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna The conflict in Gaza is taking a devastating toll on civilians. According to the Gazan health ministry, the death toll has exceeded 8,000 people, with over 3,000 of them being children. This number of child casualties surpasses the annual child death toll from all wars in each of the previous three years. […]

The post Urban Warfare In Gaza Poses A Gruelling Challenge For Israel first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Deceleration in India’s manufacturing sector growth was the worst in the last eight months since February this year, reflecting fading of output, demand, and employment generation in the country. It is particularly ominous, since it’s a festive season and the first month of the busy second-half of the India economy when […]

The post Festive October Witnessed Fading Output, Demand, Employment first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Off and on, like a dormant volcano, the Maharashtra political scene is rocked by tumultuous stirs, most often triggered by farmers but also by demands for a reservation quota for the politically significant Maratha clan. The Maratha quota stir never actually died throughout its life so far, though it has failed to […]

The post Maratha Quota Stir Has Shinde-Fadnavis Government In A Bind first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna Just hours after Hamas initiated its attack on Israel on October 7, India’s Prime Minister was one of the first global leaders to react. In a strongly worded statement, Narendra Modi condemned the “terrorist attacks” and expressed India’s unwavering support for Israel during this challenging time. The Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar […]

The post Gaza Conflict Shows Modi-Led India’s Evolving Ties With Bibi’s Israel first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak ED summon to AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear before it on November 2 signals his possible arrest. It has triggered a serious political concern, since ED’s actions in the recent times have been by and large targeted against leaders of opposition political parties who happen to […]

The post Opposing PM Narendra Modi Turns Too Costly For Arvind Kejriwal first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The news reaching Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh, from the hinterland of the state do not augur well for Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party chief, who only a week back had dared to teach a lesson to the Congress for the 2024 Lok Sabha election. While he already rolled out his plans […]

The post INDIA Bloc Allies Posing Worse Threat To Congress Than BJP Juggernaut first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not derive much comfort from the fact that Indian Railways, the government’s single biggest public connect, is in bad shape. India’s railway network, recognised as one of the world’s largest railway systems under single management, carries some 24 million passengers daily. Politically, that is like addressing 240 […]

The post Indian Railways Urgently Needs A Full-Time Minister first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna As Israel ratcheted up its ground offensive on Saturday (October 28, 2023), relentlessly pounding Gaza with airstrikes to back up a night of intense bombing, the north of the Gaza Strip was assailed “on a magnitude never witnessed before” and there was “total chaos” in the region. Although there are no specific […]

The post Cessation Of Israel-Hamas Hostilities Is The Need Of The Hour first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Some political commentators hold the view that Palestinians should have followed the Gandhian path and also implicitly accuse them that they never followed the Gandhian path. However, their suggestion also applies to the Israel. The Israeli rulers should have followed the Gandhian path, and boy how they haven’t. This is most pertinent […]

The post Gandhi’s Experiment With Truth Has No Relevance For RSS Or Modi first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Minister of Home Affairs and the second most influential leader in the BJP, Amit Shah, only next to PM Narendra Modi, has perhaps rightly perceived the general voters’ annoyance in Madhya Pradesh against the ruling double engine government, both in the state and the Centre. The issue of their misgovernance […]

The post Amit Shah Facing Angry Crowds During Poll Campaign In Madhya Pradesh first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Modi establishment, which takes pride in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “muscular foreign policy”, recently took Canada to task and bent Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Modi’s will. Prime Minister Narendra Modi now has the challenging task of bringing home eight retired Indian Navy officers sentenced to death in Qatar, the […]

The post Prime Minister Has A Challenging Task In Ensuring Safe Return Of Navy Officers From Qatar first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna In a recent political development that could potentially reshape the dynamics in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), the Maldives elected a new President, Mohamed Muizzu, 45, of the People’s National Congress (PNC) on September 30, 2023. Muizzu’s victory marked a significant shift in the nation’s foreign policy and raised concerns about the […]

The post Indian Geopolitical Stakes In Maldives And Indian Ocean Region Nations Are Very High first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey It took 11 days and the death of 256 Palestinians for US President Joe Biden’s preference for a bear hug rather than a sledgehammer approach to get Israel to halt the Gaza bombing in 2021. Even then, Biden needed to be blunt and go public to get what he wanted. After […]

The post President Biden’s Bear Hug Of Israel’s Netanyahu Is A Double-Edged Sword first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna Intelligence shared with the United States indicates that a group of Hamas operatives, over a span of two years, used a network of hardwired phones integrated into the tunnel system beneath Gaza to plan the unexpected and deadly attack on Israel, two reliable sources have revealed. This sheds light on why Israel […]

The post How Hamas’ Militants Successfully Hoodwinked Israelis By Using Hardwired Phones? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Subrata Majumder The peculiarity of Hamas-Israel war is that unlike other wars or conflict, India do not succumb to the direct impact of the war. It is the spillover impact, which causes concern. Israel is not a major trading partner or major foreign investor in India. Neither, Palestine is. Israel accounts for less than […]

The post Indian Economy Will Be Seriously Impacted By War Only When Arab Nations Join first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Infosys founder Narayana Murthy’s call to the youth of the nation to declare ‘this is my country, I want to work for 70 hours a week’ has created such a storm that it has elicited response from every section of the society, including the veteran technocrat’s peers, employers, corporate personalities and of […]

The post Emotional Response To Murthy’s Call For 70 Hours Work Disguises Real Problems first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup “Is not he a man”? Sonia Gandhi was said to have exclaimed at a meeting of the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) earlier last week. There was a deathly silence in the room. “Aren’t there corruption charges against him? Sonia, according to the reports, was referring to Shanti Dhariwal, whose name came […]

The post Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Has A Commanding Influence In Poll Campaign In Rajasthan first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Centre’s big claims on employment generation under PM Narendra Modi regime since 2014 is once again exposed. The recently released government’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2022-23 has revealed that both the employment and unemployment situation in the country remains a matter of serious concern. Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR) for […]

The post Employment Generation Remains Dismal Reveals PLFS 2022-23 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has finally broken his silence over seat-sharing in the five poll bound states going to polls in November, but only to express party’s confident mood. “We will see this. Let the 5-state election take place first,” Kharge has said implying that there will be no seat-sharing arrangement […]

The post Resurgent Congress Is Confident Before Assembly Elections first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Amarjeet Kaur October 31 is approaching, the day of foundation of the first national level organization of trade unions in India. A collective of trade unions from all sectors, formal and informal, gathered at Bombay and AITUC was founded with Lala Lajpat Rai, a tall leader of the freedom movement at that time, as […]

The post India’s First National Trade Union AITUC Approaches Its Foundation On October 31 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik All fascistic outfits have one common characteristic: they reject outright all evidence that goes against the narrative they spin; and the Hindutva elements in power in India are no exception. Their narrative presents India as the fastest growing economy in the world where the people never had it so good; but if […]

The post Continuing Hostilities To Evidence Based Studies Mark Nine Years Of Modi Regime first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty How the Bharatiya Janata Party has transformed the upcoming assembly polls into Modi Vs. Congress by sidelining state-level leaders is the flavour of this election season running up to and right into general elections 2024. The fact of the matter is there’s no doubt that it is Congress Vs. BJP in Madhya […]

The post Narendra Modi Is In Contest Against The Congress In All Five Assemblies Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak “All farm loans will be waived, as we have done in the past, immediately after the Congress returns to power,” promised CM Bhupesh Baghel in Chhattisgarh in a repeat of 2018 election promise. It was among the four key promises made by the Congress on which the party has pinned its […]

The post Congress Working Hard To Retain Its Support Base In Chhattisgarh first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava This is not the first time that the JD(S) has entered into an alliance with the BJP. In 2006, with the tacit blessing of the senior JD(S) leader, the former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, the JD(S) had brokered an alliance and his son HD Kumaraswamy headed the alliance government. But […]

The post Future Prospect Of JD(S)-BJP Alliance In Karnataka Looks Grim first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sudhir The speech of the RSS chief at the annual Vijayadashami rally in Nagpur is supposed to contain the authoritative pronouncements of the Sangh. In the rally last Tuesday, Mohan Bhagwat’s speech continued with the theme of the last few Vijayadashami speeches, where the Sangh totally identified with the Narendra Modi government and […]

The post RSS Supremo’s Vijayadashami Speech Is Aimed At Establishing A Hindu Authoritarian State first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Her acting is a combination of vivacity which gels completely with her natural acting style. This has earned Aparna Sen a place of honour among the greats of Bengali cinema. Here is a heroine turned director whose co-actors have ranged from Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chattopadhyay to Shatrughan Sinha and Amitabh Bachchan (during […]

The post Aparna Sen Is Still Enthralling Bengali Viewers With Issue-Based Cinema first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Debabrata Biswas from Boston, USA After eighteen days of the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, the return onslaught against Gaza strip continues. The Hamas attack resulted in the killing of 1400 Israelis and abducting of more than 200 others, leading the Israeli govt. to declare war on the Palestinians in Gaza and even […]

The post Worst Humanitarian Disaster Is Happening In Gaza Strip As Israel Gets Free Hand first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat does not enjoy the dubious reputation of speaking lies. But on Dussehra, in his annual sermon, when he tried to dig out the ghost of the “foreign powers” for putting the blame for the unabated six-month-long violence in Manipur, one could not hide the shock at Bhagwat not […]

The post RSS Supremo Blames Foreign Forces For Manipur Violence first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud has added a new dimension to the current debate on caste-based reservation by stressing the need to advance from the accommodative aspect of the reservation policy as it is practised today to one where reservation would be a tool for empowerment. Justice Chandrachud did not […]

The post CJI Takes Reservation Debate To New Level With Call For Empowerment first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.