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By Rejimon Kuttappan On March 10, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a post-budget webinar on Economic Empowerment of Women that, “India can move forward only by raising the levels of the respect for women and the sense of equality.” On August 15, in his Independence Day speech at the Red Fort, the Prime Minister […]

The post India Is Behind Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka In Gender Pay Parity first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty For the misogynist, waking up on Ganesh Chaturthi morning was disappointing. Overnight the Modi Cabinet had, during the course of an unscheduled meeting, cleared the Women’s Reservation Bill, which had been lying dormant for years much to the giddy happiness of male chauvinists, who deep down in their hearts saw women’s empowerment […]

The post Presenting Women Reservation Bill In Special Session Is A Milestone In Indian Democracy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar The Congress leaders are upbeat after the weekend Congress Working Committee meeting in Hyderabad. They are ready to plunge into poll mode. The C.W.C., the Party’s highest policy-making body agreed on several contentious and sensitive topics and planned its future course. The meeting was the first after Mallikarjun Kharge became party president. […]

The post Congress Leadership Confident Of Taking On BJP In 2024 Under INDIA Banner first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The United States Trade Representative, Ms. Katherine Chi Tai, may not be fully aware that most of the high-tech mass market electronics gadgets such as laptops, tablets and personal computers under global US brands exported to India are not manufactured in the US. They are built in China by US multinational corporations […]

The post Foreign Tech Firms Find India An Attractive Manufacturing Destination first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hindutva brand politics seems to be in trouble in all the five poll bound states – Telangana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Mizoram – for which election schedule are to be announce within few weeks from now. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come on the centre-stage to campaign for BJP’s Hindutva […]

The post PM’s Bid To Rouse Passions On The Issue Of Sanatan Dharma Failing In Poll Bound Five States first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 74 on Sunday, September 17. Who cares is what one set of people say. The other set’s cloying sycophancy was on full display. That said, successful people have charisma. What about Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Hundreds of millions hang on to his every word when he addresses […]

The post Two Term Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Still At His Peak On Turning 74 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Global Climate Strike, initiated by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, with events scheduled for September 15 and 17. By the time of going to press, the strike has started in several countries and Thunberg’s Twitter page has posted strike pictures from Bangladesh and […]

The post Climate Strikes Bring Gradual But Definite Change In Global Environment first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey Debates about the US commitment to Gulf security are skewed by confusion, miscommunication, and contradictory policies. The skewing has fuelled uncertainty about US policy as well as Gulf attitudes in an evolving multi-polar world and fuelled misconceptions and misunderstandings. The confusion is all the more disconcerting given that the fundamentals of […]

The post Confusion And Uncertainty Shape Debate About United States’ Gulf Policy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Preparations are afoot on the August 24 decision made in the first ever historic joint national convention of workers and farmers at Talkatora Stadium New Delhi for launching decisive protest actions across the country during forthcoming December-January, with the slogan “Oust Modi, Oust BJP”. Barring the RSS-BJP supported Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh […]

The post Indian Workers For Decisive Protest Actions Before 2024 Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup The debate on “one nation, one election” seems to revolve around two related themes — technical feasibility and political motives. The supporters of this motive evoke several technical issues—the ever increasing cost of elections, administrative technicalities and possibilities of corruption, the negative impact of frequent elections on governance and the election-centric focus […]

The post ‘One Nation, One Election’ Proposal Needs Extensive Debate And Discussion first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Drone cameras at weddings and social events no longer make eyes pop up. But the day may not be far off when your favourite pizza will be delivered to you by a drone rather than the Swiggy rider, adding to the chaotic scenes on the roads as he has to negotiate all […]

The post Delivery Of Packets By Drones May Become Mainstream Sooner Than Expected first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is paying special attention to Madhya Pradesh reports of mounting discontent and anger in the party are pouring in Bhopal from various areas of the state. It was Prime Minister’s sixth visit to Madhya Pradesh in the last six months. On September 14 he came […]

The post Dissensions And Infighting Mark BJP Party In Madhya Pradesh As Poll Approaches first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sitaram Yechury As India approaches the 75th anniversary of the constitutional republic (2025), the Hindutva narrative is being aggressively scripted to metamorphose the secular democratic character of the republic into a fascistic Hindutva rashtra. The prerequisite for this is to ensure that the Modi led BJP government wins the 2024 elections, by hook or […]

The post RSS-BJP Aggressively Working To Metamorphose Our Secular Republic Into Hindu Rashtra first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has thrown a “Brahmafans” (the unfailing thread to traps the enemy), if we can use the mythological metaphor from ‘Sanatan Dharm’, the term he used to attack on INDIA alliance alleging that their leaders want to destroy Sanatan Dharm. However, there is a way out […]

The post Prime Minister Is Making Full Use Of ’Sanatan Dharm’ Row To Trap The INDIA Alliance Before 2024 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It is one of the most foolhardy things to do, the Congress decision that the INDIA alliance parties will not send spokespersons to prime-time shows of 14 television anchors. It is poor decision-making. Hasty also. It is tantamount to boycotting the media not knowing when it will be needed the most. Like […]

The post INDIA Alliance’s Decision To Blacklist 14 Anchors Of TV News Channels Makes No Sense first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra Which way will the Dalits go in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh? Will they turn to BSP, or vote for either of the rival blocs, I.N.D.I.A., or NDA? Dalit votes also get bifurcated on the basis of sub-castes. For example, Jatav, Pasi, Valmiki communities vote differently. Although it […]

The post All Eyes On Dalit Voters In Uttar Pradesh In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The first coordination committee of the INDIA block of 28 opposition parties has decided to finally start the process of seat sharing for both coming state assembly elections scheduled by year end as also the Lok Sabha polls by early 2024.The spokesman K C Venugopal made it clear after the CC meeting […]

The post INDIA Alliance: What Is The Best Way To Make Seat Sharing Among Partners Smoother? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The ‘Sanatan Dharm’ controversy is the latest example of a leader of opposition unwittingly walking into RSS-BJP’s political turf made for PM Narendra Modi to play on with advantage over the opposition INDIA alliance, which they are projecting as anti-Hindu. PM Modi and his associates have been trying to drive the […]

The post Political Narrative For 2024 Polls Is Still Challenging For INDIA Block first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Binoy Viswam The year-long ‘celebrations’ that the Modi government built up around the G-20 Summit have ended. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, due to electoral ambitions chose to design it more like a festival than with socio-political and diplomatic content. G-20, because of its very nature and proclaimed objectives, was expected to focus on socio-economic […]

The post Narendra Modi’s Bragging About G20 Declaration Will Be Exposed Soon first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sudhir The adoption of a joint declaration by the G20 summit in New Delhi with all member countries subscribing to it was an achievement, given the sharp divisions that exist on the issue of the Ukraine war.  The eight paragraphs dealing with the Ukraine war were negotiated successfully due to the joint efforts […]

The post Only Positive Step In G20 Summit Was The Admission Of African Union As A Permanent Member first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty For the umpteenth time in umpteen years, Section 124A or what is called the Sedition law could end up facing the guillotine though the Centre wants the process halted with the Supreme Court clearly not willing to acquiesce. The Modi government is no different from other governments. When in the opposition, all […]

The post Supreme Court Bench Must Decide Early About Repealing Section 124A Of IPC first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak As September begins, air quality in the National Capital Territory of Delhi starts deteriorating every year. As on September 13, 2023, it has already become unhealthy for sensitive groups, and tomorrow it is likely to turn unhealthy for all, with Air Quality Index (AQI) has been estimated to rise from 117 […]

The post Centre Refuses Fund To Punjab To Stop Stubble Burning first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The proposed India, Middle East, Europe economic corridor is expected to go a long way to increase the political clout of Middle East countries, particularly the Gulf countries, which the West has hitherto been looking at mainly as a market for arms as well as the security might of US and allies, […]

The post Modi-Biden’s Economic Corridor Boosts Political Clout Of Middle East Countries first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman Forbes has come out state-wise analysis of GDP in India, which makes an interesting analysis of how growth has been uneven in the country and there appears to be correlation between human development index and per capita income. Apparently merely high GDP does not indicate high economic prosperity in the country. […]

The post Growth Pattern Of States In India Is Uneven Though All Are Thriving first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar The well-known quote from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet,” is frequently referenced about name change. It is true of the ongoing debate about India’s official name change to Bharat. Regardless of the title employed, it […]

The post India Being Named As Bharat Is Not A Big Issue As Constitution Already Has It first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak All indications suggests that India’s political narrative will have a new twist next week when the Special Session of Parliament will be held in five sittings from September 18 to September 22. Agenda for the session has still been kept secret and there are only speculations in the corridor of power. […]

The post Political Narrative In India To Have New Twist Next Week first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It has been a couple of months since the BJP got into election mode. Preparations for general elections 2024 began in earnest in July 2023. The Karnataka assembly elections loss was a jolt that called for a reassembling of sorts. On September 1, news came of the setting up of 300 call […]

The post BJP Is Now In War Like Preparation Mode For 2024 Lok Sabha Elections first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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 Annie Domini In hindsight, the New Delhi summit of G20 countries under India’s presidency, from September 8 to 10, could be seen as a one-size-fit-all type of clothing, which wrapped around deep differences of rival geopolitical blocs, primarily led by the United States on the one hand, and China-Russia on the other. India is […]

The post India’s G20 Summit Was A Big Success For Modi’s Electoral Prospects first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.