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By Dipankar Bhattacharya   A week ahead of the 75th anniversary of Independence, India commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Quit India movement on 9 August 2022. The Congress leadership had been arrested immediately after giving the Quit India call from the All-India Congress Committee session in Mumbai, but the call triggered a popular upsurge […]

The post Modi Government Is Using 75th Anniversary Programme To Distort History first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran   The rate of urbanisation in India has so far been slower than other emerging countries. But this is expected to change drastically in the coming decades. So much so that in the next two decades, the country is expected to add a new city of the size of Los Angeles every […]

The post Rapid Urabanisation To Reshape India’s Energy Consumption Pattern first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Prudential Continues To Deliver Resilient Operational Performance Amidst Market Volatility HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 10 August 2022 – Performance highlights for the continuing business1 on a constant (and actual) exchange rate basis2 APE sales3 up 9 per cent (6 per cent) to $2,213 million reflecting diversified geographic footprint, product mix and distribution channels New business profit4 fell by (5) per cent ((7) per cent) […]

By P. Sreekumaran   THIRUVANTHAPURAM: The Seventh Governing Council meeting of Niti Ayog saw Kerala making a strong pitch for reviewing the decision to impose tax on essential items and co9ntinuing the GST compensation for the revenue loss to the States for five more years.   A clear-cut and forceful enunciation of Kerala’s stand was […]

The post Kerala Wants Tax On Essential Goods Withdrawn first appeared on IPA Newspack.

LegalTech VDR supports maximum business efficiency through a secure virtual data room environment optimized for sharing confidential documents. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – Media OutReach – 9 August 2022 – In recent years, companies have been actively engaged in short-term expansion and business restructuring through M&A. For example, global pharmaceutical and bio companies’ aggressive mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are rising. In 2018, the size of M&A in related […]

  By Harihar Swarup   Is anything changing in Kashmir? The merchant selling bronze items in narrow streets of Lal Chowk was surprised by the question. He had no idea who I (this columnist) was. Seeing his discomfort, I introduced myself and asked him to speak freely. His reply was straight, “I have been coming […]

The post Some Semblance Of Normalcy Is Returning To Kashmir At Long Last first appeared on IPA Newspack.

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 4 August 2022 – Equities First Holdings partnered with Nimsdai Purja MBE, professional mountaineer, in conquering the world’s tallest mountain range in a record-breaking fashion in May 2022. Nimsdai successfully completed his summit attempt and set two new world records in the process: summiting Everest, Lhotse and Kanchenjunga in eight days, 23 hours and 10 minutes without oxygen; and completing […]

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  By Gyan Pathak   The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, popularly known as MGNREGA scheme is systematically being sabotaged. It is being financially throttled by the Centre in many ways – by reducing budgetary provisions, not releasing funds in time, and resorting to political expediency by alleging the states for corruption in […]

The post National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Being Sabotaged first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Nilanjan Banik   Over the last two weeks, the Opposition is disrupting the Lok Sabha on the grounds of high LPG price and GST on pre-packaged food items as factors behind inflation. And on August 5, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) increased the repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.4%.However, my take […]

The post More Tightening Of Monetary Policy May Not Be Effective At The Moment first appeared on IPA Newspack.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 5 August 2022 – Yeeha Games, a $50 million-funded GameFi platform, has announced its entry into the world of web3 gaming. To bridge the gap between traditional gaming and GameFi, Yeeha Games will be releasing a number of blockchain games over the next 18 months. It currently has 11 games in the pipeline, with subsequent game releases planned in the future. Backed […]

By Anjan Roy In the face of persistent inflationary pressures and tie in prices, the Reserve Bank of India has jacked up on Friday its basic policy rate —the repo rate— by 40 basis points to 5.4%. With this hike, the RBI policy rate now reaches what it was before the pandemic started. This is […]

The post RBI Should Insulate India From Global Fluctuations As It Did In 2008 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra With the ongoing war of words between former Karnataka chief minister PC Siddaramaiah and state president D K Shivakumar over the chief minister’s candidature within the Congress, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi appealed to the party’s state unit leaders to work amicably with fraternity for the 2023 assembly polls. He appealed […]

The post Rahul Urges Siddaramaiah, DKS To Fight 2023 Polls Unitedly first appeared on IPA Newspack.

RIYADH: On a macro level, the US is planning to add 29 gigawatts of new electric generating capacity in the second half of the year. Zooming in, Lucid Group’s shares have declined by 10 percent

By Dr Arun Mitra As we approach August 6, we remember 8.15 am on that day in 1945 when the US exploded first ever nuclear weapon on human population at Hiroshima in Japan. This was followed by another attack on Nagasaki on 9th August. Over two lakh people died on these two days in these […]

The post Remembering August 6, 1945 For First Atomic Bombing On Hiroshima first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Originally held biennially, the tradeshow will now become a yearly affair to meet the demand for a quality annual sourcing platform in Asia. This year will see Alternative Proteins Asia debuting with the largest gathering of progressive companies, entrepreneurs, start-up competition and conference from this maturing vertical in Singapore to date. After being a part of Food&HotelAsia (FHA) for 44 years, FHA Horeca, which caters to hotels, […]

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 4 August 2022 – On July 29, 2022, People’s Procuratorate of Shenzhen Municipality and the Qianhai Authority organized a ceremony for signing three cooperation agreements and grand opening of the Hong Kong Enterprise Compliance Development Service Centre (the Centre). The ceremony was officiated by Yu Xinxi, Deputy Party Secretary and Deputy Procurator-general of People’s Procuratorate of Shenzhen Municipality and Liang […]

To Develop A Truly Sustainable Built Environment SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 4 August 2022 – Arup, a global design, engineering and advisory business with sustainable development at its heart, today launched the Centre for Climate Action in Cities (CCAC). Ms Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, was the Guest-of-Honour for the launch together with Ms Jacqueline Poh, Managing Director of the Singapore Economic Development […]

Raghuram Rajan, the former Governor of the Reserve Bank, told NDTV today that while growth figures in India is better than many nations, the country needs more on account of its huge population. Though the growth figure is around 7 per cent — which the government quoted in parliament in response to the debate on […]

The post Raghuram Rajan says govt intolerant towards criticism first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Destitution, bankruptcy, mass famine! Some rightwing folks desperate to see the back of Joe Biden are predicting this for America. They do not like the President’s “dementia” and are not hailing Speaker Nancy Pelosi for taking on the People’s Republic of China in its own backyard. One of them has come up […]

The post Price Rise Of Essential Commodities Has Led The Poor Gasping In India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey President Joe Biden was not wrong when he declared that “justice has been served” with the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri in a US drone strike. The problem is that’s only half of the truth; the other half is that Zawahiri was more a has-been than a power to […]

The post Al Qaeda Chief Zawahiri’s Killing By U.S. Is A Symbolic Act first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy The killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri by the US intelligence network is more about the lethal capacities that the US has developed than the elimination of one person. al-Zawahiri was singled out and killed so precisely that not another person in his extended household in a Kabul safe-house had died. Ayman al-Zawahiri was […]

The post The Killing Of Zawahiri Is A Marvel Of U.S. Intelligence Gathering And Planning first appeared on IPA Newspack.

MOSCOW, RUSSIA – Media OutReach – 3 August 2022 – Udokan Copper, the developer of Russia’s largest new deposit, outlined scenarios to cut the carbon intensity of copper production up to 75% by 2035, bringing the Company closer to its ultimate goal of climate neutrality in the long run. The Company publishes its Sustainability Report for 2021, which outlines the results in terms of the environment as […]

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 3 August 2022 – APENFT Foundation announced that the second call of its $100 million Art Dream Fund would be launched on August 1, and registration would close on October 30. The theme “Post-Human Era” for this year’s call seeks to explore whether the future of humanity can transcend traditional human-centered humanism and how people should position themselves in a complex ecosystem […]

By Kalyani Shankar How should the newly elected President Droupadi Murmu be addressed? When congress leader Adhir Chowdhury referred to her as ‘Rashtrapatni’ and claimed it was a slip of his tongue later, still minister SmritiIrani held the word as derogatory. Even when the first woman president, Pratibha Patil (2007-2012), took over, Shiv Sena supremo […]

The post Droupadi Murmu Can Make A Difference In The Life Of Tribals, If She Wants first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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