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Will Chhattisgarh have its first woman chief minister? After the Bharatiya Janata Party’s unprecedented electoral win, the state is abuzz with the question. The reason is the record that Chhattisgarh has set by sending the maximum number of female representatives to the assembly this year. As per official data, 19 women MLAs will represent their […]

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Exxon Mobil Corp. and Saudi Arabia’s Aramco, the world’s largest private and state-sector oil companies, led a pledge by 50 oil and gas producers at the COP28 climate summit to cut emissions from their own operations. The deal is controversial given none of the companies are agreeing to reduce oil and gas production. But they […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Let us call the spade a spade. The results of the five state assemblies announced on December 3 and 4 are sending ominous signals to the anti-BJP opposition just four months before the Lok Sabha elections due in April/May 2024. To be frank, the final results leading to the defeat of the […]

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The assembly poll results, which handed a 3-1 win to the BJP and Congress respectively, have cast a shadow on the future of the Grand Old Party in the opposition bloc. Partners of INDIA have begun training guns on the Congress, with the Trinamool Congress — a prominent player — slamming the party for its […]

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By James M Dorsey Spanish philosopher George Santayana didn’t have Palestine in mind when he coined the phrase, ‘history repeats itself. ‘Yet, Santayana’s maxim may apply to Hamas when comparing the group’s political evolution to the 16-year-torturous road traversed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from classification by Israel and its Western allies as a […]

The post Counterintuitive Palestine Politics: Hamas May Be Treading A Path Paved By PLO Earlier first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

More than two years ago, Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) had invited Sunil Kanugolu to his farmhouse near Hyderabad to discuss the possibility of hiring him to handle the elections. Kanugolu had just finished working for the Tamil Nadu elections and was ready to take up his new assignment. The meeting went on […]

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By Sushil Kutty There is some confusion on whether India should consider itself “Vishwaguru” or be wise and hold back on the boast? One view is why go the extra mile with the “present government’s exaggerated sense of the country’s global power and indigenous capability”, i.e., Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “macho manner” and muscular foreign […]

The post Indian Foreign Diplomacy Is In A Mess Despite All The Talk Of Vishwaguru first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup As the polls for five Assemblies elections are over— and Rajasthan and Telangana have become unexpectedly exciting, with the Congress putting up a fight—it’s time to capture some broad trends. What is striking are the areas where consensus is now developing across parties, and one of them is the need to provide […]

The post State Assembly Polls Showed Congress And BJP Competing On Granting More Freebies first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The renewed escalation of the Israel-Palestine conflict is providing additional impetus for gold to climb higher levels. The yellow metal has already been trending higher over the past two months, but the end of truce between Hamas and Israeli forces, unleashing new bomb attacks and destruction of lives and properties, particularly on […]

The post Resumption Of Gaza Fighting Adds To Gold’s Impetus To Rise, Hitting Record Levels first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The still nascent state of Telangana is up for its first great opportunity with Telangana Chief Minister, the great K. Chandrashekar Rao – ‘KCR’ for short – poised to make his exit if the exit polls of November 30 are to go by. The exit polls have given Telangana to the Congress […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra The peoples verdict for the five state assembly elections will frame future political course of Rahul Gandhi. A win for Congress in these elections will direct the path for Rahul Gandhi’s political ascendance and recognition as the potent eligible and desired national leader. A win will also make other opposition parties […]

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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is systematically unfolding its plan B in view of the impending arrest of its convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. From December 1-20, the party will launch a signature campaign, ‘Main Bhi Kejriwal’, across Delhi. This will be followed by five days of public meetings between December 21 and […]

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Exit polls that predicted a primacy of Congress in Chhattisgarh and Telangana and that of the BJP in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, have been hotly contested by both camps in states they were predicted to lose. While exit polls are known to get it wrong many a time, their predictions proved a touchy topic in […]

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By Sushil Kutty The release of a book on November 29 in New Delhi brought the focus back on the INDI-Alliance, which was seen to be losing its direction and purpose in recent weeks much to the chagrin of those who wanted to see the back of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government come […]

The post Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge Has Earned The Trust Of INDIA Bloc first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra The Bengal unit of BJP is in dire straits now as the leadership has no face to face its supporters after the big flop of the party rally addressed by the Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday afternoon. All the earlier big hype made by the big guns of the party came […]

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By M. A. Hossain In the catastrophic context of Hamas-Israel conflict, China had stepped forward to mediate between the parties. Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, discussed the conflict situation with officials in Washington, perceiving the fear of a wider regional war. The US counterpart has assured full support for working with China to find a […]

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By Girish Linganna Ever since militant group Hamas’s most audacious attack ever to be launched from Gaza blindsided Israel on October 7 this year, people have been questioning who the brains are behind masterminding this deadly strike. Notwithstanding their varied and checkered backgrounds and antecedents, they all have one thing in common: They are all […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra It is a morning knock but is no less sinister than a midnight one as Dublin microbiologist Eilish Stack comes face to face with state’s totalitarianism as powers that seek to interrogate her trade unionist husband Larry. It is in this way Paul Lynch, an Irish author begins the book ’Prophet Song’ […]

The post Booker Prize Winning Book ‘Prophet Song’ Is A Reflection Of Current Era Of Violence first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The announcement of a prisoner swap deal between warring Hamas and Israel mediated by Qatar and Egypt and agreed by Israel, Hamas and the United States may have led to a temporary armistice in the region and selective exchange of captives from both the sides , the issue of a viable state […]

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By Sushil Kutty Telangana votes on November 30. Two days later votes cast will be counted and by afternoon of the same day, which party will be ruling Telangana would be known. If it is the Bharatiya Janata Party, the party has promised an Other Backward Caste Chief Minister. The party will also end “Muslim […]

The post BJP Chanakya Amit Shah Has Offered A Redesigned Package Of Hindutva To Telangana Voters first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel has not just divided Muslim political leaders. It’s also solicited diverse responses from religious figures and institutions, reflecting deeper divisions about what Islam stands for in the 21st century. At the core of the differences is the ability and willingness to empathise with innocent victims […]

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By Sushil Kutty Results of 199 Rajasthan Assembly seats where polling took place on Saturday will decide which party rules the state for the next five years. Since 1998 no party has been repeated twice in succession in Rajasthan. By that token, the Congress would be taking a break from December 3. But Rajasthan Chief […]

The post For Ashok Gehlot, The Outcome Of Assembly Polls In Rajasthan Will Determine His Future first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.