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By Arun Srivastava With a sankalp (pledge) at KV temple of Varanasi to get rid of the anti-people government of the BJP, the Uttar Pradesh Congress will launch its UP Jodo Yatra on December 20 from Shakumbhari Devi temple in Saharanpur and culminate at Naimisharanya (Sitapur) after covering 16 parliamentary constituencies in 10 western and […]

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By Sushil Kutty Parliament attack ‘mastermind’ Lalit Mohan Jha is in police custody. Four of his underlings – if he is ‘mastermind’, indeed – have been charged with terrorism under various sections of the UAPA, supposedly one of the toughest anti-terror legislations anywhere in the world. Does that mean, Neelam Devi, Sagar Sharma, Manoranjan D., […]

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India Inc’s appetite to spend on capital projects is high despite some concerns around elevated geopolitical tensions impacting demand in the coming months. Several top industry officials ET spoke to say the momentum for capital investments remains strong and transient pressures will not impact companies’ making long-term bets on domestic growth. As a result, the […]

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Chief Justice DY Chandrachud has sought a status report from the Allahabad High Court administration after an open letter – purportedly written by a woman judge in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda alleging sexual harassment by a senior – went viral on social media. In the letter addressed to the Chief Justice, the woman judge sought permission […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The way PM Narendra Modi’s growth narrative is being boastfully brought forward is nothing but mere politics, since it tries to put the stark reality of incidents of hunger and malnutrition in the country under carpet. As per the growth narrative India is the fourth biggest economy of the world, growing […]

The post Fourth Biggest Economy Has Largest Number Of Hungry And Malnourished first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: India’s retail inflation inched up to a three-month high of 5.6% in November from 4.9% in the previous month, while industrial production rebounded to a 16-month record of 11.7% in October, aided by a festive surge and a favorable base, official data released Tuesday showed. Interest rates are likely to stay where they […]

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NEW DELHI: The Centre is expecting savings of at least Rs 30,000 crore from its budgeted Rs 1.3 lakh crore assistance to states for capital expenditure in 2023-24, as the states have faltered in using the sanctioned amount, said people with knowledge of the matter. The Centre has released Rs 60,104 crore under the Special […]

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By Arun Srivastava Supreme Court upholding abrogation of Article 370 in its verdict on December 11 has multifaceted implications. For Mehbooba Mufti if it was not the defeat of Kashmiris but of the idea of India, it was certainly not a defeat for Kashmir and Its cultural ethos, the Kashmiriyat. Instead it was a setback […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak COP28 draft negotiation text released on reduction of fossil fuel has generated great criticism and fury, since it stops short of phasing out fossil fuels, and therefore no agreement was reached within the deadline. Negotiators are now awaiting new text, talks continue beyond the deadline, but there is no sign that […]

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By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: By naming Mohan Yadav as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sprang a second surprise in the context of Vidhan Sabha elections. The first surprise was when he asked three Union Ministers and four MPs to resign and contest Vidhan Sabha elections. The Union Ministers were […]

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NEW DELHI: Global trends, macroeconomic data, and the outcome of the US Fed policy meeting are the major factors that will drive the movement in the domestic equity markets this week, analysts said. “In the upcoming data-centric week, the focus will be on crucial releases, including inflation data from India and the US. Indian inflation […]

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A five-judge constitution bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, and Surya Kant said Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India’s sovereignty and that it does not have any right that is not available to the other states of India. The court said Article […]

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By K Raveendran It may not have been as high-profile as the ‘call of national duty’ press conference by the four senior most judges of the Supreme Court about six years ago. But the renewed controversy about the master of the roster, prompting two senior advocates of the apex court to write to Chief Justice […]

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NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Defence on Friday signed a contract worth Rs 588.68 crore with state-owned Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) for a digital project of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG), which would enable centralised monitoring and management of deployed applications and assets. The “Digital Coast Guard (DCG)“ project was inked under the Buy […]

The post MoD Inks Rs 588 Crore Worth Pact With TCIL For Indian Coast Guard’s Digital Project first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra’s expulsion from Lok Sabha following an Ethics Committee report into the ‘cash for query’ charges against her has given much-needed ammunition to her party to raise the issue in the run-up to the 2024 polls. On Friday, as Moitra made her way out of Parliament, not just TMC MPs but […]

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MUMBAI: Private sector banks have increased their share in term deposits to 35 per cent in the second quarter (Q2) of 2023-24 (FY24), up from 32 per cent in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2022-23 (FY23). In contrast, public sector banks (PSBs) lost 200 basis points (bps) of their share in fixed deposits (FDs), declining […]

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NEW DELHI: Hiring activity for white-collar jobs witnessed a 12 per cent on-year decline during October-November largely due to fall in recruitment trends in IT-Software, telecom and education sectors, a report said on Thursday. White-collar recruitment during October-November declined by 12 per cent with 2,433 job postings, compared to 2,781 during the corresponding months in […]

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Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra has been expelled from the Parliament after Ethics Panel’s recommendation over cash-for-query row. Opposition INDIA bloc leaders questioned the Lok Sabha Ethics Panel recommendation for expelling Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, and accused the BJP-led government of doing “vendetta politics”. The report was tabled in the Lok Sabha today amid an uproar […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Four days after the declaration of the state assembly poll results, a close analysis shows that the Congress has not done so badly in the three Hindi heartland states- Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh as is being presented in the national media. In fact compared to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the […]

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