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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’ […]

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NEW DELHI: S&P Global Ratings on Monday revised India’s economic growth forecast for this financial year to 6.4%, up from 6% projected earlier, bringing it closer to the Reserve Bank of India’s estimate of 6.5%. “We have revised up our projection for India’s GDP (gross domestic product) growth for fiscal 2024 (ending in March 2024) […]

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NEW DELHI: Exports of engineering products from India witnessed growth from countries such as the US, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during October but contracted from several nations in the European Union (EU), China, and Southeast Asia, according to government data. After a slump during the first half of this year, India’s […]

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NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will continue to work with Apple to break the deadlock in talks over introducing its Do Not Disturb (DND) application (app) to Apple’s iOS Store, senior officials have said. The iPhone maker removed the app from its app store in September last year over privacy concerns, […]

The post TRAI Won’t Cancel Apple Phone Registration Over DND Application Row first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, which is a contract manufacturer for iPhones, on Monday said its subsidiary Foxconn Hon Hai Technology India Mega Development, has planned $1.6 billion investment in India. The planned outlay by the company is related to certain construction projects at its own land, according to an exchange filing […]

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NEW DELHI: The 16th Finance Commission will have a tough task, primarily because the mismatch between the resource mobilisation by the Centre and state governments and the rising requirements of spending of public monies on socio-economic development and critical infrastructure creation refuses to go away. In this context and keeping in mind the sustainable development […]

The post A 30 Per Cent Jump In States’ Tax Share, Yet Transfers Slow 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 Kalyani Shankar As the Telangana elections approach their final week, the youngest state in India is ready for a Triangular electoral contest. The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (B.R.S.), Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) compete for victory. Since its inception in 2014, B.R.S. chief K. Chandrashekhar Rao has been at the helm. He […]

The post In Telangana Assembly Polls, Congress Has Moved Fast In The Last Leg Of Campaigning first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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 Arun Srivastava It would be presumptuous to say that the elections to the five-state assemblies are a semi-final clatter for Prime Minister Narendra Modi; but one thing is certain that the peoples’ verdict for these elections will outline the political future of Rahul Gandhi. A negative mandate will certainly erode the credibility and image […]

The post Assembly Polls Are Electoral Test Of Rahul Gandhi’s Political Acumen first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

The Election Commission (EC) has issued an ‘advisory’ to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for his controversial remarks against the state’s Congress leadership. Ahead of the Telangana Assembly polls scheduled in the upcoming week, the CM was asked to follow the provisions of the Model Code of Conduct in “letter and spirit”. Rao had made […]

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MUMBAI | NEW DELHI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) decision to create a regulatory framework for the facilitation of small and medium real estate investment trusts (SM REITs) is expected to boost participation of retail investors, institutionalise the segment, and encourage greater capital influx from both domestic and offshore investors. The establishment […]

The post SEBI Nod For Small, Medium REITs To Boost Investments And Liquidity first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, may stabilise around 4% in January with a limited scope for further decline as prices continue to be sticky in certain service sectors, according to economists. A higher core is likely to keep retail inflation from declining significantly, they say. Core inflation eased to […]

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BENGALURU: New York-based artificial intelligence and robotics firm BRAIIN Holdings is entering the Indian market and has acquired prominent CXaaS (customer experience-as-a-service) company Exato.ai which serves as a strategic foundation for its operations in India. With this acquisition, the company has bolstered its presence in the customer and employee experience as a service sector along […]

The post AI Firm BRAIIN Holdings Forays Into India, Plans To Invest $100 Million first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: The Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) is expected to finalise crucial amendments to regulations – from those seeking to make life simpler for home buyers to those for personal and companies’ insolvency proceedings, insolvency professionals and liquidation – next month as it seeks to improve the seven-year-old regime and improve its […]

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Four days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Mathura, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday alleged the SP does not want to build the Shri Krishna temple and challenged the party chief Akhilesh Yadav to clarify his stand. ”The SP, which is shedding the blood of Hindus for the sake […]

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Union Minister Amit Shah on Sunday alleged that a deal has been done between the ruling BRS in Telangana and Congress to make K Chandrasekhar Rao as chief minister again and that he would later help Rahul Gandhi to become prime minister. Shah, who addressed an election rally at Makthal, said if a vote is […]

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  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said his party punctured all four tyres of the BJP in poll-bound Telangana and shall do it in Delhi soon. Addressing poll rallies in Telangana, he said BRS chief Chandrasekhar Rao should realise that it was the Congress that built the school and university in which he studied. […]

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In a major development in the Mahadev betting app probe, one of the key witnesses against Bhupesh Baghel has given a clean chit to the Chhattisgarh chief minister. Asim Das, a driver arrested in the case, retracted his statement against Baghel in a letter to the PMLA court in Raipur. He said he is being […]

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By K Raveendran Irrespective of the outcome of the batch of petitions in the Supreme Court against the SEBI investigations into the charges levelled by US-based short-selling firm Hindenburg Research against the Adani group of companies regarding violations of stock market regulation, it is most likely that short selling would emerge as the villain of […]

The post Pleas Against SEBI’s Adani Probe: Greater Focus On Investor Loss Than Market Efficiency first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.