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By K Raveendran Car companies in India are already creating waves about the launch of electric vehicles, with nearly a dozen brands expected to hit the road in a year’s time. Joining the EV bandwagon are all major automakers, including Hyundai, Tata, Mahindra, Mercedes etc. But even as the euphoria continues, the EV industry is […]

The post Ukraine War Fallout Takes The Clock Back On Shift To Electric Vehicles first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak After significant gains during the last quarter of 2021, the number of hours worked globally dropped in the first quarter of 2022, to 3.8 per cent below the pre-crisis benchmark in the fourth quarter of 2019. This is equivalent to a deficit of 112 million full-time jobs, which represents a significant […]

The post Labour Markert Recovery Is Again Under Threat first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak There is a 95 per cent chance that the number of people facing food insecurity will rise in the range between 142 million and 243 million by November, from roughly 1.6 billion in mid-May. Moreover, the upward pressure on food prices due to export bans by several countries including India may […]

The post Food Insecurity To Rise Sharply By November 2022 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Arun Mitra Peace and Harmony helped in development and growth in the human society most of the time; there have however been incidents of violence against others from time to time which have hampered socio-economic growth. Such incidents do not occur spontaneously. Studies have shown that most of the time they are instigated […]

The post Social And Communal Harmony Is Always Helpful For Healthcare first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Petroleum and natural gas minister Hardeep Singh Puri has attributed the excise cut in petroleum products to Prime Minister Modi’s ‘considered and very well thought through assessment that the burden on the common man, the Aam Aadmi, needed to be addressed. He was speaking to television channel in the wake of the […]

The post Modi’s Sensitivity And The ‘Game’ Petroleum Companies Play first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman The global economy is facing unprecedented economic challenges driven by high inflation in practically all major economies and there are fears that this could lead to stagflation as recessionary trends are witnessed in advanced economies and slowing China. The question that is often asked now is Indian economy insulated from these […]

The post Indian Economy Has Resilience But Needs Special Protection For Poor first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The announcement made in Tokyo on Monday by the United States President Joe Biden about the formation of a new economic block named Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) has signalled the arrival of a new economic arrangement in the India-Pacific region to counter growing influence of China. This block of 13 […]

The post U.S. Sponsored IPEF Is A Counter To Just Not China But To BRICS Also first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nora Garcia Nieves “Neither war that destroys us, nor peace that oppresses us.” This historic anti-war slogan of the Spanish feminist movement holds one of the fundamental keys to building a horizon of peace. It claims that peace is not just a ceasefire, nor is it surrender, or silence before those who impose their […]

The post Europe Is At Crossroads Between Neoliberalism And Justice first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak COVID-19 crisis triggered school closure in India has induced learning poverty to such an extent that the country is set to suffer the worst in South Asia in absolute terms both in respect to jobs loss and decline in GDP, which in turn may accelerate each other creating together a vicious […]

The post Learning Poverty In India To Induce Huge Loss Of Jobs And GDP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Since May 2014,  when Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India, Union government has introduced a variety of measures to reduce poverty and enhance employment that enabled the country to withstand the shock of COVID-19, claim our PM and officials downwards and his fan club. However, the Economic Advisory Council […]

The post Inequality Is Only Rising In Modi Raj With The Rich Flourishing first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In what appeared to be a sudden move, the Indian government prohibited the export of wheat on May 13. This appeared to be totally out of sync with India’s policy of goodwill and outreach through liberal relief and support measures under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tenure, so far. Given the food […]

The post In The Wake Of War In Ukraine, Wheat Is Now A Strategic Commodity first appeared on IPA Newspack.

James M Dorsey Amid speculation about a reduced US military commitment to security in the Middle East, Turkey has spotlighted the region’s ability to act as a disruptive force if its interests are neglected. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set off alarm bells this week, declaring that he was not “positive” about possible Finnish and […]

The post Turkey’s Erdogan Plays Games Within And With NATO first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Nobody knows how many leopards there are in the wild not even Chandrutt Mishra, the world’s foremost expert on the big cat, and he’s been studying them for 25 years. The spotted grey feline that lives on the snowcapped mountains of Asia’s is so elusive that a single photograph taken in 1970 […]

The post Chandrutt Mishra, World’s Foremost Leopard Expert Is A Change Maker first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar Where does Congress go from Udaipur Chintan Shivir? Was the conclave an exercise in futility, or will it revive the party?  It all depends on the implementation of the decisions taken at the conclave. Congress President Sonia Gandhi said that the Shivir should not become a ritual. “I request your full cooperation […]

The post Congress Chintan Shivir At Udaipur Has Laid No Road Map To Take On BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The Chintan shivir is not the panacea of the malaise that inflicts the Congress.   Significantly, Congress under Sonia Gandhi has been regularly holding such shivirs. But the shivirs have failed to rejuvenate and revitalise the organisation and provide a new direction. On the contrary the party has been consistently drowning in the […]

The post Confusion That Grips Congress Gets Exposed At Three Day Chintan Shivir first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Majoritarian nationalism can go wrong and it can land the leaders in a hot soup! This is the unmistakable message from the Sri Lankan crisis. The Rajapaksa family was the darling of the majority Singhalese and it indulged in hate politics against Hindus and Muslims. The isolation of the minority came […]

The post Majoritarian Nationalism Of Rajapaksa Family Has Failed In Sri Lanka first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Sunil Jakhar, senior Congress leader and former chief of its Punjab unit, quit the party today, weeks after he was issued a showcause notice by the leadership over his criticism of former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi. “Goodbye and good luck, Congress,” Jakhar said in a Facebook live video after scathing criticism of former party […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Workforce in India is being crushed between inflation and joblessness chiefly on account of wrong policy stance of the Narendra Modi government and the pandemic may be just an additional excuse. Retail inflation (CPI) in April soared to a 8-year high, ie the entire period of Modi Raj, and touched 7.79 […]

The post Workforce Being Crushed Between Inflation And Joblessness first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey When Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he laid down a marker for a critical mass of world leaders who, like him, think in civilizational rather than national terms. In the minds of these leaders, the stakes in Ukraine are about much more than the future of a former Soviet republic […]

The post Modi’s ‘Civilisationalism’ May Be Another Potential Flashpoint first appeared on IPA Newspack.