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By Nitya Chakraborty The late awakening of the Supreme Court headed by the Chief Justice of India Dr. D Y Chandrachud in seeing the quid pro quo relationship between the donors and the ruling party under the Electoral Bonds Scheme 2017 is welcome. The CJI has been firm in getting all the details from the […]

The post Electoral Bonds Donation Is A Small Part Of BJP’s Financial Muscle Power first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee On the face of it the controversial citizenship amendment act of 2019 may appear to be purely humanitarian. It provides the government with a special provision to expedite the citizenship process for non-Muslim migrants – including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians, and Parsis — to India from the neighbouring Muslim countries such […]

The post CAA’s Implementation Just Before National Election Looks Purely Political first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Megha Engineering has gone viral on social media since the Election Commission revealed that the company was among the biggest donors to political parties in the last 5 years. Data released by the poll panel showed that the company donated Rs 966 crore through electoral bonds between April 12, 2019, and January 24, 2024. A […]

The post Small companies that brought big chunks of electoral bonds first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The Election Commission of India (ECI) may be trying hard to control questionable electioneering practices which have been increasingly corrupting the process of free and fair election over the years, but it is unlikely to find it easy to influence or direct the behaviour of ruling political parties and their candidates. The […]

The post The 18th Lok Sabha Election May Witness Record Cash Spending By Candidates, Political Parties first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup The Rajya Sabha elections have stirred a political commotion, not only because of cross-voting, as has often taken place in the past, but also because the BJP is out to get every seat it can and the defeat of the official Congress candidate in Himachal Pradesh and a Samajwadi Party (SP) nominee […]

The post Commotion And Confusion As 2024 General Elections Nears first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Talks for BJP-BJD alliance in Odisha is in advanced state. “There were discussions on the alliance among other issues,” said BJP MP Jual Oram, adding “the party’s central leadership will make the final call.” Obviously, there is greater possibility of pre-poll alliance between the two parties, and if it becomes a […]

The post BJP-BJD Alliance In Odisha Can Shield BJP From Possible Loss In Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The State Bank of India’s plea to the Supreme Court seeking extension of time till June 30 this year to disclose details of electoral bonds encashed by political parties instead of March 6 as ordered by the apex court is nothing but a sordid attempt by the Finance Ministry to save the […]

The post Supreme Court Must Reject SBI Plea For Granting Extension Of Deadline For Disclosure Of Bonds Details first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee India’s defence secretary Giridhar Armane’s outburst at the INDUS-X defence summit against China, last week, on the continuing troop face-offs in the Ladakh region exposed, if anything, the ministry’s frustration in dealing with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The defence secretary described Beijing as a […]

The post Non-Tariff Import Barriers May Be Used As A Weapon To Protect National Security first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The New Year seems to have done some magic to the Supreme Court under the stewardship of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud. The judicial journey of 2024, though short as yet, is marked by a series of nuanced verdicts, which stand in stark contrast to the seemingly favourable tide of 2023 for […]

The post Supreme Court Sheds All Inhibitions To Act Decisively To Defend Democracy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though RSS-BJP clan has wonderful track record of convincing people on their deceptive and false narratives, such as they convinced many of Ganesa drinking milk while actually going down the drain, they seem losing confidence on this skill this time, which is more than obvious in their two-fold parallel electoral strategy: […]

The post BJP’s Performance Narrative Under PM Narendra Modi Is Deceptive And False first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government’s electoral bond scheme has been thrown out of the window by the Supreme Court. That is certainly good riddance to an obnoxious and highly abused scheme. But in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decisive ruling, a stark reality emerges – the convoluted landscape of political financing in […]

The post Electoral Funding Quagmire: No Real Progress Possible With Peripheral Changes first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Why is Supreme Court is totally silent in coming out with its order on the legality of the controversial electoral bond scheme for more than three months? After a number of hearings, the Supreme Court concluded the same on November 2, 2023. Now more than three months have passed but there is […]

The post What Is Supreme Court Doing In Relation To Its Verdict On Electoral Bond? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee With China rapidly developing and deploying potent anti-satellite (A-Sat) weapons, India’s defence industry must work on manufacturing similar defence equipment to bolster the country’s counter space capabilities. The issue has been taken up at the highest level of India’s defence management. Last week, the country’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil […]

The post India Must Double Up Its Defence Production To Grow GDP, Employment first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty On June 21, 1991, the 70-year-old Congress veteran P V Narasimha Rao took oath as the Prime Minister of a minority government amidst massive political uncertainty over its longevity. The Congress had got only 232 seats as against the usual majority of 272 in the Lok Sabha with the total strength of […]

The post Bharat Ratna, P V Narasimha Rao Carried Out A Surgical Operation On Indian Economy In 1991 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Just ahead of Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a Bharat Ratna spree, awarding India’s highest civilian award to LK Advani, Karpoori Thakur, Chaudhary Charan Singh, Narasimha Rao and MS Swaminathan. While three Bharat Ratna awards are allowed per year, there have been many years in between when India’s most coveted civilian […]

The post Modi’s Bharat Ratna awards stripped down to 5 Ms first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: India-Canada trade in goods was $8.2 billion in the first 10 months of 2023 as against $6.9 billion in 2022, registering a growth of 18.84 per cent, according to the government data provided in Lok Sabha on Friday. India’s exports to Canada in 2023 (January to October) was $4.1 billion as against $3.76 […]

The post India-Canada Trade Registers Growth Of 18.84% In 2023: Govt Data first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: State-owned Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) has inked initial pacts worth Rs 500 crore with key state bodies and industry partners at the India Energy Week, to formulate a framework for longstanding collaboration in key areas of energy efficiency. Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh (LAHDC), and Vidhya Pratishthan have partnered with EESL, […]

The post EESL Inks Rs 500 Crore Pacts With State Bodies, Industry Partners first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

BETUL, GOA: Public sector refiner and fuel retailer Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) plans to start commercial production of fuels at India’s newest refinery in Rajasthan’s Barmer city by January 2025. The refinery-cum-petrochemicals complex, being built at a cost of nearly Rs 73,000 crore, will have a crude processing capacity of 9 million tonnes per annum […]

The post HPCL’s Rs 73,000-Crore Rajasthan Refinery Likely To Start Operations By January 2025 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak ‘White Paper’ is a document containing information about pressing issues before the government explaining their plans before their introduction. It is therefore absurd and ridiculous for a government to issue a white paper, after a delay of 10 years while it slept, at a time when its term is set to […]

The post Modi Govt’s White Paper On UPA Regime Is Full Of Distortions And Cherry Picking Of Data first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

BETUL, GOA: In the next seven years, India is poised to become the primary source of global oil demand growth, even as its domestic production is projected to decrease by 22 per cent, according to the latest projections by the International Energy Agency (IEA). These divergent trends are anticipated to have major implications for the […]

The post India Will Be World’s Biggest Oil Demand Growth Driver Through 2030: IEA first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

India’s power exchange market is set to undergo an experimental phase as the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has directed a shadow pilot study on market coupling, aiming to enhance market efficiency and optimize transmission infrastructure. The proposed shadow pilot study aims to couple the Real-Time Market (RTM), RTM with Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED), […]

The post CERC Initiates Pilot Study On Power Market Coupling first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: The much-contested question whether a private investment cycle has commenced and becoming broad-based still has economists divided. The private sector is witnessing “record-profits” and so, should feel comfortable in making investments in the economy, Sanjeev Sanyal, member, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council told FE, while adding that there is adequate evidence that corporate […]

The post Economists Divided On Revival Of Private Capex first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Oil India aims to spend Rs 6,000 crore in the exploration and production of oil and gas in the financial year 2024-25, Harish Madhav, the company’s director of finance, said in an interview. “For the next financial year, the investment target is close to Rs 6,000 crore. Depending on the requirement, we can invest more,” […]

The post Oil India To Invest Rs 6,000 Crore On Exploration And Production In FY25 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.