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By Girish Linganna The leaders of the QUAD group—Australia, India, Japan and the United States—who had gathered in Hiroshima for a Group of 7 summit, delivered a thinly veiled swipe at Beijing’s behaviour at a summit in Hiroshima on Saturday (May 20, 2023). US President Joe Biden and three of his counterparts in the group, […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Visit of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi to the Pacific Island Nations drew international attention since several countries of the world, including China, had great strategic interests in the region. Indian move for consolidation and expansion of ties with the countries in the region sharing Indian roots and history […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee The government and the Reserve Bank may disagree, but the way the country’s trade deficits and external debt are rising it may be a matter of time before India goes for another IMF-World Bank bail out. The current indicators on the two counts are hardly comfortable. Take the debt position first. The […]

The post India’s Growing Trade Deficit And Debt Burden Are A Matter Of Concern first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is being denounced by trade unions across the G20 economies for government’s decision to block participation of independent trade unions in G20 meeting, including L20 meeting on labour and G20 Energy Transition Working Group (ETWG), which is resulting in worker’s voices going unrepresented. While the government-backed BMS will hold sham […]

The post India Denounced For Blocking Independent Trade Unions At G20 Meetings first appeared on IPA Newspack.

China has opposed the holding of a G20 meeting in Kashmir, while Turkey and Saudi Arabia have not registered for the event to be held in Srinagar. On Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that “China firmly opposes holding G20 meetings in any form in ‘disputed’ areas and will not attend such meetings.” […]

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By Sushil Kutty The abrupt removal of Kiren Rijiju from the post of Union Minister of Law is yet another example of Prime Narendra Modi surrendering. In fact Modi’s two tenures are littered with abject surrenders. Almost to suggest that this is a flaw in his character. No reason has been given for Rijiju’s eviction. […]

The post Kiren Rijiju’s Removal From Law Ministry Indicates PM’s Late Bid To Woo Judiciary first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By C.H. Venkatachalam The 29th National Conference of All India Bank Employees Association which was held in Mumbai from May13th to 15th, 2023 concluded successfully. More than 3,000 Delegates and Observers from all over the country participated in the Conference. Notably, Delegates from all the States including from Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Jammu […]

The post Saving The Public Sector Banks From Privatisation Is The Prime National Task first appeared on IPA Newspack.

On a high after the Karnataka win, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is determined to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP abroad. On May 31, he will leave for the US and return to India on June 10 with several meetings lined up with students, entrepreneurs and NRIs; this will be his first […]

The post Buzz over Rahul’s US visit ahead of Modi’s first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha There is a chink opening up in the claim that India has been ushered in the group of five most developed nations in the world. With consistent fall in the GDP, even an indication towards upward move gets clapping, a myth that is carried forward since last almost a decade. It is […]

The post India Is Still Having The Largest Number Of Poor In Any Country Of The World first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna On January 25, India issued notice to Pakistan, demanding changes to the Indus Waters Treaty which was signed by India, Pakistan, and the World Bank in 1960. The treaty determines the allocation of rights to the waters of several rivers in the Indus Basin between the two countries. While the treaty is […]

The post By Seeking Change In Indus Waters Treaty, India Puts Pakistan Under Strain first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sudhir The Quad, consisting of four countries, the United States, Japan, Australia and India is gradually taking the shape of a security alliance which was the intent of the original name of the grouping – the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. The security angle was highlighted by the recent meeting of the military chiefs of […]

The post Quad Is A US Led Security Alliance Aimed To Counter China In Asia-Pacific first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The call by ChatGPT founder Sam Altman a US Senate committee meeting for heavy regulation of the use of artificial intelligence by governments across the world to mitigate the risks from the new technology takes the current debate about generative AI to a new dimension. While the potential of the new technology […]

The post Job-Taking Is Only A Small Part Of Threat Posed By Generative Artificial Intelligence first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi was slated to distribute appointment letters via video conferencing to 71,000 newly-inducted recruits on Tuesday, May 16. Less than a year short of the 2024 general elections, Modi is acutely aware he might not be the 2024 favourite. Modi’s numero uno position is up for grabs and the […]

The post PM Modi’s Rozgar Melas Will Now Be Regular Features In States first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Subrata Majumder Concerns loomed large on India’s neutral stand on Russian invasion of Ukraine for its separation from the US led global market and eventually backlash on its growth. In contrast, the situation took a reverse gear. India, not only sustained the growth, but is expecting the hegemony in the global growth in 2023. […]

The post India’s Neutral Position In Ukraine War Was A Boost To The Economy In 2022-23 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee It is unfortunate that manufacturing is losing focus in India while all eyes are on so-called rapid growth of the services sector. Advertising and marketing campaigns have been peaking to impress consumers as well as investors while the manufacturing sector continues to struggle silently for growth. Barring in the areas of defence […]

The post Time Looks Tough For India’s Manufacturing-Led Growth first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Losing the Karnataka assembly election literally has been a visceral shock for Narendra Modi. He did not ever imagine that his politics of Hindutva would loose its appeal and fail to enamour the common Kannadigas. Ironically while Modi was moving whirlwind with his pet slogan Hindutva, a section of the state BJP […]

The post Karnataka BJP Leadership Averse To Go Into Indepth Scrutiny Of Defeat first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman The welcome development in Indian economy is that Inflation, riding on base effect, has moved below five per cent mark in April this year. But worrying factor is slowdown in Industrial and consumer goods production as IIP growth decelerated to 1.1 per cent in March this year. As a result rating […]

The post Moderation In Inflation May Lead To Pause In Interest Rate Hike This Fiscal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas Union Home Minister Mr Amit Shah’s belated announcement assuring that no official decision would be made regarding a proposed alteration in the status of Meitei tribespeople in Manipur state without a comprehensive discussion among all concerned groups and stakeholders is most welcome. However, the violent Manipur episode has left several disturbing questions […]

The post BJP Leaders’ Vote Bank Politics In Manipur Contributed To Ethnic Conflict first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By S. Sethuraman True to predictions, Karnataka goes back to the Congress and its spectacular margin over ruling BJP not only reflects the strong anti-incumbency factor but also the negativity of all serious efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with bombastic roadshows for a turnaround. The third force in the State, JD(S) of Mr Deva […]

The post Congress Regains Karnataka But Harder Tasks Ahead For Battle 2024 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Girish Linganna Twenty-five years ago, as many Indians flew in a year as they do in a month now. That may sound like a measure of economic prosperity. Only two state-owned airlines had held half of the domestic aviation market then. In March this year, 57% of the 13 million tickets that were sold […]

The post Competition In The Time Of Neo-Liberalism In India Under Narendra Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prakash Karat The state of press freedom in India has been accurately captured by the World Press Freedom Index.  This year’s index was issued on May 3, which is observed as World Press Freedom Day.  The Reporters without Borders (RSF), which has prepared the World Press Freedom Index has placed India in the 161st […]

The post State Repression And Intimidation Is Single Biggest Threat To Press Freedom In India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The decision by the Union government to tie local gas prices to international prices comes at a time when global prices are on a downward trend and this is great news for consumers who have hitherto been at the receiving end of higher prices as well as their administration. Under the new […]

The post New Pricing Mechanism, Market Downtrend Bring Big Relief To Gas Consumers first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty May 9 this year is the occasion for the observance of the 162nd birth anniversary of the globally admired poet and visionary Rabindranath Tagore. Born in Calcutta in 1861, Tagore lived an active life of 80 years till he died in 1941 on August 7 in the midst of the devastations caused […]

The post Decoding Rabindranath Tagore’s World View On His 162nd Birth Anniversary first appeared on IPA Newspack.

As the high-voltage campaign for the May 10 assembly elections in Karnataka ended, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made the final appeal to voters to elect the ‘double engine’ BJP to make it the ‘number one’ state in the country. Reiterating promises made in BJP’s manifesto for Karnataka, the Prime Minister, in an open […]

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