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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Explosive growth and spread of digital technologies have brought transformations changes to the working world. Labour market is being reshaped, demand for digital skills and competencies increasing, and the demand for people who perform routine manual jobs is reducing. The COVID-19 crisis accelerated digitalization and automation. Though this transformation promises higher […]

The post Digital Credentials Needed For 80 Per Cent Of Jobs In India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman As India celebrates its 75th year of independence this year, several roadmaps are being laid for it to become a developed economy in the next 25 years when India would celebrate its 100th year of independence in 2047. Some of us might not be alive to witness it but ever optimist […]

The post India Can Become A $25 Trillion Economy In Twenty Five Years From Now first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said scare-mongering was being done by some that there was a danger to minorities, but asserted that this is neither the nature of the Sangh nor of Hindus. “The Sangh resolves to stand on the side of brotherhood, amity and peace,” Bhagwat said at the RSS Dussehra […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak While targeting political parties in opposition, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi had equated ‘subsidies and freebies’ as ‘reveri culture’ which he wanted to be stopped. His languages was politically surcharged in such a manner that game impression to the public that only political parties in opposition are indulging is […]

The post Politics On Freebies In Indian Economy Need A Fresh Look first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Hundreds of people raised pro-Congress slogans as party leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday addressed them amid heavy rains and asserted that nothing can “stop us to unite the country” through the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra. Soon after Gandhi arrived at the venue for the public meeting on the outskirts of Mysuru, a sudden burst of […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch 5G services in India today in select cities. The service is expected to progressively cover the entire country over the next couple of years. India Mobile Congress (IMC), which claims to be the largest telecom, media, and technology forum in Asia, is jointly organised by the Department of Telecommunications […]

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By Shreenivas Khandewale In a democracy, it is said, whatever the policies and implementation, the opposition and others will criticise the Government. But the government, on its part, thinks and says that since opposition is criticizing, its policies must be correct. The present day economic scenario represents such a situation. For example, the Asian Development […]

The post Present Economic Policies Of Modi Government Widening Inequality first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran Crude oil prices have now dipped below the level when Russia’s Ukraine war broke out, which means the market has not only absorbed the shock of disruption in supplies, but the end game is approaching for the oil cartel. The war, however, forced a tectonic change in the oil market dynamics, of […]

The post Oil Prices Below Level Before Ukraine War, But No Solace For Consumers first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Subrata Majumder Business tycoon Gautam Adani jeered at China’s global powerhouse, lamenting China was increasingly isolated, owing to protectionism and shift in supply chain. Given these, RCEP (Regional Cooperation of Economic Partnership), which is driven by China, is in tailspin. Nearly one third of China’s global trade is shared by RCEP. RCEP is the […]

The post China’s Slow Economic Growth Hitting The Trade Flows Of RCEP Nations first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee It may be early to predict the future of Vedanta-Foxconn’s proposed $22-billion joint venture project in India for an integrated display and semiconductor fabrication ecosystem. The promoters have already got themselves enmeshed in a political controversy over a sudden change in the project location — from Maharashtra to Gujarat. Significantly, the location […]

The post Vedanta-Foxconn Semiconductor Fab Project Must Work first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Centre has blocked 45 YouTube videos from 10 channels for playing fake news and morphed visuals to spread hate among religious communities. Examples include false claims such as the government taking away the religious rights of certain communities, violent threats against religious communities and declaration of civil war in India. “Such videos were found […]

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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday welcomed the statement by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) where he raised the issue of Kashmir. Mufti said that the process of dialogue on the Kashmir issue can be beneficial for India and Pakistan because both countries are suffering […]

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By K Raveendran The rampaging dollar has caused a bloodbath in the currency markets, with all other major currencies falling to multi-decade lows. The rupee has not done any better. The Indian currency touched historical lows, crossing 81 to the dollar, the lowest it has touched for all times. The dollar rampage, a by-product of […]

The post Gold Has A Tough Summer, Yet Holds Out Well Amidst Turmoil first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Veteran journalist Upendra Prasad, who had made a sort of history in Hindi journalism in 1990s by writing on socio-economic issues that influenced both the society in the Hindi speaking belt and the politics in transition at that time, passed away in the late night on Friday, September 23 in Batra […]

The post Upendra Prasad’s Demise Is A Great Loss For Hindi Journalism first appeared on IPA Newspack.

N R Narayana Murthy, co-founder of IT giant Infosys, on Friday lamented that economic activities in India were “stalled” and decisions were not taken by the Manmohan Singh government in time in the Congress-led UPA-era. During his interaction with young entrepreneurs and students at the Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad (IIMA), Murthy expressed confidence […]

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By Sushil Kutty Iran’s ruling clerics are up to their necks in protests for defending a piece of cloth they insist women should wear to keep their dignities intact. What’s wrong with that? The ‘hijab’ is such an innocuous wraparound. And it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, not when top justices of the topmost court […]

The post Many Questions Remain Over The Demand For Use Of Hijabs By Muslim Girls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee The skyrocketing wealth of Ahmedabad-based business tycoon Gautam Adani in the last three years may be exciting news for shareholders of Adani group companies, but the same can’t be said about lenders to those enterprises as the liabilities don’t match with their real assets. According to the latest Forbes real-time billionaires list, […]

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By L S Herdenia What would have happened if Germany and Japan would have succeeded in defeating allied powers in the Second World War? In this context a remark by U Nu, the then Prime Minister of Burma was very significant. Our Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was on a visit to Burma. During informal talk […]

The post Reasons Behind Narendra Modi’s Praising Subhash Bose And Hating Nehru first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inauguration of the inter-continental cheetah translocation project in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress on Friday claimed the proposal for ‘Project Cheetah’ was approved by the then Manmohan Singh-led UPA government in 2008-09. “The proposal for ‘Project Cheetah’ was prepared in 2008-09. Manmohan Singh’s government gave approval to it. The then […]

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By Sushil Kutty On the one hand we have a politician on a ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ and, on the other, there’s the politician who divides along linguistic lines. And the manner in which this is being done couldn’t be more untimely. In the sense, why give Hindi a bad name by raising the highly contentious […]

The post Union Home Minister Amit Shah Should Not Push Hindi In His Own Policing Way first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha Covid was a reality all over the world in the years of 2020-2021.The epidemic was not alone, it was followed by devastation. The victim countries were dragged down from the development level they had been. India was no exception. But for other countries, their agenda never allowed any compromise with progress and […]

The post Labour In Informal Sector Is In Pathetic Economic Condition In India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Hindi language is not a competitor but a “friend” of all the other regional languages in the country and they are mutually dependent on each other for their growth, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said today. He denounced the “disinformation” campaign to pit Hindi against native languages and underlined the need to strengthen local languages […]

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As Gujarat bagged the project of India’s first semiconductor plant, Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday hit out at the Eknath Shinde-led government for letting go off “an almost finalised” deal out of Maharashtra. The Rs 1.54 lakh-crore venture by the mining conglomerate Vedanta, Thackeray said, was brought to a final stage of being […]

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