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By James M Dorsey For now, Ukraine is the far from my bed show for most Middle Eastern nations. The question is not if but when Ukraine will arrive on their doorstep. Two centrifugal forces threaten to push Middle Eastern nations off the tightrope: an increasingly bifurcated world populated by a multitude of civilisationalist leaders […]

The post Ukraine: How Long Can Middle East Nations Do Tightrope Walk first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: Deft handling by the Left Democratic front (LDF) Government of Kerala has prevented a sensitive issue from snowballing into a major controversy. The Government did this by deferring a decision on whether the Government should leave appointments in State-funded educational institutions to the Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC). In the process, […]

The post Deft Kerala Government Move Averts A Major Controversy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Congress is 137 and in a hurry to turn fossil, led by the nose into old age. Some liquefied high fliers in the party, sensing atrophy in the bones, have already flown the coop. Others haven’t, out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the party, if not for the family, […]

The post Congress High Command Has Again Messed Up The List Of Rajya Sabha Nominees first appeared on IPA Newspack.

VIZAG, INDIA – EQS Newswire – 30 May 2022 – Revidd.com (https://Revidd.com) was founded in 2021 by Kiran Pasavedala, Sampath Mallidi and Naresh Uppada. The company is a No-Code SaaS platform which enables anyone with video content to launch their own customizable video streaming product or digital TV in less than 5 minutes. “Today, building online video platforms is expensive, time consuming and requires deep tech skills […]

By Anjan Roy To talk of coincidence, ‘Geetanjali’ has got lucky for a second time in a hundred and ten years. In the first time, Rabindranath Tagore’s book of poetry, Geetanjali, won him a Nobel Prize in literature. Now, a century and more later, another Geetanjali, the Hindi writer of stories, is awarded the hugely […]

The post Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb Of Sand’ Wins International Booker Prize first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Rahil Nora Chopra Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has called an all-party meeting in Patna, with an eye on getting the state cabinet’s nod to undertake a much-demanded caste census in the state. Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary has said that the all-party meeting on the caste-based census in Bihar would be […]

The post Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Calls All-Party Meeting On Caste Census first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The field of finance has the fastest-growing number of jobs related to business and accounting. In fact, financial analyst positions alone are projected to grow by six percent in 2030, with around 41,000 jobs created annually. This explains the growing number of aspirants taking certifications under the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and undergoing CIA training to become certified internal auditors. Still, it’s no secret that […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Eight decades ago, on May 25, 1943, an unprecedented cultural development took place in Bombay at the Sundari Bai Hall. The Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) was founded at a conference of the cultural workers and politico-cultural activists in an atmosphere of electric enthusiasm. It was a real national body of the […]

The post IPTA Turns 80: Heralding The Biggest Cultural Movement In India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 19 May 2022 – HSBC and The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (HKFYG) Youth Research Centre today (19 May) published a study on The Competitiveness of Hong Kong’s Young People in the Greater Bay Area. The respondents – 720 local university students who have shown an interest in developing their careers in the mainland cities in the Greater Bay […]

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.

James M Dorsey Malaysia has emerged as a potential external operations base for Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip if Turkey expels or restricts the group’s movements as a part of its rapprochement with Israel. Turkey has in recent months deported Hamas activists or refused them entry into the country as it sought to improve its troubled relations with Israel, according to Israeli press reports. […]

By Harihar Swarup Through months of melodrama in Pakistan, many experts expected that the army may intervene again in the name of saving the people from an “incompetent and self-serving” political class. Some experts believe that Pakistan army will avoid taking responsibility for a troubled economy and the evolving complexities of geopolitics. In reality, the […]

The post Pakistan Army Is Groping For A New Role In Post Imran Khan Era first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Matein Khalid The mini crash in crude oil in Asia was triggered by the rumour that China’s zero Covid policy means that Beijing will join Shanghai, the world’s largest port and the PRC’s financial capital, in a draconian lockdown that will gut demand for petroleum products in the world’s second largest oil importer. Brent has fallen almost $40 from its post-Ukraine invasion high and it’s evident that […]

By Sushil Kutty Civil contractor Santosh Patil took his life in an Udupi lodge, accusing Karnataka Rural Development Minister KS Eshwarappa of driving him to suicide. An FIR was lodged naming Eshwarappa as the prime accused. The “Others” included all his lackeys. But the gallows joke doing the rounds was that if pressed to resign, […]

The post Contractor Santosh Patil’s Suicide Exposes Corruption In BJP Regime In Karnataka first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar The 2022 presidential election will occur when President Ramanath Kovind’s term ends on July 25. Though it is more of an ornamental post as the real power exists in the hands of the elected Prime Minister, there are always speculations about the polls. It may be too early to speculate but the […]

The post Narendra Modi Has Started Exercises For Picking His Next Presidential Candidate first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Damsana Ranadhiran It seems freedom of expression and freedom of press are being suffocated in Bangladesh under a draconian law titled Digital Security Act, and internationally acclaimed award-winning anti-militancy journalist and editor of Weekly Blitz newspaper has become its latest victim. This extremely courageous journalist has gone through an ordeal lasting years for denouncing anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial; confronting radical Islam and militancy; and for advocating interfaith […]

By Manish Rai In 2018, Pakistan witnessed the rise of new celebrity Prime Minister Imran Khan, who vowed to halt dynastic politics, end corruption and boost the economy. Common Pakistanis, especially the youth, saw Khan as their only ray of hope. As before coming to power, Khan in his speeches pledged to root out corruption and lift people out of poverty. And he promised a new and […]

James M Dorsey A straightforward message emerged from this week’s meeting in the Negev desert of the foreign ministers of four Arab countries, Israel and the United States: Israel is key to the security of Gulf autocracies and continued US engagement in the Middle East. It may be a message that on the surface holds out the promise of reduced regional tension, the beginning of a rejiggering […]

By K Raveendran The currency stand-off in the global gas market, triggered by Russian president Vladimir Putin’s announcement that Russian gas will henceforth have to be paid in roubles instead of dollar and euro is keeping the market on tenterhooks. It has upset the calculations of all important stake holders, including India, which has been […]

The post Putin’s Gambit In Demanding Rouble Payments Takes Issues Beyond Pricing first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik The juggling which US imperialism has to do to maintain its hegemony becomes more bizarre by the day. First, it kept needling Russia (“provoking the bear”) “on behalf of the western alliance” by expanding NATO to its very borders, knowing full well that Ukraine’s joining NATO would be totally unacceptable to Russia. […]

The post The Bizarre Case Of United States Imposing Sanctions Against Russia first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Subrata Majumder Mr Fumio Kishida is the first Prime Minster, who made physical visit to India during the COVID 19 pandemic. He is the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe‘s handpicked successor. His rise to the frontline was his vow to counter China’s growing influence by closely working with USA and other likeminded democracies. His […]

The post Japanese Investment To India Has Not Got Any Fresh Boost Due To PM’s Visit first appeared on IPA Newspack.

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 18 March 2022 – Today, IX Asia Indexes Company Limited (“IX Asia Indexes”) announced the establishment of the IX Asia Tokenization Advisory Committee. Tokenization is the process of converting rights or a unit of asset ownership into a digital token on a blockchain. It can be applied to regulated financial instruments such as equities and bonds, physical assets such as […]

By Subrata Majumder Paranoia loomed large on Indian economy with the outbreak of Russia – Ukraine war. Indian economy was expected to bounce back. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget for 2022-23, assuming the factors potential to reverse the downtrend. Hope belied. Oil price hiked, stoking inflation. Stock market plummeted. Bond prices declined raising […]

The post Ukraine Imbroglio Unlikely To Shadow Bounce-Back In Economy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey The Ukraine crisis may constitute a more impactful, historic watershed than the 1989 fall of the Berlin wall in the mind of Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “perhaps even a bigger moment than the fall of the Berlin Wall,”  Balakrishnan said. “We believe we are at an inflection point,” he added. “Little Singapore is standing up for principles and […]

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