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By Girish Linganna Israel has reinforced its air defences in the Red Sea region using Navy missile boats due to multiple missile and drone attacks by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, the army announced on Wednesday. The deployment of these vessels took place on Tuesday, as it was deemed necessary in response to the situation. This […]

The post Israel-Hamas War Extends To Yemen As Iran-Backed Houthis Start Drone Attacks first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Matein Khalid As the gods of war exact their grotesque ransom of human blood sacrifices in the Middle East, my mind resurrects the lyrics of a Vietnam era anti war John Lennon song from my boyhood. “All we are saying is, give peace a chance”. Something has gone very badly wrong in the Arab world since the death rattle of the Ottoman Empire a hundred years ago. […]

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Arabian Post Staff Fortune 500 Arabia, the list that ranks the 500 largest corporations in the Arab region according to their annual revenues, reveals that the UAE is home to the headquarters of 87 Fortune 500 Arabia companies, marking approximately 17% of the list, generating a total of USD 254.87 billion in 2022. This ranks the UAE second after Saudi Arabia, whose 153 companies generated USD 813.33 […]

By Girish Linganna Just hours after Hamas initiated its attack on Israel on October 7, India’s Prime Minister was one of the first global leaders to react. In a strongly worded statement, Narendra Modi condemned the “terrorist attacks” and expressed India’s unwavering support for Israel during this challenging time. The Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar […]

The post Gaza Conflict Shows Modi-Led India’s Evolving Ties With Bibi’s Israel first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Modi establishment, which takes pride in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “muscular foreign policy”, recently took Canada to task and bent Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Modi’s will. Prime Minister Narendra Modi now has the challenging task of bringing home eight retired Indian Navy officers sentenced to death in Qatar, the […]

The post Prime Minister Has A Challenging Task In Ensuring Safe Return Of Navy Officers From Qatar first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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Matein Khalid The Treasury bond bloodbath is no longer about Fed policy, inflation mojo or the business cycle. It is impossible for the Powell Fed to meet its dual mandate 2% inflation target with even a 6.5% Fed funds rate as 3Q GDP was a shocking 4.9%. We are doomed to relive the stagflation nightmare of the 1970’s when the Fed consistently mismanaged its inflation fight while […]

MUMBAI: JPMorgan has upgraded the domestic markets to ‘overweight’ (OW) from ‘neutral’ on the “positive historical seasonality to general elections.” The investment bank joins US-based peer Morgan Stanley to flag preference for the Indian markets, which has been the leading performer in the emerging market (EM) pack since 2021. JPMorgan sees cyclical and structural tailwinds […]

The post JP Morgan Upgrades India To ‘Overweight’ From ‘Neutral’ Ahead Of Elections first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Subrata Majumder The peculiarity of Hamas-Israel war is that unlike other wars or conflict, India do not succumb to the direct impact of the war. It is the spillover impact, which causes concern. Israel is not a major trading partner or major foreign investor in India. Neither, Palestine is. Israel accounts for less than […]

The post Indian Economy Will Be Seriously Impacted By War Only When Arab Nations Join first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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By Girish Linganna Israel confronts significant dangers while gearing up for an extensive ground incursion into Gaza. A far-reaching mission by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) within the coastal territory is very likely to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis and lead to more civilian casualties. It also jeopardizes the lives of Israeli soldiers, potentially swaying global […]

The post Israel’s Ground Invasion Of Gaza Will Have Catastrophic Consequences first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: India has settled international trade worth over $2.5 billion in rupee after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) facilitated this in July last year, according to a senior official. Much of the trade settlement in rupee has been with Russia, Sri Lanka and three-four other countries, he said. Though this shows a pick-up […]

The post Rupee Trade Worth $2.5-Billion Since July 2022 RBI Move first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Matein Khalid The discovery of an elephantine oil gusher in a Damam salt dome in 1937 by Chevron (once Standard Oil of California) geologists is the greatest black swan event in modern Arabian history. This oil gusher heralded the birth of Saudi Arabia as the new geopolitical fulcrum and financial superpower of the Middle East and Washington’s closest ally in the region other than Israel and the […]

By James M Dorsey Israel will likely win the Gaza war on the battlefield. Even so, it has already been defeated in the court of public opinion. It no longer really matters who attacked Gaza’s Al Ahli Arab Hospital in which hundreds of innocent civilians were killed or the Greek Orthodox Saint Porphyrius Church in […]

The post Israel May Win Gaza War, But It Has Already Lost The Battle For Public Opinion first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON—Playing the part of classic Cold Warrior in his Thursday night Oval Office speech, President Joe Biden made a sales pitch for a permanent war economy, using democracy as a prop to convince the American people that he needed $105 billion to spend on weapons for Israel, Ukraine, and—unmentioned in his remarks—Taiwan. […]

The post Biden’s Israel-Ukraine Money Appeal Envisions War-Based Economy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Matein Khalid The cruel killers who constitute the high command of Hamas should now be renamed Dumbass. Did these deranged fools really think that sending death squads into Israeli towns and villages to slaughter house wives, babies, 260 teenagers/Gen-Z kids at a music festival, burn entire families in their homes would do anything but trigger the moral revulsion and disgust of the world and bring global shame […]

By K Raveendran With signs of a wider conflict in the Middle East becoming stronger by the day, oil market analysts are keeping their fingers crossed over how the evolving scenario is going to shape the future of oil as well as the global economy. As Israel pushes ahead with its Gaza action, bombing more […]

The post Threat Of A Wider Conflict Keeps Oil Market Analysts In A Discomforting Guessing Game first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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By Nilanjan Banik Joseph Campbell, author of “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” and scholar on comparative religions, once recounted a Japanese story. A samurai hunted down his master’s killer and was about to decapitate him when the assassin spat in the samurai’s face. The enraged samurai immediately returned his sword to the sheath and […]

The post Hamas-Israel War, If Not Contained, Has Potential To Damage Global Economy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: The Chinese yuan has surpassed the euro to become the world’s second-most used currency in SWIFT trade settlements, according to data from the international SWIFT system. This marks a significant milestone in China’s efforts to internationalise its currency. As of September 2023, the yuan accounted for 5.8% of international payments, up from 4.82% […]

The post Chinese Yuan Beats Euro, Is 2nd Most Used Currency In Global Payments System SWIFT first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Matein Khalid While hardly news to the cognoscenti of Dalal Street and Planet Desiwalla, India’s stock market has been on a roll and it seems as if everyone of the 330 million gods in the Hindu pantheon were cheerleaders for its bullish macro ballast. If James Bond has a license to kill, India is a license to make money since the end of the near biblical macro […]

The share of Russian oil in India’s overall imports rose to about two-fifths in the first half of fiscal 2023/24, consolidating Moscow’s position as the top supplier as refiners curbed purchase from the Middle East, industry data showed. India, the world’s third largest oil importer and consumer, has emerged as the top buyer of the […]

The post Russia Makes Up 40% Of Indian Oil Imports, Dents OPEC’s Share first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Arabian Post Staff While MENA countries have demonstrated a growing commitment to climate action through net-zero targets, action from the business community still lags behind that of global peers, and consumers still underestimate their regional vulnerabilities, a report jointly prepared by the World Economic Forum and Bain & Company said. The report focusses on nine major MENA economies: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Tunisia, […]

By Arun Srivastava Rightist forces do not empathise with the human and humanity. Humanitarian emotions and sensibilities have been unknown commodities for them. Hitler crushed the humanity and the worst victims of his tyrannies were the Jew. It is ironical that now the same Jews are perpetrating the worst kind of torture on the Muslims […]

The post For His Electoral Gains, Biden Is Pushing US Towards A Global War first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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By Nitya Chakraborty The Hamas-Israeli war entered its 12th day on Wednesday with the clashes between two sides intensifying leading to all the possibility of being turned into a dreadful regional war. So far more than three thousand Palestinians have been killed, including about five hundred who were killed when a hospital was bombed in […]

The post Next Forty Eight Hours Are Crucial For Hamas-Israeli War first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Arabian Post Staff Despite its high internet usage, the United Arab Emirates has the lowest National Cyber Security Index score at 40.26, making it the least cyber-secure country in a study conducted by Proxyrack. The study revealed which developed countries are at most at risk of cybercrime globally and with a cybercrime risk score of 8.18/10, United Arab Emirates features in the top 10. The study was […]

By Dr J Scott Younger I first went to Israel in 1971 to present a paper at a Hydraulics Research Conference at the Institute in Tel Aviv in 1971, two years before the Yom Kippur war and four after the 6-day one. I spent a week there all told, and visited Jerusalem, of course, and visited a kibbutz, located between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. In Jerusalem I […]

By Nantoo Banerjee It may be a bit early to predict economic consequences of the ongoing Hamas-Israel armed conflict on the world economy, but India is bound to be impacted if the war continues for long and oil prices keep soaring through the coming winter months. The war is now running through the second week. […]

The post Hamas-Israel Armed Conflict Brings Fresh Risks To World Economy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By M A Hossain On October 7, 2023, Israel suffered its most devastating attack in decades, orchestrated by the Iran-backed Palestinian militant organization, Hamas. Notably, Hamas’s startling well-planned land-sea-air surprise assault from Gaza on Southern Israeli communities claimed the lives of hundreds and took approximately 150 persons hostage, both military and civilian personnel. Israel’s most […]

The post An Attack On Israel Was Inevitable From Iran’s Perspective first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The Israel-Palestine conflict has sent ripples through the shipping and maritime industry, leading international companies to issue cautionary advisories and adapt their operations in the region. In view of the missile attacks and the incursion of opposing militias, the security of transporting goods through the port of Haifa has become uncertain. The […]

The post Israel-Palestine Conflict Sends Ripples Through Shipping And Maritime Industry first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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