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NEW DELHI: India’s wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation rate hit a three-month low of minus 0.52 per cent in October, as it remained in negative territory for the seventh consecutive month, according to data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday. The continuing deflation in factory gate prices comes on the back […]

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By Arun Srivastava Recent developments in Karnataka BJP send out the message that Amit Shah, despite his so-called ‘Chanakya’ fame, has lost grip on party affairs and also is running short of ideas. Only a week back, the BJP leadership appointed B Y Vijayendra, a first-time MLA, the younger son of the former Karnataka chief […]

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NEW DELHI: India’s consumer price index (CPI)-based retail inflation rate declined for the second consecutive month to a five-month low in October, providing relief to the government on the macroeconomic front as the long festival season is underway. Data released by the National Statistical Office on Monday showed that retail inflation eased to 4.87 per […]

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MUMBAI: A majority of big investors in the stock market continued to increase their wealth and beat the benchmark indices successfully in the past year. An analysis of the portfolios of eight top investors revealed that the value has increased in the range of 15% to 101% for seven investors this Diwali, as compared to […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has raised the flame of its communal stove in Rajasthan, right from the last date for withdrawal of nomination on November 9. Within three days it started spewing flue flames causing a considerable rise in politico-communal temperature in the state, and the ruling Congress has started feeling the heat. Electoral […]

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By Sushil Kutty There appears to be no end to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s self-doubts as far as Madhya Pradesh is concerned. It is not just anti-incumbency of over 18 years. This is more like being paranoid. First and foremost, the complete overdependence on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking the party to victory. Two, […]

The post By Giving Tickets To Older People In Madhya Pradesh, BJP Has Exposed Its Mistrust In Young first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Avikal Somvanshi Every year, post Dussehra, Delhi loses sight of the Sun. There are many factors contributing to these nightmarish levels of air pollution. Weather, geography, local pollution (traffic, industries, etc.), agricultural practices, water security and climate change are the key factors at play. On surface it looks like an insurmountable problem but it […]

The post Tackling Of Delhi’s Air Pollution Requires A Multipronged Strategy first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: India’s industrial growth dropped more than expected in September to 5.8% from a 14-month high of 10.3% in the preceding month, hit by an unfavorable base effect magnified by a shift in the festival calendar. Excess rainfall in September also disrupted output, impacting growth. Economists expect the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) to […]

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MUMBAI: Global venture capital (VC) investments dipped 5.4 per cent on a quarter-on-quarter (Q-o-Q) basis from $81.4 billion in the second quarter of calendar year 2023 (Q2CY23) to $77 billion in the third quarter of calendar year 2023 (Q3CY23) as VCs remain cautious before closing deals. The number of deals fell from 9,563 in Q2 […]

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NEW DELHI: Strong domestic demand is likely to sustain India’s economy in the near term, said Moody’s on Thursday as it kept the country’s growth forecast for 2023 and 2024 unchanged at 6.7 and 6.1 per cent. “Robust goods and services tax collections, surging auto sales, rising consumer optimism and double-digit credit growth suggest urban […]

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NEW DELHI: After a gap of eight months, India’s goods exports rose for the first time in October, driven by pharma and engineering exports. While official numbers are due to be released on November 15, preliminary data accessed by TOI estimated that exports went up by around 3% over last year’s level of $31.6 billion. […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik In an economy like ours where the work-force is not neatly divided into “the employed” and “the unemployed”, and instead there is massive and growing casualisation of work, measuring unemployment is a tricky business. It necessarily means asking a person how much work that person got over a certain period in the […]

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NEW DELHI: India’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) – based inflation likely fell to a five-month low of 4.8% in October from 5.02% in September, primarily due to the statistical effect of a high base and decline in prices of key vegetables, according to an FE poll of 15 economists. Core inflation is likely to remain […]

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NEW DELHI: The Centre’s dividend receipts from the Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) will likely exceed the budget estimate (BE) of Rs 43,000 crore for 2023-24 by close to Rs 20,000 crore, bridging partly the likely shortfall in disinvestment receipts. So far in the current financial year, around Rs 20,000 crore has been obtained through […]

The post CPSE Dividends To Centre To Exceed Budget Estimate By Rs 20,000-Crore In FY24 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Election campaigns reach its mid-way, with only a week left for campaigning, Congress seems to have emerged even stronger than previously expected just one week ago, or even likely to perform better than in the last election held in 2018. Even the latest poll survey results […]

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NEW DELHI: Rising onion prices are unlikely to have a significant impact on inflation in October but may lead to inflation rising to near 6% levels in coming months, said economists. Onion prices rose nearly 75% in the first week of November compared with the previous month. “Alongside a rise in broader vegetable prices in […]

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NEW DELHI: Amid record high power demand this year, the Union power ministry has initiated discussions with state governments to augment their power generation capacities, both conventional and renewable energy. Union Minister for Power, New and Renewable Energy R K Singh said close to 12 gigawatt (Gw) of new coal-based capacity will come online by […]

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By Sushil Kutty Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal is bound for prison. The Delhi Chief Minister is reconciled to his fate. The enforcement directorate will question him, arrest him and put him behind bars, period. There are no two ways about it. Kejriwal has convinced himself and he has also convinced his flock of […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Contestants arrayed in the electoral battlefield of Rajasthan is almost clear. The Congress and the BJP are engaged in a bitter, closer, no holds barred contest than expected earlier. Hitherto sidelined BJP leader and former CM Vasundhara Raje has come back to the centrestage, while challenges go on multiplying for  the […]

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NEW DELHI: The Indian economy has the potential to clock 6.2 per cent annual average growth rate in the medium term during the 2019-27 period, credit rating agency Fitch ratings said in its latest Global Economic Outlook report on Monday. The agency raised the projection by 0.7 percentage points from 5.7 per cent estimated for […]

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