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By K Raveendran India’s 2022 began with hopes of a rebound from covid-induced downturn, which materialized to a large extent as the year progressed, but is winding down to a close with dark clouds beginning to appear on the horizon over threats of a return to the pandemic environment. The government hasn’t yet enforced covid […]

The post 2022 That Began On Optimistic Note Ends With Ominous Signal Due To New Covid first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Anjan Roy If any one thing defines 2022 it is Russia’s Ukraine war. Coming close on the heels of the covid pandemic, unleashed by China’s callus and lackadaisical handling of the initial outbreak, world’s woes are brimming over. Bad luck would not come alone, in the very closing days of the year, the wildfire […]

The post Global Economy Hit By Ukraine War In 2022 Is Entering Another Uncertain Phase In 2023 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak We have faced several dramatic weather disasters which claimed far too many lives and livelihoods in 2022. From extreme floods to heat and drought, weather and climate disasters affected millions and cost billions, indicating that climate change has intensified this year, and in the next in 2023, the world would need […]

The post Too Many Lives And Livelihoods Lost To Extreme Weather In 2022 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava If the tone and tenor of Narendra Modi’s speech at the high level meeting held on Thursday to discuss the strategy to fight covid is any indicator, it is obvious that Rahul Gandhi would have to terminate his Bharat Jodo Yatra even before reaching Delhi, not to speak of Kashmir. Emphasising “Covid […]

The post Rajasthan BJP Going Ahead With Jan Akhrosh Yatra Despite PM Asking Rahul To Stop first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Workforce world over would face greater hardship in 2023. IMF has already sounded alarm over the grim global situation in their latest World Economic Outlook. More than a third of the global economy is expected to slip into recession in 2023, while the three large economies – the United States, the […]

The post Workforce World Over To Face Great Hardship In 2023 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran A relatively disappointing year-end and a possible less dramatic interplay between inflation and central bank intervention globally have India’s domestic gold trade keeping its fingers crossed over what could happen in 2023. November-December months have been less than reassuring for the domestic trade, with soft retail demand forcing discounting of prices, which […]

The post After A Disappointing Season Gold Trade Hopes For Better Luck Next Year first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak China’s new COVID-19 outbreak threatens the rest of the world. Mathematical models predict one million or more deaths by early 2023, within 90 days from now. Epidemiologists estimate 60 per cent of the population of China and 10 per cent of the world are likely to be infected. This new crisis […]

The post China’s New Covid-19 Outbreak Threatens The Rest Of The World first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi is silently, and certainly irreversibly, moving towards his goal, to transmute the basic identity and character of Indian judicial system. There are many aces on his chess board, but the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju is a rare exception to perform the task more diligently. In his exuberance […]

The post Rijiju Planning To Bring A New Law To Empower The Govt To Appoint Judges first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Hundreds of young people die in India due to dishonour killings merely because they love someone or marry outside their caste or against their family’s wishes, Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said on Saturday, in a speech on “Law and Morality”, according to legal news website Bar and Bench. Referring to several cases […]

The post Consent of weaker sections in majority’s morality a myth: CJI first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent an unambiguous and loud message to the intellectuals, academics, social activists and leaders of the political parties of the country to fall in line or get ready to face the music. Though his government at the directive of the RSS has long back initiated the process […]

The post Centre’s Operation Uproot Of Naxalites Will Be Helping BJP Politically first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran After taking on the Supreme Court for the impasse on Collegium, which he described as ‘alien’ to the Constitution, Law Minster Kiren Rijiju has played another bite from His Master’s Voice – prime minister Narendra Modi’s favourite simultaneous elections. Rijiju said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha the other day […]

The post Modi Govt May Be Dusting Out Its Plan For One-Nation, One-Poll By 2024 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the Indian economic growth is set to decelerate in the financial year 2023-24 as per the latest estimates of all the national and international organisations, India’s job market is likely to deterioration. Employment opportunities would decline, new job opportunities will be limited, and job losses may accelerate. Price rise and […]

The post 2023 May Be Worse Than 2022 For India’s Workforce first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik The fact that income and wealth inequalities have increased quite dramatically under the neo-liberal regime is beyond dispute. The empirical work by Piketty’s team bears out the increase in income inequality. They use income tax data to infer about the share of the top 1 per cent of the population of a […]

The post Income And Wealth Inequalities Increase Substantially Under Neoliberal Regimes first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Exploiting the death of the poor in an accident has been most awful pastime rendezvous of the politicians. This apparently got manifest in the death of nearly 50 people in the Chapra hooch tragedy of Bihar. The BJP which has been prime mover of the idea to impose  ban on the manufacturing […]

The post BJP’s Doublespeak In Attacking Nitish Kumar For Prohibition And Hooch Deaths first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra The group of 20 countries, nick named as G20 includes Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union. So far seven summits of the G20 have been held. […]

The post Nuclear Disarmament Should Be Priority Agenda Of India Led G20 In 2023 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Impervious of the defeat of his JD(U) candidate by the BJP contender in Kurhani assembly by-election, the leader of the seven party Mahagathbandhan, Nitish Kumar in a clarion call to his opposition friends underscored the need for coming together to successfully counter the BJP. After the defeat while the BJP leaders were […]

The post BJP Using Kurhani Defeat Of JD(U) To Malign Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Six weeks are certainly not the sensible time frame to judge a new prime minister’s performance, that is too in the case of United Kingdom, which has been suffering economic malaise that has turned endemic during the decade with Conservatives in the power. But still Rishi Sunak, the first Prime Minister of […]

The post Rishi Sunak Has Taken Few Positive Steps In Stopping Economic Downslide first appeared on IPA Newspack.