The international broker Octa has had an exciting year, marked by several milestones that have had an impact on the industry and the world. Here are three ways Octa changed itself and helped change the world for the better in 2023. KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 9 January 2024 – The year 2023 has become one of the most crucial years in the history […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As India heads towards General Election 2024, sharp rise in urban unemployment in December 2023 exposes again the falsehood of government’s narrative and propaganda regarding employment generation under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi. Though under the new narrative on the employment front on the eve of Lok Sabha Election 2024, […]
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NEW DELHI: India Inc’s earnings for the December 2023 quarter are expected to show strong growth on the back of good numbers from auto manufacturers, banks, capital goods makers, cement producers and residential real estate developers. In aggregate, companies are likely to report a high single-digit increase in profits when seen year-on-year, though the rise […]
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MUMBAI: Borrowing by banks climbed last year, on average by as much as two-thirds in aggregate, as the central bank’s liquidity mop-up to tame consumer prices coincided with higher demand for credit and trailing deposit growth. HDFC Bank’s mid-July merger with mortgage-lending pioneer HDFC also caused borrowings to swell for mainstream lenders under the central […]
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By Zoya Teirstein A 16-month-old boy was playing in a splash pad at a country club in Little Rock, Arkansas, this summer when water containing a very rare and deadly brain-eating amoeba went up his nose. He died a few days later in the hospital. The toddler wasn’t the first person in the United States […]
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By James M Dorsey History repeats itself. Palestinian airplane hijackings and attacks on Israeli civilians in Israel as well as on Israeli and Jewish targets abroad pockmarked the 1970s and 1980s. The violence put the Palestinian issue on the world agenda. The violence erupted, and at times, was driven by fierce debate among Palestinian guerilla […]
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday issued his response on the much-debated question of “who will lead the INDIA bloc as its convenor” and said that the decision will be taken in the next 10-15 days. Responding to the query amid the rumours of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s name being considered for the responsibility, […]
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The assault on ED officers in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Friday sparked a political slugfest, with the BJP and Congress calling for the imposition of President’s rule, even as the ruling TMC accused the central agency sleuths of inciting locals. ED officers were assaulted and their vehicles damaged allegedly by supporters of […]
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By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister Y S Sharmila is not what her name suggests—shy, placid… She has been a rebel after a cause, and so has done what she had set out to do, become a part of the Congress—which was her father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s […]
The post Can Sharmila’s Entry Into Congress Revive The Fortunes Of The Party Before Lok Sabha Polls? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.
By Prabhat Patnaik Argentina’s new president Javier Milei proposes to use US dollars as the currency of his country, while abolishing its central bank altogether. What is involved in this proposal is not just maintaining a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and the domestic currency, but an abolition of the domestic currency altogether. The […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has just coined this attractive slogan to its gullible constituency – Teesri Baar Modi Sarkar, ab ki baar 400 paar. Some national and international political analysts are declaring “almost an inevitability” of PM Narendra Modi’s win for the third time, supporting the first part of the slogan, while PM Modi’s […]
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NEW DELHI: India’s merchandise exports this financial year will touch last year’s levels despite shipments contracting 6.5% year-on-year in the first eight months and slowdown in global trade, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said Wednesday. “Globally growth has been negative, international trade is in the negative territory, estimates are that this year international trade […]
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ISLAMABAD: Cash-strapped Pakistan is expected to get USD 700 million as the next tranche of the bailout from the IMF as the Executive Board of the global lender meets on January 11, according to a media report on Tuesday. The board of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund is set to deliberate and potentially grant final […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Narendra Modi government had successfully avoided any meaningful discussion on the three new criminal laws in the Lok Sabha by resorting to suspension of almost entire opposition members in the Lok Sabha, but had to face a serious roadblock even before their implementation enforcing the Centre to give a second thought […]
The post Drivers’ Protest Shows The Three New Criminal Laws Are Pandora’s Box first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty It sounds odd calling Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’, “nationwide east-to-west yatra”. The yatra is east-to-west, but not nationwide. Cutting through 14 states and 85 districts is not the entirety of India. It is another matter if it has a nationwide impact. Also, the claim that the Congress “hopes” to win 150 […]
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NEW DELHI: With buoyant revenues likely ensuring that the 5.9% fiscal deficit target is met in the current financial year, the Centre may target to bring it t down to 5.2% in FY25, while sticking with the medium-term glide path for 4.5% deficit by FY26. However, this would entail compression of the revenue deficit, more […]
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NEW DELHI: The plans to increase buoyancy in tax collections, widening the tax base and increasing the compliance by taxpayers seem to have been aided by the new income tax (IT) regime in the current financial year. However, experts feel a few more tweaks in the tax rates in the forthcoming interim Budget could make […]
The post More Than 60 Per Cent Of Taxpayers Adopt New I-T Regime first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.
NEW DELHI: The share of the private sector in new investment projects rose amid a slowing pace of government investments in the December quarter. But the value of new investment projects declined sharply by 78% on year to Rupees 2.1 trillion. The Centre front-loaded its budget capex in the early part of the current financial […]
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By Arun Srivastava Like all his other jumlas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pledge to ensure the women of their basic rights and protect them from oppression and torture has proved to be yet another empty promise. Had he really been concerned and committed to protect the honour and prestige of women, by now the message […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty The year 2023 has ended with two big wars and a few local conflicts including one in Myanmar bordering India. While the world was looking for the end of war in Ukraine during 2023, a new war with much severe death toll began in Gaza strip of Palestine in October 2023 giving […]
The post Global Politics May Witness Further Shift To Right And Authoritarianism In 2024 first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.
By Nantoo Banerjee The world is finally recognizing India’s economic strength and its fast-growing market size. Going by the overall development trend, the economy is capable of growing close to 10 percent annually over the next several years. In 2023-24, the economy may reach a growth rate of seven percent. Both domestic and foreign investors […]
The post Surging Demand, Rising Investment Put India’s Economy On Top Gear first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress is running against time on seat-sharing arrangement with India alliance partners, which is likely to be delayed further. A crucial meeting has been scheduled by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on January 4, in which presidents of its state units and the leaders of its legislative members will be sharing their […]
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By Arun Srivastava Chasing Nazi spokesperson Joseph Goebbel’s famous maxim that people tend to believe a lie as a biblical truth if it is insistently repeated for hundred times, the RSS and BJP’s ecosystem have launched a psychological war against Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Saffron vilification campaign launched by the saffron ecosystem against Nitish […]
The post Nitish Kumar Taking Over JD(U) Presidentship Will Help India Bloc In 2024 Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.
The Congress in Kerala on Sunday accused the ruling CPI(M) of needlessly creating controversy over the invitation extended to a few individuals from the grand old party for the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22. The comments came after the CPI(M) called the Congress indecisive as it has not revealed whether […]
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