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By Sushil Kutty US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in San Francisco and President Xi told President Biden that Planet Earth was big enough for “both the countries”, the first time a Chinese big shot has referred to China as a country big enough to rival “superpower United States”. If Xi’s […]

The post Xi-Biden Summit Was A Bid To Make Our Planet ’Accommodate Two Super Powers’ first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: Key global indicators used by the World Bank (WB) to rank the governance of countries are based on subjective opinions by expert institutions which don’t know the context of member countries, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V Nageswaran has said. Speaking at a seminar on Multilateral Institutions for the 21st Century by think tank […]

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By Sushil Kutty It takes a lot to upset the equanimity of Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha. Especially when he’s still the fresh hubby with a pretty life partner. Yet, Chadha is lacking the spring in his steps. The much touted unity in the INDI-Alliance is what bothers the AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP, the […]

The post AAP Rajya Sabha Member Raghav Chadha Is Right In Retaining The Unity Of India Bloc At All Costs first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: Telecom operators, chip makers, network providers and handset makers have strongly opposed any hurried decision on a proposed idea to beam TV content directly to mobile phones without a cellular data connection, as the technology is still immature. The smartphone industry is worried that adoption of the proposal making it mandatory for devices […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election campaign for the second phase of state elections ended on November 15, and now focus of the election campaign has shifted to Rajasthan where third phase of election is scheduled to be held on November 25. At the fag end of second phase of election in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, […]

The post Second Phase Of Election Witnessed PM Using Loose Tongue first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty Only three days before the polling for the Argentina presidential elections on November 19, no opinion agency is predicting the victory of any candidate as both the Left wing Sergio Massa and his far right rival Javier Milei are running neck and neck in the electoral campaign. Some surveys have shown Milei […]

The post Left-Right Battle In Argentina Presidential Polls On November 19 Can Go Either Way first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran A Saudi decision to extend its voluntary oil production cut to the end of the year has passed off as a non-event, with the oil markets shrugging off the decision as of little consequence to the current demand-supply situation in the global market. The kingdom said on Sunday it will continue its […]

The post Saudi Oil Cut Extension Fails To Boost Prices Despite Continuing Gaza Conflict first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

Union minister Amit Shah on Tuesday alleged that state Congress chief Kamal Nath when he was chief minister turned Madhya Pradesh into an “ATM of the Congress. He was speaking at a rally in Deotalab constituency in Mauganj district of the state ahead of the November 17 assembly elections. The Congress-led UPA government gave Rs […]

The post Kamal Nath turned MP into Cong ATM, says Amit Shah first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: The government is considering the divestment of 5-10% stake in public sector lenders in which it currently holds over 80% equity. A detailed roadmap is expected to be firmed up soon, said people with knowledge of the matter. Government ownership exceeds 80% in six state-run banks – Bank of India, Indian Overseas Bank, […]

The post Govt Looks To Offload 5-10 Per Cent In Some Public Sector Banks first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

State-controlled Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will kick off oil production from its much-delayed flagship deepsea project in Krishna Godavari basin in Bay of Bengal this month, helping reverse years of decline in output, a senior company official said. “We plan to start producing from the Cluster-2 project in KG-DWN-98/2 block this month and […]

The post ONGC To Start Oil Production From USD 5 Billion Deep-Water Project This Month first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the second phase of state elections scheduled to be held on November 17, corruption has become a major issue in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. PM Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi are leading the allegation wars on behalf of BJP and Congress respectively. PM Modi alleged that ruling Congress in Chhattisgarh […]

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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.

By Girish Linganna In a significant development toward easing the ongoing conflict in Gaza, a meeting took place on Thursday at an elegant white-domed palace in Qatar. The Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, hosted the spy chiefs of the United States and Israel, namely CIA Director William J. Burns and […]

The post Qatar Is Playing A Key Role In Facilitating The Release Of Hostages first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

NEW DELHI: Sanjeev Sanyal, member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, thinks given the strengths of India’s macroeconomic fundamentals, its sovereign rating should be “at least two notches higher” than the current level (lowest investment grade). According to him, by around 2030, Indian rupee will be an international hard currency, since many steps have […]

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By Arun Srivastava Having lost hope of winning the assembly elections to the five states and haunted by the ghost of bleak prospect of coming back to power at the centre in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, RSS is seriously contemplating to resort to the design of rousing the sensibility of ultra-nationalism.and foreign bogey Though […]

The post RSS Focusing On Foreign Interference To Weaken Modi As Campaign Issue first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The way the lay of the land lies, courts have the last word and among the courts, the Supreme Court. So, it’s a “big victory” for the AAP government and a lesson for the Punjab Governor who had withheld consent to four bills passed by the Punjab assembly while also ruling an […]

The post Supreme Court Reads The Riot Act To The Governor Of AAP Led Punjab 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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NEW DELHI: The Centre is drawing up a plan for the privatisation of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL), also known as Vizag Steel, under which the prospective buyer/s would have to commit to expand its 7 million tonne (MT) plant, an official source said. The capacity scope for the unit is pegged at 18 MT. […]

The post RINL Sale: Bidders May Have To Pledge To Expand Unit; Some Land Parcels May Be Kept Out Of Deal first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Global VC Investments Drop 5.4% As VCs Remain Cautious: KPMG Report first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post India’s Working Force Has Remained Stagnant Over The Last Five Years first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election campaigns are at peak in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh going to polls on November 17 in the second phase, and only five days are left for the chief contestants – the Congress and the BJP. As of now, Congress seems to be maintaining its lead in both the states. BJP […]

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