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By Subrata Majumder   In 2020, Japan adopted two policies to strengthen supply chain resilience.  Big subsidy was provided to stimulate Japanese investors to diversify offshore investment and invest in domestic market for supply chain resilience. The main aim was to reduce overdependence on China. Focuses were made on Southeast Asian countries for offshore diversification. […]

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By K R Sudhaman Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is confident that Indian economy is in a comfort zone to weather the storm witnessed in the global economy, with some of the advanced economies heading towards recession. Winding up the debate on price rise in Rajya Sabha she quoted IMF and former Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram […]

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  By Sushil Kutty   Droupadi Murmu has taken oath on July 25, the 15th President of India. Her salary: Rs 5 lakh per month, plus perks. But why talk of the President’s salary? That is because there’s a big gap between what Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s picks for high office earn and what the […]

The post India Has World’s Highest Number Of ‘Extremely Poor’ Denizens first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By James M Dorsey   When US intelligence asserted that Iran was selling hundreds of combat drones to Russia, it was signalling more than Iranian support for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.   Suggesting that Russia was not capable of serial producing its own drones, the intelligence served to question further Russian military capabilities, […]

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  By K Raveendran   With the Modi government increasingly citing ‘policy’ to justify what it is doing, the Supreme Court has felt compelled to deprecate this tendency.   A bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna, hearing a plea against the levy of GST on equipment such as wheelchair used by people with […]

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By Dr. Nilanjan Banik   Over the last two weeks, the Opposition is disrupting the Lok Sabha on the grounds of high LPG price and GST on pre-packaged food items as factors behind inflation. And on August 5, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) increased the repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.4%.However, my take […]

The post More Tightening Of Monetary Policy May Not Be Effective At The Moment first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty   Men and women in black. The women outdoing the men in scaling police barricades. Especially Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The nationwide protests were against price rise; unemployment, and GST on “dahi and dhood” and other food items. Not surprisingly, the presser earlier in the morning made no mention of price rise, unemployment […]

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Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday accused the Congress of appeasement politics, declaring their black-clothes protest was actually against the foundation ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. Pointing out that today is the anniversary of the foundation ceremony, he said the Congress, by holding the protest in black clothes, “is sending a subtle […]

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By Anjan Roy In the face of persistent inflationary pressures and tie in prices, the Reserve Bank of India has jacked up on Friday its basic policy rate —the repo rate— by 40 basis points to 5.4%. With this hike, the RBI policy rate now reaches what it was before the pandemic started. This is […]

The post RBI Should Insulate India From Global Fluctuations As It Did In 2008 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas Largely unnoticed by the Indian mainstream media, Bangladesh hosted the Ministerial Conference of Developing 8 grouping, D-8 for short, a few days ago. This relatively new alliance brings together eight Muslim countries spread from South East Asia to Africa. There were a few tangible, positive decisions taken at the virtually conducted Foreign […]

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Ahead of Congress’ protest against rising prices, MP Rahul Gandhi said that India is witnessing the ‘death of democracy’. Congress will today hold protests over rising prices, unemployment and GST hike. Congress Working Committee (CWC) members and senior leaders will take part in “PM House gherao” while Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs will hold […]

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By Sushil Kutty The prime-time anchor couldn’t hold back his happiness. He wanted to know from the anti-corruption crusader exactly where the “case” stood. The anti-corruption crusader was happy to oblige. Both had tried and found Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi guilty. The anchor spelled out the verdict and the anti-corruption crusader said there was […]

The post Hounding Out The Main Opposition Party By ED And Delhi Police Has Crossed All Limits first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, common people have been bearing the brunt of the once-in-a-generation cost-of-living crisis since the beginning of 2020. Hundreds of millions lost even access to food, energy, and finance, millions of them just perished, and millions somehow survived on assistance in cash or kinds from […]

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Heightened police activity outside the Congress party’s headquarters and chief Sonia Gandhi’s residence following the sealing of the offices of a company linked to the party’s leadership was an attempt to intimidate the opposition, Congress leaders said on Wednesday. “@INCIndia is under siege. Delhi police has surrounded our HQs, and homes of INC President & […]

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Raghuram Rajan, the former Governor of the Reserve Bank, told NDTV today that while growth figures in India is better than many nations, the country needs more on account of its huge population. Though the growth figure is around 7 per cent — which the government quoted in parliament in response to the debate on […]

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By K Raveendran Parliament has been witnessing a standoff between the government and the opposition over the issue of price rise and inflation, with the opposition demanding urgent debate on the issue and the Modi government showing the inclination to go to any extent, including suspension of over a scores of members belonging to the […]

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By Sushil Kutty Destitution, bankruptcy, mass famine! Some rightwing folks desperate to see the back of Joe Biden are predicting this for America. They do not like the President’s “dementia” and are not hailing Speaker Nancy Pelosi for taking on the People’s Republic of China in its own backyard. One of them has come up […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Foodgrain crisis is set to further aggravate in India. Earlier, the heatwave conditions impacted the wheat crop leading to less production and procurement enforcing wheat export ban on May 13, and now deficit rainfall has caused a decline of rice cultivation by about 13 per cent so far. The shrinkage in […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The number of hours worked in the world fell in the first quarter of 2022 and remained 3.8 per cent below the level of the fourth quarter of 2019 – and that is equivalent to the loss of 112 million full-time jobs. The latest ILO estimate has maintained that this represented […]

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