IPA Special
Payments Problem Is Still Straining Expansion Of India-Russia Trade Relations
By R. Suryamurthy When Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Vladimir Putin in the bilateral summit in New Delhi on December 5 and both leaders reiterated their ambition to raise bilateral trade to USD 100 billion by 2030, it sounded, at first blush, like a confident projection of strategic...
Common Investors Are Apprehensive About High Valuations Of IPO’s Of New Age Companies
By Kunal Bose There is no reason why the chief economic adviser to Indian government V Anantha Nageswaran could be unaware that his expression of disquiet in an open forum that IPOs (initial public offerings) are increasingly being used by early investors to cash out would stir up a...
Netflix’s $82.7 Billion Deal With Warner Marks Silicon Valley’s Quiet Takeover Of Hollywood
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In a deal that could redraw the entertainment landscape for decades, Netflix said Friday it has agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s movie, television, and streaming operations for $82.7 billion, setting off alarm bells from Washington to Los Angeles and marking the most...
Irish Minister Michelle O’Neill’s Warning To Keir Starmer On Warfare Is A Wake Up Call
By Ben Chacko LONDON: It has taken an Irish politician to confront Keir Starmer directly over his “warfare not welfare” politics. Michelle O’Neill’s attack comes after Starmer announced a naval pact with Norway to “hunt Russian subs in the north Atlantic.” Her opportunity: today’s Cardiff meeting of the PM...
West Bengal Govt’s Assurances, Work On Testing Labs For Tea Industry Not Progressing
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Despite official assurances to set up at least three tea testing laboratories in North Bengal to improve quality control methods, preliminary work undertaken by the West Bengal Government has made little progress. North Bengal tea producers recently told newsmen that they had drawn the attention...
Putin’s India Visit: A Stress Test Of Strategic Autonomy Amid Global Pressure
By T N Ashok NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India Thursday evening for a two-day state visit that has become a diplomatic flashpoint, testing New Delhi’s ability to maintain strategic independence amid mounting pressure from Washington and European capitals. The arrival marks Putin’s first trip to...
RBI Monetary Policy Has Little Impact On Falling Rupee
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rupee is falling, but Reserve Bank of India did not come to rescue it. No wonder, immediately after the latest announcement of the repo rate cut by RBI by 25 basis points (bps) on December 5s, bringing it down to 5.25 per cent, the rupee...
Occupational Safety, Health And Working Conditions Code, 2020 Must Be Withdrawn
By Dr Arun Mitra Occupational Health and safety has been an issue of serious concern of health personnel as well as the workers’ organizations since long. During the industrial revolution in England, even the children were made to clean chimneys and work in hazardous industry. As a result many...
U.S. Signals Expansion Of Travel Ban To 30 Countries Leading To Big Furore
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The Trump administration is preparing to dramatically widen its travel ban, potentially restricting entry from more than 30 countries, in what officials describe as an urgent response to national-security concerns and a series of violent incidents involving foreign nationals. The proposed expansion, confirmed...
India’s Food-Security Architecture Is Straining Needing Immediate Reforms
By R. Suryamurthy India’s public distribution system (PDS)—a sprawling, decades-old welfare mechanism that feeds 81 crore people—has managed to sustain an extraordinary scale of operations. Month after month, through pandemics, inflation shocks and erratic procurement cycles, the system delivers subsidised or free foodgrains to two-thirds of the country’s population....
Delhi Air Pollution: Opposition Holds Protest At Parliament Complex
By Rahil Nora Chopra Opposition parties on Thursday staged a protest in the Parliament complex over the issue of air pollution in the national capital, with Congress leader Sonia Gandhi asking the government to take immediate remedial action. The Congress national president and the leader of the opposition in...
Takeaways From The Sanchar Saathi Saga Of Modi Government
By Harsh Gour India’s Department Of Telecommunications (‘DoT’) recently quietly ordered all smartphone makers to pre-install its new “Sanchar Saathi” cybersecurity app on every phone sold in India. The directive, under the Telecom Cyber Security Rules, instructed manufacturers to push the app to new devices. Once this came to...
CEA’s Calmness Over Steep Fall Of Rupee Ignores Key Risks To India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When Indian rupee was falling in the Mumbai market against US dollar on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 – sliding past the 90-a-dollar mark for the second day, plumbing a new low of 90.29 in the morning trade after opening flat at 89.96, analysts were pegging...
The Great AI Battle Between U.S. And China Is A New Version Of 21st Century Cold War
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: A global competition is reshaping technology, geopolitics, and the world economy as Washington and Beijing race to dominate artificial intelligence—with no guarantee of success. In the spring of 2024, executives at a prominent Chinese artificial intelligence company found themselves fielding an extraordinary barrage...
RSS Is Deliberately Reducing India’s Entire Past Within The Confines Of Rama Legend
By Nilotpal Basu Ram and the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya has been the most rewarding campaign for BJP, catapulting it to political hegemony in India’s contemporary political history. Ram, revered by many and attributed with divine quality, was part of the mythology which has been engrained...
Behind The Steep Fall Of Indian Rupee, There Are Many Factors Including Fall In Exports
By Anjan Roy The Indian currency has depreciated beyond the psychological level of Rs 90 to a dollar in course of trading during Wednesday. It closed at 90.22 at the close of trading. It now looks as though the Indian rupee is inevitably set for continuous depreciation. Some traders...
Latest Cyclone And Flood Situation In Asian Countries Is A Wake Up Call For India
By Tirthankar Mitra The deadly floods sweeping through Indonesia since last week mark a sobering moment for this region. It is a grim reminder that this region is long accustomed to the monsoon’s mood but rarely prepared for the nature’s most erratic turns. More than 500 people have been...
‘Under The Same Sky’: Palestinian-American Author’s Novel Shows Gaza’s Will To Survive
By Jenny Farrell NEW YORK: Leila Majaj Kirkconnell’s Under the Same Sky is more than a novel; it is a monumental work of witness and a significant literary achievement. It accomplishes what countless reports and statistics fail to do: It translates a vast, complex geopolitical tragedy into a deeply...
