IPA Special
Out Of RCEP, India Has To Strive For Free Trade Agreement With U.S.A
By Subrata Majumder RCEP is ready for launching. Fifteen nations (ASEAN 10, China, Japan, S. Korea, Australia and New Zealand) signed the trade deal in Vietnam on 15th November, 2020. India, even though the trade block is Asian based, opted out of the block in 2019. It...
Rishi Sunak Is Ahead In Race To Replace PM Boris Johnson
By Arun Srivastava The modesty of the UK Chancellor of Exchequer Rishi Sunak has been earning him praise across the country for his assertion that he is “definitely not interested” in being the Prime Minister of the country. People appreciate this rare kind of gesture from Sunak. ...
BJP Desperate To Expand Its Support Base In Southern States After Bihar
By Kalyani Shankar After the big win in the Bihar Assembly poll this month, the BJP is focusing on the South where three states – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry are going for polls early next year. Elections are scheduled for West Bengal and Assam also. Will...
Tarun Gogoi’s Death Is A Jolt To Congress Dream Of Ousting BJP From Power
By Sagarneel Sinha During the 2011 assembly elections of Assam, Congress party thundered back to power with a strong majority by winning 78 seats. This was the third consecutive victory of the grand old party in the north-eastern state. The resounding success came at a time when...
LDF Govt Scores Yet Another Self Goal
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A political blunder of the first order. That is the only way to describe the Kerala Police (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 hurriedly passed by the Kerala Government. It was an unkindest cut from a Left Government headed by a party that touts the delights...
Uddhav Thackeray Is Firmly In Saddle Despite Fadnavis And BJP
By Sushil Kutty There’s something royal sounding about Raosaheb Danve. For those who don’t know, he is Minister of State for Consumer Affairs in the Narendra Modi Government and an MP from Maharashtra. He’s one of the many BJP Union ministers who is neither seen nor heard...
Wall Street Puts Big Pressure On Trump To Ensure Smooth Transition
By C.J. Atkins Wall Street is ramping up the pressure on outgoing President Donald Trump to accept his defeat and halt his efforts to overturn the election results and cooperate with the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden. Over 100 top CEOs are telling Trump it’s...
Brazil’s Largest City Sau Paulo May Soon Have A Socialist Mayor
By Hugo Albuquerque On November 15, housing rights activist and rising star of the Brazilian left Guilherme Boulos made it into the runoff elections for the mayorship of São Paulo — the largest city in all the Americas and the financial center of Brazil. A member of the...
RBI Has Failed To Tame Inflation
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s massive population under the low and lower-middle income groups is increasingly under distress as the retail inflation soared to a near six-and-a-half year high in October. The wholesale inflation too rose to eight-month high. The prices of potato rose by 107.7 percent, vegetables 25.2...
Foreign Takeover Of A South India Bank Has Special Significance
By Anjan Roy Takeover of the collapsing Lakshmi Vilas Bank by the Singapore based DBS Bank has come as a big relief, at least for its depositors. The best feature of this take over is that the interests of depositors have been protected. This is important for gaining...
