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Bollywood ‘on ventilator’? Global media decodes Dhurandhar effect & gas shortage pits dal against data

BBC reports on Indian sailors who finally returned home Sunday after being stranded at sea due to the West Asia war.

Trump 2.0 ‘tests’ India’s strategic resilience & the LPG ‘vulnerability’

WSJ reports how India's 'digital arrest' scams are gaining global traction. Bloomberg looks at RBI's failing rupee defence amid the war in West Asia.

The ‘hero’ in Dhurandhar who drew the ‘loudest cheers’ & the surprise guest in Modi-Trump call

Global media looks at why the two Dhurandhar movies have invited criticism. BBC takes close look at India’s 'educated & employed but struggling' middle class.

Pakistan ‘natural fit’ as intermediary, Modi’s Israel visit made India’s stance on Iran ‘awkward’—global media

Global media also reports on how India’s fertiliser supplies could take a hit if Israel-Iran war continues and New Delhi’s crackdown on Maoists.

Affordable housing crisis affecting Asia’s growth. ‘Political rewards from fixing it may be massive’

Global media spotlights South Asia, focusing on ‘shortage of decent and affordable housing’, India’s LPG deal and coroner’s findings in Zubeen Garg death case.

West Asia peace negotiations: India’s moment or Modi’s chance to ‘look inward’, global media debates

From a sailor stranded in the Persian Gulf to Mumbai restaurants shutting their kitchens, international media reports on cascading effects of the Iran conflict on India.

UK campuses in India face ‘price point test’ & forgotten trailblazer Jamini Sen finds the spotlight

Global media also dwells on how Pakistan embarked on a major push to reshape its image abroad after India launched Op Sindoor against terror bases.

War in the Gulf has become a thorn in the side of India’s growth story, writes global media

Focus is also on Germany's growing outreach to India for labour workforce as well as Bengaluru’s first-generation wealth creators 'rethinking the role of the billionaire.'

How AI may present an opportunity rather than an upset for India’s IT industry

Global media also reports on RBI's battle to protect the rupee from the Iran war fallout; shocks to India's macroeconomics and cooking gas sectors; and how the CBFC blocked an Oscar-nominated film.

More educated than ever, but struggling to get jobs—global media analyses India’s youth ‘paradox’

The Guardian meanwhile reports on Kolkata man & his staff of 80 who make ‘30 kg replicas of the dead, commissioned by family and loved ones’.

On Camera

Stocks fall, oil prices climb as Trump issues fresh threat to Iran ahead of his deadline

Fears that an escalation of the conflict could heighten a fuel squeeze & endanger the economy unnerved traders, with NYT reporting Iran stopped negotiating a truce with the US.

Western theatre against Pakistan to be headed by IAF, Northern theatre under Army to focus on China

India's military to get Vice Chief of Defence Staff along with one Theatre Commander from each of three services, it is learnt.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.