Global media also reports on intense hail damaging the nose of an Indigo aircraft & Apple’s India plans despite Trump’s directives that it ‘reshore its production facilities to US’.
International media also looks at the case against Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad & Pakistan army chief General Asim Munir's 'self-promotion'.
Global media also writes on 'Heart Lamp' by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, which won 2025 International Booker Prize, while William Dalrymple discusses Silk Road in an interview.
China may have emerged as a benefactor of India-Pakistan tensions, with analysts referring to the success of its weapons system as a ‘deep-seek moment’ for the country, a BBC report says.
International media also reports on India's move to block the X accounts of China's Global Times & Xinhua. It has sparked criticism from press freedom groups, they say.
International media also reports on a different kind of geopolitical reverberation—Australian cricketers are 'reluctant' to return to India to play the IPL, resuming this weekend.
Global media also reports that Pakistan denied ceasefire 'breaches', while warning that the confrontation may have ‘laid the ground for a more dangerous one’ in the future.
After exuberance, India must now not only take difficult and costly steps toward industrialisation, but also convert growth into geo-economic leverage and military modernisation.
WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'
Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
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