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Why private investment is a key driver of India’s growth & the ‘trump card’ behind Modi-Putin bonhomie

Global media also reported on IMF's upgraded growth forecast due to robust rural consumer spending, and Air India's market share being at its highest in three years.

Chinese whispers in Modi’s Russia visit & the Armaan Malik factor that’s shaken Indian society

Global media also discusses why India must seek broader regional engagement beyond bilateral immediacies in Middle East & Araku Valley transformation into thriving coffee-growing region.

Price tag of the grand Ambani wedding, popularity of UPI & the ‘cultural shift’ India is witnessing

Global media also discusses impact of 'scorching heat' and elections on Indian companies, with profits for some firms showing a downward trend & the 20-yr-old who tried to shoot Trump.

How India can be ‘world’s next food superpower’ & climate crisis spurring coal mining expansion

Global media also discusses the India-UK free trade agreement, RBI governor's call to not cut interest rates & targeting of Muslim journalists in Uttar Pradesh. 

Modi ‘bear-hugs’ Putin, Russia ‘strategic spoiler’ for the West & ‘warning signs’ for India’s economy

Global media also puts the spotlight on families of Indians stuck on the Russia-Ukraine war front and fiscal pressures on the Modi-led coalition.

Modi-Putin meeting defies Western pressure & what drives the popularity of godmen in India

Global media reports also highlight a buoyant stock market, world's first CNG bike and that India will soon become the leading global food demand driver.

Modi’s Russia visit as a check on China’s sway & why Gen Z is opting for temples over nightclubs

Global media also discusses how Russia 'eagerly awaits the arrival of its time-tested ally' and why freebies are no longer enough to win votes.

‘Fawning’ media got poll predictions wrong & what a Modi visit to Kremlin means for geopolitics

Global media also reports declining gold sales amid soaring prices in India and predicts a drop in LNG imports as rain cools homes & reduces power demand.

‘Tactical thaw’ likely in India-China ties & how spiritual event turned into deadly Hathras stampede

Global media also explores how India is fostering a wedding industry that has led to Indians spending nearly twice as much on weddings as education, on an average.

Rise of India’s ‘second republic’ & what Hathras stampede says about public safety — global media

Reports also highlight why India's foreign policy will likely not change and the drug menace in the northeastern states.

On Camera

A new Indian foreign policy consensus is emerging. That India isn’t a great power yet

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.

Geoeconomic confrontation top trigger for global crisis, cyber insecurity biggest risk for India—WEF

WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'

The curious case of Pakistan’s JF-17 ‘orders’

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. 

Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

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.