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Why Kolhapuri chappals are all the ‘rage’ right now & India’s growing language ‘anxieties’

Global media also investigates how, in addition to the official 37 death toll of the Kumbh Mela stampede, in at least 26 additional cases, families were given partial compensation.

India-US trade deal and the Trump suspense & investigating Delhi’s yearly bout of pollution

Global media also reports on the Air India crash probe, backlash over mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s remarks on PM Modi & astronomical private school fees.

India’s lofty aviation ambitions interrupted & the 1975 Emergency, when a ‘young democracy froze’

Global media also reports on Adani Group’s move to ‘press ahead’ with its investment deals and ‘shrug off’ impact of US criminal charges.

Turbulent times for Air India & the cost of India’s hill station tourism boom

Global media also reports on resumption of Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, which Beijing & New Delhi are seeing as one of chief diplomatic breakthroughs to emerge from rapprochement.

India and China’s gruelling civil services exam systems & why Modi’s G7 visit did not ‘go as planned’

Global media also examines role of AI in call centres, enabling employees to focus on more complex responsibilities, and India’s ongoing deportation of illegal immigrants to Bangladesh.

Air India deals with post-crash ‘chaos’ & why thawing of US-Pakistan ties is turning heads in India

New Delhi: Air India’s decision to significantly reduce the number of its international flights—just over a week after the Ahmedabad-London plane crash—could mark a new...

India-Canada diplomatic detente, and probe into Air India crash focuses on emergency power generator

Global media also covers the funeral of Ajay, brother of Air India crash’s sole survivor, and boom in demand for luxury homes in India.

India’s ‘great’ expectations of creating a multi-polar world order & the country’s reset with Canada

Global media also spotlighted Air India crash survivor Ramesh Viswashkumar as one of the few to have escaped such aviation disasters by a stroke of fate & the test ahead for Shubman Gill.

The ‘Modi momentum’ in the third term & Air India crash probe

Global media also looks at PM Modi’s Cyrus trip & the beginning of India’s cybersecurity cooperation and maritime trade partnership with the country.

Canada PM’s G7 invite to Modi amid ‘deeply strained’ ties & grief turns into anger after Air India crash

International publications also trace Air India's journey in the aftermath of the Ahmedabad crash.

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.