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India’s contrasting performances at world showcases: Global media rates Venice as triumph, Osaka as flop

The Economist hails India’s Venice Biennale pavilion as 'dazzling' but calls its Osaka World Expo showcase 'chaotic'. Global media also examines Ladki Bahin & green-growth challenge.

How India’s tapping its diaspora to boost ‘sagging rupee’ & IT sector is ‘surviving AI’—global media

From voter rolls & the rupee slide to AI and shrinking IT jobs, global media examines challenges facing India’s economic, technological & geopolitical ambitions.

Twin riddles of Hasina & Bangladesh water pact find way into world media. So does IndiGo’s ‘turbulence’

Hasina's planned virtual address in which she is likely to clear her plan of return has Dhaka reaching out to New Delhi, reports a Bangladeshi media outlet.

Global media writes on man who ‘humbled India’s PM’ & human cost of NEET paper leak

From protests over exam leaks and erratic monsoons to changing wedding traditions, global reports examine the forces reshaping India.

As Jantar Mantar dust settles, global media says protests laid bare ‘crisis in graduate-jobs market’

The Economist says exam reforms alone won't fix unemployment, WSJ reports a proposed US OPT fee, while Global Times links restored flights to warming India-China ties. 

Global media says Indian parents ‘spending more than ever on education’

Guardian reports on intensifying heatwaves in India and how workers are dying on the job; FT says New Delhi has opened consumer ecommerce to FDI—with a catch.

‘Cockroach’ movement rewrites India’s protest playbook, says global media

International publications also look at the Assam’s worst floods in six decades, and how US-Iran war is making staple & affordable food more expensive in Asian economies.

Modi’s ‘aura of invincibility punctured’, Dipke ‘accidental hero’—global media’s take on Gen Z protests

Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation is 'humiliating climbdown' for govt but, more importantly, the CJP movement encompasses 'broader frustrations', it reports.

Global media’s Delhi bulletin: CJP protest a ‘Gen Z affair’, lays bare ‘limits of propaganda’

From The Economist to BBC, NYT & FT, global media say youth-led agitation has exposed a challenge Modi govt didn't anticipate. It's harder to counter with the BJP's usual playbook. 

Govt has lost ‘first round’—global media on CJP stir, India’s ‘pressure-cooker’ education system

Economist says demand for ‘proper education’ has fuelled one of Delhi’s biggest protests in years while NYT examines what youth anger could mean for Modi govt.

On Camera

India’s exotic pet trade has outrun the law. Actor Vikram’s gibbon video is the tip of it

A viral video of Tamil actor Vikram cuddling a Lar gibbon has also put a spotlight on the murky yet booming world of exotic pet trade in India. Enforcement has not kept pace.

Andhra’s Rs 150 cr exploration MoU for lithium, gallium as Centre pushes critical mineral self-reliance

Andhra Pradesh has signed an MoU for a Rs 150 crore exploration project to study lithium and gallium deposits in Kadapa Basin, part of the Centre’s drive to reduce critical mineral imports.

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance enters India’s defence race, joins Rolls-Royce bid to power AMCA

As part of partnership, Reliance & Rolls-Royce will explore formation of dedicated Aerospace Gas Turbine Complex that will be a centre of excellence for power and propulsion technology in India.

Guru RSS is cautioning shishya Modi govt. Bhagwat’s endorsement of Gen Z has an Indira lesson

It’s evident Bhagwat was watching from a distance and was worried about youth’s anger towards Modi govt. The first thing he did was to demolish any criticism of Gen Z protesters as anti-national.