India now has legal support to demand that donor countries move beyond vague pledges. The ICJ opinion reframes carbon equity as obligations rather than diplomatic asks.
The Southeast Asian theatre is central to the Great Power contest between the US and China. It’s also a landscape where middle powers—France, the UK, Turkey—are shaping the strategic environment.
India has been pleading for long to bring reforms in institutions like the United Nations, IMF, and World Bank, which it believes are West-dominated and don’t reflect current global realities.
The UK’s growing focus on high-skilled work visas shows a clear intent to attract only the brightest minds—a kind of ‘brain drain’, but on the Western country’s terms.
Several terror attack cases have been concluded by following the methods Maharashtra ATS used in the 7/11 case. It’s surprising that the high court didn’t find them worthy of legal scrutiny.
Each billion dollars we spend on GPUs and AI hardware is akin to planting more neurons in the simulated brain we are building. And this brain is expanding — quickly.
The reason that India hasn’t grown at the speed of South Korea, China or Vietnam is because the machinery of the government still holds on to the ‘commanding heights’.
India had a nuclear research programme at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, months before the US’ test. Eight decades later, it is light years away from that early vision.
India will need to recalibrate crude sourcing strategy as US ends waivers for Russian & Iranian oil, energy experts say. But Russian crude will likely remain central to energy basket.
This special edition of Cut The Clutter, straight from the Siliguri corridor, details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to the rest of India.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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