Newly appointed Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, Kahlilur Rahman, is expected to land in India in April. This will be first high-level outreach since PM Tarique Rahman took office.
In previous eras, a prolonged increase in geopolitical and supply-side risks would have been met with a coordinated fiscal response. This is not the current scenario.
While the Russia-Ukraine war saw the BJP projecting PM Modi as a ‘vishwaguru’ who could end international conflicts, the party has made a nuanced shift in its electoral strategy vis-à-vis the West Asia war.
Mizoram chief minister Lalduhoma has flagged an unusual rise in foreign arrivals. Nearly 2,000 Western visitors entered Mizoram between June and December 2024.
The Iran War is an opportunity for India to repatriate talent, attract capital inflows and boost domestic investments as investors look for a stable, growth-oriented economy.
Switching to LNG alone will not grant India energy security. It must be backed up by increased electrification of cooking, industrial processes, and transportation.
Punjab could draft an NRI Affairs Act constituting a statutory commission. But it means facing the charge that the state is creating a privileged class of absentee landowners.
The one thing that keeps the relentless beauty of trans people alive is their community. But for lawmakers, kinship is ‘deception’, ‘allurement’, and ‘undue influence’.
India is today immeasurably better resourced to make such bets than it was in 1950 or 1954. It has the credibility across divides that Pakistan can never quite claim.
Despite its new avatar, Kerala’s culture remains rooted in socialistic principles. Yet there is growing acceptance to ‘privatisation with participation', observers say.
Report on impact of AI emergence—drawing upon depositions from several ministries—confirms that the developments come in the absence of AI laws or considerations over them.
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.
A new column for The Economist is named Telegram,. In honour of George Keenan whose cable from Moscow in February 1946 laid the framework for the policy of containment. After four decades, the United States and its allies finally ran the Soviet Union into the ground. A similar dynamics is being attempted with China, with a diminished Russia in a supporting role. 2. The difference is that China is integrated with the global economy in a way that the Soviet Union was not. Countries being asked to take sides are being asked to forego beneficial trade and investment linkages. The virtues of free trade extolled by the West are now being undone, partly to thwart the rise of China, partly because, , as in various products linked to renewable energy, a planetary imperative, China has developed competitive strengths. 3. India must choose wisely.
A new column for The Economist is named Telegram,. In honour of George Keenan whose cable from Moscow in February 1946 laid the framework for the policy of containment. After four decades, the United States and its allies finally ran the Soviet Union into the ground. A similar dynamics is being attempted with China, with a diminished Russia in a supporting role. 2. The difference is that China is integrated with the global economy in a way that the Soviet Union was not. Countries being asked to take sides are being asked to forego beneficial trade and investment linkages. The virtues of free trade extolled by the West are now being undone, partly to thwart the rise of China, partly because, , as in various products linked to renewable energy, a planetary imperative, China has developed competitive strengths. 3. India must choose wisely.