India’s strategic interests don’t lie in securing control of a tiny island. Instead, the real challenge India faces is containing China’s growing influence in Sri Lanka.
As Vantara zoo captivates Indian and global audiences with its stellar facilities and grand scale, the crying gap in Indian zoos has gone largely unnoticed and unaddressed.
Live-in relationships are on the rise. So are the social pressures. The Supreme Court has widened the rights, but pushback has come from high courts, statutory bodies, politicians.
Smaller investors don’t want to enter sectors where India’s big corporate players are dominant, not for fear of market forces, but for fear of non-market ones.
The minority affairs ministry and the Central Waqf Council want to pull the plug on the Maulana Azad Education Foundation, but it won’t accept the ‘obsolete’ label.
After Islamic State-linked terrorists slaughtered over a hundred people at Moscow’s Crocus Theatre last week, Putin alleged that the West had pulled the strings.
The Supreme Court has blocked the Assam govt’s decision to withdraw the 1998 notification for Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary. Now, villagers are worried they could lose their land.
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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