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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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Topic: Australia

India isn’t building a military to take on China

If India wants to rise to the challenge and balance China, it needs to increase its military capability.

Adani abandons 2020 target date to begin mining coal in Australia

Lenders from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to three of China’s largest banks have ruled out providing loans for the project.

Despite ball tampering, Steve Smith deserves compassion and sympathy

There is a feeling that Smith has been handled with kid gloves, and that his actions merit a harsher penalty. I do not agree with this.

Global Pulse: The ‘darkest day’ in Australian cricket history disgraces the sport globally

Meanwhile,Turkey's President Erdogan celebrated the Turkish victory over Kurdish forces in Afrin in Syria by saying that he will advance across Syria.

Global Pulse: The Trump administration has fired yet another member, the National Security Advisor

The Trump administration now has their third National Security Advisor in just 14 months. Lieutenant-General H.R. McMaster has been replaced by John Bolton, a former UN ambassador under George W. Bush.

Global Pulse: Australia hopes its new deputy prime minister can stabilise its weak coalition

Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's prime minister, can breathe a sigh of relief now that his coalition has a new deputy prime minister.

Global Pulse: Italy is witnessing the resurrection of Silvio Berlusconi in its search for stability

In the run up to the upcoming Italian elections, Silvio Berlusconi has somehow become a reliable "candidate of calm."

Three striking points about the quad, and what India needs to do to lead it

At the Raisina Dialogue, the four countries’ military leaders talked unabashed about the India-US-Japan-Australia grouping. It sends a message to China.

The Quad: A partnership to address the changed geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific

India, Japan, Australia, and the US attended the ASEAN-India Summit and the East Asia Summit in Manila, and the Quad may be formalised soon.

Snooping dragon: China building another spy ship to keep tabs on adversaries

Chinese spy ships collect data on Japanese, Indian, Australian and US navies – six are in service, one is undergoing trials and one is...

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.