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Topic: ASEAN summit

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s presence at ASEAN could create new US-China axis. India shouldn’t have skipped it

As in the West, India must engage with ASEAN and APEC in the East and Southeast with a much greater degree of seriousness and commitment.

Thailand and Cambodia sign enhanced ceasefire deal in Trump’s presence at ASEAN Summit

It builds on a truce reached 3 months ago after Trump called the then leaders of the 2 countries, urging them to end hostilities or risk putting their respective trade talks with US on hold.

East Timor, Asia’s youngest nation, becomes ASEAN’s 11th member

Also known as Timor-Leste, the nation of 1.4 million joins ASEAN, hoping membership boosts its $2 billion economy, tiny beside the bloc’s $3.8 trillion GDP.

Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing to attend regional summit in Thailand amid earthquake crisis

Hlaing is the subject of Western sanctions and is barred from attending ASEAN summits due to the Myanmar military's failure to implement an agreed peace plan with the bloc.

India says no ‘substantive’ Modi-Trudeau talks at Laos as Canada PM recalls stressing on ‘work we need to do’

India-Canada ties rocky since Trudeau last year said Ottawa was investigating ‘credible allegations’ linking Indian officials with killing of Indian designated terrorist Hardeep Nijjar.

As Modi heads to Laos, a look at what’s at stake in the ASEAN-India and East Asia summits

Modi will be in Laos 10-11 October for 21st ASEAN-India summit & 19th East Asia summit. Review of New Delhi’s Act East policy to take place, discussions on Myanmar to take centrestage.

With ruling generals barred from key meetings, Myanmar sends senior official for ASEAN meet

Military-ruled Myanmar sent a bureaucrat to Monday's meeting. Move was in line with ASEAN's policy on the conflict-torn country's attendance.

Udhayanidhi on the hook and an ‘Air Bharat One’ flight to ‘INDonesia’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

SC must regulate judges’ post-retirement conduct to ensure judicial independence

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

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India’s most consequential decade & chronicling it as part of the dream team of journalism

You’d think the decade of 1985-95 is long over. Not really. The issues that erupted in that decade are still shaping Indian conversations.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.