Visiting Professor Ashoka Mody says India chose to ‘dismiss inconvenient truths’ about GDP data to look good. Where was criticism when the economy tanked during COVID, asks govt.
A furious Modi dismissed his critics as “pseudo-secularists.” He recast himself as a friend of business and began marketing Gujarat as a prime business location.
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.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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