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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Tigers in bottles made the wild animal worth more dead than alive

As tigers disappear from the wild, more and more turn up in farms across Asia.

Cautious until now, these Asian countries are finally accelerating Covid vaccine drives

With the coronavirus mostly contained throughout much of Asia, nations have had the luxury to wait and see how safely and effectively vaccines can blunt the virus.

Rupee is bouncing back from being Asia’s worst currency, thanks to flood into stock markets

Rupee has gained 0.6% this year against dollar, and there are signs it could keep rallying. A recovering economy & an expansive budget are luring global funds to India’s equities.

India tops in Asia with most sugar daddies, unemployment, inequality cited as reason

According to a leading sugar dating website, India has 3,38,000 sugar daddies, followed by Indonesia at 60,250.

Why Asia’s movie rebound is good news for everyone

Just as in the US, theaters in Asia-Pacific closed thanks to Covid. But the region has shown that worries of streaming services eating into the market share are premature.

Don’t ignore the good news on Covid-19 from Asia

The perception of an Asian advantage often falls prey to essentialist thinking — that somehow the East's values, politics and culture is letting it do things the West can't.

Who wields most power in Asia? US tops Lowy index but China is catching up, India ranks 4th

Lowy projects India will reach 40% of China’s economic output by 2030, compared with the 50% estimate last year.

Record remittance is turning into a crash for emerging markets like India

As migrants workers from Asia's developing nations see opportunity drying up in job market, they are sending money home in advance of their own return.

In European history, the World Wars are seen as monstrous aberrations. They were not

In ‘Bland Fanatics’, Pankaj Mishra writes how books and films portray the pre-war years as an age of prosperity in Europe. But it was full of war, racism and genocide.

Asia faces $4.7 trillion labour loss by 2050 due to climate change, McKinsey warns

The loss of outdoor labour could shave off 7% to 13% off GDP in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?