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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Topic: Asia

One thing common in most pandemics: They begin their deadly work in Asia or Africa

Coronaviruses alone have caused three global outbreaks in the last 20 years. Even more troubling, the duration between these three pandemics has gotten shorter.

There is an asymmetry at the heart of India’s complex engagement with the world

India is in the vortex of the multiple transitions the world is going through. We have entered a new decade of its own mix of promise and peril.

Modi govt plans to further ease FDI rules for insurance, aviation

Finance Ministry has suggested increasing limit on FDI in insurance companies to 74% from 49% and allowing foreign airlines to own Indian carriers.

Asia will have world’s largest GDP in 2020 — China and India to contribute the most

Asia is expected to contribute 60% of global growth by 2030. India’s massive demographic dividend and burgeoning middle class will aid economic growth.

India stayed out of RCEP because it couldn’t risk another China-dominated ASEAN

India already has a trade deficit with 11 RCEP countries. Potential losses from foreign goods, who would find more space in Indian market, likely led to rejection.

Burma was once toast of the world. Now, it is on list of top 10 places to avoid

The cost of Burma, now Myanmar’s withdrawal from the world has been material and intellectual impoverishment on a scale unmatched in Asia.

How Asia transformed from the poorest continent to a global economic powerhouse

By around 2050, it’s plausible that Asia will account for more than half of the world's income and population.

Asian economies will prosper despite trade wars and recession, says McKinsey report

Analysts says Asia is rising also in terms of integrating rapidly, arguably setting the pace for a new stage of globalisation ⁠— localisation and regionalisation.

Rupee becomes Asia’s worst performer, poses risk to bond investors

A sharp drop in the rupee may wipe out most profits for offshore investors as they don’t usually hedge currency risk for short-term debt investments.

Bond bonanza to help India battle world’s worst bad loan ratio

The benchmark 10-year sovereign bond yield dropped about 50 bps in July. Each basis point fall in the yield adds Rs 350 crore to banks’ treasury gains.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

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?