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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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The world’s best and worst bank returns can be found in India

Despite India's state-run banks being in a rundown condition, the country's rich private banks are keeping investors' belief alive in the Indian economy.

What it will take to finally defeat Tuberculosis

A shortage of global funding for medical research — which is only a third of what’s required — explains why decades have passed with no new TB treatments or vaccines.

Singapore bourse sued by National Stock Exchange in futures dispute

The National Stock Exchange of India sued Singapore Exchange Ltd. in a Mumbai court, posing a threat to one of the most widely used offshore futures contracts by investors worldwide.

Look to India for returns, not China’s Belt-and-Road, funds say

As the Chinese initiative is primarily for Beijing to exert its influence over the region, investors are not seeing much possibility of financial returns. 

Here’s how to find the cleanest public bathroom in any airport

When you're coming off a flight, try and skip the restroom nearest to the gates.

Bubbling crude oil prices spell triple-whammy setback for India

Asia’s No. 3 economy faces a wider trade deficit, a worsening of stretched government finances, and slower economic growth if oil prices remain stubborn at the current level.

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.

India is the most attractive distressed market for this debt trader

Cleaning up India’s stressed loans has been a big priority of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in order to attract investments to the country. 

There is a growing frustration with US inactivity on the global scene

Amid widespread alienation of former allies, Trump administration’s outreach to India and Japan is vital.

Global Pulse: A new ‘end of history’?

Is there anything really unprecedented about this era? Or are we, like past generations, taken over by “the parochialism of the present"?

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BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

Digital push for grassroots banking: 2 new apps to transform urban cooperative banks for 9 cr users

Cooperation Ministry takes a step towards financial inclusion with Sahkar DigiPay and Sahkar DigiLoan. They will enable faster and seamless access to financial services in small towns.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.