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Monday, September 30, 2024
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Topic: China

Weak rupee not enough to tip the scale in favour of Indian exports

Demand-killing trade war threatens Indian exports that have already been hurt by policy disruptions over the past 2 years.

In a first, India & Pakistan will be in wargames in China and Russia, troops leave next week

New Delhi will send multiple contingents of its army for the wargames that will be held between 28 July and 11 August.

A 29-year-old Russian spy in US custody and Taliban is not bombing civilian areas

Trump contradicts his own statements over Russian interference in 2016 elections and China gets its own 'Robinson Crusoe'.

A shocking attack on an Arya Samaji and why the military can’t be compared to IAS, IPS officers

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.

Trump says he ‘misspoke’ at Helsinki, and Thailand may legalise medical marijuana

Former US president Barack Obama warns against 'strongman politics' in highest-profile speech since leaving office, and China's most expensive film has been pulled from theatres.

China’s numbers show why GDP isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Quarterly GDP isn’t very illuminating about the real-time direction of the economy or its velocity.

China builds defences in PoK territory India claims, carries out joint patrols with Pakistan

The region is the sparsely populated Khunjerab Pass in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which is part of the CPEC that India opposes. 

India seeks 25% duty on Chinese & Malaysian solar cells to shield domestic manufacturers

The duty has been proposed by Directorate General of Trade Remedies, a unit of the commerce ministry. 

Putin gets the summit he’d been waiting for, and a crocodile massacre in Indonesia

Senior military officers in Egypt may escape punishment for post-Morsi violence, and British army to hire Gurkha women.

Need to take an extra step & maintain new equilibrium with China: Ex-NSA Shivshankar Menon

A boundary is a useful issue to regulate the temperature of India-China relationship, but it’s a lever, said Menon.

On Camera

Tirupati controversy shows temples can’t run as public sector units. They must be privatised

A private temple could make crores by selling better laddus and investing in goshalas and captive production units to control quality.

After a brief surge, private investment & hiring has again turned cautious. Focus is on cutting debt

Financial year 2022-23 saw private investments & hiring surge, but since then firms are using cash to reduce debt. General elections didn’t help matters, either.

Air Marshal A.P. Singh takes over as IAF chief, task cut out

Air Chief Marshal Singh took over from incumbent V.R. Chaudhari Monday afternoon. His top priority will be strengthening the fighting capability of the IAF, it is learnt.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?