Amid shifting global power, India must choose: push bold political, economic, and federal reforms now—or risk deformation and decline in the new world order.
Study, conducted between January & April, finds that just 34% of people across 24 countries believe that Trump is doing a good job leading the world on major global issues.
It's hardly surprising that Maldives has played the China card. This is the kind of self-interested behaviour that India frequently invokes with Russia or Iran.
Although a modest bounce back for China cannot be ruled out, the widely anticipated challenge it was supposed to pose to Western strategic dominance is still some ways away.
For Indian foreign policy, a weakened Russia is a mixed bag: it is likely to be more beholden to Beijing, but its support to China in the Indo-Pacific would matter less.
Aparna Pande's Making India Great, by HarperCollins, will be released on 18 August on SoftCover, ThePrint’s e-venue to launch select non-fiction books.
If India fails to action key reforms, its geopolitical leverage will reduce and it will be forced to ally more closely with the US on less favourable terms.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
A panel of experts moderated by ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta drew connections between insights of 1965 Indo-Pak War and strategic takeaways highlighted by Op Sindoor.
In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?
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