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.
There is no disagreement among Pakistan’s elite about which side they would take in a war between Tehran and Riyadh. Its role as a facilitator helps Islamabad avoid getting involved.
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.
INS Arihant was first vessel under SSBN project and was quietly commissioned in 2016. The second indigenous SSBN, INS Arighat, was commissioned in August 2024.
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.
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