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Sunday, August 10, 2025
TopicGlobal Pulse

Topic: Global Pulse

Not a banner year for IT services sector & the mounting scrutiny on Air India since Ahmedabad crash

Global media also reports on job cuts announced by the Tata Consultancy Services and Kartik Kumra at Paris Fashion Week.

Air India gives all clear to its Boeing fuel switches & India-Pakistan ‘ritual’ standoff at Wagah

Global media also reports on the British F-35B fighter jet, that was stranded in Kerala for weeks, finally being on its way home & PM Modi’s 2-day visit to the UK.

Air India crash will ‘cast a cloud over’ country’s aviation ambitions & Boeing’s ‘revitalisation efforts’

Global media terms the crash as the latest in a string of high-profile aviation disasters, raising the question: 'How safe is it to fly?'. They also highlight eyewitness accounts.

Bengaluru’s ‘deadly crowd crush’ & the once ‘unimaginable’ India-Israel defence partnership

International media also reports on why Tesla doesn't want to manufacture in India & the 'crackdown on alleged illegal immigrants from Bangladesh'.

Global media reports on why Trump should be cautious with ‘underlying affairs’ of India-Pakistan

International media also reports on India's move to block the X accounts of China's Global Times & Xinhua. It has sparked criticism from press freedom groups, they say.

India’s ‘capability’ to interfere in Canadian polls & Indian pvt sector investments stuck in slow lane

International media also reports on India sending positive signals toward improving ties with China, reflecting a strategic shift amid evolving global and regional dynamics.

Why New Delhi seems ‘deluded’ about Trump’s tariffs & India returns to the global rice market

International media also reports on the warning from Canadian intelligence agencies about the possibility of India & China meddling in the country's elections.

Why Elon Musk has got his wires crossed in India & an ‘epidemic’ of unique IDs

International media also reports on the latest data from Carnegie Endowment that shows that Indian Americans are still wary of Trump, despite his efforts to woo them.

Religion, money & sheer numbers—Maha Kumbh gives global media the quintessential ‘India story‘

International media questions Modi's 'populist facade', saying Indian democracy will face its most important test in small towns & villages where the bulk of the population still live.

India, Taliban meet sure to ruffle Pakistan’s feathers & Ketan Parekh and the ‘front-running bug’

Global media reports on how row over H-1B programme in US is causing anxiety among Indians keen on achieving the American dream. The visa offers a pathway to permanent residency.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.