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Saturday, July 26, 2025
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Topic: IMF

Investors hopeful Imran Khan can form stable govt, address Pakistan’s financial woes

Four currency devaluations since December have made it likely the next government will seek another IMF bailout.

Nawaz Sharif and daughter to be arrested on arrival in Pakistan

Here’s what is happening across the border: Country seeks more funds from China as the Afghan Taliban rejects peace talks. 

Bilawal Bhutto’s convoy attacked at Karachi’s Lyari neighbourhood

Printing of most expensive ballot paper starts for July elections as a transgender activist declares assets worth Rs 100 million.

Simplify GST to maintain high growth, IMF tells India

Also urges a clean-up of banks' balance sheets as it projects growth at 7.8% for FY 19-20.

Why India is a haven in this emerging-market turmoil

Experts say there's enough demand from the nation's booming middle class to render it relatively immune to external shocks. 

IMF wants tighter monetary policy but analysts divided over whether RBI will raise rates

IMF report also says India is poised to grow at 7.4 per cent in FY 2018-19, thus making it one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

On Camera

Thailand-Cambodia clash is more than a border fight—it’s a new front in Cold War 2.0

The Southeast Asian theatre is central to the Great Power contest between the US and China. It’s also a landscape where middle powers—France, the UK, Turkey—are shaping the strategic environment.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.