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Friday, November 14, 2025
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Topic: India

They fooled us: Families of Indians killed in Iraq question why they weren’t told earlier

Over a dozen meetings with the external affairs minister, the families were assured that their missing kin were alive. But now, Swaraj has declared them dead.

How China’s fight against pollution torpedoed India’s newspaper industry

At play are several factors: China’s decision to no longer be the prime destination for the world’s garbage.

China quietly & cleverly finds a new route to S. Doklam, 7 months after India stopped it

New alignment is 5 km away from Indian posts, making it difficult for India to do anything. The new road will open up South Doklam to Chinese troops.

India & Pakistan ‘harass’ each others diplomats, but want to make prisoners’ lives easier

Defunct since 2013, India-Pakistan Judicial Commission for Prisoners likely to be revived, MEA sets the ball rolling.

It should worry India that China wants to be the undisputed renewable growth leader

India’s global aspirations over the International Solar Alliance are at odds with domestic realities.

France is working with India to come up with unique ‘jugaad’ solutions to problems

France’s strong science and engineering capabilities, combined with the Indian concept of jugaad, or frugal ingenuity, could help us solve problems that threaten all of humanity.

India is more secure than we fear, and our political leaders are smarter than we concede

Politicians must be made to understand that defence expenditure is like an insurance premium on national security, so defence budget needs to be boosted.

India is leading the solar charge, but its own domestic industry faces gathering clouds

While capacity is expanding rapidly, profit margins are shrinking, which could make it difficult for India to keep its promise of 100 GW solar power by 2022.

Curtailing immigration to the US would hurt the country, says top strategist Richard Haass

Haass says Indian immigrants are important to US economy, and hopes the Indian govt will raise the issue of H-1B visas with the US.

Nuclear-armed India & Pakistan are harassing each other’s diplomats by ringing doorbells

Foreign ministries on both the sides allege systematic harassment of their senior diplomats.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.