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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Chinese professor faces rare US economic espionage trial

The trial comes amid an aggressive US crackdown on Chinese theft of intellectual property that began under President Obama and has escalated during the Trump administration’s trade war with China.

US-China trade war keeps global manufacturing stuck in a slump

The world economy is failing to rebound from the slowdown that has plagued it for the whole of this year amid mounting trade tensions and rising Brexit risks.

India, US looking to ease trade tensions ahead of Modi-Trump meet

Easing of trade tensions will help India boost exports and cushion an economic slowdown caused by a collapse in domestic consumption.

At Howdy, Modi! event in US, PM to draw ‘largest-ever’ crowd after Pope

A record audience of over 50,000 people have already registered for the event to be held on 22 September at the sprawling NRG stadium in Houston.

Breakdown of US-Taliban peace talks much-needed relief for Afghanistan, says envoy

Tahir Qadiry, Chargé d’Affaires at Afghan embassy, says it is up to the Taliban to get integrated into Afghan community and not the other way round.

US military to launch project to fight fake news, disinformation

The US Defense Department is planning to come up with a custom software that can unearth fakes hidden among more than 500,000 stories, photos, video and audio clips.

From US to India, the world is unravelling. Do not delude yourself this is a temporary blip

Having reported and analysed global affairs for forty years, I declare that I am scared, writes British journalist Nik Gowing

US must pay reparations for slavery, it can look to Germany & the Holocaust for lessons

While the German experience with reparations is, of course, not directly comparable to that of the United States, old injustices don’t simply disappear with time.

Al Qaeda is as strong as ever after rebuilding itself, US says

Al Qaeda has been reconstituting and its affiliates are being seen across the globe, according to US State Department’s counter-terrorism coordinator.

US thanks ‘great friend’ India for cooperation on oil sanctions as tensions with Iran spike

The Trump administration Wednesday slapped sanctions on Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif, which curtails his international travel and freezes his American assets.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?