Maybe we needed to be diverted by happy images of PM Modi enjoying the company of beautiful animals or by the Congress leader's critical comments on cricket captain Rohit Sharma’s fitness.
In Episode 1616, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks back at 6 weeks of tumult in world politics, Trump’s maximalist stance & what India needs to be wary of ahead of Quad summit.
The US President continues to pressure Kyiv to end the war. The decision puts the US at odds with his European allies, who have pledged to support Ukraine with further aid.
Zelenskyy was bold in standing up against a superpower knowing bigger stakes needed bigger bargains and he seemingly fell flat on that front. But there are no free lunches.
‘Peace is not just the absence of war,’ says Ukraine's Zelenskyy, quoting Reagan who Trump in 2017 called his ‘favourite’ president. European leaders rallied behind Ukraine after televised spat.
It was a public dressing down of Zelenskyy, in which Trump and Vance seemed to be reprimanding the Ukrainian president for being reckless and ungrateful.
Trump presented the agreement, the details of which remain unknown, as a way for the US to recoup some of the aid sent to Ukraine over the course of the three-year war.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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