Pakistan obsession is unfortunate because it ends up obscuring graver challenges in India’s relationship with China, which has assumed a broader scope.
Optimism from first round of informal talks in Wuhan in April 2018 appears to have dissipated with China's aggressive stance on India scrapping Article 370.
New Delhi’s carefully worded disappointment over Beijing’s stand is in line with India’s engagement with China before and after the Modi-Xi meeting in Wuhan.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the informal summit between President Jinping and PM Modi in Wuhan last year has opened up new prospects for the bilateral ties.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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