In the early hours of 7 May 2025, the Indian Air Force executed a highly precise military operation that lasted exactly 23 minutes. Indian forces struck nine targets across Pakistan…
In the pantheon of diplomatic upgrades, “Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership” sounds like typical bureaucratic inflation. Yet the elevation of ties between India and Vietnam on May 6th carries more substance…
India’s recent movement from the fourth to the sixth largest economy in certain global rankings has triggered commentary, concern, and in some quarters, misplaced pessimism. At face value, such a…
In the high passes of the Himalayas, geography has a way of dictating politics. Recently, Nepal lodged a formal objection to plans by India and China to route this summer’s…
As President Donald Trump dismisses the latest Iranian peace overtures and muses publicly about the option to “blast the hell out of them and finish them forever,” Washington finds itself…
The global economy today stands at a critical inflection point. Geopolitical tensions, particularly in key energy-producing regions, have once again exposed the fragility of global supply chains and the deep…
The Pentagon this week deepened its embrace of commercial artificial intelligence. Agreements with seven big technology firms—Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection and SpaceX—will embed their models into…
In the bustling neighbourhoods of Jakarta, where smartphones light up family living rooms late into the night, a significant shift in how young Indonesians experience the online world is quietly…
Finland’s KONE has agreed to buy German rival TK Elevator (TKE) in a cash-and-share transaction that would create the world’s largest elevator and escalator company by sales, underlining the relentless…
Far from any coastline, in the punishing emptiness of West Antarctica, a small team of scientists huddles against the wind. The temperature hovers at -30°C, the light is perpetual and…
Pakistan has long grown used to external shocks derailing its best-laid economic plans. Few, however, have arrived with quite the speed or expense of the short, sharp war between America…
Imagine standing on the frozen edge of the world, where the wind slices like a blade and the ice stretches endlessly toward a horizon that seems to touch another planet.…
With the presidential election just weeks away on 31 May, Colombia finds itself confronting a sharp deterioration in security that has thrust the failures of the past four years into…
Donald Trump has spent half a century turning setbacks into spectacles. From brash Manhattan developer to reality-TV ringmaster to twice-elected president, his career has been a masterclass in branding resilience.…
“He is ready to rumble,” declared Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, on the red carpet outside the Washington Hilton on April 25th. “This speech tonight will be classic…
The latest wave of coordinated militant attacks across Mali has laid bare the depth of a crisis that has been building for more than a decade — one shaped not…
A curious piece of political theatre unfolded in the Indian capital on April 24th. At a joint press conference, three Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha members—Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak and…
The confrontation between Tehran and Washington has entered a precarious new phase, one unfolding not in the skies or on battlefields but along the narrow maritime corridor through which roughly…
With a fragile ceasefire in the West Asia conflict hanging by a thread and US negotiators preparing for another round of talks with Iran in Pakistan, President Donald Trump’s approach…
They were supposed to be miracle injections: weekly shots that could tame type 2 diabetes and melt away stubborn kilograms with remarkable ease. But for growing numbers of patients around…
