The BRICS grouping’s foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi concluded on Friday without a joint statement, exposing sharp divisions over the escalating crisis in West Asia. As Iran traded accusations with the United Arab Emirates, India found itself navigating a…
As foreign ministers from an expanded BRICS gathered in India’s capital this week, the gathering carried the weight of a world in flux. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, chairing the sessions, did not mince words. “Peace cannot be piecemeal”, he…
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 and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir using precision munitions, satellite-guided weapons, and loitering…
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 than the label suggests. As both countries mark the tenth…
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 shift appears to signal an erosion of economic strength. However,…
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 Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage through Lipulekh, a strategic pass claimed by…
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 at a perilous crossroads in the two-month-old conflict with Iran.…
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 interlinkages between politics and economics. Oil prices remain volatile—hovering in…
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 classified American military systems. The aim is to give commanders…
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 unfolding. On 28 March 2026, Indonesia began enforcing one of…
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 consolidation in an industry central to global urbanisation. Announced on…
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 flat, and beneath their boots lies more than half a…
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 and Iran. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif complained to his cabinet…
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. Beneath your boots lies not just snow and ancient ice,…
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 the spotlight. While the government’s “total peace” strategy promised dialogue…
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. Yet the past three years have added a darker chapter:…
“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 Donald J. Trump. It will be funny. It will be…
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 only by insurgency but also by shifting geopolitical alliances, economic…
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 Ashok Mittal—announced that they and four colleagues were merging with…
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 one-fifth of the world’s traded oil passes. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard…
