The inevitable happened. Against all hopes that Narendra Modi’s bear hugs will improve India’s relations with the US President Donald Trump, comes the final axe of a 50% tariff on all Indian goods exported to the US. That’s disaster for trade relations worth 80 billion dollars. Indian industri...
More than 80% of India’s oil requirements come from the Middle East, majorly from Iran. After the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear plant sites, Iran has announced to block the Hormuz passage of the Persian Gulf which isexpected to severely affect international transportation of oil. This will shoot ...
First it was a gentle no, then a threat. The US president told Tim Cook, CEO of Apple not to invest in India because ‘it could look after itself,’ and advised him to manufacture iPhone within the US. When it didn’t work – and Cook assured India that he would standby his commitment to invest ...
It is surprising that China has condemned the terrorist attack in Kashmir in no uncertain terms and has expressed a desire to be with the world’s united effort to combat terrorism. If it is not mere rhetoric, China sides with India in taking steps to root out terrorism from its source, that is Pak...
When Donald Trump won the elections for the second time in the US, the world prepared itself to witness drastic changes in geopolitics. Trump wants to annex its neighbouring country Canada as the US’s 51th state; he wants to rename Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico. Arch enemy of the cold war, Russ...
The world’s political tilt towards ‘right’ may usher in far reaching consequences, both in terms of international trade and in social life in general. The return of Donald Trump, change of government in European countries like France and Germany are all indications of a new process of thought....
The way Donald Trump has begun his second innings as the President of United States do not sound very comfortable for the rest of the world. The dramatic way he signs the executive orders before the members of the press gives an indication of his ‘I-don’t-care-anybody’ attitude, which he will ...
The man, who changed the course of India’s economic history, once hoped, almost plunging in despair, that “history will be kind to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the opposition parties in the parliament.” A soft spoken, sometimes ridiculed in the parliament as a ‘mouni b...
The Indian Constitution, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, is no ordinary legal document. It took three years to overcome the controversies and fulfil expectations since India’s independence in 1947, and finally establish itself as a guiding force for the nation. Today, it represent...
Amidst the gloom of the RG Kar affair or the Tirupati laddu scam or even the continued terrorist attacks in Jammu & Kashmir, even after the completion of the first general election in the state, we find hope and encouragement when the founder of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, in his recent visit to India...
