A common BIMSTEC policy statement on digital sovereignty would give the region a clearer collective voice and a stronger negotiating footing with foreign companies. Additionally, BIMSTEC can be used to initiate a shift from U.S. cloud storage companies to regional alternatives such as TATA Communications (India) and NIPA Cloud (Thailand).
India is carving out a vital role in the global back-end chip infrastructure. Washington actively views India's rise in this sector as a strategic hedge, codifying tech cooperation through bilateral frameworks designed to shift critical supply lines away from East Asia.
The implications of mismanagement extend far beyond groundwater depletion. Foreign investors have withdrawn a record $30 billion from Indian equities so far in 2026. Regional data suggests investors have relocated their withdrawals across Taiwan and South Korea’s AI and semiconductor ecosystems.
AI literacy should become as important as digital literacy. An informed user is ultimately the first and most effective line of defence against blindly accepting what a machine tells us.
Pakistan has shared with the World Bank a revised outline of the Circular Debt Management Plan that seeks rationalization of taxes, negotiated takeover of old independent power plants (IPPs) and closure of all old public sector plants to increase electricity tariffs, Dawn reported
Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla has lauded the Modi government's policy change in vaccination, bringing all above 18 under the mass drive and extending financial support to the vaccine manufacturers
The Sri Lankan government would explore the possibility of attracting investments to the Colombo Port City Economic Zone from India in the near future, a minister said on Tuesday
President Joe Biden's spokesperson Jen Psaki has refused to say if the US will allow the export of COVID-19 vaccine raw materials to India, a shortage that could impact global supply, or set a timeline for dealing with the requests for relaxing the vaccine patent rights
General Motors India has laid off all workers--1,419 of them--at its Talegaon plant, located in the outskirts of Pune by invoking Section 25 of the Industrial Dispute Act
Amid the steep rise in Covid-19 cases, the Indian government on Friday said it is taking steps to increase and accelerate the production of indigenous vaccines
Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani, the country's richest man, will supply oxygen from his refineries to aid the tough battle against Covid-19, which currently has India under its grip
The sale of national carrier Air India has reached the financial bidding stage and the transaction is likely to be concluded by September this year, said media reports
The Renewables arm of Larsen & Toubro’s Power Transmission & Distribution Business has secured the go-ahed to begin constructing the 300MW Jeddah Solar PV Power Plant
A top US leader once again slammed China for showing lack of transparency in sharing information during the earlier stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
The US Senate’s new legislation, the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, lays out a wide-ranging strategy for the first time to contain China's attempt to expand globally, media reports said
Special U.S. envoy on climate John F. Kerry might travel to China next week amid rising tension between the two nations, media reports said
According to a recent study, digital payment transactions in India have gone up by 76 per cent in the January-March period this year compared to what it was in the same period last year
Over 60,000 people in Bangladesh acquired digital skills during the Covid pandemic through the initiatives of Microsoft, the multinational company has announced, The Daily Star reported
India has achieved a new record high, for the first time stockpiling a total of 132 million tonnes of coal - enough to run India’s power plants for two months - greatly exceeding the average of the previous five years, finds a new briefing note by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)
