18th BRICS Summit

The Real Test for BRICS: More Choices for South Asia, or Just New Dependencies?

But the choice test applies to India as much as to the countries it hopes will follow its lead. If BRICS genuinely widens India's menu of markets, technology partners and financing sources without deepening its dependence on any one of them, it becomes a credible model for the rest of the Global South.

BRICS and the Mask of De-Dollarisation: Of Political Rhetoric and Financial Reality

India’s stand for a dollar-based system is not a rejection of BRICS alignment or unity, but it is a determined choice to act in favour of self-interest like any other founding member. The key difference is India’s position has been the most transparent of all founding members rather than standing behind the collective rhetoric.

Welfare Politics and State Borrowing in India: Easy Populism or Developmental Necessity?

The evidence indicates that the increase in state borrowing over the past decade is best understood as the outcome of a changing fiscal federal system rather than simply an expansion of welfare politics.

Slow Pace of Strategic Indian Projects: These Can Potentially be Gateways to Sri Lanka’s Economic Revival

For India, delays in its strategic projects are not merely bureaucratic setbacks but a matter of national security. Colombo’s motives remain opaque, but for New Delhi, a presence in Sri Lanka’s North and East is non-negotiable. 

More on Geoeconomics, Trade and Development

Both Indian, Chinese troops retreat 2 km each in Galwan

Both Indian and Chinese troops have retreated two kilometres each along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Galwan Valley, where 20 Indian and an unknown number of Chinese soldiers were killed in a violent face-off last month

Nepal's Chinese conundrum: The imbalance and debt trap

China's cheap loans to Nepal in the garb of infrastructure development to facilitate trade will lead to another debt trap, concerned Indian government sources have said

Nepal-China border opens for cargo trucks

After six months of closure, Rasuwagadhi-Kerung, a key crossing point for bilateral trade between Nepal and China, was reopened on Monday

30,000 Indian troops in eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with Chinese

Around 30,000 troops of Indian Army are in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LoC) in Ladakh, following the additional deployment of three brigades since the violent face-off last month

Seriously injured Indian soldiers shifted out of Ladakh

Around 40 Indian soldiers who were seriously injured in the violent face-off with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) last month had been moved for specialized treatment to Chandigarh and New Delhi ten days before the Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Ladakh on Friday

Tibetan body digs out rights violations by China in new report

Whatever China might do -- attack neighbours, badmouth countries, sink fishermen's boats or even fly medicines across a world crippled by coronavirus -- the stain of the pandemic refuses to leave Wuhan, and China

China mulls unblocking Khunjarab border with Pakistan to let stuck-up freight cross

China is mulling temporarily reopening of Khunjarab border with Pakistan to allow movement of freight vehicles, stuck up due to coronavirus lockdown, its envoy said on Saturday

Containing China’s aggressions: Need for a united front

Indeed, China has gone astray from peaceful ascendance and has taken recourse to grabbing lands, maritime channels, and air space of many other countries

Gwadar International Airport construction underway, confirms CPEC chairman

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Chairman Asim Saleem Bajwa on Saturday said the Gwadar International Airport construction is underway

Chinese hand in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan move hits separatists' plans

The controversial proposal to 'annex' Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), which is to change the semi-autonomous status of the region, is being pushed by Pakistan to help China secure the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Indian security agencies have told the government

Pakistan reiterates support to 'One China Policy'

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has reaffirmed Islamabad's extended support to China's "One China Policy", along with a complete alliance against India

CPEC to be completed at all costs, says PM Imran Khan

Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed on Friday that the government would complete the ambitious China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project at any cost and pass its benefits to the nation

'Age of expansionism over': PM Modi's clear message to China from Ladakh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while at Leh, said in a clear warning to China without naming it, that the "age of expansionism is over."

China to help Pakistan set up phytosanitary facility

Pakistan’s future relies on agriculture and Prime Minister Imran Khan is keen to revive this sector, remarked National Food Security and Research Minister Syed Fakhar Imam while talking to Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing

Chinese envoy Hou rules the roost in Nepal!

From Nepal's Chief of Army Staff, General Purna Chandra Thapa to Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli's office, the Chinese Ambassador in Kathmandu, Hou Yanqi,  has access to almost any place under the sun in the Himalayan republic