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. 

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Chinese transgressions must end, say people living at LAC in Ladakh

The dominant sentiment among the people living near the LAC in Ladakh is that China must not get away with its transgressions

Chinese test kits incompatible with most Nepali laboratories

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kits procured by the Nepal Army from China are incompatible with most testing machines in the country, according to the Health Ministry officials

China to submit reports on COVID-19 recommendations to Bangladesh

China will submit four specific reports to Bangladesh containing recommendations on how Bangladesh can better deal with the coronavirus situation

Stricter scrutiny for Chinese investments in the offing

The Indian government is said to be mulling a plan to frame stricter and thorough scrutiny of investments from China, which use indirect routes to reach India

India, China hold corps commanders level talks amid massive deployment

Over thousands of Indian Army men stand a few metres away from Line of Actual Control against Chinese People's Liberation Army even as corps commanders of two countries' military meet at Moldo on Monday to resolve the border issue and ease tension in Eastern Ladakh

China finally admits it lost 'less than 20' soldiers in clash with India

A day after Indian media reported that India had handed over dead bodies of 16 Chinese soldiers to the People's Liberation Army (PLA), China on Monday for the first time admitted that it lost "less than 20" troops during the violent face-off along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh last week

Maharashtra puts three Chinese projects on hold

The Maharashtra government has put on hold three major agreements signed with Chinese companies at the recently concluded Magnetic Maharashtra 2.0 investor meet, officials said

Chinese hackers now target website of DPIIT that curtailed Chinese FDI

Amid the rising India-China border tensions and a phishing attack alert by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), a key Indian government business department's website was hacked on Monday

Undue benefits to Chinese firms, sleaze in CPEC rile Pakistanis

Islamabad is unlikely to take any action on companies -- mainly Chinese firms-involved in high-level corruption in the power sector

Chinese media intriguingly sketchy on Galwan clash; casualties kept secret

One can only be surprised by the English-speaking Chinese media's coverage of the latest deadly border clash on June 16 between the Indian and Chinese armies in Ladakh

Haryana axes two power sector contracts with Chinese companies

The BJP-led Haryana government has cancelled contracts with Chinese companies for installing pollution control equipment worth Rs 780 crore at two of its thermal power facilities in the wake of heightened tension between the two neighbours

Beijing woos Dhaka with tariff cuts, but Bangladeshis oppose China

Citizens of Bangladesh are not happy even as China offered to exempt tariff on 97 percent of the products made in their country

Bangladesh’s measures in COVID-19 battle disappoint Chinese experts

A Chinese team of experts has expressed deep concern over the public awareness about COVID-19 and the medical treatment of the disease in Bangladesh

India changes RoE across LAC, firearms can be used in 'extraordinary situations'

India has changed the Rules of Engagement (RoE) across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) after a barbaric attack was carried out by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops on Indian soldiers in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, killing 20 Indian soldiers

Strategically important bridge in Eastern Ladakh completed

The construction of a strategically important bridge over the Shyok river in eastern Ladakh was completed on Thursday amid the face-off with China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Galwan Valley