In 2025, Sri Lanka was ranked as the second most expensive housing market in the world based on rentals compared to average income. It is possible that market distortions caused by black economy and corruption have contributed to this.
The larger opportunity before West Bengal is therefore not another round of infrastructure creation in isolation. It is the creation of an ecosystem in which infrastructure, private capital, local enterprise and skilled labour reinforce one another.
Why not begin by reopening serious discussions with Chinese conglomerate BYD about an Indian factory? BYD is now one of the world’s dominant EV manufacturers. Its Indian ambitions were caught in the post-Galwan investment freeze. Invite it back to the table—but on Indian terms
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.
Does the cast iron-friendship of brothers China and Pakistan also extend to poverty-stricken Balochistans copper and gold mines? Is this why Chinas growing footprint in Pakistan fired Baloch insurgents who now feel doubly exploited by both Pakistan and now China
After a two-and-a-half hour-long meeting that went into the night in Moscow, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said they have agreed on a five-point course of action to de-escalate the four-month-long standoff between their troops at the Line of Actual Control in the disputed region of the Ladakh Himalayas
H.E. Dr. S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister of India met H.E. Wang Yi, State Councillor and Foreign Minister of China on 10thSeptember in Moscow on the side-lines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting
Even as Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops continue to occupy positions on Finger 4 at Pangong lake in eastern Ladakh, Indian soldiers have occupied some heights overlooking PLA positions in the north bank areas, sources said
China has designated Nong Rong as a new ambassador to Pakistan who is currently a minister in a provincial government, The News reported on Thursday
Chinese construction company Shanghai Construction Group has donated 20,000 masks to the Maldives among other equipment to combat COVID-19
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Indian soldiers have set up barbed wire obstacles at points where Chinese troops have come a few metres away from their positions at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh
The Mizoram state government has banned the use of China-made Kenbo motorcycles as they are being used in the border state to bring smuggled or illegal substances, including drugs, from neighbouring Myanmar, an official said on Wednesday
As India dominates south of Pangong Lake in Eastern Ladakh, China has started fresh build-up at Finger 4 area north of the Lake, sources said on Wednesday
China is now trying to convince its own people that its Army can fight a war and has the advantage over India
Chinese State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Zhao Kezhi has said that the Chinese side stands ready to maintain strategic communication and deepen law enforcement cooperation with the Pakistani side
Around 40 to 50 PLA soldiers, armed with spears and other sharp-edged weapons as well as guns, have come just a few metres from the Indian Army position on the heights north of Rezang La in eastern Ladakh, and are likely to make a fresh attempt to dislodge the Indian soldiers, sources said on Tuesday
China claims to have successfully tested a secret "reusable" spacecraft amid the border crisis along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India in Ladakh and confrontation with multiple nations in South China Sea
India and China accused each other of indulging in a fresh skirmish at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh, where troops fired warning shots in the air to scare and push back each other
