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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
The Real Test for BRICS: More Choices for South Asia, or Just New Dependencies?
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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.
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The Chinese People's Liberation Army is finally vacating Finger 4 area on the northern bank of Pangong lake that it had occupied last year and changed the status quo on the Line of Actual Control with India
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The construction of a China-funded National Nephrology Hospital in Polonnaruwa district of the north-central region of Sri Lanka has been completed, reported Newswire
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India has 'given in' to China's 1959 claim on LAC: Former general
Though the Modi government has trumpeted the India-China disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh as a victory, Indian Army veteran, Lt. Gen. H.S. Panag, called it pragmatic acceptance of weakness and Beijing's 1959 claim
Indian and Chinese troops begin frontline thinning at disputed LAC
After nine months of standoff and nine rounds of military talks, disengagement by Indian and Chinese frontline troops from the flashpoints at Pangong Lake in eastern Ladakh began on Wednesday, with officials on both sides claiming that the process is taking place in a step-by-step manner
