At a time when global consumers are increasingly drawn to wellness-oriented and sustainable diets, South Asian culinary traditions, particularly those rooted in India’s Ayurveda, offer significant potential. However, without institutional backing, this remains diffused cultural capital rather than strategic influence.
The China tale offers important lessons. China’s rise in the renewable sector is not just fuelled by demand for clean energy, but by a broader strategy, linking energy policy with manufacturing, technology development and global trade. India now seems to have begun taking steps in this direction. Policy measures such as the production-linked incentives scheme for solar manufacturing and efforts to expand domestic battery production are intended to strengthen the country’s clean energy ecosystem.
China’s expanding influence in Myanmar and Bangladesh does not operate in isolation. It is reinforced by Beijing’s long-standing strategic partnership with Pakistan, frequently described by both sides as an “all-weather” alliance. In recent years, Islamabad has sought to revive and expand diplomatic engagement with both Dhaka and Naypyidaw, reflecting a broader effort to re-establish its presence along the eastern arc of the Bay of Bengal. While Pakistan lacks China’s financial scale or infrastructure capacity, its diplomatic signalling complements Beijing’s presence
Officially, India maintained that no territory was lost. Strategically, however, many analysts described the situation as a shift in the status quo—an altered operational environment in which access, patrolling patterns and tactical depth were recalibrated.
The Chargé d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka, Hu Wei, met with Sri Lanka’s Minister of Higher Education and government spokesman Bandula Gunawardena Wednesday and donated masks to the Ministry of Higher Education for the universities, vocational training institutes and other higher education institutions
China has backed down on a ban on flights of US airlines after President Donald Trump's administration retaliated by threatening to block carriers from that country flying into the US
A team of Chinese medical experts, who have the first-hand experience in containing coronavirus and treating patients with success, is expected to arrive in Bangladesh with necessary medical equipment on June 8
China has made a slight retreat at Galwan Valley, one of the flashpoints leading to a standoff with India, in Ladakh region on Wednesday, sources said. In a bid to resolve the issue, China's People's Liberation Army moved back two kilometres and the Indian Army has moved back by one kilometre
Nepal has endorsed China's new national security law for Hong Kong even as the Western block led by the US have jointly called Beijing's move a direct violation of international treaties
Chinese President Xi Jinping is a troubled man who appears to be going berserk with mounting external and internal challenges
Talks between India and China's military representatives on Tuesday to resolve the ongoing face-off in eastern Ladakh between the two countries remained inconclusive, government sources said
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed support for China's efforts to safeguard national unity and security in a meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Wang Yu
As India and China have enhanced the diplomatic and military engagement to resolve the tension at Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, a different kind of perception war in the digital landscape has started between the social media users of the two countries
Thamel police have taken Chinese national Chen Xi, 21, into custody after some locals caught a few Chinese men for allegedly misbehaving with some local girls in Chhetrapati area near Thamel, Kathmandu, yesterday
Various cities of China have helped Pokhara metropolis with health materials worth 79,000 USD. Mayor Man Bahadur GC said the metropolis had established relationship of brotherhood with different cities of China
As it looks both China and the US are mutually preparing to face each other into a possible confrontation due to Beijing’s persisting forcible capture over the entire South China Sea, despite losing this claim in the International Court of Arbitration just a few years back
US President Donald Trump has claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not pleased with the Xi Jinping regime over the ongoing border conflict while reiterating his offer of mediation between India and China. Responding to a media query related to the border tensions between India and China, President Trump on Thursday at his Oval Office said, "They have a big conflict going with India and China
Even as the Indian government has never admitted it, China had occupied 640 sq km of Indian territory in Eastern Ladakh during the second term of the UPA regime under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
China has donated 125,000 face masks for Sri Lankan school children from low-income families before schools reopen after the COVID-19 pandemic
