India’s Trishul exercise
India has announced Exercise Trishul, projecting the tri-service choreography as a display of post-Operation Sindoor confidence – presenting failure as success. But beneath the theatre of jointness lies a deeper…
India’s militaristic turn
Early October witnessed an intensification of India’s anti-Pakistan discourse and military signaling, initiated by the Indian defence minister’s address and reinforced by subsequent speeches from the chiefs of the army…
India’s Afghan play
India’s renewed outreach to the Taliban government in Kabul marks a notable shift in South Asia’s strategic landscape. After two decades of staunch opposition to the Taliban and close alignment…
India considers introducing nationwide climate-linked insurance scheme
India’s government has begun early-stage talks with local insurers about designing a nationwide climate-linked insurance programme aimed at simplifying the payout process after extreme weather events such as heatwaves and…
Apple lobbies India to change tax law seen hindering its expansion
Apple is lobbying India’s government to modify its income tax law to ensure the company is not taxed for ownership of high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its contract manufacturers,…
What Muttaqi’s India visit means for Pakistan
It appears that everything was thoughtfully choreographed. The Afghan Interim Government (AIG) ‘s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi would visit New Delhi straight from the Moscow Format Meeting, to be…
New visa rules shatter the American dream for many Indians
Indian aerospace engineering student Sudhanva Kashyap thought he had mapped out everything it would take to get to the United States, only to have his plans upended by Washington’s sudden…
Floods devastate India’s breadbasket of Punjab
The fields are full but the paddy brown and wilted, and the air thick with the stench of rotting crops and livestock — the aftermath of record monsoon rains that…
India’s SC deserves praise
The July 2025 ruling of the Supreme Court of India is more than a legal document—it is a watershed moment in South Asia’s ecological history. For decades, both India and…
India’s ‘strong’ economic growth fails to impress equity investors
India’s world-beating economic growth is failing to translate into gains for equity markets as weakening pricing power and US tariffs weigh on corporate earnings, turning foreign investors away. Gross domestic…
