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India stands to lose electronics manufacturing opportunity to Vietnam
There is little incentive to manufacture in India for export apart from those provided by the government.
29 Jul 2025
Escalating tensions in the Middle East could spell doom for Indian trade
Supply chain infrastructure around the world depends on a critical maritime trade route: passage through the Red Sea. And any disruptions in this area could significantly increase costs and delay shipments.
07 Oct 2024
TikTok on the clock, will its party stop?
A new law that calls for a ban on the social media platform in the US if it fails to distance itself from parent ByteDance by January could run into a legal wall as it falls afoul of Americans’ First Amendment rights.
25 Apr 2024
Columbia is ground zero for protests against Israel’s war in Gaza
Starting from its Upper Manhattan campus, protests have spread to universities like NYU, Harvard and Yale, and show no sign of quietening down.
23 Apr 2024
Why the UAE deluge is a climate change warning call
Experts believe that a storm headed for the region—and not cloud seeding—exacerbated by rising heat owing to the effects of climate change was behind the unusually heavy rain that overwhelmed the Gulf nation’s infrastructure.
18 Apr 2024
China’s Evergrande, world’s most indebted property developer, asked to liquidate
The Hong Kong court’s decision is likely to set off a politically complicated and long-drawn procedure. It will be interesting to see how the Chinese authorities react.
29 Jan 2024
Fossil fuel lobby is winning at COP28
With just a day left, the latest draft or an even weaker one is likely to form the basis for the final deal, in a win for the OPEC cartel that wanted no mention of any cuts in fossil fuels.
12 Dec 2023
Why there’s little hope of a breakthrough at COP28
Even before this year’s summit kicked off, it had already been characterized by experts as potentially “the most contentious round of climate talks in almost a decade”.
11 Dec 2023
Host UAE planned to use COP28 summit for oil deals
Ironically, among the climate talks’ focal points over the years has been the need to switch to cleaner energy sources.
28 Nov 2023
Superconductor holy grail search set back by another hoax
Nature retracts the paper claiming the groundbreaking discovery in the second instance of the two lead authors seeing their work on superconductivity binned by the journal
10 Nov 2023