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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
An inflated public view of the military prowess will make it challenging for the country’s political leadership to step back from conflict.
Editor's note: In the 2004 Hindi film Swades, Shah Rukh Khan plays NASA scientist Mohan Bhargava who returns home to a village in India. Tired of Mohan’s sharp questions about the way things are in society, a village elder quizzes him: “Kya tum nahi maante humara desh duniya ka sabse mahaan desh hai? [Do you not believe that ours is the greatest country in the world?]” The same question was put to 7,000 Indian adults in April-May this year as part of a new survey for the Stimson Center, a non-profit, nonpartisan think tank based in Washington DC. The response was overwhelmingly nationalistic: 90% strongly or somewhat agreed with the statement that “India is a better country than most other countries”. The other responses were equally troubling. While 69.3% said India “definitely” or “probably” would defeat both China and Pakistan in a war, the figure climbed to 89.1% when it came to defeating only Pakistan. In what should both worry and please Washington DC, 56% said the United States would “definitely” or “probably” help India in the event of a war with …
Peace talks bring relief to the Emirates, but there’s still a ways to go before full-scale recovery.
The JSW Steel founder is embarking on an unprecedented expansion, betting on Japan’s JFE and Korea’s POSCO to share the load. But rivalries, debt and market risks could complicate the plan.
India is ramping up focus on defence drones, and the decade-old startup wants public money to seize the opportunity. But the track record of listed peers offers a cautionary tale.
