India's Union Budget 2026-27 looks disciplined on paper. With US tariffs on India now exceeding those on China, opportunity slips away while the jobs crisis deepens.
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India remained an epicentre of geopolitical mishaps in the region.
A wage dispute, a false blasphemy charge and a killing that both Dhaka and New Delhi are exploiting for political gain
As Islamist unrest grips Dhaka, protests against handing the nation's economic lifeline to foreign operators fade from view
The mob violence that followed Sharif Osman Hadi's murder has raised some crucial questions over Bangladesh's security and geopolitical crisis.
Is it now Iran's turn, after Venezuela, to face US-Israeli attacks targeting its leadership?
Palestinian resistance groups demanded that mediators and guarantor states take immediate action to stop Israel's continued attacks on civilians and enforce the truce agreement.
Signing the Gaza peace deal is not a loss for Palestine, but it shows the steadfastness of the people and the fighters, resistance organisations claimed.
Hamas agrees to the US's Gaza peace plan, but Israeli attacks continue.
The conflicts
The India-Russia declaration took an opportunistic stance on Gaza and Iran, a visible shift from their SCO stance.
Vladimir Putin's first visit to India since the Ukraine war showcased warm diplomatic theatre but delivered remarkably little substantive progress.
Palestinian resistance groups demanded that mediators and guarantor states take immediate action to stop Israel's continued attacks on civilians and enforce the truce agreement.
Can Russia really fix its trade imbalance with India? While Putin's aide assures, reality remains different.
Geopolitics
What stops China from intervening in the Venezuelan crisis and saving its ally, Maduro?
Putin knows India aspires to become South Asia's Israel with western support. He knows Modi will ultimately tilt towards Trump. Yet Putin's India visit proceeds regardless. Without economic leverage, Moscow's diplomatic efforts to retain influence over New Delhi appear increasingly futile.
When military pacts meet economic captivity, both nations discover the limits of containment.
Pakistan extends nuclear protection to Saudi Arabia through a controversial mutual defence pact, triggering concerns across West Asia while potentially reshaping regional security dynamics and economic partnerships.
Geoeconomy
India's Union Budget 2026-27 looks disciplined on paper. With US tariffs on India now exceeding those on China, opportunity slips away while the jobs crisis deepens.
The India-EU FTA shakes auto stocks and tests India’s long-held reliance on tariffs to protect domestic manufacturing
What does the India-EU FTA hold for Indian industries and farmers?
The cotton duty slash, hailed in Washington, has sparked outrage in India’s farm belt over Modi’s retreat.
Discount-laden Russian crude greases the wheels of India’s refinery boom—but Trump’s latest duties turn that advantage into a delicate balancing act between state claims and market realities.
Bangladesh's economy has shown promising performance in the year since the July Revolution.
The World Bank's recent data shows India's poverty has fallen drastically. However, experts raise an eerie alarm over this data and survey methodology.
With nothing new to offer, does Bangladesh's austerity budget for 2025-26 disappoints the very youth who toppled Sheikh Hasina's regime last year?
As civilian tolls rise with India-Pakistan military conflict escalating across the LoC and international border, who is benefitting from the war?
Trump's China tariffs of 145% can't scare Beijing; a diplomat asserted that posting a video of Mao Zedong
Editorial & Op-eds
The UNGA saw the West's Palestine recognition spree. But what's the catch?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is showing his monthly geopolitical acrobatic stunts again, this time by rapproaching the US-Israel nexus.
Why do American officials, despite growing up, still see a monster under the bed? Why are they so scared of China?
The recently-concluded China-US trade talks hold potentials to rebuild the bridges that Donald Trump and his predecessor had tried burning.
The West
A war crime complaint filed against Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials by a Freedom Flotilla activist in a Spanish court adds to Tel Aviv's ignominy.
The Russian Embassy to the UK tried to infuse some common sense into the sarcastic British minds regarding the threat posed by Moscow using a humorous social media post.
What did Donald Trump's Middle East tour aim at? Arming the Arabs to support Israel's aggression?
Agriculture & Labour
KITU claims victory in forcing the Karnataka government in India to retreat on the proposal to increase the working hours for the IT/ITeS sector to 12 hours a day.
KITU has asked the workers not to panic and not to resign under any type of pressure.
KITU alleges the Congress government is helping corporates to axe more tech workers by running two 12-hour shifts than three eight-hour shifts.
Amid Israel's aggression on Gaza, the left-wing Palestinian resistance group PFLP called for workers' solidarity on International Labour Day in Palestine.
Farmers have sown a lesser amount of paddy crops this kharif season. Mango farmers are also suffering this season due to several issues.
Japanese management and Indian workers are embroiled in a standoff over retrenchment. Labour union resorts to protracted movement.
Caste & communalism
Understanding how Islamophobia has been spread among Kolkata's Bengali Bhadralok community over decades, which bolstered the Hindutva camp in West Bengal.
Art, culture, films & more
Oona Hyland's residency is also a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of art, memory, and healing.
The second WOW Congress will take place in Russia on September 20th-21st.
The Chinese film industry has transformed from "chaser" to "leader," with 2025's Spring Festival box-office reaching 10.5 billion yuan, surpassing North America as the world's largest market.
On the 225th birth anniversary of Alexander Pushkin, a competition was organised for Russian and African journalists on great personalities in the history of Russian-African relations.
Law
India's large-scale drive against Bengali-speaking people, labelling them as Bangladeshi infiltrators, exposes South Asia's citizenship matrix's inherent problems.
Most of the abducted Handala activists have decided to defend themselves in an Israeli kangaroo court.
Hamas's appeal in the UK against the ban on it exhibits the West's hypocrisy regarding the anti-colonial struggles in the Global South.
With the introduction of new criminal laws and codes, India's defence lawyers face a lot of confusion and with them, justice delivery also faces uncertainty.
Climate
Experts say that behind the massive landslides in Himachal Pradesh is the rampant deforestation and unplanned constructions.
Cloudburst and flash floods have wreaked havoc on Himachal Pradesh, killing nine people and leaving over 200 stranded due to road closures.
Finally, southwest monsoon arrives in southern West Bengal, providing a brief relief to the people living in a severe heat-like situation.
The West Bengal government has decided to allot around 30 acres of land to the ECL for open-cast mining in Asansol.