The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
Maldives President Ibrahim Solih is likely to make his first overseas trip in office to India on the first anniversary of his swearing-in on December 17. Deals on immediate economic assistance to tide over a potential Chinese debt crisis, Dornier aircraft being gifted are being worked out. On his first visit as current Foreign Minister, Abdulla Shahid tells SNI’s Associate Editor an estimated $ 3.2 billion in Chinese debt has to worked out, the Free Trade Agreement could be reviewed and India’s helicopters are not a backdoor entry for the military. He added, the Maldives will not get entangled in International tension in the Indian ocean, a Chinese port is out of the question and Male’ will choose New Delhi’s gift of a Dornier over a loan for the aircraft that Pakistan has offered.
Attack by Hamas took a lot to accomplish. The sudden Chinese bonhomie with Syria and the bringing together of Arab - Sunni and Shia countries and actors by Xi Jinping's regime raises some questions .
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