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?
South Sudan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Deng Dau Deng Malek speaks to SNI’s Associate Editor Amitabh P Revi and Video Journalist Prateek Suri in the capital Juba. He outlines his country’s gratitude to Indian peacekeepers and other Indians working in humanitarian efforts as the world’s largest democracy helps the world’s youngest country come out of civil conflict that has killed over 400,000 people and displaced over four million since 2013. The minister has also invited business and investment from India to help his country develop.
Deng Malek was appointed Deputy Minister for foreign affairs and international cooperation in September 2018. A close friend of the revolutionary leader John Garang, he served during the war in South Sudan where he was injured and had one of his legs amputated.
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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