by Our Correspondent in New Delhi Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped a gala dinner hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for BRICS leaders and other delegates attending the Summit in New Delhi
Few public intellectuals have spent more time analyzing the rise and decline of American global power than Fareed Zakaria. For decades, the Indian-born journalist and geopolitical commentator has occupied a unique position
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At a moment when wars, technological upheaval, climate anxiety and democratic instability dominate headlines across the globe, the search for intellectual clarity has become more urgent than ever. In a recent feature
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In Athens this week for the World Beautiful Business Forum, I took a tour of philosophical Athens. Beyond the Parthenon, I visited Plato’s Academy, the site of the first philosophical school. Our
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Peru’s presidential election has descended into a razor-thin contest for second place, with left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez and far-right contender Rafael López Aliaga separated by just 15,748 votes, according to nearly complete
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María Corina Machado moves through Washington with the intensity of someone who sees history as unfinished business. In an interview with El País, the Venezuelan opposition leader describes a country she believes
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A grieving Minnesota family is at the centre of a growing legal battle that could reshape the global cannabis industry, after the death of their 21-year-old son, who they believe was driven
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The Panama Canal is experiencing a significant surge in revenue, driven by global shipping disruptions linked to the war involving Iran, according to reporting by the Financial Times. Canal authorities say revenues
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A new wave of artificial intelligence startups is turning its attention to India’s vast and linguistically complex digital population, where voice-based communication already dominates daily life. Among them, US-based Wispr Flow is
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Chinese cars may be largely absent from American highways, but Chinese influence is increasingly present under the hood of vehicles built and sold in the United States. A sprawling supply chain network—stretching
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It is one thing to imagine someone reading your diary. It is something else entirely to have it read aloud in a courtroom, dissected by lawyers, quoted in judicial rulings, and broadcast
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Pakistan and Bangladesh have taken a significant step toward formal security cooperation, signing what is effectively the first publicly acknowledged bilateral security framework between the two countries since the political upheaval that
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“We are grateful that India has expressed its displeasure regarding the events taking place in Sri Lanka. The brutal killing and torture of Tamils in Sri Lanka have deeply disturbed us. Please
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The end of Viktor Orbán’s long domination of Hungary arrived not with spectacle, but with ceremony. Inside Budapest’s vast neo-Gothic parliament building, beneath vaulted ceilings that once symbolized the permanence of his
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While congratulatory messages continue to pour in from across India and beyond, Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar — marketed for decades as “Thalapathy”, the commander — is now discovering that Tamil Nadu is not
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Ukraine’s celebrated wartime resilience is facing one of its most serious internal political crises since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, as a wave of leaked anti-corruption recordings threatens to draw President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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