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India is a country of contrasts. It is home to a $160 billion tech services industry, while also buffeted by environmental and social challenges - and this makes it fertile ground for globally scalable, tech-driven solutions.... World Economic ForumIf innovators can solve India's problems, they can save the world. Here's why. Nikhil Malhotra

India being forced to choose.India PunchlineDiscords with US are more than moving parts in a transactional relationshipM. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service India PunchlineModi wades into EurasianismM. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service Astute NewsA Retired Russian Colonel Shared a Surprising Observation about South Asia with RT Sputnik InternationalUS Warns India It Could Limit H-1B Visas for Indian Workers amid Trade...

NEW DELHI: India has identified 151 products that it can export to China instead of the US and benefit from the price advantage thrown up by the retaliatory higher duties slapped by the Xi Jinping government on US products amid the intensifying trade war between the two countries.These include diesel engines, X-ray tubes, antibiotics, copper ores, granite, xylene, inverter and ketones, said people with knowledge of the matter.... Economic Times (India)India may trade places with US to...

If international diplomacy indulges in symbolism, this must be one of the most poignant ones in world politics in the recent times. The RIC has always been a red rag for the US — ever since the great Soviet strategic thinker and Kremlin statesman Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov first proposed the tantalising idea in 1999. The profound symbolism cannot be lost on Trump that India is consorting with the two “revisionist powers” on the planet (Russia and China) which, according to the US, are...

Interview in Press TV News 16-6-2019 on India’s rsponse to US by tit-for-tat trade tarrifs [embedded content] [embedded content]

China hopes to win Indian and Russian support in establishing a “new type” of “rules-based” and “multilateral” trade initiative.Multiple Indian media reports suggest the country’s recently re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join forces with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kyrgyzstan this week to express their concerns about US President Donald Trump’s protectionist...

When India applied for SCO membership or when observers like myself felt elated when India was finally admitted into the grouping in 2017, no one could have foreseen that the grouping held such potential in the very near term itself as a platform for the reset of regional politics — in particular, the India-Pakistan-China triangle. New possibilities are opening up for Indian diplomacy at the two-day summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at Bishkek on June 13-14.......

No surprise, actually. Same policy as toward China requiring "reform" allowing the US to compete equally in their domestic markets. India and China have no intention of allowing foreign entities control the commanding heights of their economies through "investment." It's a national security issue, just as the US approaches this domestically itself. This is basic to neoliberal globalization that effectively colonized the rest of the world. Nothing new here, either. It is typical of empires....

The national elections in India have brought victory to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The NDA has won a stable majority in the lower house of parliament. This means that the right-wing coalition will remain in power for at least another five years, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be able to continue his economic and social reforms, as well as be able to operate with a free hand in the international arena. India takes a...

This is nothing new. India households have always been holders of gold. Chinese households also have a preference for gold.As India and China become more prosperous, this demand will likely increase.Checkpoint AsiaIndian Households Hold More Gold Than the World’s Top 10 Central Bank Holders CombinedBanikinkar Pattanayak