ndia-China military standoff in eastern Ladakh has continued for over 130 days or four months. The Doklam standoff of 2017 had ended in 70-odd days. This time around, both sides have ramped up their p
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Lesson from Ladakh — India & China were both rising together until China just raced away
Speaking at an Indian Express ‘adda’ last week, S. Jaishankar, the external affairs minister, reportedly told his audience the following about recent India-China summit meetings: “These were conversat
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Shipbreaking is among the most dangerous jobs in the world, according to the International Labour Organisation.This is the process of breaking up huge old ships into spare parts. It almost always happ
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Is Hindi being imposed on the states of the Indian Union that don’t speak the language? For the past few weeks, a range of people living in South India have made this claim, arguing angrily that the U
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In mid-June, Savitri Gomte heard from her neighbour that Mumbai’s suburban local trains were about to re-open. As a domestic worker who had been out of work since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown in
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The mega Chinese infrastructure project China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that passes through the length of Pakistan, other than saddling Islamabad with debt, has other issues now--corruption an
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