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India is proud of its diaspora. People of Indian extraction tend to earn well over the average wage in most countries, and often fit seamlessly and...
Imran Khan, who was handed a 14-year sentence for corruption by a Pakistani court on Thursday, is not the first of that nation’s former prime...
Meerut, an hour’s drive from Delhi and home to a mere couple million people, is what in India’s crowded north is considered a small town. There...
Indians have long been proud of what they see as their outperformance in the information technology sector. Companies such as Infosys Ltd. and Tata...
India’s national security advisor met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi for the first time since 2019 last month. This get-together was previously...
President-elect Donald Trump has renewed his threat to impose a tariff wall on Indian imports to the US. One of the few recognizable threads...
Few leaders can tilt at imaginary windmills with as much panache as Donald Trump. He demonstrated that again when he recently demanded that the...
India’s institutional strength used to be reflected in the reliability of its national accounts. Unlike in China, few questioned the government’s...
India-watchers were startled by recent data showing that growth slowed last quarter — by a lot. Gross domestic product expanded only 5.4% between...
About two decades ago, the market for carbon “offsets” seemed to be thriving. Under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol,...
Between April and October, Apple Inc. exported about $7 billion worth of iPhones from India, most of them to the US. Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
India’s approach to free trade can appear contradictory. Officials insist they are serious about closing new deals with the UK and the European...
India’s friends and partners are clearly feeling a growing sense of disquiet right now. Relations between Canada and India hit a new low this week,...
In India, the Tata name is ubiquitous. People see it on the packet of tea that wakes them up in the morning, on the buses that carry them to work,...
A surprise election victory in the north Indian state of Haryana comes as a welcome boost for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata...
Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his “Make in India” policies shortly after being elected prime minister in 2014, New Delhi has...
In the very near future, we will learn the identities of three new “external” members of the Reserve Bank of India’s six-person monetary policy...
Sri Lanka has a new president in nationalist outsider Anura Kumara Dissanayake. His victory is a testament to the vitality of the country’s...
For decades, power in Sri Lanka alternated between two main parties. The fact that there are now three candidates with a legitimate shot at victory...
Across the world, countries are spending wagonloads of taxpayer money to develop or support their semiconductor industries. This pipeline of cash...
Indian policymakers have traditionally scorned advice from overseas, especially from multilateral agencies such as the World Bank. Suggestions from...
Indians are justifiably proud of how easy it has become for them to pay for stuff. If you have an Indian phone number and bank account, instant...
An old joke in Indian policy circles is that whatever the problem of governance or administration being discussed, you always wind up with the same...
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes his first visit to war-torn Ukraine this week, he will likely argue for a swift end to the conflict. Modi’s...
One of India’s problems is that, even as it grows richer, it struggles to change policies to match. Economic frameworks designed for when it was a...
Bharti Enterprises patriarch Sunil Mittal applauded perennial laggard British Telecom’s “glorious past” this week upon his group’s agreement to buy...
When India’s finance minister presents the annual budget to Parliament, her speech is watched not just for what it includes but what it leaves out....
Ten years after he was first elected India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi may finally have diagnosed why India’s growth, while better than in many...
India is not the world’s healthiest country. Sadly, regulators seem determined to make the problem worse with each passing year. Urban Indians,...
Things seem to be falling comfortably into place for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Yes, he lost seats in India’s recent general election —...