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  • India’s top court halts demolition of shops in area near New Delhi clashes

    Recent communal clashes in several parts of India have been followed by demolition drives, which critics say are an attempt by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to intimidate India's 200 million Muslims.

  • India, UAE should look at $250 billion trade by 2030

    The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) was signed by India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in February and is expected to come into force from May 1, he said.

  • India is in a sweet spot, courted by the Quad, China and Russia

    As the war enters its fourth week, New Delhi has been receiving a stream of high-profile visitors from major capitals around the world. At one end, this has included delegations from the United States, Australia and Japan, the three nations which are India’s partners in the Quad, officially known as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue.

  • China ramps up arms exports to Pakistan, aiming to squeeze India

    Sino-Indian relations have deteriorated since the deadly 2020 border clash in the Himalayas. India also announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics at the last minute after a Chinese soldier who had been involved in the fighting was chosen as a torchbearer.

  • Vladimir Putin is less isolated than you might think, from India to Brazil and South Africa

    “There are a growing number of countries that are more willing to assert their independence in spite of the fact that they aspire to closer cooperation with the West and are even in need of Western support,” said Chris Landsberg, a professor of international relations at the University of Johannesburg. “They are willing to send the message that they don’t take kindly to the idea of being boxed in and forced to choose” sides.

  • New UAE-India Economic Deal Opens the Door for Minilateral Partnership With Israel

    CEPA is India’s first bilateral trade agreement in the Middle East and North Africa. It was formalized in a short period – official talks started only in September 2021. The agreement is broad, covering 11 service sectors and over a hundred subsectors, from trade and innovation to aviation and tourism. But what sets CEPA apart is that it is expected to be implemented quickly, by May.

  • India along with China and UAE abstain from US-backed UNSC resolution condemning Russia

    India did not formally condemn Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979 or Crimea in 2014. What was also being weighed by India is the fact that Ukraine was one of those countries that vehemently opposed India’s nuclear tests in 1998 and had condemned India’s actions at the UN. Ukraine had also voted in favour of UN Resolution 1172 that had condemned the nuclear tests conducted by India.

  • Free trade is crucial for global economic health as India-UAE agreement shows

    A large body of rigorous scientific work demonstrates how free trade generally benefits all sides by enabling people to specialize in what they do well and allowing countries to more effectively import foreign technologies. The consensus among economists had held fast since at least the late 18th century, when Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, including New York Times progressive columnist Paul Krugman, who earned the economics Nobel Prize for his pro-free trade work.

  • India, Saudi Arabia armies explore new areas of cooperation including intel sharing & counterterrorism

    The visit is seemingly important due to the warm personal relations shared between the two Army Chiefs. Building on the visit of Chief of Indian Army in December 2020 to Saudi Arabia, both Army chiefs had regular telephonic exchanges to monitor the progress of mutually agreed roadmap of bilateral relations, sources said.

  • Six Indian schoolgirls are protesting a hijab ban on their campus

    In the southern state of Karnataka, protests have erupted in colleges and schools over the right of female students to wear the hijab. In December 2021, six students at Udupi Pre-University (PU) College were asked to remove their headscarves before attending classes.