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Inside India’s Rare Earths Strategy: New Deals, Partners- How India Plans to Cut Reliance on China
India is accelerating a rare-earths shakeup — forging new mineral deals, expanding Latin America, Canada and Venezuela ties, boosting domestic mining, and building a strategic reserve to cut dependence on China. Here’s how Delhi is re-wiring its critical-minerals supply chain for the next decade.
19 Nov 2025US-China G2, nukes on the table: Is Trump heralding Cold War-like bipolarity?
US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to resume testing nuclear weapons ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, which he billed as a “G2” summit, an arrangement last floated by Barack Obama.
4 min read1 Nov 2025China’s H1-B Rival, The New ‘K Visa’ Faces Backlash | Why Are Citizens Protesting?
China’s new “K Visa”, launched to rival America’s H-1B, was meant to attract top global tech talent. Instead, it’s facing fierce backlash at home. As youth unemployment soars and tech hiring slows, angry Chinese netizens say the visa favors foreigners over locals. The outrage exposes deeper cracks in China’s economic model — from a real estate collapse wiping out family wealth to a tech boom that’s failed to create jobs. As Beijing tries to project innovation power, the K Visa backlash shows the struggle between global ambition and local frustration.
15 Oct 2025Shashi Tharoor: Strategic autonomy requires India to pursue its interests without taking sides in geopolitics
India is aware that a friendly dragon has claws and a swooping eagle could lift its economy. Our foreign policy must not be guided by the theatre of summitry, but by the substance of strategic interest. This demands not just balance, but foresight.
4 min read13 Oct 2025America’s trade policy is misguided but looks unlikely to drag us back to the 1930s
Trump’s tariff hikes have thrown world trade and economic progress into uncertainty. Before we raise the spectre of a 1930s-style catastrophe, however, we must examine the shock absorbers that exist today that did not back then. Could these cushion the world this time round? An analysis.
4 min read12 Oct 2025It’s time for economists and policymakers to take a wider view of our national assets and growth drivers
China’s economy has outperformed India’s and our post-1991 policy approach cannot escape its share of blame. Our industrial gap with China demands that we nudge our policymakers to broaden their perspective of what matters. National assets, for example, if accounted for properly.
4 min read12 Oct 2025China tightens rare earth export controls, targets defence, semiconductor users
The controls are a major bargaining chip for China in its trade talks with the United States, and the tightening comes weeks ahead of a face-to-face meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in South Korea.
3 min read9 Oct 2025Dumping duties on many items disappear as pragmatism takes hold
India has withdrawn anti-dumping duties imposed on goods from multiple countries, notably China. The move marks a streak of pragmatism as New Delhi looks to secure critical goods and raw materials in an uncertain world.
3 min read9 Oct 2025Closer integration with Asia can benefit India amid global trade uncertainty: AIIB chief economist
AIIB chief economist Erik Berglöf urged India to deepen integration within Asia amid unprecedented global trade uncertainty, stressing benefits. He also announced AIIB's plans to boost its annual investment in India, which will help mobilize private sector and multilateral financing for projects.
3 min read6 Oct 2025Glenmark inks $18 million deal for cancer drug with China’s Hengrui
The deal involves an upfront payment of $18 million, followed by regulatory and commercial milestone payments of up to $1.093 billion, as well as royalties.
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Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared
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