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Xi Jinping is on his ninth visit to Russia since he took office as China’s president a decade ago (Photo: AFP)

Mint Explainer: The significance of Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia

2 min read . 20 Mar 2023

(From left) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after a news conference at which they unveiled the trilateral security pact AUKUS in March (Photo: AP)

Mint Explainer: Why the Australia-UK-US military partnership could lose its way

2 min read . 16 Mar 2023

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers meeting in New Delhi on March 2 (Photo: AFP)

Mint Explainer: What the G20 foreign ministers meeting meant for India

2 min read . 03 Mar 2023

Chat-GPT and other AI apps a threat to your job or a 'friend'? Watch

0 min read . 02 Mar 2023

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen at a joint press conference following their meeting at the Fairmont Hotel in Windsor, west of London, on February 27 (Photo: AFP)

Mint Explainer: What does the Windsor Framework mean for the UK, EU and Ireland?

3 min read . 01 Mar 2023

The Geological Survey of India recently established 5.9 million tonnes of inferred resources of lithium in the Salal-Haimana area of Jammu & Kashmir. (PHOTO: PTI)

Mint Explainer: The need to look beyond the big lithium find

3 min read . 26 Feb 2023

The ultimate goal, Google said, is to demonstrate a pathway to achieving the low error rates needed for using quantum computers in meaningful applications (PHOTO: REUTERS)

Mint Explainer: What does Google's new quantum computer achievement mean?

7 min read . 23 Feb 2023

Any effort by India and its allies, such as the US, to widen their influence in Africa will be resented by Beijing (PHOTO: PTI)

Mint Explainer: Will Africa divide the G20?

3 min read . 23 Feb 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday Russia would suspend participation in the New Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (New START), which came into effect in February 2021 (FILE PHOTO: AP)

Mint Explainer: Why Russia pulled back from its last nuclear treaty with the US

1 min read . 23 Feb 2023

US President Joe Biden is greeted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a visit to Kyiv on February 20 (PHOTO: AFP)

Mint Explainer: What Biden's impromptu Ukraine visit means for the war

1 min read . 21 Feb 2023

On Feb 18, Anthony Blinken and Wang Yi met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, an annual think-tank event that attracts the West’s top politicians, bureaucrats and thinkers (FILE PHOTO: AP)

Mint Explainer: What came out of the Blinken-Wang Yi meeting?

2 min read . 20 Feb 2023

Soon after the earthquake hit Syria and Turkey in the early hours of 6 February, India began work on Operation Dost, its relief operation to both countries. (PTI) (MINT_PRINT)

Mint Explainer: Why India is providing quake-hit Syria aid while West hesitates

2 min read . 16 Feb 2023

MNREGA is primarily an employment guarantee programme with an equally important objective of creating durable, productive assets for local communities. (PHOTO: MINT)

Mint Explainer: The big picture behind the MNREGA cut

4 min read . 09 Feb 2023

Vistara’s success may be an early indicator of India’s growing, prosperous and confident middle class moving up the value chain. (PHOTO: REUTERS)

Mint Explainer: In Vistara's rise, a tale of changing India

4 min read . 07 Feb 2023

. Short selling is legal in India, but there are various barriers for funds who want to short-sell. (istockphoto)

Mint Explainer: How short selling works and why it hasn't picked up in India

3 min read . 06 Feb 2023

Tokenisation of credit and debit card starts 1 October. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Mint Explainer: What the ultra-rich can expect from private debit cards

2 min read . 31 Jan 2023

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. AP/PTI(AP12_15_2022_000022B) (AP)

Mint Explainer: The trouble with America's 2% inflation target

3 min read . 31 Jan 2023

The market growth for algorithmic trading is projected to be significantly influenced by the financial services industry’s broad adoption of AI, machine learning, and big data. (iStockphoto)

Mint Explainer: How AI helps activist short sellers queer pitch for listed firms

4 min read . 31 Jan 2023

Eyewitness footage shows what is said to be the moment of an explosion at a military industry factory in Isfahan, Iran, January 29, 2023, in this still image obtained from a video. (Photo: Pool via West Asia News Agency via REUTERS)

Mint Explainer: How bombing of Iranian military facility threatens stability

1 min read . 30 Jan 2023

The widening corruption scandal in Ukraine has claimed five deputy ministers at the central level, several region governors and even President Zelensky’s deputy chief of staff. (File Photo: Reuters)

Mint Explainer: Why a corruption scandal in Ukraine has gained attention in West

2 min read . 28 Jan 2023

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