BUSINESS
Energy Diplomacy: India’s bid to keep balance is on a slippery track
Balancing neutrality with necessity, India’s Gulf outreach underscores the urgency of turning reactive energy diplomacy into long-term resilience
BUSINESS
Will India’s climate conflict prove to be costly?
India’s decision not to host COP33 raises the question of whether this is a strategic retreat or a missed opportunity
BUSINESS
Does Kalpakkam mark India’s nuclear inflection point?
The Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor criticality signals a long-delayed shift to Stage 2 of India’s nuclear programme, but scaling up execution is important
BUSINESS
Can India, China move beyond strategic duality?
Balancing economic compulsions with strategic caution, New Delhi and Beijing test the limits of coexistence
BUSINESS
Is WTO fighting a losing battle amid war worries?
The Cameroon ministerial signals that the world trade body is navigating a world that has outgrown its assumptions
BUSINESS
Iran war lays bare the challenges for IMEC
West Asia conflict underscores the need for an alternative trade corridor, but exposes the geopolitical fault lines that could derail it
BUSINESS
Why Iran war demands a structural reset of India’s energy security
West Asia turmoil exposes India’s fragile energy architecture — time for diversification, deeper reserves, and a resilient clean-energy transition
BUSINESS
Climate justice runs into an accounting wall
Climate finance remains a knotty affair. Rich countries want developing ones to work towards climate goals, but they need money to do that. Worse, rich ones stand accused of creative accounting on their own financing targets
BUSINESS
Iran conflict — A test for India’s BRICS diplomacy?
With Tehran seeking support and solidarity, New Delhi needs to balance competing geopolitical interests within an expanding BRICS
BUSINESS
Press Note 3 tweak — Pressing the pedal on ties with China?
India’s move signals a pragmatic shift toward selective economic engagement with China while retaining safeguards for national security
BUSINESS
Moving upstream is India’s next solar manufacturing challenge
India must deepen its capabilities in polysilicon, wafers, and advanced cells to reduce import dependence and secure its clean energy transition
TRADE
How can India safeguard trade amid Iran conflict?
As military tensions escalate, New Delhi’s proactive inter-ministerial strategy aims to shield supply chains and stabilise a jittery economy
BUSINESS
The unique uranium moment in India-Canada ties
As New Delhi and Ottawa reset ties, a landmark uranium pact places clean energy, strategic trust, and long-term energy security at the heart of the relationship
BUSINESS
India’s carbon course: Pricing emissions without cutting them?
As New Delhi launches its Carbon Credit Trading Scheme, the real challenge lies in turning climate intent into credible carbon costs that can drive deep industrial decarbonisation
BUSINESS
From handshake to embrace — Rewriting the India-Israel equation
After his first Israel trip in 2017, Modi returns to Jerusalem, showcasing maturing ties that reflect India’s evolution from a cautious balancer to a confident connector across West Asia and Europe
BUSINESS
US tariff reversal positive, but will revive uncertainty on trade front
America’s Supreme Court strikes down President Trump’s emergency tariffs who is now looking for alternative ways to reimpose tariffs, with a 10% tariff already floated
BUSINESS
Rooftop solar — Clouds gather over the target
PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana risks missing its 2027 target amid financing gaps, regulatory hurdles, and discom resistance
BUSINESS
Can India seize the AI moment at the global summit?
As New Delhi hosts the India AI Impact Summit 2026 amid market jitters and global churn, the real test lies in turning rhetoric into regulation, innovation into inclusion, and ambition into actionable leadership
BUSINESS
FORGE a pact and Vault past the rare earth paradox
India should leverage the current momentum in ties with the US to strengthen its critical mineral security
BUSINESS
Twin trade deals — How India is playing Europe, America differently
The India-EU FTA promises deep, rules-based integration, while the India-US interim pact is a fast, strategic reset — together revealing a more selective, self-confident Indian trade doctrine.
BUSINESS
Fix the delivery points to help power reforms deliver
Why three official reports converge on discom reform, and why privatisation may no longer be optional
BUSINESS
India lifts tariff trophy as US budges on duties
Lower US tariffs mark a strategic reset in India-US trade ties, boosting export competitiveness and geopolitical alignment
BUSINESS
Budget 2026 — Can FM address India’s AI paradox?
India’s AI ambition hits a hard constraint: capital, compute and the cost of catching up
BUSINESS
Can NEP 2026 add spark to power reforms?
After two decades of capacity expansion, India’s power challenge has shifted to fixing tariffs, discom finances, and market design
