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India’s general elections, which will be spread over multiple weeks, kick off on Friday with voting in 102 of the country’s 543 constituencies....
To outsiders, it may seem unclear what the world’s largest election, which India will hold in stages starting at the end of this week, is all about....
Almost 10 years after he gave way to Narendra Modi as prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh retired last week from public life. During his long...
India’s election campaign has officially begun. Few expect Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be unseated by the time it concludes. Yet, objectively,...
Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar raised more than a few eyebrows last week when he said — almost as an aside — that his country’s new...
Elon Musk’s long courtship of Indian officialdom may have finally paid off. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted him to open one of his Tesla...
Excitement and uncertainty used to accompany general elections in India. Polls swung back and forth, coalitions formed and reformed, analysts...
As India prepares for elections this spring, confidence about the country’s prospects seems ubiquitous. The country has just finalized a new trade...
Indians are among the most innovative people in the world — until their government gets involved. The libertarian commentator Gurcharan Das argued...
As trade ministers gather at the World Trade Organization summit in Abu Dhabi this week, one of the villains will, as usual, be India. And, certainly,...
When this week Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a photograph of his Facebook page from 20 years ago — back when it was...
A few months from now, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will face India’s electorate and ask them to grant him a third term. In 2019, when he increased...
At one level, Iran’s support for Yemen’s Houthi rebels could pass for magnificent statecraft. By supporting the militants’ attacks against Red...
In India, the third week of January has always been a time for nationalist pageantry. It features two national holidays: the birthday of the Bengali...
The BRICS grouping has long been distinguished by a consistent failure to live up to potential. The internal contradictions are crippling: Divergent...
When India goes to the polls in early 2024, it is hard to imagine voters kicking Prime Minister Narendra Modi out of power. In fact, Modi is probably...
Wall Street’s most powerful bankers told the Senate Banking Committee last week that proposed new rules known as the “Basel III endgame” would...
The results from four state elections in India announced last weekend might appear dispiriting for India’s opposition: Prime Minister Narendra...
Elon Musk may be close to winning a long-running battle of wills with the Indian government. Policy makers in New Delhi have been hoping to entice...
Two months ago, relations between India and Canada deteriorated swiftly when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that prosecutors possessed “credible...
It has been more than a week since 41 Indian construction workers were trapped inside a tunnel they were building in the Himalayan mountain ranges...
For countries in the Indo-Pacific wondering whether it would ever be possible to decouple their economies from China’s, last week was quite...
Two Aprils ago, the UK’s prime minister promised he would deliver a free-trade agreement with India “by Diwali.” That prime minister, Boris...
At their heart, climate negotiations are about one thing: Who pays? Usually, the fight is over who will pay to save the world — by financing...
Do Indians not work enough? According to one of the co-founders of the Indian software giant Infosys Ltd., we don’t. The billionaire Narayana Murthy...
This has been a bad year for food prices in the world’s poorest countries. Whether their citizens eat wheat or rice, three calamities have caused...
Rising powers such as India have boasted of forging a new, “multipolar” order that transcends 20th century rivalries. The expanding chaos in the...
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