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Beyond Signatures

India’s recent trade diplomacy has produced an unusual paradox. New Delhi is negotiating or concluding trade agreements with a range of partners even as questions persist about what earlier agreements have actually delivered.

Beyond Hormuz

The geopolitical shock created by the Iran conflict is forcing countries far beyond West Asia to confront an uncomfortable reality: energy security can no longer be built around a single region, a single route or a single set of political assumptions.

Years of Grace

It was in 1982 that Dr Grace McCann Morley was bestowed the prestigious Padma Bhushan Award by the Government of India for her stellar contributions to the establishment of the National Museum in New Delhi.

Precarious Balance

The latest exchange between Washington and Beijing is a reminder that beneath the courteous language of diplomacy lies a hard, immovable dispute.

Coping with strain

The conclusion of the India-European Union free trade agreement comes at a moment when the global trading system is under severe strain, shaken by geopolitical rivalries, economic nationalism and the increasingly unpredictable use of tariffs as political weapons.

The Transition to Clean Energy: What the Union Budget’s Allocation of INR 20,000 Crore for Carbon Capture and Tax Relief for Clean Tech means for the shift

Finance Minister NirmalSitharaman’s Union Budget 2026-27 bolsters green supply chains through duty free inputs for India’s INR 20,000 crore Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage scheme and exemptions for nuclear power, battery storage, critical minerals and solar glass manufacturing.

Budget 2026: The Week After

India's Union Budget for 2026–27, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, marks a definitive strategic awakening in the nation's approach to critical mineral security.