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Delayed Answers

One year after one of the worst aviation disasters in Indian history, the most unsettling reality is not that the final answer remains elusive. It is that, in the absence of definitive findings, competing certainties have rushed in to fill the void.

Cleanest Shirt

For much of the past year, economists have been waiting for the American economy to stumble. It has been hit by tariffs, labour disruptions, geopolitical tensions and renewed inflationary pressures.

A relationship redefined

Xi Jinping at his meeting with Donald Trump on 14-15 May 2026 in Beijing referred to the Thucydides Trap, a metaphor that refers to the inherent tensions and perils when an established power is challenged by a rising power.

Tariff Gambit

US President Donald Trump’s latest call for Europe to impose 100 per cent tariffs on China and India represents a sharp escalation in the use of trade as a tool of coercive diplomacy.

The inherent bias

The 2025 World Athletics Championships will mark the twentieth edition of the event and are scheduled to take place from 13 to 21 September 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.

Endless Deadlock

France has once again been thrown into political upheaval, with its Prime Minister brought down not by a scandal or a sudden shift in public mood, but by the arithmetic of parliamentary hostility.