International Relations in India & Beyond
Data was expected to show that India’s economic recovery strengthened in the July-September quarter, helped by a pick-up in consumer spending, though the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant raised fears for the future....
Beijing Winter Olympics organisers said Wednesday that protecting the Games from the coronavirus is the “biggest challenge”, as China races to stamp out an outbreak 100 days before the event starts. The Chinese capital...
Will we ever know the exact origin of COVID-19? In all likelihood, no, never. But a growing body of evidence points to a negligent “lab-leak” being the most likely cause. There is no evidence...
International travel has always been a reflection of wealth, and one who holds a passport determines how many countries one is allowed to enter and how quickly one can travel. However, at present, international...
US health-care expert Andy Slavitt’s new book, “Preventable”, is one of a growing stream of books on COVID-19. It offers Slavitt’s “Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the US Coronavirus...
What exactly is the “Swedish approach” to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic? How different is it from the global approach? Since March 2020, the Swedish response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been based on an...
All the countries around the globe faced one of the greatest reversals of fortune in the socio-economic and political aspects of development when WHO declared COVID-19 as the global pandemic on 30th January 2020....
Public historian and conservative columnist, Niall Ferguson, makes an intriguing contribution to our understanding of COVID-19 through his recent book, “Doom; The Politics of Catastrophe”, which attempts to place COVID-19 in a historical perspective. ...
Asia’s factory activity lost momentum in August as a resurgence in coronavirus cases disrupted supply chains across the region, raising concerns faltering manufacturing will add to economic woes caused by slumping consumption. Southeast Asia,...
India’s economy likely rebounded in the April-June quarter from a deep slump last year helped by improved manufacturing and in spite of a devastating second wave of COVID-19 cases. Asia’s third-largest economy suffered one...
