India not only lost its top place as the most represented higher-education system to China, several of its marquee institutions saw a significant drop.
The Quad summit to be hosted by India in 2024 is likely to enhance New Delhi's strategic intent.
The long-delayed declaration that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be the Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate for prime minister had a certain air of inevitability about it. But the last-minute drama should not take away from the plain fact that, in naming Modi, the BJP has merely acknowledged that it has in him a politician of rare skill and charisma -- of a degree unseen in national politics perhaps since former prime minister Indira Gandhi.