China's Gwadar plunge, and India's confused reaction

The Indian Ocean is where great power politics will be at its most pristine in the coming years, says Harsh V Pant. The Pakistani government last week gave its nod to a proposal for a company owned......

Trump Has Become A Reset Button

Trump's sweeping tariffs and penalties on China-built ships have turned global shipping into the front line of economic war, observes Shyam G Menon. Photograph: Kevin Mohatt/Reuters For Donald......

Pak-China: Growing dilemmas of an 'all weather' friendship

The Sino-Pakistan relationship remains fundamentally asymmetrical: Pakistan wants more out of its ties with China than China is willing to offer. Today, when Pakistan’s domestic problems are......

Pak expects $50 bln investment on Xi's maiden visit

Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in Islamabad on Monday on his maiden visit to Pakistan during which the two sides will sign several agreements, including defence, worth USD......

Bloodbath on Dalal Street; Sensex sinks more than 700 points

All the sectoral indices received a battering, with banking, metal, oil and capital goods indices shedding a whopping 3%-4% each. The markets went into a tailspin, with both the Sensex and Nifty......

Nifty ends above 8,700 at fresh 52-week closing high; RBI policy eyed

Benchmark indices ended at fresh 52-week closing highs led by rate-sensitive shares ahead of the RBI monetary policy review tomorrow while better-than-expected US jobs data led to a rally in......

We can restore the growth momentum, PM tells Indonesian newspaper

India regards Indonesia as one of its most important partners in the neighbourhood, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an interview he gave to the Indonesian newspaper Kompas on the eve of his visit......

Coronavirus holds no threat to Tokyo Olympics: WHO tells IOC

There have been more than 60,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in mainland China and nearly 450 in 24 other countries and territories, including 33 in Japan and another 218 on a cruise ship......