NEW DELHI: Billionaire Elon Musk has rustled up $44 billion to buy social networking and microblogging site twitter. He will oversee his new empire with no board to oversee what he does or how he does it. That could be problematic for India, argues Jaijit Bhattacharya, president of the Centre for Digital Economy Policy. Speaking […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi and his visiting British counterpart Boris Johnson appear to have struck the right notes as they wound up talks in Delhi. Modi confirmed that detailed discussions had taken place on the India-Britain “strategic and defence partnership” and major agreements had been finalised between the two nations. “We welcome the UK’s keenness […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador Manpreet Vohra, India’s High Commissioner to Australia in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. An Indian Navy P-8I Neptune deployed to Royal Australian Air Force(RAAF) Base Darwin this week to conduct submarine and surface surveillance patrols with one of the Royal Australian Navy’s(RAN) P-8A Poseidons “is […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The day may not be far off when the world will be witness to, a land grab of unprecedented proportions: a land grab centred on the Moon! In this conversation on The Gist, Chaitanya Giri, space science and technology consultant, points to recent US legislation, notably the rather innocuously named One Small Step […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Amitabh Mattoo, Professor, CIPOD, SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Honorary Professor, University of Melbourne, Founding Director, Australia India Institute, Ex-Member of India’s National Security Advisory Board and Natasha Jha Bhaskar, General Manager, Newland Global Group in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel discusses the inking of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Is it end game for the US dollar as the international reserve currency? The International Monetary Fund recently warned that US sanctions on Russia could lead to what it described as “a more fragmented international monetary system with small currency blocks emerging based on trade between separate groups of countries”. In this conversation […]Read More
NEW DELHI: From higher oil prices to a shortage of diamond roughs, the war in Ukraine will hit India in many ways. Oil prices per barrel have already gone through the roof since the invasion, forcing Delhi to release crude from its strategic reserve, says Rajat Kathuria, formerly of ICRIER and currently professor of economics […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Indian space industry is on the cusp of dramatic transformation. Until now restricted to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the push is for ensuring a larger role for the private sector in the manner in which it is playing out internationally. Driving this change is ISpA, the Indian Space Association, an […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s been a welcome re-think on the part of government about free trade agreements (FTAs), says Rajat Kathuria, professor of economics at Shiv Nadar University and former chief executive of the economic policy think tank ICRIER. In a chat on The Gist, Kathuria argues that the current government has not signed a single […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The government is readying legislation that has huge implications for the future of money in this country. The legislation will regulate not ban cryptocurrency, but that’s only a small part of it. More ambitious is the Central Bank Digital Currency that will usher in the “eRupee”. Anil Padmanabhan, former editor of the Mint […]Read More
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