Taliban wants Positive Relationship with India, Welcomes New Delhi’s Contribution in Afghanistan
In a first, Taliban has said that it would like to have a positive relationship with India and welcomed New Delhi’s cooperation in Afghanistan. Speaking exclusively to our senior corre... Read more
Navy Launches Operation ‘SamudraSetu’ to Repatriate Overseas Indians
Indian Navy has launched Operation ‘SamudraSetu’’ (Sea Bridge) to evacuate stranded Indians nationals from oversea. As a part of national efforts to repatriate Indian citizens, two Indian N... Read more
China Plans to Send Uygur Muslims from Xinjiang Re-Education Camps to Work in Other Parts of Country
The Chinese government has resumed a job placement scheme for tens of thousands of Uygur Muslims who have completed compulsory programmes at the “re-education” camps in the far-western regio... Read more
Hong Kong’s economy will take a much bigger hit than expected, shrinking by 4 to 7 per cent this year because of the serious and sustained impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the city’s fina... Read more
China Lends US Gas Producers a Big Helping Hand
China is offering life support to beleaguered US and other liquefied natural gas (LNG) producers hit by the double whammy of a multi-year supply overhang and the Covid-19 pandemic’s rising e... Read more
General Dynamics Unveils Its Newest MPF Combat Vehicle
General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has demonstrated its newest combat vehicle that developed for the U.S Army Mobile Protected Firepower program. The new veh... Read more
The Pandemic Will Leave the Rich World Deep in Debt, and Force Some Hard Choices
Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, r... Read more
The nationwide lockdown in India which started about a month ago has impacted nearly 40 million internal migrants, the World Bank has said. “The lockdown in India has impacted the live... Read more
Firewall for China: New Rules Cover Foreign Indirect Investment As Well
The government’s move to screen foreign direct investment (FDI) from China will also cover overseas transactions in other nations that involve the country. For instance, if a Chinese company... Read more
Belt and Road and ‘Bribes’: China Paid Off Home Country of WHO Boss, Cotton Says
Sen. Tom Cotton said today communist China paid “bribes” to Ethiopia when World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom was a cabinet minister there. In 2017, the WHO spoke of a... Read more