New Corridor For India-Russia trade Via Iran Is Almost Ready
July 11th, 2022
Via Quartz, a report on a new corridor for India-Russia trade via Iran that is almost ready: India’s trade with Russia is about to get considerably cheaper and quicker, with Iran set to become a key hub of a new transport corridor. On July 5, in a series of high-level talks, India urged Iran to activate […]
Read more »Global Population To Hit 8B This Year
July 11th, 2022
Via CBS News, an article on a new UN report that the global population will hit 8 billion this year, with more than half of the rise forecast in the world’s population in the coming decades will be concentrated in eight countries – Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania: […]
Read more »Second Coming Of The BRICS?
July 4th, 2022
Via East Asia Forum, a look at the BRICs, 13 years after their first meeting in 2009: When the inaugural BRIC summit took place in 2009, it was a moment of relative triumph for its members. While the West dealt with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India […]
Read more »The Backlash to Belt and Road
June 17th, 2022
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on what some term a South Asian battle over Chinese economic power: When Beijing announced its One Belt, One Road initiative five years ago, the global reaction was immediate and pronounced. OBOR, as it became known, was hailed as a transformative effort to deploy China’s economic might in service of […]
Read more »Tata Power Bets On Microgrids For Rural Power Supply In India
June 4th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Tata Group’s plan to build 10,000 small local arrays in a country where not everyone has reliable electricity from the grid: Manoj Gupta has spent the past two years bouncing along the dusty roads of rural India, looking at solar panels. The veteran of 107-year-old Tata Power, […]
Read more »TAPI’ng Out?
April 14th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, commentary that the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project seems to have far more going against it than pushing in its favor: India has restarted efforts to revive the much-delayed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project. The pipeline was discussed during a recent three-day state visit to Turkmenistan by Indian President Shri Ram Nath Kovind. TAPI remains […]
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