The Trump administration has imposed fixed visa limits for international students, exchange visitors and foreign journalists, a move set to significantly affect Indian students in the US
The US-Iran ceasefire has collapsed into a wider regional conflict, with renewed strikes, Gulf-wide attacks and mounting fears that the crisis is evolving into a prolonged Middle East war.
BY Devabrata Dutta 19 July 2026
A new Centre-Assam-Nagaland agreement aims to unlock oil reserves frozen for three decades by a border dispute, boosting domestic energy production while raising concerns over land rights and the environment
BY Devabrata Dutta 16 July 2026
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has plunged amid escalating US-Iran tensions, driving up freight and insurance costs, disrupting global energy trade, and raising concerns over oil, LPG and LNG imports, inflation and fuel prices in India
BY Devabrata Dutta 14 July 2026
It is one of the more vivid markers of a demographic emergency that Japan's own prime minister has called the country's biggest problem
BY Devabrata Dutta 13 July 2026
The UAE is in early talks for a package that would combine BrahMos with the Akashteer air defence command system, a deal that, if it goes through, would mark BrahMos's first entry into the Gulf
BY Devabrata Dutta 10 July 2026
India is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and that single fact has historically made uranium-exporting countries deeply cautious
BY Devabrata Dutta 10 July 2026
The government was forced to ban sugarcane-to-ethanol conversion in 2023-24 after drought-triggered shortages tightened sugar availability
BY Devabrata Dutta 7 July 2026
Last year's gathering in The Hague agreed a landmark commitment for all allies to spend five per cent of GDP on defence by 2035, split between 3.5% for core defence and 1.5% for related infrastructure
BY Devabrata Dutta 6 July 2026
Beijing's coast guard said the fleet would conduct law enforcement patrols in what it described as China's jurisdictional waters, adding that it would strengthen such operations and "firmly safeguard China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests"
BY Devabrata Dutta 4 July 2026
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