For India, delays in its strategic projects are not merely bureaucratic setbacks but a matter of national security. Colombo’s motives remain opaque, but for New Delhi, a presence in Sri Lanka’s North and East is non-negotiable.
India could potentially become a bridge between regional economies and the wider Asian and Global South payment architecture. Greater interoperability could support remittances, tourism, trade and financial inclusion while reducing some transaction costs.
Critical minerals are not literally the new oil, but they may play a comparable role in defining the balance of power. The race has already begun, and India’s preparedness will determine whether it merely secures access to the resources of the new century or helps shape the industrial order that emerges from them.
Afghanistan has sought to limit or reduce its structural vulnerability by moving trade through Iran’s Chabahar Port and Central Asian corridors. Kabul is realigning Afghanistan’s external economic geography by looking towards Iran, Central Asia, China and India.
With the Modi government taking a tough stand on imports from China amid the border tensions, several industries that depended on inputs from that country are facing delay in getting their supplies as the goods are held up at ports and airports and are being subjected to stricter customs scrutiny
Bank of Ceylon (BOC) and China Development Bank (CDB) will enter into a USD 140 million long-term facility where drawdown will be under two tranches of USD 70 million each
The military aggression across the Himalayas is not the first by China and it won't be the last. India never shared a border with China -- it is the Indo-Tibet border
In the wake of the India-China border clashes and the subsequent hardening of positions on both sides, the worst apprehensions of Indian trade and industry seem to be coming true, market sources said
Chinese expatriates living in India have not been impacted by the deteriorating bilateral relations between the two countries
The World Bank revealed that Maldives was included among nine countries ranked to be in debt distress or at high risk as a result of loans from China
Certainly, a trade war with India would not destabilise the Chinese economy in a big way, but it would cause concern to China, writes N.S.Venkataraman for South Asia Monitor
Pressure is mounting on Nepal to deal with boundary issues with China on a similar level as it did with India over its claim of Limpiyadhura, after media reports that several of its Himalayan villages are now in Chinese territory
The situation in the four flashpoints -- Galwan Valley, Hot Springs, Depsang and Pangong Lake -- in Eastern Ladakh is still tense despite military-level talks between India and China ending on a positive trajectory, sources said on Thursday
A startling revelation has come to light that the government of the Peoples Republic of China and the Chinese Embassy in India have been funding the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) led by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, reports IANS
The stopping of India's "normal, traditional patrolling pattern" in the Galwan Valley area by Chinese troops in early May led to a tense situation across the Line of Actual Control and caused the relationship between two countries to deteriorate, India's Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will be a game-changer for Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province, according to experts
A tripartite agreement was signed on Thursday between a Chinese company and the governments of Pakistan and China for construction of a 1,124 megawatt hydropower project in Kohala costing $2.4 billion
Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the agriculture ministry have refuted media reports of encroachment of Nepali territory by China on the northern border, but a document issued by the Survey Department of the Ministry of Agriculture in 2017 shows that China had encroached 36 hectares of Nepal’s territory at 10 places along the northern border
China on Wednesday donated its third batch of medical aid to Sri Lanka to help the country fight the COVID-19 epidemic to control and prevent the spread of coronavirus in the country
