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US President Donald Trump, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, the current power troika in the subcontinent. When two of them meet, Trump and Munir, Pakistanis puff up their chests. What happens when Sharif also gets invited to the meeting? Trump, Sharif and Munir were in the Oval Office on Thursday and Pakistanis find themselves on Cloud 9. Without doubt Indians aren't. Trump's climbing tariffs don't seem to bother Pakistan at all, whereas India is bracing to handle Trump's impending tariff hike on pharmaceuticals and kitchen cabinets!

NEW YORK: The American economy’s robust 3.8% second-quarter growth rate, significantly revised upward from initial estimates, presents a deceptively encouraging picture that masks deeper structural challenges confronting investors as the nation navigates an increasingly complex policy landscape.

NEW YORK: When the Indian IT boom began in the late 1990s, the “American Dream” was its rocket fuel. Bright young engineers from Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Pune queued up for the H-1B visa, chasing careers in Silicon Valley. They became coders, data architects, project managers, and eventually CEOs of U.S. tech giants. Their migration powered not only America’s digital dominance but also India’s rise as a parallel software services hub.

NEW YORK: Welcome to the most expensive theatre production in modern history, where half a million casualties serve as background extras while three aging narcissists swap costumes and pretend yesterday's betrayals never happened. The Ukraine war has devolved into something far more obscene than mere geopolitical chess—it's become a rotating circus of self-serving reversals that would make Machiavelli blush.

NEW YORK: In the annals of American diplomacy, few moments have crystallized the peculiar intersection of spectacle and statecraft quite like Donald J. Trump's appearance at the 80th United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, where a malfunctioning escalator, a rebellious teleprompter and a traffic-snarled French president combined to transform high-level diplomacy into high farce.

NEW YORK: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to skip the 80th United Nations General Assembly session, sending External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in his place, represents far more than a scheduling conflict.

Since 1995, the world is wealthier, healthier and better educated. Yet, progress in certain areas remains limited, and stark global inequalities endure. Hence, in spite of the many improvements, disenchantment with institutions is widespread and persistent. Governments, unions and businesses face declining levels of trust, indicating a fraying social contract. Many people increasingly feel that their effort is not being rewarded and that society is unfair.

The global economy is entering a period of weak growth and systemic disruption, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest Chief Economists’ Outlook, released on September 24. Some 72 per cent of surveyed chief economists expect the global economy to weaken over the next year, amid intensifying trade disruption, rising policy uncertainty and accelerating technological change. The findings point to the emergence of a new economic environment shaped by persistent disruption and growing fragmentation.

United States President Donald Trump gave a speech on Tuesday at the United Nations. The teleprompter wasn't functioning. That did not stop Trump from taking charge. His wisecrack that "whoever operated the teleprompter" will pay a price drew laughter. First Lady Melania Trump was among those who did not laugh. But Trump was in his element. Humour over, President Trump got down to giving the United Nations a hiding. Then, later down the address, the former real-estate developer, got down to business, accusing the United Nations of “funding an assault on Western countries.”

NEW YORK: Zohran Mamdani, the likely new mayor of New York City, was 17 in December 2008 when his accomplished filmmaker mother, Mira Nair, with son in tow, led a free walking tour of Delhi. She showed the stark realities of the lives of Indian street and working children.