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Among India’s regional neighbours, the Sri Lankan economy has shown signs of recovery in recent months, with Colombo repaying the $51 million Bangladeshi emergency loan it had received when its financial crisis was at peak. This remarkable turnaround which needs to be sustained over the long haul, has been achieved, thanks to a slew of significant measures, some of them unpopular, taken by Sri Lankan policymakers.

LUCKNOW: After BR Ambedkar, major political parties are busy appropriating BSP founder Kanshi Ram to win over crucial dalit voters for 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh., For the first time, the death anniversary of dalit icon Kanshi Ram on October 9 became major event for political parties in UP.

BHOPAL: The day poll programme for five states including Madhya Pradesh was announced speculation about chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also ended. The BJP leadership finally assigned his traditional seat to him. As already known¸ polling in Madhya Pradesh will take place only on one day that is November 17 and the result will be announced on December 3. The BJP list for Madhya Pradesh also ended guesswork about giving tickets to Scindia loyalists.

Does India need a caste census? If conducted, Will it bring positive or negative consequences? There is debate over this issue. The issue is controversial due to differing opinions on potential benefits or drawbacks.

With announcement of Vidhan Sabha Elections in five states – Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Telangana – by the Election Commission of India today, the pre-election campaigns end with the Model Code of Conduct for the political parties and their leaders coming into operation. Political narrative emerged so far underwent several twists and turns signalling bad omens for the country, if followed by the political parties, would precipitate troubles much faster that one can imagine.

Much to India’s satisfaction, its immediate South Asian neighbours have not hesitated to condemn Canada’s intemperate outburst, accusing New Delhi publicly of killing H.S.Nijjar: the hard core Khalistani extremist Nijjar had settled in Canada, where he was shot down by unidentified assailants on June 18 this year.

To the day the Yom Kippur war broke out fifty years back, the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas launched a massive attack on Israel. Think of a Pakistani terrorist attack on Bombay of November 26, 2008 many, many times escalated in scale, and that is what had happened to Israel on this October 6, 2023.

Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ concluded his 8-day-long China visit on September 30. Prachanda went to Beijing from New York, where he arrived from Kathmandu to attend United Nations General Assembly meetings. Given the sensitivity in India-Nepal relations and how some Nepalese leaders in the past used China as a bargaining chip with India, Prachanda’s China visit was closely watched by analysts in India. Interestingly, Prachanda’s visit didn’t yield any big-ticket agreements or deals.

Hamas, the Islamist militia that controls Gaza, will likely emerge a victor regardless of how the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting ends. Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel, described by some analysts as the Jewish state’s 9/11, changes the dynamics of Middle Eastern geopolitics.

The vision document prepared by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) along with the India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) outlining the target of the country’s electronics production in terms of US dollars at $300 billion by 2025-26 is too tall. Considering the country’s present production and export levels, the target appears to be highly unachievable. India’s electronics production may at the most reach a $200-billion mark by the end of March 2026. The country’s current electronics production is only worth a little over $100 billion. This includes electronics exports which earned $23 billion in 2022-23. There is absolutely no doubt that the country has done extremely well in electronics production and exports in recent years. India is now the world’s second largest mobile phone manufacturer. The country’s smartphone market has also grown to become the second largest. The production of mobile phones has gone up from 60 million in 2015 to 310 million in 2022 at a CAGR of 26 percent. Yet, these figures mean little in the context of global electronics production and exports.