Modi, Bhutan, China and the squeeze

PM Modi’s visit tries to steady India’s hold in Bhutan at a moment when China’s slow, patient pressure is tightening Bhutan’s strategic choices.

Indian media’s Kirk

Indian media treated the activist’s assassination as a cautionary tale about polarisation, not the partisan battlefield American outlets made it.

Fuelling a new equation

As sanctions make Russian oil a legal, financial liability, India is forced to rebalance energy ties and turn crude politics into tariff negotiation.