Op-Eds Opinion
Cricket boards were created to run a sport, not to act as unofficial foreign ministries. Yet today, cricket is being dragged into political signalling so routinely that the line between governance and geopolitics is collapsing in plain sight. Two recent episodes make this impossible to ignore. Bangladesh’s refusal to tour India, without any ICC sanction […]
International
India is considering a significant reduction in import tariffs on cars from the European Union as part of the ongoing India-EU free trade agreement negotiations. According to officials familiar with the discussions, New Delhi may cut peak import duties on certain EU-made cars from the current level of up to 110% to around 40%. Limited […]
Op-Eds Opinion
Donald Trump’s recent remarks about the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro sounded bizarre on the surface. A “secret weapon” that made enemy systems simply stop working, rockets that would not launch, buttons that did nothing. Strip away the theatrics and the name-calling, and what remains is something far more serious: an open admission that […]