R. Suryamurthy is a Contributing Editor at South Asian Herald. He has worked for The Telegraph, The Tribune, and Press Trust of India.
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South Asia is emerging as one of the most consequential battlegrounds for the global 2030 Agenda, with new data showing that hard-won social and economic gains are being steadily undermined…
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The swearing-in of Tarique Rahman as prime minister on February 17 marks far more than a routine transfer of power in Bangladesh. It closes a turbulent chapter opened by the…
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India’s economy is expected to grow 7.4% in the financial year ending March 2026, accelerating from a provisional 6.5% expansion in FY25, government estimates showed on Tuesday, as strong services…
Nearly a decade after it was announced, India’s first high-speed rail project is moving into its execution-heavy phase, with the government targeting the start of bullet train operations from August…
India’s space agency on Wednesday successfully placed the BlueBird Block-2 communications satellite into low Earth orbit, marking the heaviest payload ever launched by an Indian rocket and underscoring the growing…
India’s stock market is riding the strongest wealth-creation wave in its modern history, yet the foundations of this surge are far less stable than the headline numbers suggest. Motilal Oswal’s…
