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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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day address from the Red Fort on August 15, 2025, recast India’s push for indigenous defense technology as a matter of strategic survival, anchoring…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked India’s 79th Independence Day on Friday with his longest-ever address from the Red Fort, delivering a 103-minute roadmap to a “Viksit Bharat” by 2047 that…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s possible meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of next month’s United Nations General Assembly is shaping up less as ceremonial diplomacy and more…
India’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has sharply criticized the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for allowing toll collection on incomplete…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on key members of the BRICS grouping are triggering a diplomatic and economic response that could strengthen the bloc’s cohesion and increase its challenge…
India’s foreign policy is at a crossroads, and Parliament knows it. In a pointed observation tabled in Parliament this week, the Standing Committee on External Affairs, chaired by Shashi Tharoor,…
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 6, 2025, mounted a sharp defense of India’s rural economy in response to fresh U.S. tariff hikes, declaring that the country would “never…
The Trump administration’s announcement of sweeping new tariffs on Indian goods has sent tremors through India’s trade and diplomatic circles, raising urgent questions about the durability of the India-U.S. strategic…
India signaled on August 6, 2025, it would take “all actions necessary” to protect its national interests after Washington moved to double tariffs on Indian goods to 50 percent in…
India’s relative advantage over rival Asian exporters in the US market has eroded sharply after Washington’s latest tariff measures, curbing the upside once expected from April’s China+1 supply chain shift,…
India’s exports to the United States are poised to shrink by nearly 30 percent this fiscal year following the imposition of sweeping 25 percent tariffs, marking a potential blow to…
India’s ambitious free trade agreement with the United Kingdom—signed with fanfare on July 24, 2025—appears to be less a strategic breakthrough and more a troubling surrender of regulatory ground, according…
In an increasingly multipolar world where supply chains are deeply interconnected, the Trump administration’s decision to slap a sweeping 25 percent tariff on Indian imports looks less like strategic leverage…
India has mounted a firm and calculated response to U.S. President Donald Trump's surprise announcement of a 25 per cent tariff on Indian imports starting August 1, 2025, vowing to…
In a sharp escalation of trade and geopolitical tensions, U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a 25 per cent tariff on a wide array of Indian exports, effective August 1,…
The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite successfully launched on July 30, 2025, at 5:40 PM IST from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. Carried aloft by ISRO’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch…
