A labourer works on a construction site near the Amazon India headquarters in Bengaluru on December 29, 2025. Idrees Mohammed | Afp | Getty Images In a quarter partially affected by the economic disruptions from the Middle East conflict, India’s economy grew at 7.8% year-on-year in the three months to the end of March, a … Read more
A money lender counts Indian rupee currency notes at his shop in Ahmedabad, India. Amit Dave | Reuters India is doubling down on measures aimed at attracting foreign portfolio investments, as foreign capital outflows hit a record high. The government on Friday announced that it has exempted foreign investors and the Bank for International Settlements … Read more
A pedestrian walks past an Indian rupee symbol installation outside the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) building in Mumbai on May 17, 2026. Punit Paranjpe | Afp | Getty Images India’s central bank on Friday held interest rates at 5.25% at a time when surging global energy costs have hammered its currency, while the Iran … Read more
AAP councillors protest against the leak of undergraduate examination papers during the House meeting of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on May 25, 2026 in New Delhi, India. Sonu Mehta | Hindustan Times | Getty Images A youth political movement in India that has gone viral on social media — and that has a cockroach … Read more
People walk past Reserve Bank of India signage in front of an installation stall at Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, India, on Aug. 28, 2024. Indranil Aditya | Nurphoto | Getty Images India’s central bank may defy expectations that it will leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged during its monetary policy decision meeting on Friday. … Read more
An iFlytek liquid-cooled server equipped with Huawei Kunpeng 920 chips and Ascend AI chips, on display at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China on July 26, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Hi, this is Evelyn, writing to you from Beijing. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection — … Read more
Bengaluru: South Korean space AI company TelePIX has signed an MoU with Bengaluru-based space propulsion firm Bellatrix Aerospace to jointly develop a next-generation Earth observation (EO) satellite designed to operate in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), with a technology demonstration mission targeted for launch in 2028.The partnership will combine TelePIX’s high-resolution optical payload, Chouette, with … Read more
Nepal Prime Minister Balen Shah on Sunday said that both countries had encroached upon each other’s territory, a statement that reignited the long-running border dispute between the two neighbours. Shah was addressing Parliament for the first time since becoming the Himalayan country’s youngest Prime Minister earlier this year. While acknowledging that the border dispute involving … Read more
When music executive Anjula Acharia began launching superstar actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas into Hollywood in the early 2000s, her label partner Jimmy Iovine — the name behind pop sensations such as Eminem and Lady Gaga — told her she was 20 years too early to bring South Asian talent to the U.S. Now, Acharia is … Read more
PHU QUOC, VIETNAM – MARCH 20: People walk on Ba Keo Beach on March 20, 2026 in Phu Quoc, Vietnam. The country welcomed nearly 21.2 million international visitors in 2025 — a new record. Allison Joyce | Getty Images News | Getty Images Trips to smaller “secondary cities” across Asia-Pacific are getting a boost this … Read more