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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ahead of the September Quad Leaders' Summit at Wilmington in Delaware, US. (HT_PRINT)

Has the Quad lost its way?

3 min read . 11:08 AM IST

Three companies dominate this business: Zomato, Zepto and Swiggy, which on September 26th announced an IPO. (PTI)

India’s consumers are changing how they buy

2 min read . 07:43 AM IST

On July 3rd more than 100 people were taken hostage by highwaymen. (Image: Pixabay)

Ethiopia is in the midst of a kidnapping epidemic

4 min read . 04 Oct 2024

Millions of people worldwide suffer from the most common genetic diseases, such as sickle-cell anaemia or thalassemia, two blood disorders. (Image: Pixabay)

Genomic medicines can cost $3m a dose. How to make them affordable

3 min read . 04 Oct 2024

On the Global Innovation Index, over the past five years, the fastest climbers in the rankings have been Indonesia, Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Brazil and Pakistan. (Image: Pixabay)

The world’s most innovative country

3 min read . 04 Oct 2024

A woman holds a placard at a demonstration to protest against overtourism and house prices on the island of Mallorca on 21 July 21. Photo: AFP

Which cities have the worst overtourism problem?

2 min read . 03 Oct 2024

The South Korean giant is struggling to compete at the cutting-edge of both logic chips. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File) (AP)

Can Samsung get its mojo back?

5 min read . 03 Oct 2024

Some 3trn yuan in fiscal spending for bank recapitalisation, consumer handouts and local-government refinancing has been reported but not announced formally. (Image: Pixabay)

Xi Jinping’s belated stimulus has reset the mood in Chinese markets

6 min read . 03 Oct 2024

There is little time to waste, says the commission. Photo: Jung Yeon-je/AFP

America is not ready for a major war, says a bipartisan commission

4 min read . 02 Oct 2024

Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned gas giant, has been struggling to make profits. Russia now has two options: building pipelines to other places or turbocharging LNG exports. (Photo: Reuters)

Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine

4 min read . 02 Oct 2024

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his speech at a dinner marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, Monday, (Photo: AP)

Fear of a Soviet-style collapse keeps Xi Jinping up at night

5 min read . 02 Oct 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler. Photo: Bloomberg

Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance

4 min read . 01 Oct 2024

Although India has a third more land under cultivation than China, it harvests only a third as much produce by value. (File Photo: Reuters)

The world’s next food superpower

6 min read . 01 Oct 2024

Lebanon is now in the throes of three days of national mourning; but the war goes on, REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki (REUTERS)

Lebanon faces its worst crisis since the end of the civil war

4 min read . 01 Oct 2024

If Mr Zelensky continues to defy reality by insisting that Ukraine’s army can take back all the land Russia has stolen since 2014, he will drive away Ukraine’s backers and further divide Ukrainian society. . (Photo by Drew ANGERER / AFP) (AFP)

The war is going badly. Ukraine and its allies must change course

5 min read . 30 Sep 2024

In 2023, India's exports of software and related services amounted to $193bn, with half going to America.

AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers’ world

6 min read . 30 Sep 2024

A clipping of Korean film Memories of Murder.

The world’s most extreme cancel culture

7 min read . 29 Sep 2024

In March, Russia carried out an attack on a Ukrainian defensive position with what appeared to be robots armed with automatic grenade-launchers. (Pixabay)

The growing role of fighting robots on the ground in Ukraine

2 min read . 29 Sep 2024

Demonstrators hold flags and pictures of Hassan Nasrallah, late leader of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, at a protest rally in the central business district of Sydney on 29 September. (AFP)

Hassan Nasrallah’s death will reshape Lebanon and the Middle East

6 min read . 29 Sep 2024

A protest against mass tourism in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 21 July. The banner reads 'Let's change course, let's put limits on tourism'. Photo: Reuters

What the war on tourism gets wrong

6 min read . 28 Sep 2024

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