Charu Sudan Kasturi

Af­ter war dis­rupt­ed Ukrain­ian sup­plies and In­done­sia banned palm oil ex­ports, In­dia looked at new mar­kets for its needs.

Schools of­fer­ing ac­tiv­i­ty-based learn­ing over text­book-based ed­u­ca­tion are emerg­ing across In­dia.

Tes­la CEO’s $44bn bid to buy Twit­ter puts bil­lion­aire in the crosshairs of cen­sor­ship-prone Bei­jing and New Del­hi.

In­fra­struc­ture is­sues, po­lit­i­cal pres­sure and low de­mand could pre­vent Asia from ab­sorb­ing di­vert­ed en­er­gy sup­plies.

Chi­na’s strict pan­dem­ic poli­cies have shut­tered fac­to­ries and pre­vent­ed ships from un­load­ing and pick­ing up car­go.

An es­cape clause in US sanc­tions al­lows Russ­ian di­a­monds to en­ter glob­al mar­kets af­ter be­ing cut and pol­ished in In­dia.

Moscow’s ag­gres­sive cam­paign of im­port sub­sti­tu­tion since 2014 has had mixed re­sults at best, an­a­lysts say.

The move comes at a time when both na­tions are des­per­ate to re­duce their de­pen­dence on Chi­na.

Samoan Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to skip re­cent sum­mit is lat­est ev­i­dence of grow­ing mis­trust of Bei­jing.

For­eign stu­dents, an im­por­tant part of Ukraine’s eco­nom­ic en­gine, may nev­er want to re­turn af­ter es­cap­ing a war zone.