In his Independence Day address on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government would provide free online coaching for competitive exams and training in artificial intelligence, weeks after youth-led protests forced out the education minister. He also set out growth targets, among them 50 Indian companies in the Fortune 500.
Geopolitics
India has published draft rules that would let private companies build and operate nuclear power plants, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The step would end the state monopoly in one of the world's fastest-growing electricity markets.
Economy
India has raised $50bn from its diaspora and closed the accompanying swap facility ahead of schedule, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The report is available only as a headline summary and gives no further detail.
Economy
Crude closed Friday with a weekly gain of about 6 percent, with the Strait of Hormuz shut since February. Economists warn Iran's economy is nearing collapse.
Economy
Chinese experts have dismissed a White House report accusing exporters of dodging US tariffs through third countries. They say Washington is raising trade barriers that will disrupt global supply chains.
Economy
Specialists have boarded the sanctioned tanker Caroline Bezengi, aground in a marine reserve off Oman since late June. Its crude has now reached the mainland.
Geopolitics
Legislation moving through Congress would give President Donald Trump the power to impose tariffs of 100 percent on countries that keep buying Russian energy, and The Economist argues the bill hands him too much discretion. India said its talks with the United States, including on the bill, had been reassuring, according to The Hindu.
Economy
New mining projects proposed last year would add 2.5bn tonnes to global coal supplies, with most of the increase in the Indian states of Odisha and Jharkhand, The Guardian reported on Thursday. The expansion comes despite a plateau in global demand.
Economy
Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji died of illness in Beijing on Wednesday, aged 97 by most accounts. He drove the overhaul of China's state sector and its entry into the World Trade Organisation.
Geopolitics
Rosstat put second-quarter growth at 1.3% on Wednesday, above official forecasts. Petrol queues and purchase limits have returned in a dozen regions after Ukrainian refinery strikes.
Economy
A US judge has dismissed the fraud charges brought against India's Adani group, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. No details of the ruling have been reported beyond the dismissal itself.
Economy
Natarajan Chandrasekaran announced on Wednesday that he will not seek another term as chairman of Tata Sons when his mandate ends in early 2027. Shares of Tata group companies fell after the announcement, with TCS down almost 6%, according to The Hindu.
Economy
Iran plans to join the BRICS development bank while wartime layoffs mount. Oil rose again on Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Economy
Crude held its gains on Tuesday, a day after prices surged as hopes of reopening the Strait of Hormuz faded again. Stock markets in New York and Mumbai lost ground.
Economy
US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn dismissed the criminal charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani on Monday. The Justice Department had said it was abandoning the fraud and bribery case.
Economy
Russian crude reached an all-time high of 48 percent of India's oil imports even as Washington prepares tariffs of up to 100 percent, The Hindu reported. Indian refiners are at the same time broadening their sourcing because of market volatility, TASS reported, citing local media.
Economy
Thousands of young job-seekers clashed with police in the eastern state of Jharkhand on Monday, accusing authorities of irregularities in qualifying exams for civil service posts. Police used teargas to break up the protest, whose participants are demanding an overhaul of the examination system.
Geopolitics
The world's seas outside the polar regions were hotter last month than in any July on record, the EU's Copernicus service said on Monday. Scientists link part of the spike to a strengthening El Niño.
Geopolitics
India carried out the first test of its home-grown Kusha long-range surface-to-air missile system. The South China Morning Post describes the test as a milestone toward reducing dependence on imported air defence, as India and Pakistan expand their arsenals.
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A New York Times analysis details how police in New Delhi stopped a march by unarmed young protesters in July with pellet guns, batons and tear gas, prompting accusations of excessive force. The South China Morning Post reports that the marchers were led by a group calling itself the Cockroach Janta Party and formed part of a wider wave of Gen Z protests in South Asia.
Geopolitics
The US Senate passed the "Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026" on Friday by 86 votes to 11. It would let the president impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on major buyers of Russian oil and gas.
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India's nuclear-armed submarine is accelerating the arms race with Pakistan, Nikkei Asia reported on Friday. The report gives no detail on what steps Islamabad has taken in response.
Geopolitics
Brent swung back above $80 a barrel on Thursday and gold reached a seven-week high as traders priced in a possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. US stocks fell on doubts the deal would land.
Economy
More than one million people in India's Assam state have been affected by flooding, Al Jazeera reported. Monsoon rains since July have displaced thousands.
Geopolitics
The WHO says the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading faster than the response is being scaled up, with new cases doubling in some hotspots within a week. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said so on Wednesday after visiting Kinshasa.
Geopolitics
Cloudbursts in the Pir Panjal mountains of Kashmir, including one before dawn in July, have destroyed homes, crops and livestock, the Guardian reported on Wednesday. Residents are still searching for missing relatives, and the paper links the increasingly erratic rainfall to climate change.
Geopolitics
The Houthi campaign against Saudi Arabia widened on Tuesday, with a claimed drone strike inside the kingdom and an Indian-flagged vessel sunk off Yemen. Saudi crude is being pushed away from the Red Sea.
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Heavy rain set off floods and landslides that killed at least 15 people in the Indian state of Kerala, The National reported on Tuesday. The Hindu reported six deaths in Sri Lanka, where the same rains triggered landslides and flooding.
Geopolitics
Crude prices dropped and stock markets rallied on Monday after US President Donald Trump cancelled planned strikes on Iran and said talks would resume. Tehran denied his account of a Monday start.
Economy
Border trade through the Nathu La pass resumed after a suspension of several years, following the earlier reopening at Shipki La, Global Times reported on Monday, describing it as a return to normal relations. The outlet also cited Indian media saying New Delhi is easing curbs on Chinese investment and trade.
Economy
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned after weeks of nationwide protests over the NEET entrance exam, Daily Sabah reported on Monday. The outlet describes the youth-led revolt as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's toughest political test.
Geopolitics
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accelerated a project to build an informal alliance of countries around China in the Indo-Pacific, Folha de S.Paulo reported on Monday. The paper wrote that the effort has been overshadowed by global attention on the Middle East and by student protests at home.
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Trade between India and China through the Himalayan Shipki La pass resumed after a six-year halt, The Hindu reported on Saturday. The newspaper gave no further details on the volume or terms of the reopened trade.
Economy
At least one person was killed on Friday in a militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, authorities said according to Daily Sabah. It was the first militant attack in the disputed region since April 2025, when tourists were killed.
Geopolitics
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said an intensifying El Niño will drive higher temperatures, heatwaves, floods and drought worldwide over the next three months, and called for a halt to new fossil fuel projects. He said India's monsoon rains are in danger and that the climate crisis is being pushed into "uncharted territory" on a planet already "on fire".
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Japan carried out yen-buying intervention and the United States conducted a rate check, Nikkei Asia reported on Thursday, as the yen reached a two-month high against the dollar, though the Wall Street Journal noted the intervention had not been officially confirmed. Bloomberg reported that India's central bank sold about $7 billion to defend the rupee.
Economy
The youth-led Cockroach movement had dispersed saying Narendra Modi's government met its demands, and a minister resigned amid the unrest, which Nikkei Asia says dispelled the myth around the prime minister. The Cockroach Janta party now says the government broke its promise and threatens to restart nationwide protests after detentions of students in Delhi, Assam, West Bengal and Bihar.
Geopolitics
Brazil's government requested consultations with the World Trade Organization over the new tariffs Washington imposed on Brazilian goods, Breitbart reported. India was spared the harshest of the US 'forced labour' tariff action while a broader trade deal remains unresolved, and Trump said he is unwilling to extend the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement he signed in 2018, according to TASS.
Economy
India's education minister resigned over the weekend after protests led by the country's Gen Z, a rare setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Daily Sabah reported. The resignation is described as a protest victory for the youth movement.
Geopolitics
Crude oil moved in both directions within days, slumping roughly 5% after Washington and Tehran halted strikes and spiking back toward $100 a barrel as escalation fears returned. Gold rose as the pause curbed inflation risk, Asian equities and currencies firmed on softer US inflation data, and bond markets repriced war risk. Financial outlets report the pause has calmed markets without removing the underlying supply risk in the Gulf and the Red Sea.
Economy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi accepted the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on 25 July, meeting the central demand of a month-long, youth-led protest movement that formed after the leak of a national medical entrance exam. The movement, which called itself the Cockroach Janta Party, announced the end of its campaign after the government conceded. European and US outlets describe the retreat as the first major climbdown by Modi's government since it took power in 2014.
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India's education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on 25 July after weeks of student-led protests over a leaked national medical entrance exam. The demonstrations were organised by the newly formed Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), which called off its campaign at the Jantar Mantar protest site in New Delhi once the resignation was announced. It is the first time mass street pressure has forced out a minister in Narendra Modi's twelve years in office.
Geopolitics
Merck has arranged for companies in Africa and India to manufacture generic versions of its new HIV prevention pill, which could cost as little as $5 per person per year, according to the New York Times. The step is aimed at the regions carrying the heaviest HIV burden. Access in much of Latin America remains uncertain.
Technology
Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin has stepped down, according to the New York Times. His resignation comes as speculation grows over a possible return of Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister who was ousted and fled to India, and whose onetime ally he was. What follows for the presidency is not yet clear from available reporting.
Geopolitics
Activist Sonam Wangchuk ended a 26-day hunger strike on Friday after negotiations with federal ministers, though talks between the government and movement leaders have stalled, according to The Guardian and Daily Sabah. Representatives of Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to compensate families affected by a major exam leak, while the expanding Gen Z-led protest movement continues to demand the education minister's resignation and, the New York Times reports, uses videos and memes to seize the digital narrative.
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