Rising temperatures, recurring climate disasters, water stress, biodiversity degradation and increasing socio-economic vulnerabilities have transformed climate change from a purely environmental challenge into a geopolitical reality
As global power structures continue to shift toward multipolarity, the India–Russia relationship remains a critical pillar in Eurasian geopolitics and an increasingly important factor in shaping the strategic balance across the Global South.
Over the past three decades of the post-Cold War era, there has been a prevailing conviction that globalisation and interdependence among nations will lead to a better world for all and, for a group of countries that call themselves “the West”, that they will lead this movement.
India is set to host the fourth India-Africa Forum Summit this year, where leaders and representatives from across the African continent will convene to launch a new chapter in one of the most enduring, long-standing, and dynamic partnerships in the Global South.
The India-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), signed in 2022, marks a significant transformation in the trajectory of bilateral relations between India and the United Arab Emirates. Moving beyond the traditional framework of energy dependence and diaspora-driven engagement, CEPA has institutionalised a broader framework of economic cooperation centred on trade expansion, investment facilitation, strategic connectivity, and geo-economic partnership.
The drumbeats of conflict in the Middle East, specifically the looming specter of strikes involving Iran, have sent a predictable but no less jarring tremor through global markets. As fuel shortages manifest from the local pumps of East Africa to the industrial hubs of Europe, the world is reminded of the fragile tether connecting global peace to economic survival.
For three decades, a 315-meter ghost has haunted the canyons of the Far-West. The Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project (PMP), the centerpiece of the 1996 Mahakali Treaty, was promised as a “Project of the Century” that would transform Nepal into an energy powerhouse.
While rare earth minerals have become essential for future growth, it’s distribution across the world is not even. It becomes more challenging for countries to make a balance when major powers like China holds almost 80% of its share.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar further emphasised joint defence production, energy cooperation, space collaboration and mechanisms to shield bilateral trade from “unfriendly pressure from third countries.”
At a time when global trade tensions are escalating in Taiwan and the AI threat is overshadowing the world, the USA’s tilt in the Eastern Hemisphere points toward China’s growing global impact. The Iran-US war has surely caused a dent in China’s economic progress, but ideologically and politically it has gained an upper hand.
