Author: Shivendra Saxena

New Delhi: The Mark Carney Xi Jinping meeting landed softly but carried weight. This was the first visit by a Canadian prime minister to Beijing in almost a decade. That absence wasn’t accidental. It reflected years of frozen trust, quiet retaliation, and unfinished arguments. Inside the Great Hall of the People, Carney chose his words with care. Canada and China, he said, should shape a relationship “adapted to new global realities.” No romance. No nostalgia. Just a blunt acknowledgement that the world has shifted and Canada intends to move with it. Xi Jinping responded in kind. He spoke of building…

Mumbai: Donald Trump is done whispering. On Greenland, he’s speaking in blunt verbs and hard edges, and the world is listening. Trump is back to saying the quiet part out loud. The United States, he declared from the White House, is “going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not.” No qualifiers. No diplomatic padding. Just a warning wrapped in certainty. Standing beside Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and oil industry leaders, Trump framed Greenland not as a negotiation but as a necessity. His logic was familiar and deliberately stark. Act now, or…

Delhi: Look closely at India’s financial system in 2025 and one thing stands out. The Department of Financial Services did not tinker. It rewired. The Department of Financial Services Year Ender 2025 reads less like a routine government summary and more like a balance sheet of intent. Banking stability improved. Digital payments exploded. Inclusion widened. And yes, the numbers finally backed the narrative. A Year of Structural Momentum The Department of Financial Services built 2025 on a foundation laid earlier, but the pace clearly shifted. Reforms moved from policy intent to on-ground outcomes. Initiatives like the Banking Laws Amendment Act,…

Mumbai: Donald Trump wants Greenland. Again. And this time, Europe isn’t laughing. It’s recalculating alliances, legal red lines, and the future of NATO itself. For months, European capitals have struggled to decode Donald Trump’s insistence that the United States must take control of Greenland. What began as a surreal talking point has hardened into something far more unsettling. Trump keeps repeating it. Publicly. Bluntly. Without irony. That persistence has rattled Europe. The Trump Greenland annexation narrative has collided with an already fragile transatlantic moment. Ukraine remains at war. Russia is watching. NATO unity is under strain. And suddenly, a founding…

Bengaluru: Not all revolutions are loud. Some roll in on warehouse floors, railyards, and factory dashboards. The top logistics manufacturing startups here are exactly that kind of quiet force. Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield sifts through thousands of applications. Only 200 make the cut. And just 20 get the spotlight. The rest? Still lethal. Especially in logistics, manufacturing, and materials, where real-world problems don’t care about hype cycles. Here’s the full, no-fluff breakdown of the 16 startups pushing industry forward, one bottleneck at a time. Logistics Startups Solving the Unsexy Problems, one step at a time. GigU: Making Gig Work…

Mumbai: Look, this stopped being a quiet pressure campaign a long time ago. Trump’s Venezuela strikes have now crossed into open confrontation, and the fallout is spreading fast. Maduro Breaks His Silence, Sort Of Nicolás Maduro chose an unusual stage to push back. An hour-long television interview. A moving SUV. Caracas rolling by in the background like a postcard. Calm was the message. Defiance was the subtext. Maduro urged Donald Trump to abandon what he called “illegal warmongering” and return to “serious talks.” He stopped short of confirming reports of a pre-Christmas CIA drone strike on Venezuelan soil. Not denial.…

Delhi: This isn’t symbolism. It’s arithmetic. India overtaking Japan in GDP marks a clean break from decades of global economic hierarchy. For years, Japan’s position as the world’s third-largest economy felt immovable. Stable. Almost ceremonial. That era is ending. According to estimates cited by the International Monetary Fund, Japan is likely to fall behind India in 2026, slipping to fifth place globally. India moves up. Japan steps aside. And no, this isn’t a sudden stumble. It’s the cumulative weight of demographics, currency weakness, and slower growth finally catching up. Japan’s economy contracted in the July–September quarter for the first time…

New Delhi: Up in the Himalayas, soldiers still face each other across frozen rock and thin air. Down in India’s industrial belts, machines keep running on Chinese parts. It looks absurd. It isn’t. India-China economic interdependence is not an accident of inertia. It’s a hard-edged experiment in managing rivalry without economic self-harm. Untidy. Risky. And, so far, intact. The Border Never Really Calmed Down The October 2025 understanding between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping eased pressure at a few friction points along the Line of Actual Control. It did not end the standoff. Anyone expecting demilitarisation hasn’t…

Delhi: India just made a decisive move in the global tech supply chain game. With a ₹7,280 crore approval, rare earth permanent magnet manufacturing in India is no longer an ambition. It is now policy-backed reality. Look, magnets don’t sound glamorous. But without them, electric vehicles stall, wind turbines freeze, and defence systems lose precision. That’s the quiet power India is now securing. What the Government Approved and Why It Matters? The Government of India has cleared the Scheme to Promote Manufacturing of Sintered Rare Earth Permanent Magnets. The headline number is ₹7,280 crore. The strategic number is 6,000 metric…

Delhi: North Korea is not whispering anymore. It’s showing metal, mass, and intent, straight from a shipyard floor. Every few months, Pyongyang finds a new way to remind the world that it hasn’t gone anywhere. This time, the reminder is heavy, cylindrical, and designed to vanish underwater. State media images released by the Korean Central News Agency show what appears to be a largely completed nuclear-powered submarine. The vessel, described as an 8,700-ton-class nuclear-propelled submarine, was inspected by Kim Jong Un himself. No launch. No ceremony. Just steel and a leader pointing at it. That alone says enough. For North…