China’s other sectors like electric vehicles and demand from India are likely to offset some impact, but exporters will have to seek newer markets, analysts say.

‘People are interested in India for several reasons, one is simply it’s not China,’ says Vikas Pershad, a money manager at M&G Investments in Singapore. ‘There’s a genuine long-term growth story here.’

Drag artists say their shows in schools create awareness about equality, prompting kids to ask about pride marches, same-sex marriages and LGBTQ rights.

Exports of India’s premium basmati rice dropped by up to half this month from a year ago as freight rates doubled following a series of attacks on ships in the Red Sea.

Vicky Sharma and his team of volunteers help provide blankets to those who are homeless in the Indian capital, transport people to hospitals - and collect the bodies of the dead.

Such a national approach to the artificial intelligence boom stands to drive an expansion of data centres that would need Nvidia’s know-how and hardware.

The bird was caught at a port in Mumbai with ‘messages written in a Chinese-like script’ on its wings.

The potential sale, which includes 31 advanced MQ-9B Sky Guardians, is notable given New Delhi’s historic reliance on weapons from Russia.

India, the world’s third-largest civil aviation market, transported over 153 million passengers last year and hopes to double that number by 2030.

Calls for safe digital spaces are growing after a teen influencer who was cyberbullied took his life.

Calls for India to enshrine Hindu supremacy have rapidly grown louder since PM Narendra Modi took office in 2014, making its roughly 210-million-strong Muslim minority increasingly anxious about their future.

The precious metal rallied 13 per cent last year, touching a record in early December, on the back of economic and political uncertainty, geopolitical tensions.

The Uniform Civil Code is a divisive issue, as many minority Muslims who criticise the BJP for its hardline Hindu-first image see it as interference with centuries-old Islamic practices.

Two restaurants, one iconic dish – but who can claim to be its inventor? That’s for the Delhi High Court to decide.

Observers say Islamabad is ‘signalling’ to Narendra Modi’s administration ahead of India’s elections later this year. New Delhi carried out cross-border strikes on Pakistani militants before its last polls in 2019.

The suit comes amid a renewed debate over what it means to be and look Japanese, after a Ukrainian-born, naturalised Japanese citizen was crowned Miss Japan, last week.

Bengaluru, formerly Bangalore, has seen a boom in creativity in art, music, theatre and food, making India’s Silicon Valley a beacon of culture and the only Indian city to join the World Cities Culture Forum.

For decades, writers from India’s ‘lowest’ caste say their voices have been muted. Independent publishers are seeking a new chapter in representation.

Readers discuss the process of acquiring a foreign language, the re-emergence of beggars in Hong Kong, and the new Ram Temple in India.

A major military deal with Russia ‘would be a red line for Washington’, one analyst notes, as India boosts ties with the US amid concerns over Moscow’s ability to supply munitions.

Congress has struggled to gain voter attention in the past decade, with party renewal hampered by the old guard and a lack of clear policy goals among issues.

The foreign secretary said Indian agents last year hired local operators to carry out the attacks in Sialkot and Rawalakot that killed two of its citizens.

The recognition comes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi tries to portray India as Asia’s next manufacturing hub as some supply chains move away from China.