Why Tiny Minerals Matter to Big Technology Oil once defined the vocabulary of strategic resources. Today, some of the most consequential materials in the global economy are far less glamorous. They can fit into a laboratory container, appear as obscure…
Russian Oil, US Tariffs and India: Why Energy Security Is Becoming a Foreign-Policy Test For India, crude oil is never just a commodity. It is transportation, manufacturing, electricity, logistics, inflation and household economics — all rolled into one barrel. That…
Why America’s Crackdown Matters to Indian Professionals For thousands of Indian technology professionals, the American dream has traditionally arrived in a familiar format: a job offer, an H-1B petition, a move across the Atlantic and a career built around specialised…
India’s Semiconductor Moment: From Chip Design Powerhouse to Global Manufacturing Hub For decades, India was exceptionally good at designing technology — but much of the physical hardware powering that technology was manufactured somewhere else. That equation is beginning to change.…
US OPT Fee Proposal Moves Closer to Reality A potentially dramatic change is moving through the U.S. immigration rulemaking system—and Indian students are watching closely. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has…
Saudi Oil Pipeline Attack: A pipeline in the Saudi Arabian desert may sound like a problem thousands of kilometres away from India. It isn’t. When the East-West Pipeline, also known as the Petroline, was hit by drone attacks on September 10,…
Seven New Movies and Shows Bringing Love, Action, Dance and Drama to Your Screen The Friday OTT ritual has become something of a modern Indian weekend tradition: finish the week’s work, order something to eat, pick up the remote and…
Sethuraman Panchanathan Makes History With NAE’s Bueche Award A child standing in a queue outside the American Center in Chennai in 1969 could hardly have known that the small grey rocks behind a glass display would eventually influence the direction…
South Korea Expands Visa Access in India: Four Centres Now Serve Indian Travellers South Korea has quietly made one practical change that could make a considerable difference to Indian travellers: applying for a Korean visa no longer necessarily means treating…
From Ore to AI: How India and Australia Are Building a New Economic Corridor For decades, the India–Australia economic relationship was easy to describe. Australia supplied resources. India supplied services, students, professionals and a rapidly expanding consumer market. That description…