Trade agreements are opening new markets for Indian businesses, but weak credit access could leave smaller exporters watching the opportunity from the sidelines. In the span of four months, India has done something few economies manage in a decade. It signed what diplomats are calling the “Mother of All Deals” with the European Union in January, reached a tariff framework with the United States in February, and in April chaired the first BRICS SME Working Group meeting under

As the United Nations struggles with geopolitical paralysis, specialised coalitions are becoming faster instruments of global statecraft. The annual high-level general debate of the United Nations General Assembly’s eighty-first session opened against a backdrop of profound global disillusionment. But beneath the grand rhetoric inside the General Assembly Hall, the foundational premise of post-World War II diplomacy wherein a singular, universal institution could preserve pea

India’s 2026 chairmanship of the summit must keep an expanded grouping focused on Global South cooperation without burning Western bridges As New Delhi prepares to host the 18th BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam, the global order sits at a precarious crossroads. What began two decades ago as an economic acronym for high-growth emerging markets has morphed into an expanded, multi-continental bloc representing nearly half the world’s population. For India, taking the helm as BRIC

To its west, old relationships in the Gulf are acquiring new strategic and military dimensions. Across the Atlantic, Washington is increasingly using tariffs as an instrument of foreign policy. At the same time, India holds the BRICS presidency in 2026 and prepares to host its summit when the grouping is being watched in the West as a potential challenge to the American-dominated global financial order. Individually, these developments may appear unrelated. Put together, they