Chile elects Kast as president in sharp rightward shiftJose Antonio Kast won Chile’s presidential election with 58% of the vote, defeating leftist Jeannette Jara and marking Chile’s sharpest shi...
15 Dec, 2025, 07.42 AM IST
With a corrupt military, can China's Xi Jinping wage and win a war?Despite Xi Jinping's efforts to strengthen China's military, internal corruption and challenges in military modernization hinder the countr...
28 Jun, 2024, 03.29 PM IST
Chinese general takes a harsh line on Taiwan and other disputes at an international naval gatheringThe 19th biennial meeting of the Western Pacific Naval Symposium opened in Qingdao, where China's northern naval force is based, providing ...
22 Apr, 2024, 09.43 PM IST
Chile court reopens probe into Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda's deathAn appeals court in Chile has decided to reopen the case of Pablo Neruda's death, a Nobel Prize-winning poet, citing insufficient investiga...
21 Feb, 2024, 07.21 PM IST
Sweeping Chinese military purge exposes weakness, could widen, says AnalystsChina's top lawmakers ousted nine senior military officers from the national legislative body on Friday, state media reported, a step that ...
30 Dec, 2023, 07.44 PM IST
Vivek Ramaswamy wants to expand ties with India, and others, to achieve 'economic independence' from ChinaIndian American entrepreneur and Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy said that he would be looking forward to expanding rela...
22 Sep, 2023, 10.37 AM IST
Pablo Neruda's mysterious death: Experts deliver report to Chile judgeNeruda was a celebrated poet, politician, diplomat and bohemian figure.
16 Feb, 2023, 08.43 AM IST
View: An authoritarian zero-Covid strategy could disrupt the global economy, and ChinaIt is not just that the authorities would have to admit that the strategy they have been following, and for which they have imposed tremend...
18 Jan, 2022, 11.20 PM IST
5 world market themes for the week aheadMost central banks have wrapped up meetings for the year, but they also raised a fresh set of questions for investors to mull over. U.S. da...
18 Dec, 2021, 10.54 AM IST
Omicron and delta spell return of unpopular restrictionsWith the delta variant of COVID-19 pushing up cases in Europe and growing fears over the omicron variant, governments around the world are ...
02 Dec, 2021, 06.39 PM IST
Five Chinese nationals charged in mega hacking scheme, Indian govt networks hit: US"In about 2019, the conspirators compromised government of lndia websites, as well as virtual private networks and database servers support...
16 Sep, 2020, 11.56 PM IST
Time to get picky in emerging markets in grip of political risksOverall, emerging markets are benefiting from the global macro backdrop.
28 Oct, 2019, 02.33 PM IST
What if the richest person paid on government's behalf?The 2018 Robin Hood Index of Bloomberg estimates that India's richest person, Mukesh Ambani could run the Indian government for 20 days.
13 Feb, 2018, 06.12 PM IST
The key lesson for India from Russia 'helping' Donald Trump get electedThe most troubling allegation is that Russians hacked into US' electronic voter registers, changing the addresses of voters in Democratic a...
12 Nov, 2017, 02.19 PM IST
India eyes trade deals with Central American, Caribbean countriesAlthough it’s still in initial stages, a section in the Centre believes that it would be useful to explore a trade agreement with Carricom,...
23 Oct, 2017, 11.14 AM IST
Chile Supreme Court seeks extradition of French national Marie Verhoeven, says envoy"Our Supreme Court has sought appearance of Verhoeven in a terror case and the Chilean Embassy in India will forward the request to the Ind...
13 May, 2016, 04.14 AM IST
World sheds reserve over growing role of China's yuanChina's yuan will one day compete for a place alongside the mighty dollar as a reserve currency hoarded by central banks, say analysts.
13 May, 2014, 09.53 AM IST