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25.01 / 02:45

UPS economy President War country Ukraine will be the business opportunity of the decade

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky met in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday to discuss an end to Russia’s war. No concrete plans were drawn up, but both leaders emerged optimistic about their progress.

25.01 / 01:53

markets Manufacturing security Trade performer country cover India drops to sixth among emerging markets in December as global headwinds bite

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India slipped to the sixth position on Mint’s emerging market tracker in December 2025, as weakness across multiple external indicators dragged its composite score lower despite continued strength in broader economic growth and manufacturing activity. This marked the worst performance since February 2025, when the same indicators emerged as weak spots.

24.01 / 12:53

UPS Strategy Chevron Research ConocoPhillips President rights China built a vast oil stake in Venezuela. Now it risks getting muscled out.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Venezuela booted out American oil companies in a nationalization campaign nearly two decades ago, China stepped in. Now, Beijing’s foothold there is in doubt as the U.S.

24.01 / 09:07

Action security economy President country peace International Davos, Trump, and the fragile future of multilateralism

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : The air in Davos this year was thick with trepidation. It wasn’t just anxiety about the global economy that weighed on those gathered at the World Economic Forum.

24.01 / 06:37

Cooper security Strategy TikTok President peace Pentagon’s new defense strategy strikes conciliatory tone on China

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Pentagon stuck a conciliatory tone toward Beijing in its new defense strategy, stating that its overarching goal is to establish “strategic stability" in the Indo-Pacific region and de–escalate tensions with the Chinese military.

24.01 / 02:45

UPS Fighting economy Trade President War Team Trump is livid after Canada’s Carney calls out US coercion

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. OTTAWA–Canada and the Trump administration are locked in a war of words over Prime Minister Mark Carney’s bid to chart a new model for smaller powers to fight back against the U.S.’s aggressive use of its economic and military might. In the past week, Carney has resolved a trade dispute with America’s biggest strategic competitor, China, and delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland urging smaller powers to unite against economic coercion from the world’s great powers.

23.01 / 16:41

markets UPS Strategy country reports State-run BPCL to sign $780 mn crude sourcing deal with Brazil's Petrobras

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. State-run Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL) will sign a contract with Brazil's Petrobras next week to supply 12 million barrels of crude oil a petroleum ministry statement said, as India continues to diversify its sourcing beyond Russia and West Asia.

23.01 / 09:11

UPS Waters Manufacturing NVIDIA Trade President Led by Nvidia, the AI industry has plans to reindustrialise America

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BEFORE CO-FOUNDING Nvidia, the pioneer of artificial-intelligence (AI) chips, Jensen Huang was a busboy at Denny’s, a restaurant chain. He playfully reminded people of this on October 28th while delivering water to panellists at his firm’s first big jamboree in Washington, DC.

23.01 / 07:37

security President Celebrity country Interviews International The West stepped back from the brink. But Europe’s distrust of America lingers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. DAVOS, Switzerland—The West avoided an open rupture this week. But, instead of celebrating, European leaders are bracing for more serious shocks to the trans-Atlantic relationship in the months ahead.

23.01 / 01:09

markets COST Waves Citizens Continental country innovations Chinese AI is a risk for Europe. So is shunning it

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ON JANUARY 20TH 2025 DeepSeek was an obscure hedge-fund-turned-tech-startup from Hangzhou. Within a week it had become the byword for a new wave of Chinese innovation, after launching an artificial-intelligence model as capable as Silicon Valley’s bleeding edge but much cheaper to build and run.

23.01 / 01:09

markets Manufacturing economy Trade country information Destinations India's chip dream: A step-by-step approach is key, says Arvind Virmani

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : India needs long-term, step-by-step ecosystem-building, alongside sustained investment in research and development (R&D), to achieve semiconductor capabilities, essential for a major global economy given silicon chips’ role in the information age, according to economist and NITI Aayog member Arvind Virmani.

22.01 / 14:49

security President War country peace International Trump wants peace board to rewrite global order—but major powers aren’t sold

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Trump touts his Board of Peace as an organization of accomplished leaders that will displace the United Nations, with him as permanent chairman. But so far it is a group of countries more interested in currying favor with him than in solving pressing conflicts.

22.01 / 14:49

markets UPS President information testing rights Alarm over Trump’s Greenland threat gives way to uncertainty around ‘future deal’

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Trump has stepped back from the brink on Greenland. Now the question is what happens next.

22.01 / 09:47

markets UPS FIVE Waters economy country China’s construction slump has spelt a plateau for global cement production—and it’s good for the planet

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. What’s the most important commodity for modern civilization? There’s a good argument that it’s not the ones we think about—oil, gas, copper, iron ore, gold—but something that’s ubiquitous and rarely grabs the attention of financial markets: concrete. After water, it’s the substance we use most abundantly, with between 25 billion and 30 billion tonnes poured annually.

22.01 / 08:45

markets COST BLOCK Research trends electronic Headlines Will rare-earth pivot extend Nalco’s rally, or end it?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nalco recently grabbed headlines for its entry into critical minerals and rare-earth elements (REEs). Chairman and managing director Brijendra Pratap Singh mentioned on 19 January that the company is open to exploring the domestic critical minerals industry, and that due diligence on auctions for REEs, and chromite and magnesium blocks is underway.

22.01 / 08:35

markets COST Citi trends students show 2020 Why reversing China’s demographic decline will prove far harder than Beijing may reckon

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China has just announced that births in 2025 plunged to 7.92 million, from 9.54 million the previous year, and almost half of what was projected (14.33 million) when the one-child policy was repealed in 2016. In fact, China’s births have fallen to a level comparable to that of 1738 CE, when the country’s total population was only about 150 million.

22.01 / 08:03

markets UPS FIVE Manufacturing country cover China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The SCALE of the renewables revolution in China is almost too vast for the human mind to grasp. By the end of last year, the country had installed 887 gigawatts of solar-power capacity—close to double Europe’s and America’s combined total.

22.01 / 04:55

Provident security SPY President information Interviews Investigations The Chinese spy machine infiltrating Taiwan’s military

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TAIPEI—Sgt. Lai Chung-yu had almost everything a Chinese spy recruiter could want in a Taiwanese asset.

22.01 / 01:45

markets COST security President War country The true danger posed by Donald Trump

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. EUROPEANs EXPECTED a diatribe, but in Davos President Donald Trump was almost conciliatory. He demanded “right, title and ownership" of Greenland, but abandoned tariffs, ruled out force and later hailed new “framework" talks.

21.01 / 10:31

UPS security Sustainability Research Trade performer SRF expects better Q4 for specialty chemicals biz. But is that enough?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SRF Ltd’s shares fell 8% in the past two trading sessions as weaker-than-anticipated December quarter (Q3FY26) results triggered earnings downgrades by various brokerages. Consolidated revenue at ₹3,713 crore missed consensus estimate of ₹3,800 crore.

21.01 / 10:31

UPS security President social politician Europe has three options for defending Greenland

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “IT IS NOT easy to think about solutions when you wake up every morning to new threats." Such was the understated view of Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Denmark’s foreign minister, on January 14th. He and his Greenlandic counterpart had just held a testy meeting with Marco Rubio, America’s secretary of state, and J.D.

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