New Delhi / Mumbai — When the Prime Minister of the world’s fifth-largest economy publicly urges citizens to exercise caution in purchasing two of the most economically and culturally significant commodities in Indian life — petrol and gold — financial markets do not shrug. They listen, recalibrate, and in many cases, move. Prime Minister Narendra…

Tehran / Washington — Inside Iran’s labyrinthine power structure, where factions within factions operate behind layers of ideological allegiance and institutional loyalty, a specific and dangerous bloc has emerged as the single greatest internal threat to any US-Iran diplomatic agreement. They are known, with a mixture of reverence and alarm depending on who is speaking,…

Every time Washington picks up the phone to Beijing these days, China plays the same opening note. Before trade, before Iran, before energy markets or nuclear deals — there is Taiwan. And as President Donald Trump prepares to land in Beijing on May 14, China is making sure that message has been heard at full…

New Delhi / Islamabad — When India launched Operation Sindoor — its precisely calibrated cross-border strike package targeting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir — the world took notice. But military planners in New Delhi were watching something else entirely: how Israel and Iran were fighting their war, and what lessons it held for…

No country on earth has more economic leverage over Iran than China. Beijing buys roughly 90% of Iran’s oil exports, bankrolls its sanctions-battered economy, and has now become the most strategically important diplomatic player between Washington and Tehran. Yet analysts and officials are increasingly clear: China will only use that leverage to push for a…

Washington, D.C. — May 6, 2026 When Pentagon press briefings start fielding questions about “kamikaze dolphins,” you know something remarkable is unfolding in global geopolitics. Last week, that is precisely what happened — and the answers offered a rare, unfiltered glimpse into one of the US military’s most secretive and fascinating programs: the US Navy…

May 5, 2026 Global oil markets jolted sharply higher on Monday after Iranian state media reported that a United States naval vessel had been struck by missiles in the Strait of Hormuz — a claim the U.S. military swiftly and flatly denied, but not before crude benchmarks registered one of their single-day surges of the…

Beijing has mastered the art of saying little and gaining much and nowhere is that strategy more visible right now than in how China is navigating the collision between Donald Trump and Iran, a war that has upended global energy markets and handed Xi Jinping a rare card to play. Since US and Israeli forces…

By Staff Reporter | May 4, 2026 European equity markets opened broadly in positive territory on Monday, shrugging off the weekend’s geopolitical noise — but the automotive sector told a different story, tumbling sharply after President Donald Trump announced he would raise tariffs on European cars and trucks to 25%, escalating a trade dispute that…

A brutal convergence of record-breaking heat and a war-driven energy shock is pushing India deeper into coal dependency — straining the world’s most populous nation at the precise moment its energy grid can least afford it. India’s power demand smashed through its all-time record on April 25, 2026, hitting 256 gigawatts (GW) — weeks ahead…