Damsana Ranadhiran

Russia's grip on India's oil market is proving remarkably resilient. Despite falling import volumes in August and the growing threat of punitive US sanctions against countries buying Russian crude, Moscow once again emerged as India's largest oil supplier. The development is significant not merely because of the numbers involved, but because it highlights a larger reality: when energy security is at stake, national interests tend to outweigh geopolitical pressure.

India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) is examining what could prove to be a far wider transnational security operation after telling a Delhi court that it has “credible information” linking six Ukrainian nationals and an American citizen in Indian custody to a suspected drone attack on a civilian passenger aircraft in Myanmar.

A newly released report from the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) has raised deeply troubling questions about how far Washington's competition with China could go in the race to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI). The report reportedly examines what it calls “extreme measures,” including the possibility of military strikes against Chinese data centers, if Beijing were to move decisively ahead in the development of advanced AI.

Government borrowing is exploding. Fiscal deficits are becoming increasingly difficult to contain. Investors are demanding higher returns to absorb mountains of new debt. And now, renewed fighting between the United States and Iran is threatening to unleash another inflation shock through soaring energy prices.

America has spent decades building a welfare system that can subsidize almost everything except the one institution politicians constantly claim they want to strengthen: the family.

Israel's seizure of the Ali Al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon should not be viewed merely as another battlefield development. It raises a far more consequential question: If Hezbollah's military presence in the area has been dismantled, what reason does Israel have to remain-and will it actually withdraw?

For decades, India was better known as one of the world's largest importers of military hardware than as a serious arms exporter. That image is now beginning to change. From BrahMos missiles and Akash air-defense systems to drones, radars, artillery, naval vessels and sophisticated aerospace components, India is steadily building a defense-export industry that could reshape its position in the global arms market.

Tehran sought to exploit divisions across the Gulf by widening the war. Instead, its attacks are pushing Arab states toward a more coordinated strategy of diplomatic, economic and security pressure.

Tehran sought to exploit divisions across the Gulf by widening the war. Instead, its attacks are pushing Arab states toward a more coordinated strategy of diplomatic, economic and security pressure. When Iran began expanding its attacks across the...

Anti-immigrant protests in Dover and Portsmouth have raised serious questions about policing, intelligence failures and the growing influence of organized far-right activism in Britain