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Tianjin SCO Summit 2025: Key Takeaways and Emerging Trends
International Affairs Sep 18, 2025

Tianjin SCO Summit 2025: Key Takeaways and Emerging Trends

The Tianjin SCO summit signalled a shift from security to economic cooperation, with a proposed development bank underscoring the organisation’s ambitions, even as internal rifts limit its cohesion. ...

Clearing the Air for TB-Free India: The Last Mile Imperative
Healthcare Sep 18, 2025

Clearing the Air for TB-Free India: The Last Mile Imperative

Despite significant progress in reducing incidence and mortality, India’s fight against tuberculosis cannot succeed without addressing air pollution, a critical but overlooked driver of transmission and poor treatment outcomes. ...

A Widening Gulf Between Israel and Qatar
International Affairs Sep 17, 2025

A Widening Gulf Between Israel and Qatar

By targeting Doha, Israel has not only unsettled Qatar’s mediation role but also reignited debates over Gulf unity, Arab neutrality, and the future of US security guarantees. ...

The Chatbot Gold Rush: Patient Safety and the Allure of AI
Healthcare Sep 17, 2025

The Chatbot Gold Rush: Patient Safety and the Allure of AI

On World Patient Safety Day, protecting patients in the chatbot gold rush means setting clear boundaries, keeping humans in the loop, and publishing evidence, with safeguards for vulnerable users. ...

Edging Ahead: The Importance of Tactical Military Edge Computing
International Affairs Sep 16, 2025

Edging Ahead: The Importance of Tactical Military Edge Computing

As warfare turns increasingly data-driven, tactical edge computing enables militaries to process and secure information closer to the battlefield, reducing latency and ensuring faster, more resilient decision-making. ...

Egypt and Ethiopia’s Geostrategic Tug-of-War in Somalia
International Affairs Sep 16, 2025

Egypt and Ethiopia’s Geostrategic Tug-of-War in Somalia

Somalia risks becoming the next battleground as tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia over the GERD escalate, intertwining local conflict with a wider geopolitical rivalry. ...

3I/ATLAS and Oumuamua: Comets or Alien Technology?
Space | Cyber and Technology Sep 15, 2025

3I/ATLAS and Oumuamua: Comets or Alien Technology?

The detection and interception of interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS is of critical importance, not just from a purely scientific perspective, but also due to their potential implications for planetary defence.   ...

AI Impact Summit 2026: India’s Value Proposition for Trusted Global Partnerships
Artificial Intelligence Sep 12, 2025

AI Impact Summit 2026: India’s Value Proposition for Trusted Global Partnerships

In an uncertain geopolitical landscape, the AI Impact Summit 2026 offers opportunities to widen the ambit of trusted partnerships and capitalise on India’s immediate strategic advantages in delivering complementary AI innovations to the world. ...

IRCTC’s Aadhaar Mandate and the Test of Proportionality
Domestic Politics and Governance Sep 12, 2025

IRCTC’s Aadhaar Mandate and the Test of Proportionality

IRCTC’s Aadhaar mandate for Tatkal tickets aims to curb fraud, but without legal backing, it risks overreach and new hurdles for passengers. ...

First Aid in the Age of Misinformation
Healthcare Sep 12, 2025

First Aid in the Age of Misinformation

On World First Aid Day, India must confront the spread of unsafe online practices and close its preparedness gap by embedding evidence-based training and protecting its Good Samaritans. ...

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Shairee Malhotra

Shairee Malhotra

Shairee Malhotra is Deputy Director - Strategic Studies Programme at the Observer Research Foundation.  Her areas of work include Indian foreign policy with a focus on EU-India relations, European foreign policy, European politics both at EU and member state level, and ...

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Purnendra Jain

Purnendra Jain is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide. Recipient of the Japanese Emperors Order of the Rising Sun Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in 2020 and elected Fellow of the Australian Academy ...

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