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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨 Registrations for #RaisinaDialogue2027 are open! Join us in New Delhi for the 12th edition of the Raisina Dialogue. Register here: or-f.org/31168 🗓️ 18–20 March 2027 | 📍 New Delhi Please ensure that you register under the appropriate category to avoid any issues with the approval of your registration. #RaisinaDialogue2027 #Raisina2027

Defence corridors are more than land and investment. Their long-term value lies in building supplier networks, testing infrastructure and specialised skills. #Kanpur’s next phase must translate industrial investment into lasting capability: Kumkum Mohata or-f.org/40999 #DefenceManufacturing #UttarPradesh

Global aid to developing countries has fallen sharply since 2024. The #US has shut down its development agency, #USAID, while the #UK, #France, #Germany, and the #Netherlands are cutting back. The impact has been most severe for vulnerable communities, notably in #Africa: @malancha_1chakr & Tafadzwa Luke Mupingashato or-f.org/41018 #DevelopmentFinance #ForeignAid

#Farmers in #Kansas and #Mississippi, both states #Trump won comfortably in 2024, are grappling with the “3 Fs”: rising prices of fertiliser, fuel, and feed. The bigger risk for #Republicans on 3 November may not be voters switching sides, but staying home amid growing economic discontent: @viveksans or-f.org/41000 #USMidterms

#India and #Poland are looking to deepen defence cooperation amid a changing #geopolitical landscape. Combining India’s manufacturing scale and engineering capabilities with Poland’s defence expertise could open new avenues for joint production, #technology development, and industrial partnerships: @MalhotraShairee or-f.org/41027

The 1996 Ganges Water-Sharing Treaty between #India and #Bangladesh expires in December 2026. Its renegotiation offers an opportunity to move beyond volumetric allocation towards a climate-adaptive framework that accounts for ecological flows, sediment dynamics, and the economic security of the Bengal Delta: @DrNilanjanG or-f.org/41022 #GangesTreaty #WaterSecurity

#Lula’s comeback owed as much to #FlávioBolsonaro’s missteps as to his own campaign strategy. Complacency, radical rhetoric, and premature talk of governing alienated centrist voters, while Lula’s digital pivot helped win them over: Hari Seshasayee or-f.org/41033 #Brazil

#India’s ties with #China are thawing, so why the caution on the Alipay+–#UPI link-up? New Delhi remains wary of risks around money laundering, cyber fraud, and data breaches involving Chinese-linked financial infrastructure. Hritika Sharma explains 👉or-f.org/41055 #Geopolitics

Can Europe secure #Lithium without public consent? The EU made #Serbia’s Jadar lithium mining project was a Strategic Project, but negotiated with the government, not the citizens affected. Veer Puri on why that matters 👉or-f.org/41052 #CriticalMinerals

Are Indian households investing more while borrowing less? Rising physical-asset investment alongside a slower flow of new household liabilities offers clues to economic confidence, credit constraints and expectations of future demand across the unincorporated economy. @diyaashahz unpacks what the data reveal. or-f.org/41032 #IndianEconomy #Investment #EconomicGrowth #HouseholdInvestment

President #Muizzu appears to treat the relationship with #India as transactional. Yet geography and economic necessity compel him to respect India’s red lines. @gs_aditya explains 👉 or-f.org/41058 #Maldives #IndianOcean

Ports are more than cargo-handling hubs. #Geopolitical tensions, #climate risks, and #cyber threats underscore the need to build resilience across shipping routes, hinterland connectivity, and logistics networks. India must make resilience central to port planning: @anushastweets or-f.org/41043 #MaritimeIndia #Ports

The core challenge in renegotiating the 1996 Ganges Water-Sharing Treaty is balancing #India’s and #Bangladesh’s competing water demands amid growing hydrological uncertainty and ecological stress. Moving beyond fixed volumetric allocations towards benefit-sharing requires accounting for sectoral needs, economic trade-offs, and the ecological processes sustaining the Bengal Delta: @DrNilanjanG or-f.org/41042 #WaterGovernance #WaterSecurity

What happens when a child's first 1,000 days shape their health for a lifetime? In #India, poor complementary feeding practices and structural barriers can have lasting consequences for child nutrition and future disease risks. @shwetaPHN examines why early nutrition must become a policy priority or-f.org/41069 #ChildNutrition #PublicHealth

Can #Brazil’s election defy Latin America’s rightward shift? #Lula has secured a fourth term, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro 51.8% to 48.2% despite trailing in the first round. What does his victory signal for the region’s political future? @viveksans & Akash Tripathi analyse👉or-f.org/41071 #BrazilElections #LatinAmerica

What happens when the internet becomes flooded with content that nobody actually wants to read? The rise of #GenerativeAI has fuelled low-effort, repetitive material known as #AI slop. How can platforms tackle this without stifling innovation? Tanusha Tyagi explains👉or-f.org/41070 #AIGovernance

More people in Great Britain now vape than smoke: 5.4 million adults vape, 4.8 million smoke, per the ONS. But who is taking up nicotine use without a smoking habit to quit? @oommen on what it means for India 👉 or-f.org/41051 #Vaping #PublicHealth

President #Muizzu appears to treat the relationship with #India as transactional. Yet geography and economic necessity compel him to respect India’s red lines. @gs_aditya explains 👉 #Maldives #IndianOcean or-f.org/41058

#India’s launch sector is no longer competing in the same cost bracket as #SpaceX. With Vikram-1, Agnibaan and the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle targeting 100–500 kg payloads, the opportunity may lie in building a distinct commercial niche: @girichaitanya19 or-f.org/40458

The latest #US–#China summit was less about reconciliation and more about managing rivalry. A 60-day trade truce and a new dialogue on #ArtificialIntelligence risks offer temporary guardrails, but deeper disputes over #technology, #trade, supply chains and #security remain unresolved: @ProfHarshVPant or-f.org/40535

The #Trump administration is reportedly holding up a roughly US$14 billion arms package for Taiwan, raising questions about whether security assistance is now being used as leverage with Beijing: @ProfHarshVPant or-f.org/40568