India

Minister of Finance, Nirmala Sitharaman leaves the North Block of the Central Secretariat building for the Parliament to announce the union budget in New Delhi. (Photo by Ganesh Chandra / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Walking the talk: Infrastructure, privatization, and digital in India’s budget speeches

Friday, February 19, 2021

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with the media as he arrives at the parliament house to attend the first day of the budget session, in New Delhi, India, January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

India and the Biden administration

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Protesters phone flashing in demonstration against the military coup.Myanmar's military detained State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi and declared a state of emergency while seizing the power in the country for a year after losing the election against the National League for Democracy (NLD). (Photo by Aung Kyaw Htet / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Shutting down the internet

Darrell M. West

Friday, February 5, 2021

PA via ReutersStock photo of WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram and Messenger, social media app icons on a smart phone, as WhatsApp users who use the app on an iPhone 4 or older and outdated Android handsets will be unable to use the app properly as of January 1, 2021. Picture date: Tuesday December 29, 2020. Photo credit: Isabel Infantes/EMPICSNo Use UK. No Use Ireland. No Use Belgium. No Use France. No Use Germany. No Use Japan. No Use China. No Use Norway. No Use Sweden. No Use Denmark. No Use Holland. No Use Australia.

Social media companies need better emergency protocols

Daniel L. Byman and Aditi Joshi

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Schoolchildren in India

The world’s largest education impact bond delivers on results midway through the program

Sarah Osborne and Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Thursday, December 17, 2020

New Delhi,India, November-2019: Silhouette of triumphal arch architectural style India Gate during hazy morning.

Delhi, the world’s most air polluted capital fights back

Vinod Thomas and Chitranjali Tiwari

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan during a bilateral meeting at the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Evaluating the Trump administration’s Pakistan reset

Monday, October 26, 2020

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japan's counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attend the meeting at the prime miniter's office in Tokyo, Japan October 6, 2020. Nicolas Datiche/Pool via REUTERS

This week’s Quad ministerial meeting, in four charts

Thursday, October 8, 2020

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pose for a picture as they attend a meeting in Tokyo, Japan October 6, 2020. Charly Triballeau/Pool via REUTERS

What you need to know about the “Quad,” in charts

Monday, October 5, 2020

Childen sit on the ground in a outdoor school during a lesson in Santiniketan village in this undated handout photograph. In Santiniketan village in West Bengal -- the home of Nobel literature prize winner Rabindranath Tagore -- a voluntary initiative helping local Kora and Santhali tribal children to read and write Bengali is now so popular it needs a second building. To match Reuters Life! INDIA- / REUTERS/Stringer (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION)

India’s National Education Policy 2020: A reformist step forward?

Friday, October 2, 2020