The aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow.
Elon Musk’s pursuit of business expansion in the country through Tesla and Starlink is coming at the same time that his X platform is waging a fight over free speech.
We cover a new kind of offshore office park.
An abundance of motivated young professionals is luring American businesses to base their global operations in Indian cities.
In rural India, guarantees of equal representation on village councils are easily thwarted. But some women are pushing back against “boss husbands.”
The relationship between the billionaire philanthropist and the Indian leader helps both men meet their missions. But it also papers over the erosion of rights under Mr. Modi.
By signing deals with India’s two biggest telecom players, the tech tycoon and Trump adviser has improved his odds of breaking into an enormous market.
An Indian biopic tells the story of Nasir Shaikh, whose no-budget, all-heart productions gave his home city of Malegaon a film industry of its own.
From beaches to hilltops, young people are driving a boom in literary events as they read more in India’s dozens of native languages.
Narendra Modi has kept India on its swift upward path among the world’s largest economies. Many Indians are better off, though wealth gaps have widened.
The pileup has left visitors from places like Brazil, Colombia, India and Mexico waiting months, even a year or more, to visit family or do business in America.
Also, protests in Georgia and armed villagers in Kashmir.
Also, Scotland’s leader resigns and Air India orders a record 470 planes.
Also, Russian missile attacks in Ukraine and a major deal for Indian women’s cricket.
Also, New Zealand’s next leader and a Lunar New Year travel surge in China.
The invasion of Ukraine, compounding the effects of the pandemic, has contributed to the ascent of a giant that defies easy alignment. It could be the decisive force in a changing global system.
Plus China’s vaccination pivot and the year’s most stylish “people.”
Plus, Iran abolishes the morality police and Russia vows to defy an oil price cap.
Humanity faces a complex knot of seemingly distinct but entangled crises that are causing damage greater than the sum of their individual harms.
Plus India’s growing economy and China’s “zero-Covid” trap.
Pandemic lockdowns, misinformation campaigns, conflicts, climate crises and other problems diverted resources and contributed to the largest backslide in routine immunization in 30 years.
The agreement is a limited measure that is likely to have little impact on global vaccine supply.
The key Ukrainian city lost its last bridge as fighting intensifies.
Plus Hindus try to flee Kashmir and Taipei commemorates Tiananmen Square.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Plus lockdowns continue in Shanghai, and India’s community health workers press for a raise.
Over a million female health workers treat India’s most at-risk women and children, for little pay and sometimes at the cost of their own lives.
Plus India bans most wheat exports and South Korea amends surgery laws.
Nearly 15 million more people died during the first two years of the pandemic than would have been expected during normal times, the organization found. The previous count of virus deaths, from countries’ reporting, was six million.