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South Asia bureau chief @FT. Opinions expressed here are not the pink paper’s.
New Delhi, India
Joined July 2009
Donald Trump says US and Japan have agreed ‘massive’ trade deal via @FT.
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President announces 15% tariffs under terms of new agreement with Tokyo
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Cc: India Inc.China is going big into the business of lab-grown diamonds, my colleague @EleanorOlcott reports.
Zhengzhou makes your iPhone. Now the central Chinese city is churning out cheap lab-grown diamonds for your engagement ring. The prices for synthetic diamonds have plummeted, falling by nearly 90% over the past five years. It is cheaper than ever to buy sparkling stones that.
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“Multinational companies struggling to compete for hires in the red-hot market for artificial intelligence engineers in their home countries are turning to back offices in India to meet their core AI needs.”.
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McDonald’s, Bupa and others set up ‘global capability centres’ to perform core big-data tasks
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UK overtakes China as second-largest US Treasury holder: “This is the first time UK holdings have been higher than China’s since October 2000 and is the latest sign that Beijing is seeking to diversify away from US assets.”. @Arjunneilalim @haohsiang0509.
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Fall in recorded Chinese holdings highlights Beijing’s push to diversify reserves away from America
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RT @Rukmini: Chennai: step outside your houses or get on your roofs. I've seen more butterflies today than I've ever seen, put together. Th….
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“While it isn’t for me, I want other people to have children.” Janan Ganesh in fine form here
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Why is it so hard to accept that it is happening out of choice?
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Check out this immersive Saturday @ftweekend .#longread by @AndresSchipani and @jyots43 on India's powerful RSS, as it celebrates the centenary of its founding. via @ft.
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A hundred years after it was founded, the RSS is getting closer to its goal of a Hindu-first state
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Pam Bondi, the Trump loyalist swallowed up by the Epstein affair via @FT.
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The US attorney-general’s stance has disappointed the president’s Maga base
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RT @FT: Netanyahu calls Pope Leo after uproar over Israeli attack on Gaza church
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Prime minister seeks to contain fallout as deadly assault draws rare White House rebuke
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New Delhi revamps flagship ‘Make in India’ subsidy scheme: I wrote about PLIs and EVs for today’s @FT India Business Briefing.
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Also in this newsletter: Tesla’s quiet entry into India
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India air authority warns against speculation on Air India crash cause via @FT.
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Foreign media blamed for ‘repeatedly attempting to draw conclusions through selective and unverified reporting’
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RT @FT: Netanyahu suffers another blow as second Haredi party quits Israel government
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Shas departs over failure to enshrine ultraorthodox military exemption but says it will not work to topple administration
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RT @Lindy_Cameron: The first international university under UGC regulations has arrived in India! 🇮🇳 . And I'm delighted it’s British 🇬🇧….
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RT @Jderbyshire: Janan Ganesh: "We have to entertain the notion that Trump is a moderating influence on a movement that will become much mo….
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A summer of splits shows what post-Trump conservatism will look like
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RT @anneapplebaum: As the US destroys its international media, China expands, in order to replace it. From @WSJ .
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Chinese state media has expanded its reach from Indonesia to Nigeria after President Trump’s March order to dismantle U.S. government-funded outlets.
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RT @upyorkshire: NEW: Even before Donald Trump began his mass deportation plans, the US had the world's largest immigration detention syste….
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The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment
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