Maldives President Solih’s visit came in a fraught moment in ties between the two countries. Delhi must tread carefully. Over the last four years, India has provided financial assistance for a slew of projects, both as grant and in credit lines. The biggest of them, the $500m Greater Male Connectivity Project, was inaugurated during Solih’s visit. India

Pelosi’s visit marks an inflexion point not only for Taiwan’s future but also for US-China relations and Asia’s geopolitical trajectory. The normalisation of relations between the US and China in the 1970s involved finessing the Chinese claim that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China.

That pulses are not prioritised speaks of perverse policies that encourage crops requiring more water and chemical fertilisers. The primary driver in this is, however, prices. Soyabean is trading roughly 50 per cent above its minimum support price (MSP).

The film business has always been risky. But showbiz has unarguably grown riskier over the last couple of decades, with actors taking up an ever-growing proportion of a film’s budget — upto 50 per cent, in some cases.

Look again, and Kelly was also making a statement on behalf of women pursuing professional sport. She showcased the free-spiritedness of the woman athlete on the sporting field.

For India, keeping al Qaeda away, under a new leadership, will be the challenge. It is India’s success that the group failed to make any dent in a country with the second largest Muslim population.

Take inflation, for instance. Recent data showed that retail inflation continues to remain elevated, coming in at 7.01 per cent in June. While this means that inflation has remained well above the central bank's target, it is lower than levels observed in much of the developed world.

But the road ahead is tough as the level of competition, even at the continental level, is much higher than at Birmingham. To be on the top of the world, the boy from Aizawl needs to be stronger and lift much heavier weights.

In Punjab — the first full state in which it has power — it cannot rely on virtue signalling on social media as an alternative to taking the bureaucracy along and working with officialdom.

The Delhi government, in an unwise and knee-jerk reaction, has overturned its policy and rolled back to the old regime where the government used to dominate the sale of liquor. This raises two questions: Who pays for these losses? Why would anyone invest in a state where government policy can change overnight?