Your Thursday Briefing: Tanks for Ukraine
Also, China’s natural gas shortage and India’s efforts to quash a Modi documentary.
India
Adani Group firms lose $9bn in value amid short-seller claims
Hindenburg Research says world’s third-richest person, Gautam Adani, is pulling ‘largest con in corporate history’More than $9bn (£7.3bn) was wiped off the fortune of companies partly owned by the world’s third-richest person, after an activist investo…
Mike Pompeo says world has ‘no idea’ how close India and Pakistan came to nuclear war
Revelations come as Pakistan’s leadership is expected to visit India for the first time in a decade
As India Tries to Block a Modi Documentary, Students Fight to See It
Officials at a public university cut the electricity before a planned screening, and the government has prevented clips from appearing online.
Pompeo says US averted nuclear war between India, Pakistan
DefenceTalkFormer US secretary of state Mike Pompeo wrote in a book published Tuesday that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation. “I do not think the world properly knows just how close…
Toyah Cordingley killing: Rajwinder Singh to be extradited from India to Australia
The 38-year-old appeared in court in Delhi by video link and will now face trial over the alleged murder of the 24-year-old QueenslanderAn Indian court has approved the extradition of Rajwinder Singh, the man accused of murdering Toyah Cordingley on a …
Why India Is Using Emergency Laws to Ban a Documentary About Prime Minister Modi
The first episode of a new two-part documentary examines Indian Prime Minister Modi’s controversial role in the 2002 Gujarat riots.
India invokes emergency laws to ban BBC Modi documentary
Government accused of ‘censorship’ over ban on film about PM’s role in violence during 2002 Gujarat riots The Indian government has invoked emergency laws to block a BBC documentary examining the role of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, during riots …
Your Monday Briefing: A Lunar New Year Shooting
Also, New Zealand’s next leader and a Lunar New Year travel surge in China.
UK will be 15 years late in hitting £1tn annual export target, figures show
Exclusive: Forecasts predict exports will fall to £707bn next year and target will not be reached until 2035Ministers have been accused of leaving a “record of failure and broken promises” as internal forecasts show Britain will be 15 years late in ach…