Time to do something about India, it's implied (5)
I believe the answer is:
tacit
'implied' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'time to do something about india' is the wordplay.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'do something' becomes 'act' (to act is to do something).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'act' placed around 'i' is 'acit'.
't'+'acit'='TACIT'
'it's' is the link.
(Other definitions for tacit that I've seen before include "without speaking" , "Unspoken but implied" , "Unvoiced" , "Implied without being said" , "Unspoken but understood" .)