Kamala Harris gets muted response in India as few see change in US tiesKamala Harris: Four years ago, Joe Biden's selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate sparked excitement in India over the potential im...
Odisha: Congress replaces candidates in five assembly segmentsCongress changes 5 candidates in Odisha Assembly elections, including Akshaya Acharya from Nilgiri. AICC approved revised candidate list. E...
Sri Lanka crisis gives India chance to gain sway vs ChinaSri Lanka, a country of 22 million, sits off the southern coast of India on the Indian Ocean shipping lanes through which China receives th...
View: Crafting a brave new foreign policy that can take on Chinese hegemony in AsiaThe new reality is that conflict rather than coexistence with China is going to define the horizon for countries that are unwilling to acce...
How India has successfully avoided falling for Pakistani overturesApart from the mismatch between Pak’s words and deeds, India doubts the motive behind Imran’s missive to Modi.
BRICS emerging economies meet as US trade war loomsUS President Donald Trump's hardening stance has compounded fears of an all-out trade war after he slapped levies on goods from China worth...
Surgical strikes are the new deterrenceModi’s quiver of full-spectrum diplomacy thus has soft and hard power. The result is a chiselled strategy where India dares to do the unthi...
Will Modi's diplomatic skill be enough to take on Trump's fickle politics?Personal chemistry with foreign counterparts has been a cornerstone of Modi’s diplomatic achievements, and he will surely want to hit it of...
French presidential election: In this too-close-to-call poll, we can expect the unexpectedThe influx of half a million displaced people from the Middle East and North Africa into France over the last two years has burnished the a...
Meet the man leading Narendra Modi’s outreach to India’s huge diasporaIndia’s diaspora — the world’s largest — includes millions of migrant labourers in the Persian Gulf as well as professionals in US and Grea...
Hour of reckoning: How Islamic State exploited Belgium's status of being world's richest failed stateThe coordinated suicide bombings by IS on public transportation hubs in Brussels are ghastly reminders of how terrorists capitalise on soci...
India may have lost land & water resources, but it gains much by reshaping perceptions in BangladeshWinds of change are blowing in India’s east. Those on the west who remain impervious are hacking at their own feet.
Death of Avijit Roy: A sign of fundamentalism in BangladeshManner in which terrorists representing an unknown new outfit attacked Roy indicates that extremists are having a field day tearing up Bang...
Falling oil prices an advantage; but onus on India, China & Japan to arrest their own slowdownsA $40 fall in oil prices can give India’s GDP growth a 0.4% bump. It will help effect policy changes that can lead to a recovery.
Afghan civil service officers to be trained in IndiaFirst batch comprising 20 officers will attend the programme from mid-December which is being orgaised by O P Jindal Global University at i...
Regional satraps like J Jayalalithaa, Mamata Banerjee shaping country's foreign policyTamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa kept up the pressure by saying Sri Lankan cricketers and officials are not welcome to participate in IPL .
India's offer to mediate in the conflict in Sudan is a progressive step for diplomacyNewly-carved nation-state of South Sudan is a welcome development that should become a harbinger of deeper Indian involvement in peacemakin...