India-Russia strengthen bond over Buddhism & soft powerSacred Buddha relics from India were displayed in Kalmykia, Russia. Nearly 100,000 devotees paid homage. The event strengthened India-Russi...
19 Oct, 2025, 11.21 PM IST
The Tianjin declaration: Signals from a multipolar worldThe Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin aimed to reshape global order. Xi Jinping proposed a new vision challenging U.S. do...
02 Sep, 2025, 09.02 AM IST
From Kancheepuram to Takasaki: The India connect of PM Modi’s Daruma giftDuring his visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a Daruma doll, a Japanese good luck charm with roots in India. The Daruma tradition...
30 Aug, 2025, 05.18 PM IST
She was Queen Victoria's goddaughter. At 16, forgot her language. Meet the Indian princess adopted by British royalty but never acceptedPrincess Gouramma, an Indian royal, became Queen Victoria's goddaughter, but her life in England was marked by cultural estrangement and ra...
17 Jul, 2025, 05.13 PM IST
The GCC and the Global South: Voices in an age of civilisational crisisHumanity faces an existential clash of civilizations, particularly in the Indo-Mediterranean region, the birthplace of major religions. The...
02 Jul, 2025, 10.59 AM IST
Extensions in service set back to those who are in line: Vice President DhankharVice President Jagdeep Dhankhar emphasized the pitfalls of service extensions and post-retirement recruitment, stressing the importance of ...
11 Jan, 2025, 05.08 PM IST
Ancient Indian wisdom rooted in 5000-year-old civilizational legacy: Army Chief General Manoj Pande"The ancient Indian wisdom is rooted in a 5,000-year-old civilizational legacy, where immense value is attached to knowledge. This legacy i...
21 May, 2024, 01.30 PM IST
EAM S Jaishankar unveils Rabindranath Tagore's bust in VietnamIndia and Vietnam have deep historical connections dating back to 2,000 years ago, rooted in Buddhism, according to India's External Affair...
15 Oct, 2023, 06.06 PM IST
Bharatvarsha not just a nation state but a living entity: Himanta Biswa SarmaThe Chief Minister said, “A major characteristic of Indian civilization is that it does not consider the country only as an inert political...
22 Sep, 2022, 06.56 PM IST
LG Manoj Sinha reviews action plan for preservation of ancient cultural heritage in J&KWhile reviewing the division and category-wise details of the 35 projects (18 in Jammu and 17 in Kashmir) approved by the Executive Committ...
24 Jul, 2022, 06.09 AM IST
US fails to understand Pakistan motive two decades since 9/11The dialogue was organized in partnership with the Indian Council of World Affairs, MEA. This global conference hosted 25 prominent interna...
15 Jan, 2022, 10.06 PM IST
Glasgow Climate Conference: Did climate win?Looking back, COP26 is a mixed bag of successes and lost opportunities. Technology was a critical missing piece especially given the need t...
23 Nov, 2021, 12.51 PM IST
In a memorandum to J&K LG, BJP's Ashwani Chrungoo demands special tribunal to probe crimes against minoritiesChrungoo referred to the 1999 quasi-judicial order of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that crimes against the Kashmiri Pandits ...
18 Nov, 2020, 04.50 PM IST
Noted Islamic philosopher and scientist Al-Farabi draws India-Kazakhstan closerKazakh Ambassador to India Yerlan Alimbayev in his welcoming remarks stressed that the anniversary of al-Farabi is included in the calendar...
23 Feb, 2020, 09.01 PM IST
View: India’s progressives don’t get the real reason for Lenin’s bulldozingThe Lenin affair won’t distract attention from the main lesson of northeast polls: that the BJP is now a truly pan-Indian party.
11 Mar, 2018, 11.39 AM IST
Balochistan-speak signals recovery of natural frontiersIndia remained and even prospered but the truncation of the Indian state meant that the enlarged vision of the frontier was seriously trunc...
21 Aug, 2016, 11.13 AM IST
Hear it? Indian secularism is both enduring & audibleIndian secularism is a very different story. It neither ignores nor excludes religion. It insists on equality of all faiths, irrespective o...
07 Dec, 2014, 01.17 PM IST