Opinion

Since 5 August 2019, Jammu and Kashmir has undergone profound legal integration, ending specific gender-discriminatory residency rules that disadvantaged women who married outside the permanent resident framework and extending national …

In contemporary discourse on Asian geopolitics, the trajectory of India-China relations since late 2024 has frequently been framed as a process of diplomatic thaw. This characterisation, emerging in the aftermath …

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” goes the adage. Today, however, it is climate change that is driving apples away from the very hills of Himachal Pradesh that …

The Indo-Pacific is no longer simply a diplomatic idea. It has become the strategic reality of contemporary Asia. The Pacific and Indian Oceans are increasingly understood as a single strategic …

India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s recent visit to China marks a cautious but deliberate attempt to stabilize one of Asia’s most consequential bilateral relationships. After years of strain following the …

The simultaneous disruption of the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb has exposed one of the greatest structural vulnerabilities in India’s energy security architecture—its dependence on maritime supply routes …

When Delhi and Tokyo unveiled their “Strategic Outlook for Expanding Japan-India Cooperation in Africa” alongside their recent Annual Summit, it would have been easy for those of us watching from …

After getting stuck in the fog of war in the Middle East with Iran, the US is again playing a brinkmanship card in the region that will only fan the …

India has earned Afghanistan’s trust not through military intervention or ideological influence, but through decades of humanitarian assistance, development partnerships, and genuine people-to-people engagement. This goodwill has transformed India into …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to New Zealand (10-11 July 2026) – the first by an Indian prime minister in four decades – resulted in a formal elevation of bilateral …

Pakistan has turned the Indus Waters Treaty into a theater of alarm, where every grievance is delivered with the vocabulary of apocalypse. Senior politicians and military leaders in Islamabad now …

On July 9, 2026, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened Balochistan’s Provincial Apex Committee in Quetta, Field Marshal Asim Munir at his side, after a wave of attacks that had killed …

Somewhere in the choreography of countdowns, holds and ignition sequences at Sriharikota, India crossed a threshold it has been approaching for six decades. Vikram-1, built and flown by the Hyderabad …

For decades, India’s maritime trade carried a quiet but costly irony. A nation with over 7,500 kilometres of coastline and some of the busiest shipping lanes passing along its southern …

For a long time, India’s Andaman and Nicobar (A&N) group of islands has remained outside the national consciousness. Even in academia, students incorrectly identify Kanya Kumari as India’s southernmost point, …

The West’s advantage in artificial intelligence depends on an increasingly integrated ecosystem of private companies, governments, intelligence partnerships and military alliances. Yet the most advanced capabilities underpinning that advantage remain …

India and Japan are entering a more consequential phase in their partnership, one that goes far beyond diplomatic goodwill and moves into the realm of strategic architecture. The latest agreements …

Every year, on 19 August, the international community observes World Humanitarian Day. The occasion honours those who work, often in dangerous and unforgiving conditions, to save lives in places devastated …

Hitting more than 170 targets in Iran in 48 hours across two waves is an unprecedented escalation. The recent third wave of attacks, targeting more than 100 sites, has set …

For most of its modern history, India’s strategic imagination has been bound to land. Its anxieties ran along the Himalayan frontier with China and the western border with Pakistan, and …

Amid speculation that India has been caught off guard by the United States dropping “Indo” from the nomenclature of its Pacific Command, New Delhi’s apparent indifference reflects its equanimity on …