Opinion

During the Kargil Conflict (1999), the Indian Army had to import specific variants of ammunition from a few countries to sustain the momentum of India’s successful campaign. Israel provided 160 …

On January 12, 2026, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scripted another chapter in its stellar ascent, successfully launching the PSLV-C62 mission from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. …

When British Columbia (BC) Premier David Eby travels to India between 12-17 January, he carries more than a trade brief. His visit has become a prism through which multiple and …

In 1714, the British Empire faced a crippling challenge: ships could not determine longitude at sea. The then British government responded with the Longitude Prize, which spurred breakthroughs like John …

For decades, the defining image of Indian school education was a crowded classroom, a chalkboard dense with notes, and an unforgiving exam system that rewarded memory over imagination. That image …

In the bustling corridors of New Delhi, a quiet revolution is unfolding. The recent roundtable between Indian PM Narendra Modi and Indian AI startups marks a critical inflection point in …

The 21st-century international relations are viewed in terms of the attrition of Western dominance and the simultaneous rise of the non-Western world. Eminent scholar Kishore Mahbubani, in his book The …

The image of a sitting head of state being extracted by foreign military forces from his own capital is one the international system was meant to have buried with the …

The Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, woven in its rich culture, history, and environmental consciousness, is globally recognised as the birthplace of the iconic Chipko movement that rose to protect its …

India’s recent export performance tells a compelling story of resilience in an increasingly fragmented global economy. Between November 2024 and November 2025, exports rose sharply by over 15%, while the …

INSV Kaundinya’s stitched wooden hull is more than a nostalgia project; it is a floating argument that India’s maritime story did not begin with Vasco da Gama and does not …

Bangladesh is currently grappling with one of its most turbulent periods in recent history, a crisis that has escalated into a significant concern for India. The deposition of Sheikh Hasina …

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s Dhruv NG, a next-generation civil multi-role helicopter, completed its successful maiden flight in Bengaluru on December 29, 2025, flagged off by Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan …

India stands at a critical juncture in its geopolitical journey. As the world’s largest democracy and fifth-largest economy, India is no longer a peripheral player in Indo-Pacific affairs but increasingly …

As of December 2025, the pressure on global tanker traffic had increased significantly due to sanctions on Venezuelan and Russian oil exports, as well as a series of seizures and …

India’s rise as a maritime power is no longer a distant aspiration—it is unfolding in real time along the country’s 7,500-kilometre coastline. Ports that once served as quiet gateways for …

Bangladesh was never meant to be a theocratic experiment. Its founding logic ran in the opposite direction. When the country emerged from the wreckage of Pakistan in 1971, it did …

When the war in Ukraine began in February 2022, I reacted as many did, with shock at what appeared to be a clear and unambiguous act of Russian aggression. The …

The deepening economic partnership between India and Japan represents one of the most consequential developments in contemporary Asian geopolitics, with far-reaching implications for regional stability, supply chain resilience, and the …

PM Narendra Modi’s Guwahati stopover was more than another ribbon-cutting exercise; it is a calibrated political message that infrastructure, nationalism and the Northeast’s long-frayed peripheries now sit at the heart …

The US secret report on the Bangladesh Liberation War prophesied on 6th December 1971, just days before Pakistan surrendered to the Indian Army, that the propensity of extremism, radicalism, and …