Opinion

The India–Africa Forum Summit in 2026 cannot afford to be only ceremonial. The last two decades of India–Africa engagement were shaped by development partnership and energy security. The next phase …

The recent Mumbai knife attack, in which a 31-year-old man, Zaib Zubair Ansari, stabbed two security guards after allegedly asking them to recite the Kalma and attacking them when they …

In 1939, as the storm of World War II was gathering over Europe and Asia, the Neville Chamberlain government found itself overwhelmed while handling challenges in the nearby Mediterranean Sea …

On 31 May 2026, leaders from across Africa and India will gather in New Delhi, India, for the fourth India-Africa Forum Summit — the first such convening in over a …

American Primacy Unipolarity and Primacy are as crucial to Americans as Independence is to the Indians. A world without primacy is unthinkable for American citizens and their allies all over …

The Sahel region has faced multiple crises for decades, but it is far from a weakened area slipping into further turmoil. Terror groups are resurging and establishing the Sahel as …

India and Austria have significantly bolstered their bilateral partnership through high-level engagements in April 2026, yielding 15 concrete outcomes across defense, technology, trade, and innovation. These developments build on the …

With the recent US and Israeli attacks on, or expedition into, as some seem to call it, the two attackers of Iran have taken some serious risks. One of the …

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at a time of heightened instability, a fragile ceasefire, and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz in …

On 22 April 2025, violence struck the peaceful meadows of Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir. Militants linked to The Resistance Front, an offshoot of Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Taiba, attacked …

For nearly eight decades, the India–Pakistan conflict has been defined not just by wars, but by something more persistent and less visible: a sustained strategy of proxy warfare. While conventional …

South Korea’s President Lee Jae‑myung’s first state visit to India marks a decisive recalibration of the Indo‑Korean partnership, elevating it from a sturdy but uneven economic partnership into a high‑stakes, …

One year after the horrific Pahalgam attack in Jammu & Kashmir—also the deadliest terror attack in a decade—Pakistan’s JeM-backed TRF terrorists killed 26 civilians and tourists on April 22 last …

After the collapse of the first round of talks, the second round is on the horizon and is almost on the brink of collapse, as Iran is unwilling to negotiate …

Fifteen years is a long time in diplomacy. Long enough for enthusiasm to fade, for negotiating positions to harden, and for the world itself to change shape. When India and …

The first anniversary of the Pahalgam massacre, the date April 22, 2025, burns like an open wound. Twenty-six innocents—mostly Hindu tourists, 25 Indians and one Nepali—gunned down in cold blood …

There is a lively and, at times, sharply divided discourse in India today on its foreign policy choices over the Iranian crisis. At the centre of this debate is a …

The nexus between narcotics trafficking, organised crime, and terrorism has become one of the most persistent hybrid security threats in South Asia. In the Pakistan–Afghanistan region—commonly known as the “Golden …

Why the current pause reflects deeper miscalculations and a rising Iranian leverage. The newly announced two-week ceasefire, promoted by the United States, is billed as stabilising, but it points to …

India’s patent system reached a major milestone in FY 2025–26, with total patent applications climbing to 1,43,729, up 30.2% from 1,10,375 a year earlier. This is not just a statistical jump; …

The appointment of Noor Ahmad Noor as the Taliban regime’s new chargé d’affaires to India this January, when juxtaposed with the direction of Taliban Minister for Tribal Affairs Nurullah Nouri …