Opinion

Earlier this month, a Chinese survey ship Yuan Wang VI entered the Indian Ocean, apparently, to track the Indian missile test in the Bay of Bengal. It is the second …

Politics in Pakistan has always been riveting and the November 3 assassination attempt on ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan has thrown up interesting developments in the country’s body politic.  It would …

Guns, gas and gossip The 21st century, still young, is already in the grip of three superstates: the defence industry; energy cartels; and the infotech behemoths turbo-powered by the greatest …

India takes over the Presidency of the G20 (Group of 20) countries, one of the most consequential amongst current day multilateral bodies, on December 1. This decisively signals the emergence …

External Affairs Minister’s Jaishankar’s visit to Moscow on November 7-8 for consultations with Foreign Minister Lavrov and a meeting of the Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural …

The 40th and 41st ASEAN summits will take place in Cambodia from November 10-13 at a time when the organization is celebrating 55 years of its founding. It is also …

Pakistani politicians are once again knocking on the door of Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa who is set to retire at the month-end. The reason? In case Bajwa extends his …

Indian Foreign Minister Subramanyam Jaishankar paid a two-day official visit to Moscow, which became the first high-level bilateral contact after the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. There …

In the bitter power struggle in Pakistan between Imran Khan and the “establishment,” the former Prime Minister appears to have seized the initiative, pushing the Shehbaz Sharif government and the …

Kashmir has remained in the global spotlight for seven decades. Most of that narrative has been bloody, controversial and run by Pakistan. With the guns doing most of the talking, …

Not many Indian intellectuals speak about Balochistan but when a prominent film director like Vivek Agnihotri tweets about it, it ignites you and makes you wonder why? Vivek Agnihotri is …

Before the generic laddoo, barfi, fusion chocolate-, coffee-, raspberry-, blueberry-laced mithai that we are now forced to confront on festivals like Diwali, Indian mithai was a unique tradition of sweets …

Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former PM now occupies the centre-stage of his country’s politics. Initially, like his predecessors, he too was groomed at the GHQ; and was expected to lead a …

The tussle between Pakistan military and an aspirational civilian elite for controlling the key levers of power in Islamabad has entered the next round, following the failed attempt to assassinate …

The attack by a `lone wolf ‘gunman, Naveed s/o Basheer, on former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vehicle on the seventh day of the Pakistan Tehreek- e- Insaf (PTI)’s Long March …

As Turkish president Reccep Tayip Erdogan was touring the areas of Nagorno Karabakh, the disputed territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which the latter wrested from the former’s control in a …

China’s recently concluded 20th Party Congress has revealed that the Indian security establishment may have a five-year window to build capability and permanently deter a war with Beijing. Signals emitting …

Rishi Sunak’s rise to the top in British politics has come with its share of ‘shock and awe’. Sunak became the prime minister of the UK within a month of …

With online radicalization and terrorism becoming the norm, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has called for a global effort to counter the internationalization of transnational crime during his closing remarks …

As expected, Xi Jinping has got a third term as China’s leader. With the Constitutional amendments making him and his Thought the core of the nation, and given his relatively …

As it ended Saturday, the first-ever India-Mozambique-Tanzania Trilateral (IMT TRILAT) maritime exercise began a new chapter in the Indian Navy’s growing efforts to enhance the security of the east coast …