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    Selective Targeting and Sovereign Choices in an Unstable Maritime Order

    by Vijay Kumar Dhar January 28, 2026
    by Vijay Kumar Dhar January 28, 2026

    On 19 January 2026 in New Delhi, India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. Ss Jaishankar, delivered a pointed critique of what New Delhi perceives as politically driven economic pressure from the …

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    Pakistan’s Defence Export Mission: More Marketing Than a Real Economic Strategy

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya January 27, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya January 27, 2026

    The op-ed article titled It Is Over, authored by U.S based Pakistani PhD scholar Zorain Nizamani, published on 1st January this year but removed within hours of its publication in Express …

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    Mark Carney’s Davos Warning—and What India Should Hear

    by Nirupama Rao January 24, 2026
    by Nirupama Rao January 24, 2026

    When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took the stage at Davos this week, his message was not dressed up in the language of optimism that usually accompanies global economic forums. …

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    India-Japan Chip ‘n’ AI Fiesta: Crafting an Epic Indo-Pacific Adventure

    by Anushree Dutta January 23, 2026
    by Anushree Dutta January 23, 2026

    The 18th Japan-India Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue, convened on January 16, 2026, in New Delhi, exemplifies the maturing “Special Strategic and Global Partnership” between two Indo-Pacific heavyweights navigating geopolitical flux. …

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    Carney at Davos: Canada–India Relations

    by Sanjay Kumar Verma January 22, 2026
    by Sanjay Kumar Verma January 22, 2026

    Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, delivered on 20 January 2026, marked a rare moment of intellectual clarity in contemporary international politics. Rejecting …

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    An Alliance Built on Terror: Inside Pakistan’s New Terror Syndicate

    by Kartiki Randhawa January 22, 2026
    by Kartiki Randhawa January 22, 2026

    Pakistan’s deep state has turned terrorism into a deliberate instrument of state policy, commissioning rather than condemning it. This calculated strategy is playing with fire, demonstrated by a troubling consolidation …

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    India and The EU Faced With the Trump Challenge

    by Kanwal Sibal January 21, 2026
    by Kanwal Sibal January 21, 2026

    The narrative in some circles in India that we misjudged Trump, believed wrongly that we could manage him in his second term as we did in his first term, that …

  • Opinion

    From Warming Winters to Open Markets: Why Himachal’s Apple Belt is Restless

    by Ayaan Sharma January 21, 2026
    by Ayaan Sharma January 21, 2026

    Already grappling with warming winters, failed snowfall, and missing rains, all signs of a big climate shift, the apple growers in Himachal Pradesh, a state producing rich, crisp, and royally …

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    Japan’s Foreign Minister Motegi’s India Visit and Its Geopolitical Imperatives

    by Anushree Dutta January 19, 2026
    by Anushree Dutta January 19, 2026

    Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi’s visit to India from January 15 to 17, 2026, underscores the deepening strategic partnership between the two nations amid evolving Indo-Pacific dynamics. This three-day engagement, …

  • Opinion

    An Engineering Triumph: Crossing the Brahmaputra and Fueling the Northeast’s Future

    by Joydev Lahiri January 19, 2026
    by Joydev Lahiri January 19, 2026

    Last week, state-owned Engineers India Limited pulled off what many in the global energy industry thought bordered on the impossible: a 4,058-meter horizontal directional drill beneath one of the world’s …

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    A Decade of Dreams & Disruption: The Rise of Startup India

    by Arjun Mehta January 18, 2026
    by Arjun Mehta January 18, 2026

    On January 16, 2016, India launched the Startup India initiative, a bold policy framework aimed at transforming India into a nation of job creators rather than job seekers. A decade …

  • Opinion

    AI, Social Media and the Future of Democracy: Why India Hosting the CSPOC Matters

    by Subir Sanyal January 16, 2026
    by Subir Sanyal January 16, 2026

    In the heart of New Delhi, amid the echoes of ancient wisdom and modern ambition, India is currently hosting the 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth …

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    A Symbol With a Strategy: Reading India’s BRICS 2026 Message

    by Aparna Gupta January 14, 2026
    by Aparna Gupta January 14, 2026

    By unveiling the logo and website for BRICS 2026 this week, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar did more than mark the start of India’s chairship preparations. He offered a carefully …

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    India’s Ammunition Sector: From Importer to Exporter

    by Brigadier Ranjit Borthakur, Sena Medal (Retd.) January 13, 2026
    by Brigadier Ranjit Borthakur, Sena Medal (Retd.) January 13, 2026

    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 …

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    PSLV-C62 Ushers in a Multipolar Space Era

    by Arjun Mehta January 13, 2026
    by Arjun Mehta January 13, 2026

    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. …

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    David Eby’s India Visit: Trade, Turbulence and Allegations

    by Sanjay Kumar Verma January 12, 2026
    by Sanjay Kumar Verma January 12, 2026

    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 …

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    How India Can Leapfrog the World Through Innovation

    by Amitabh Kant January 12, 2026
    by Amitabh Kant January 12, 2026

    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 …

  • Opinion

    Classrooms That Create: Building India’s Innovation Generation

    by Subir Sanyal January 11, 2026
    by Subir Sanyal January 11, 2026

    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 …

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    The AI Revolution Brewing in India

    by Meera S. Joshi January 9, 2026
    by Meera S. Joshi January 9, 2026

    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 …

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    India’s BRICS Test: Leadership in a World Divided

    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya January 9, 2026
    by Subhadeep Bhattacharya January 9, 2026

    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 …

  • Opinion

    Venezuela, Sovereignty and India’s Moment of Choice

    by Sanjay Kumar Verma January 8, 2026
    by Sanjay Kumar Verma January 8, 2026

    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 …

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