Opinion

On April 29, 2026, the United Arab Emirates formally terminated its 59-year membership in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The announcement, made in Abu Dhabi, was measured …

There is a striking irony embedded in India’s maritime history. The country sits astride the Indian Ocean, commands one of the world’s longest coastlines, and yet for decades has quietly …

A few years ago, while presenting India’s manufacturing ambitions under the ‘Make in India’ initiative to an international audience, I was asked a question that was both simple and disarming: …

The ongoing US-Iran war holds crucial lessons for India to sharpen its war-fighting capabilities, both in the short and long term. A few years ago, the Russia-Ukraine war gave the …

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 …