Dr Mathew Sinu Simon

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Mauritius on March 11-12, 2025, at the invitation of Prime Minister of Mauritius Navin Ramgoolam. He was the Chief Guest for Mauritius National Day celebrations on March 12. Interestingly,...

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in his remarks at the 10th edition of Raisina Dialogue 2025 was in awe of India’s remarkable growth as it aims to be third largest economy in the...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a review meeting in Raipur, Chhattisgarh to assess the situation of Naxalism/Left-Wing Extremism (LWE)/CPI (Maoist) on December 16, 2024. He remarked that Naxalism is a challenge to democracy...

US President Donald Trump’s transactional form of politics is waking up Europe from its slumber. At his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference (C-PAC) on February 22, he blamed the previous President Joe...

India’s Act East Policy for the Southeast Asian and East Asian countries is pursued bilaterally and multilaterally to promote regionalism and maintain regional order and security. As a rising global power, India is strategically...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited the United States of America (August 23-26, 2024), met his counterpart, the US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and discussed bilateral defence cooperation, defence innovation, industrial collaboration, and regional...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Ukraine on August 23, 2024, amidst Ukraine's fresh military offensive in Russia's western Kursk region. In his opening remarks during the talks, PM Modi said that India is not...

Russia-Ukraine conflict appears not to be ending soon, with peace lingering in the shadows. In a choreographed televised year-end address, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there would be peace in Ukraine only when...

Oman is a crucial pillar of India’s West Asia policy. India and Oman share a longstanding history of friendship and cooperation, and the bilateral trade and investment relationship between them has flourished since diplomatic...

  The ‘2+2’ India-Australia Ministerial Dialogue was held in New Delhi on November 20, 2023. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles...

  Objectives and activities of ADMM-Plus: ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) is a platform for ASEAN and its eight Dialogue Partners - Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Russia and the United...

  A trilateral arrangement between nations was an idea promoted in the 1970s, that the countries of Western Europe, the United States, and Japan shared common interests as democracies and industrialised nations. The idea inspired the...

  Review of 2+2 India-US Ministerial Dialogues: The 2+2 India-US ministerial dialogue held on an annual basis is a diplomatic summit that reflects the shared commitment by leaders of world’s largest democracies to provide a positive,...