Shankar Kumar

India and the US have finally reached a framework for an interim agreement on trade—described as a major step towards a comprehensive Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA). With this, India’s relations with the US are...

Differences continue to prevail on the geopolitical front between India and the European Union. While New Delhi has refrained from joining the international chorus condemning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, the 27-country European...

India along with several countries denounced the US’s action on the Latin American country, Venezuela, which faced unprecedented ignominy when its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were abducted by American special forces and...

Bangladesh continues to descend into chaos, with killings becoming a routine matter, as under interim government’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus’s watch, law and order has collapsed and there is nothing that will lead to...

Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded his two-day state visit to India, last week. However, what his visit triggered in terms of messaging will continue to reverberate across the world, particularly Europe and the US...

For India, the world’s 4th economic power, the security and stability of the Indian Ocean is essential for its own strategic interest. Stretching from Africa’s eastern coast to Australia’s western coast, the Indian Ocean...

As India seethes with anger over the blasts near the Red Fort metro station in Delhi in which at least eight people were killed and 20 others injured, the country is again confronted by...

India, the third largest buyer of crude oil in the world, after China and the US, is likely to feel the impact of a potential surge in global oil prices following the Trump administration’s...

India, which has not given any diplomatic recognition to the Taliban-led government, threw a red-carpet welcome to Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi when he arrived in New Delhi on October 9, signalling...

Trump administration’s deepening of engagement with Pakistan and Bangladesh at first glance, may be dismissed as tactical manoeuvring; in reality, however, it reflects a calculated effort to recalibrate the US influence in the South...

At a time when the global geopolitical landscape is shifting very fast, Europe’s move to inch closer to India and its unease with Trump underscore a larger reality: Countries across the world are increasingly...

Post the Alaska summit between the US and the Russian Presidents, it became evident that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders have been left with no choice but to follow Trump’s style to...

With geopolitical rivalry between India and China being fought fiercely through several obvious yet unmistakable means, what remains surprising is Beijing’s usual pontification about the need for practical cooperation between the two countries to...