Shankar Kumar

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...

Amid media hype, which was largely created by news outlets from Western countries about the imminent fall of Chinese President Xi Jinping owing to his poor health condition and growing rebellion against him within...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney’s invitation to attend the G7 Summit in Kananaskis in Alberta on June 15-17. This development has come amid murmurs in New Delhi’s diplomatic...

One may accept it or not, but it is an undeniable truth that India has emerged as a frontline state that is not only fighting China-led expansionism but also extremism, radicalisation, and terrorism -...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has just concluded a five-day visit to three Southeast Asian -nations - Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia from April 14 to 18. It was the first overseas visit of the Chinese...

It was in 2005 that defence related engagements between India and Sri Lanka began to take shape when the two countries carried out their first naval exercise ‘SLINEX’ in the Indian Ocean about 30...

Understanding the complexity of geopolitics in Asia is not easy. In the context of India-China relations, this complexity is awfully glaring. Despite a trust deficit, which widened further after the June 2020 Galwan Valley...