Shankar Kumar

With its economy on the rise and military power increasing, India has begun to respond to challenges from Beijing by playing anti-China card deftly and this can be markedly seen in New Delhi’s approach...

  Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, Seychellean Vice-President Ahmed Afif, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and Bhutan Prime Minister...

  While constantly interfering in India’s domestic issues, including its religious affairs and electoral process, the US has now warned New Delhi of facing sanctions if it enters in to a deal with Iran on...

China, in its goal to surpass the US - both militarily and economically, has redoubled its effort to become a superpower, it has resorted to several moves to fulfil this gargantuan objective, including intelligence...

&It is not usual for India to fluster China in its own backyard in the Southeast Asian region. But recently, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar deliberately chose to do so to unsettle China when...

On March 22, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a flight to Bhutan just two-days after the Ministry of External Affairs informed the cancellation of the Prime Minister’s state visit to Thimphu due to...

Not just India, Bhutan or Nepal, and Southeast Asian nations like Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei have to fend off their territories from China’s salami-slice strategy. Even Russia that claims to be enjoying limitless...

After his two-day whirlwind official trip to the UAE, Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Doha on February 14, which was in a way thanksgiving visit to Qatar for its magnanimity to release former...

To the surprise of India watchers, while the Maldives is undergoing political turmoil with the pro-China leaning President Mohamed Muizzu facing the threat of impeachment from the opposition—comprising the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) and...

The Yemen-based Houthi militia group has increased its attacks on commercial vessels passing through the Red Sea and its adjoining areas, but what surprises many is that Tehran has not acted tough against the...

  It is strange with Maldivian new President Mohamed Muizzu. Blinded by his hatred towards India, he is ready to do what archipelagic country’s former President Abdulla Yameen did during his six-year term from 2013...

  Call it the US’s Cold War era mindset or Washington DC’s uncanny ability to cut the same branch of the tree on which it sits; it has risked to challenge its ties with India...

  In real terms, Indian and French partnership has been built on trust and mutual understanding which has never wilted, not even in 1998 when the West-led by the U.S. put India under sanctions after...