Opinion

  At the India-EU summit in early May, French President Emmanuel Macron declared, “India does not need to listen to lectures from anyone about vaccine supplies. India has exported a lot for humanity to many countries.”...

  The violent clash between Israel and Hamas during May 10-21, 2021 has brought back the prolonged Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the forefront of complex issues afflicting West Asia. The Arab Spring and its aftermath had...

Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming, while addressing a press conference in second week of May 2021 at Dhaka warned that Bilateral ties between two countries will be substantially damaged if Bangladesh aligned with...

    On May 22, a MiG-21 Bison jet flown by Squadron Leader Abhinav Choudhary was on a routine training sortie and was returning to Suratgarh when it crashed in a field near Moga, Punjab. In...

  China’s unusual outburst against Bangladesh regarding the Quadrilateral security grouping raised quite a few eyebrows in South Block. This was clearly unprecedented because the Quad countries had recently talked of Quad+ but Bangladesh clearly...

The road not taken Since last few decades, the notion of national security has witnessed a paradigm shift from encompassing exclusive traditional military threats, diversifying into domains like biological& chemical warfare, cyber warfare, and other...

Dating back to the Cold War era, India and the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region have shared special historical, social, political, cultural, and trade ties. Owing to India’s proximity to the erstwhile USSR, the communist...

  The violence in East Jerusalem was triggered on the tenth day of Ramadan (Laylat a Quadr), when Israeli security forces prevented a mob of Palestinian Arab worshippers, which was supported by Hamas to move...

  In mid-March, the United Kingdom released its Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, to become the fourth European country to announce an Indo-Pacific strategy. London’s move follows the adoption of Indo-Pacific strategies...

  The Sour Past Britain happens to occupy a larger portion of our colonial memory as compared to the Portuguese in Goa. However, Portugal was the first European country to establish a maritime route to India...

On May 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the India-EU Leaders’ Meeting with the leaders of all 27 member states of the European Union (EU). With the summit’s format itself, the India-EU Leaders’ Meeting was...

India and UK are currently enjoying strong friendly ties and the May 4 Virtual Summit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his British counterpart Boris Johnson led to the adoption of an ambitious ‘Roadmap...

  The term that better defines bilateral relationships and changing international geo-politics is “dynamism.” India as a matured nation has always displayed greater flexibility in dealing with every nation. The process has enhanced in the...