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Issues between the US and China are not likely to be worked out quickly.
A close assessment of India’s foreign policy reveals the youth’s understanding and acceptance of India’s policy towards its neighbours
The Pokhran II tests took place when India was undergoing major domestic crises, but there was bipartisan consensus to enable India’s nuclear aspira
As China and the US pursue development of unmanned underwater drones, the Indian navy is also adjusting its strategy to include autonomous vehicles in its armoury against China’s growing undersea footprint in the Indian Ocean
Despite several challenges to its democracy, the embedded values of India’s constitutional morality have played a pivotal role in strengthening it
Over the past three decades, since 13-A came into force, there has been no inclination in the non-Tamil areas for provincial autonomy. Power devolutio
The $375 million BrahMos deal will have an impact on the India-China, India-ASEAN as well as the Philippines-China relations
The global pandemic has hit amid the 70th anniversary mark for relations and affected perceptions and realities in ties.
The past practice of seeing all poverty in a rural light and applying rural solutions in urban conditions will not yield the expected results.
Use of weaponized drones, do-it-yourself armoured vehicles and a well-planned internet strategy have given Islamic State an unprecedented edge
How Kashmir boundaries were drawn on an uneasy truce
A World Bank report on 'State of Social Safety Nets' paints an overall positive picture, with over one billion people worldwide being included under at least one safety net initiative. But the reality is that more than two-thirds of the world's 1.2 billion poorest are not covered.
Find out all about water trading and how it can help solve the issues of efficient distribution and sustainability.
Evolution of the electoral space has somehow not been able to take place at the cost of “all retentionist” separatist sentiment and politics.
Water needs a multidisciplinary approach that exceeds the capacity of reductionist engineering and myopic neoclassical economics.
Terrorists have taken to the use of social media networks in a big way. This brings us back to the old dilemma of how much data is information and how much information is adequate intelligence. The other dilemma is how much surveillance is enough for security. The third dilemma is how much liberty is to be sacrificed for security.
A Rohingya insurgency has been around since 1948, but it has waxed and waned depending on the level of repression.
72 years later, India and Pakistan should reflect upon Vallabhbhai Patel’s reported offer to barter Kashmir for Hyderabad and Liyaqat Ali’s choice of words for Kashmir as “mountain rocks.”
Is ISIS a mere shadow of what it was or is it still a potent force?
The quest for media management in an environment of a media so controlled is a quest for the impossible.
In the US, the party primaries to elect the candidates for the November election have begun. It is clear from the primaries that the Republican party is seeking to return to the middle ground from the excesses of the past when it was held hostage by the right-wing Tea Party.
Regardless of whether the current political engineering succeeds or fails, Pakistan could end up paying a heavy price.
Disrupting conventional thinking, Prime Minister Modi held a video conference to fight Covid-19 with all SAARC leaders.
Narendra Modi's visits out of New Delhi last week have emphasised the new government's understanding of India's Grand Strategy. In some ways, it marks a continuity with the policy of past governments, but in important ways it presages a departure.
Not all of the bad loan problem that Indian banks are going through is because of fraud
The US Navy has already developed a generic "Road Map" against climate change while we are yet to assess the impact of such changes, let alone formulate doctrinal responses. Let us not get caught napping.
How radicalised is Pakistan Army today? was the question which formed the focal point of an intense discussion organised by Observer Research Foundation on September 20. Well-known academics, journalists, experts and military officers attended the discussion which was chaired by Mr Vikram Sood, Vice President (International Affairs), ORF and former chief of Research & Analysis Wing.
The Congress has had a chequered history in maintaining cordial relations between its organisational and parliamentary wings, with the dual power centres often leading to confrontation.
As Abe departs office, he leaves much to be admired.
