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The Indian Himalayan Region, spanning 12 Indian states, has long been absent from the centre stage of Indian policy.
Separatism, extremism, and terrorism originating in Afghanistan compelled the neighbouring countries to form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in 2001. However, instead of presenting a united front, the SCO is rife with disagreements. Increased divergences and mistrust among the members have helped the Taliban regain power in Afghanistan and strengthen its influence in the heart of Eurasia. The Taliban have taken advantage of the trust
The more the communal picture changes since the demolition of the Babri Masjid 20 years ago this week, the more it remains the same. Possibly with one variation: the political insecurity of the Muslim grows with each turn.
Despite the rapid rise in the video gaming industry in India, in-depth research and policy interventions in this sector is negligible.
One proposal that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could offer to President Pervez Musharraf, when they meet this week in New York on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, is cooperation in the reconstruction in Afghanistan.
Expanding investments, collaboration between departments, fostering public-private partnerships, and engaging the community are crucial for health care in India
The Munich Security Conference Core Group Meeting is beginning in New Delhi from Tuesday. Around 70 senior decision-makers from politics, business, media and civil society from India, as well as the Euro-Atlantic, Asian and the Middle East region will discuss key issues of international security policy.
The Dhun Project aspires to create a microcosm in a 500-acre ecological reserve, comprising of living, working, learning, recreational and research sp
If Kashmiri parties boycott polls, they’ll be marginalised; if they participate, it will mean accepting new realities
Though IR2023 doesn’t bring any fundamental changes, it provides an important touch-up to its original and clearly reflects Britain’s refreshed th
Setting up skills universities across the country is an ambitious and expansive initiative. It cannot afford to fall prey to the ignorance of the poli
Iranian civilisation is heresy-prone. Heresy is indicative of a questioning mind. Throughout history, individuals and movements have emerged in Iran to invoke the moral imperative and disrupt the status quo. The most recent events sustain this characteristic of the Iranian personality. Paradoxes abound in the vote in the June presidential election: it was anti-establishment, not anti-regime, anti-clerical but affirmative of the principles of the
American leaders must abandon their decades-long dream of achieving strategic convergence between the US and Pakistan
Kalapani holds great geostrategic importance because of its location. However, Nepal has also safeguarded India’s genuine security concerns.
Dr.A. Q. Khan, the self-styled father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, is back in the headlines following a statement disseminated by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a group opposed to the present regime in Teheran, on November 17, 2004, that between 1994 and 1996 (Mrs.Benazir Bhutto was then in power) Dr. Khan gave Iran a Chinese-developed nuclear warhead design.
Public angst against Aadhaar is not because of the technical effectiveness of the system, but the manner in which it is proposed to be used.
India can craft a holistic public and preventive health policy paradigm by using Aadhaar to cultivate health-positive behaviours
The F-35 saga in West Asia shows at some level what America’s dealings with the region is going to be.
Digital India is going to be ground zero of how heterogenous, diverse, and open societies co-exist online and in the real world.
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Since the OBC reservation in municipalities in Maharashtra has not been implemented, the municipal elections have been stalled.
Since the fall of Kabul, women and girls are increasingly living under deplorable conditions in Afghanistan
With the reinstallation of the Taliban’s power in 2021, a humanitarian nightmare still persists
Nearly ten years in Afghanistan and not a solution is sight makes for sad commentary for the ability of the US to solve its security problems or to force a solution on other regions. The year of reckoning may have been postponed from 2011 to 2014.
Amidst claims by the Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) that the auditing process is in its final stages, there was hope that the presidential elections will be concluded sooner rather than later.
The attacks have rendered true government apprehensions about the ability of the Taliban to control the violence — their own, and that engineered by
Labelling the discrimination against women under the Taliban as “gender apartheid” could work as a catalyst for change in Afghanistan
Though there is a need for a neutral Afghanistan, the prevailing geopolitics of South Asia and the domestic politics of Afghanistan make the 'Congress of Vienna' model and a neutral Afghanistan too utopian a dream to be achieved anytime soon.
