New Delhi: Both Laos and Cambodia can see the difference between the way India under Modi is conducting its diplomacy and China under Xi, including within ASEAN.
While China and India has been seeking to break the fundamentally strong ties between India and its South Asian neighbours, Prime Minister Narendra...
New Delhi: Hezbollah was planning to launch ‘Conquer the Galilee’, which would have been an October 7, 2023 Hamas-like attack on Israeli civilians, only much worse.
Israel’s strike on Iran for the 1 October missile attack on Israeli territory is imminent and will happen with the coordination of the Americans, sources in Israel tell this newspaper. It is only the scale of the attack that is being debated. It is likely to be spectacular—something no one in the region, or the world, will miss. But an attack there will be—“deadly, precise and above all surprising” as promised by the Benjamin...
New Delhi: Beijing has been making efforts ever since it assessed it had an opportunity after the global economic downturn in 2008, to alter the present global world order. Chinese...
New Delhi: The negotiations between India and the United Kingdom over the Free Trade Agreement, which had stalled due to the general elections in both countries, have resumed with the...
Chandigarh: From social realignment to strategic gains, BJP’s decade-long plan bears fruit.
Defying the odds and overturning Haryana’s traditional political power dynamics, the BJP has staged an extraordinary political transformation in Haryana—turning it into a fertile ground for the saffron lotus to bloom consistently and sturdily.
Defying the challenges posed by...
Ratan Tata showed through his deeds that accumulating wealth was not what an individual would be remembered for.
On 10 October, India was awakened to the news that the Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group, Ratan Tata, was no more. He had passed away in the Breach Candy hospital in...
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and the Gandhis must realize that the reasons for the repeated failures to convert electoral contests into victories were not so much due to a strong rival, but essentially because the enemy was within and not outside. The fact-finding committees...
CM Nayab Singh Saini’s administration has prioritised infrastructure improvements, industrial growth, and job creation.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has solidified its political dominance in Haryana through a well-crafted strategy focusing on...
Political scientist Joseph S. Nye once said, «Cultural festivals are the new roundtables of international diplomacy where the currency is not power but participation; not politics but shared experiences.» Think...
Myanmar and Thailand, historically linked with India, hold strategic importance as gateways to India’s connectivity with Southeast Asia.
India’s relations with Myanmar and its four neighbouring countries—Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam—have been marked by cordiality, with few significant points of...
Once again, exit polls have failed to be an accurate predictor of the results of an election. They forecast a drubbing for the BJP in Haryana instead of the coming back of the party...
New Delhi: The problem is that the media personnel who disagreed with the surveys or reports on Haryana or any previous election were abused as being biased and in favour of the government.
This is not the first time that...
In the third decade of the 21st century, humanity faces unprecedented pace of change in practically every sector of human activity and endeavour. There are great advances in ICT and AI, there are also daunting and threatening concerns that threaten the very existence of life on the planet earth. ...
istory bears testimony to the fact that all nations with strong military industrial set up had developed a strong military force, resulting in a strong and vibrant foreign policy.
It was the military industrial set of Germany which enabled it to launch its offensive practically...
As we mark the ninth anniversary of the Narendra Modi government, one of the biggest achievements which has not hogged the limelight has been its work in the water sector...
MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
India’s economy (as measured by real GDP) has been the fastest-growing among the world’s 20 largest economies for 7 of the past 9 years. And those were the only...
India’s much envied tag of a “hot destination” in the context of its appeal as a country to do business with and invest in, has preferably less to do now with the lure of quick money parked in India...
