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Congress has an edge over CPM in Alappuzha

AICC organisation general secretary, K.C. Venugopal is...

Army’s Gorkha Brigade needs reorganisation

An imminent shrinking of the Gorkha Brigade...

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Taiwan and Minilateralism

TAIWAN ELECTION 2024 AND A GLANCE AT HISTORY In the Taiwanese Presidential election, the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) Dr Lai Ching-te, also known internationally as...

The world needs to remember Captain Kendrick’s 1791 mission to Japan

Tokyo The mission reflects the ethos of America, especially parts of Silicon Valley history, parts of Japanese history, and indeed a long history of Indian...

India, Guyana and the US need to work together

North Koreans don’t need visas to visit Guyana. So on paper Indians are ranked lower than even North Koreans by the Guyanese. If Dr...

India, Guyana and the US need to work together

North Koreans don’t need visas to visit Guyana. So on paper Indians are ranked lower than even North Koreans by the Guyanese. If Dr...

India, Guyana and the US need to work together

North Koreans don’t need visas to visit Guyana. So on paper Indians are ranked lower than even North Koreans by the Guyanese. If Dr...

India, Guyana and the US need to work together

North Koreans don’t need visas to visit Guyana. So on paper Indians are ranked lower than even North Koreans by the Guyanese. If Dr...

It’s Time for new entities designed for the 21st century

One has to wish the G-20 luck as time is ticking amidst the demographic time bomb in the Global South.   Tokyo: POST-WORLD WAR PEACE SPAWNED...

The assassinations of Shinzo Abe and Rajiv Gandhi

The lone gunman theory that is being bandied about in the assassination of Shinzo Abe, appears unconvincing. Reports are emanating that the dynamite in...

Indian involvement in Sakhalin 1 provides an implicit guarantee to Japan

As Exxon readies to exit Sakhalin 1, the Russians are not making any threatening noises on Sakhalin 1, unlike in Sakhalin 2. For Japanese...

Shinzo Abe, a true friend of India

This assassination of Shinzo Abe, no matter who the conspirators are behind the lone gunman, might just have tipped the balance for that ferocious...

Quad cannot ignore fallout of Russia-Ukraine conflict

It is only India’s foreign policy establishment that is so convinced that it has the absolute brilliance to make the world understand India’s position...

Quad cannot ignore fallout of Russia-Ukraine conflict

It is only India’s foreign policy establishment that is so convinced that it has the absolute brilliance to make the world understand India’s position...

Quad cannot ignore fallout of Russia-Ukraine conflict

It is only India’s foreign policy establishment that is so convinced that it has the absolute brilliance to make the world understand India’s position...

Tensions in Indo-Pacific: For peace, enunciate clearly

Decades of ambiguity did not eliminate risk of catastrophic kinetic action in the Indo-Pacific. Deterrence in a commitment to repulse aggression has to be...

Tensions in Indo-Pacific: For peace, enunciate clearly

Decades of ambiguity did not eliminate risk of catastrophic kinetic action in the Indo-Pacific. Deterrence in a commitment to repulse aggression has to be...

Tensions in Indo-Pacific: For peace, enunciate clearly

Decades of ambiguity did not eliminate risk of catastrophic kinetic action in the Indo-Pacific. Deterrence in a commitment to repulse aggression has to be...

Japan’s elderly care economy presents opportunity for India

Graduates of nursing and paramedical programs have much opportunity, provided they have sufficient Japanese language skills. Tokyo: Japan’s elderly care sector, $40 billion in size,...

Japan’s elderly care economy presents opportunity for India

Graduates of nursing and paramedical programs have much opportunity, provided they have sufficient Japanese language skills. Tokyo: Japan’s elderly care sector, $40 billion in size,...

Japan’s elderly care economy presents opportunity for India

Graduates of nursing and paramedical programs have much opportunity, provided they have sufficient Japanese language skills. Tokyo: Japan’s elderly care sector, $40 billion in size,...

Spirited campaign underway for Japan’s PM position

Sanae Takaichi has the allure of potentially becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Japan.   Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s sudden decision not to contest...

India-Japan cooperation needed for free and open Indo-Pacific

India’s refusal to accept post-War reparations from Japan is regarded, even today, as a gesture of high magnanimity. Therefore, Japan has always stepped up...

India-Japan cooperation needed for free and open Indo-Pacific

India’s refusal to accept post-War reparations from Japan is regarded, even today, as a gesture of high magnanimity. Therefore, Japan has always stepped up...

India-Japan cooperation needed for free and open Indo-Pacific

India’s refusal to accept post-War reparations from Japan is regarded, even today, as a gesture of high magnanimity. Therefore, Japan has always stepped up...

Shyamala Gopalan’s Berkeley days, cold wars, and the diaspora

Shyamala Gopalan’s time at Berkeley, especially the heady 1958-60 period coincided with my late father’s time in Berkeley, and would be fascinating to learn...

CPEC is a de facto security alliance

CPEC is a de facto security alliance between China and Pakistan with Russia today an overt ally of China’s that some prefer to see...

Japan’s New Prime Minister Suga signals continuity

The formalisation of the Quad and Quad Plus will likely gain momentum amidst rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific.   Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, elected with...

Shinzo Abe ‘retires’ again, perhaps just for now

The failure so far to change Article 9 in the Japanese Constitution that was imposed by the US occupation forces after World War II...

Time for Nambi Narayanan Scientists’ Protection Act

This is needed to prevent what happened to Nambi and so many others, who suffered professional deaths, actual deaths, or death by character assassination...

Vested interests crippling India’s medical devices R&D, impacting FDI

Despite the efforts of PM Modi, top-ranking government officials in major economies and company executives are still feeling that ‘India is a difficult place...

Quad’s operations HQ should be Andaman

Located roughly at the fulcrum of the Indo-Pacific, close to Myanmar, Thailand and the Malacca Strait through which the bulk of the world’s oil...

PLA violated Geneva Conventions by using medieval torture clubs

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers and officers used medieval torture instruments—clubs with metal spikes, and heavy rods wrapped with barbed wire, all...

Time for a 21st century Indo-Pacific Charter

Tokyo: The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming both the centre of world economic gravity as well as the locus of Great Power confrontations. Indo-Pacific encompasses...

India set to chair WHO’s Executive Board

India is set to be elected Chair of the World Health Organization’s decision-making Executive Board at its 73rd World Health Assembly, 18-19 May 2020,...

Japanese investment to India: Possibilities and constraints

Japan has thousands of mid-size companies with good technologies. Combining with Indian manufacturing, those technologies can contribute to the foundation of a new uptick...

Covid risk incentivises cooperation in Indo-Pacific

China’s neighbour Taiwan has been greatly successful in containing Covid-19. TOKYO: The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) continues its exponential growth worldwide. Governments reported nearly...

Covid-19: Realistic strategy needed to combat emerging infections

It’s puzzling why medications already in the market are not being put through essentially accelerated phase IV clinical trials, especially those that had value...

Covid-19: Realistic strategy needed to combat emerging infections

It’s puzzling why medications already in the market are not being put through essentially accelerated phase IV clinical trials, especially those that had value...

Covid-19: Realistic strategy needed to combat emerging infections

It’s puzzling why medications already in the market are not being put through essentially accelerated phase IV clinical trials, especially those that had value...

Ageing Japan can make use of India’s demographic dividend

Common heritage and shared struggle in history are a plus for India-Japan, however, Indians are slow in taking the massive job opportunities that exist...

Ageing Japan can make use of India’s demographic dividend

Common heritage and shared struggle in history are a plus for India-Japan, however, Indians are slow in taking the massive job opportunities that exist...

Ageing Japan can make use of India’s demographic dividend

Common heritage and shared struggle in history are a plus for India-Japan, however, Indians are slow in taking the massive job opportunities that exist...

Japan sees India as ally in its outreach to Africa

The scramble by major economies for influence in Africa is understandable.   TOKYO: Japan’s flagship Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was held on 28-30...

Modi raises India’s profile at G20 meeting in Osaka

Osaka: Prime Minister Narendra Modi played a key role in the G20 meeting of 19 leading economic nations and the European Union, as well as...

As Modi returns, Abe tries to search for a lasting legacy

In 2018, Japan was one of world’s top purchasers of American defence equipment, and it has just announced its intent to purchase 105 advanced...

Demonetisation was suggested by Bill and Nandan

The billionaires advocated an exponential increase in cashless transaction and demonetisation to the PMO.   Demonetisation rarely features in history, and most currencies are never...

Demonetisation was suggested by Bill and Nandan

The billionaires advocated an exponential increase in cashless transaction and demonetisation to the PMO.   Demonetisation rarely features in history, and most currencies are never...

Demonetisation was suggested by Bill and Nandan

The billionaires advocated an exponential increase in cashless transaction and demonetisation to the PMO.   Demonetisation rarely features in history, and most currencies are never...

Free trade for all: The potential that RCEP has

With services being about 55% of India’s GDP, agreement on the free movement of skilled personnel and related aspects of the services sector are...

Free trade for all: The potential that RCEP has

With services being about 55% of India’s GDP, agreement on the free movement of skilled personnel and related aspects of the services sector are...

Free trade for all: The potential that RCEP has

With services being about 55% of India’s GDP, agreement on the free movement of skilled personnel and related aspects of the services sector are...

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