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India, Japan chart a new plan for free and open Indo-Pacific

PM Kishida’s visit further reiterated his stance to promote Japan’s vision of...

‘India-US collaboration will boost defence and high-tech know-how’

Mukesh Aghi, US-India Strategic Partnership Forum President and CEO, speaks to The Sunday Guardian about the future of India-US bilateral...

India, U.S. on radar as China plans to control Arabian Sea from 3 naval bases

Status quo in the Indian Ocean Region, dominated by anti-China-Pakistan groupings, is likely to see considerable change in the coming...

Allegations of MEPs taking money while repeating Pak charges on Kashmir

Huge amounts of money were allegedly paid by individuals to influence decision-making inside European Parliament. In January and August last...

Ukraine’s missing children

Ukrainian children transported to Russia range in age from toddlers to teens. In some cases, there was adoption, in others...

PM Sunak solves one of the biggest problems facing the UK

PM Rishi Sunak’s diplomacy has brought about a much needed thaw in relations between the UK and the EU. Ever...

Will the earthquakes scupper Erdogan’s chances in May?

14 May will mark Turkey’s centenary and its President will be fighting for the right to take the country into...

File picture of former Pakistan army chief QamarJaved Bajwa (holding the gun).

Riches to riches: Pak economic crisis will not hit its Army generals

‘These Army officers are bankrolled by domestic industry players who need the Army’s support to get government contracts’. New Delhi:...

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) chief David Vigneault.

Chinese agencies interfered in federal election in Canada

The Chinese plan included disinformation campaigns and cash donations to friendly candidates. New Delhi: The Canadian intelligence agency has revealed...

Leaders Sher Bahadur Deuba, Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal (file photo)

Political alliance changes in Nepal ahead of Presidential polls

Within two months of its inception prior to the presidential election, Nepal’s political coalition underwent a transformation.Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Rastriya...

Is China preparing to provide weapons to Russia?

If China does go ahead and supply weapons to Russia, experts believe that this would be ‘crossing the Rubicon’ in...

BBC needs a complete overhaul

Tom Mills in his book, The BBC: Myth of Public Service, demolishes the claim of BBC being independent. The BBC...

Russia’s war in Ukraine one year on, two more to go

For a real reversal of Russia’s fortunes, Putin will be banking in the coming weeks on his forces, replenished by...

Workplace values: Social justice, performance and individual dignity

The challenge is how to implement DEI in a way that it’s not perceived by dominant groups as a zero-sum...

BBC’s ‘independent’ approach comes under Question

New Delhi: The controversy regarding the appointment of BBC chairman Richard Sharp, who has been accused of influencing the then...

Slowly but surely Russia is becoming a vassal state of China

The ‘no limits relationship’ does have limits. Beijing has not provided material support for Putin’s war effort, nor has it...

Fine for outsourcing cardiac tests to India

‘Most offshore technicians tasked with reviewing ECG data did not have basic qualifications to perform tests in question’. New Delhi:...

Carriers or cables, why Djibouti is important to India

China has a military presence in Djibouti, a presence which many believe is a huge threat to India. London: With...

Anti-India activities see a steep rise in Australia

Indian authorities have protested to Australian authorities and strongly condemned ‘attacks by extremist elements’. New Delhi: After the vandalization of...

The spectre of a third intifada looms even as Israel mourns its dead

The Israeli Defence Forces a week ago acting on the intelligence received entered the Jenin refugee camp in West Bank...

Is Peshawar blast a precursor to an all-out war between TTP, Pak army?

‘Amid an economic crisis, the Pakistan army cannot carry out a sustained war against the TTP, which may trigger more...

The reality of the Taliban’s war against narcotics

The Taliban, after coming to power, vowed to eradicate the production and cultivation of narcotics on its soil, but with...

At last, Germany has uncaged its Leopards

Germany’s hesitation over the tanks was caused by more than just the weight of history. The logic in Berlin seemed...

UK MP questions ‘sinister timing’, ‘one-sided’ portrayal of PM Modi in BBC documentary

Lord Rami Ranger says the documentary was produced to show PM Modi in a bad light. Lord Rami Ranger, who...

FATF will keep putting pressure on Pakistan on combating Terror

India and SCO nations have enhanced engagement with the global terror watchdog to ensure that it keeps a tab on...

Joe Biden and the American gridlock

The annual threats of the government shutdown have always been about spending bills, budgets, and fiscal issues. The first partial...

Israel lurches to the far-right

Most observers discount any possibility of civil war, insisting that there have been stirrings of armed insurrection in nearly every...

‘Involving young global Indians in Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is a great idea’

Dr Satheesh Kathula, who is vice-president of AAPI, spoke with The Sunday Guardian. The just concluded Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD)...

How Putin’s Russia will collapse

Russia may not survive the coming decade due to the divisive stresses pulling the federation apart. In 2007, two years...

UK FAC discusses Kashmir, human rights

Liam Byrne (Labour) quoted Michelle Bachelet about human rights. London:  UK’s Foreign Affairs Committee held a formal/oral evidence session on “Implementing...

Cautious Rishi Sunak provides stability, but his vim disappears

It seems the government cannot see beyond Washington/New York or the Alps. Disappointingly, there were no references to prioritising a...

Xi’s reputation plummets with his Covid U-turn

China’s Zero Covid lockdown strategy merely delayed the inevitable spread of the virus once it allowed itself to open up....

The rise and rise of Putin’s Chef

A new generation of hard-liners is emerging, surpassing even Putin’s old guard in their aggression. Of these, the most prominent...

Reflections on Christmas: Setting aside differences for goodwill, peace

The Nativity and waiting for Christ’s return make observant Christians emotional, but today Christmas is too often sadly secular, it...

Will 2023 be a continuum of 2022 in British politics?

2023 begins with the Labour Party in the strongest position since 2010; in the polls, Labour are 17 percentage points...

UK strikes spoil the advent of Christmas

UK is experiencing a new variety of Christmas chaos, this time not Covid-related but brought about by public workers’ strikes....

G20 presidency reaffirms India’s special status in world: Brazil’s ambassador

New Delhi: India’s G20 presidency has ignited hopes about a new period of the leadership of emerging economies in the...

‘Twitter files’ II expose Gadde-led ‘secret group’ that shadow banned accounts

‘Twitter used Visibility Filtering to block individual user’s searches to limit scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability’. New Delhi: Twitter,...

US, UK look to ‘peacemaker’ Modi amid growing Russia-Iran military ties

The US, the UK and Australia reach out to India with updates on Russia providing weapons and military expertise to...

PM Sunak delivers his first major foreign policy speech

London: This week, Rishi Sunak delivered his first major foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet. As explained by...

Crimea is key to solving the war in Ukraine

Zelenskyy must realise that Crimea was only given as a present to Ukraine 66 years ago simply as a gesture....

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