Narendra Modi (L) and Donald Trump. (File photo for representation.)Thank you, Donald Trump. No, really. I mean it. As someone who spent three decades in olive green defending India’s borders and another decade analysing geopolitics, I never th...
S Jaishankar with Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi (L). (Photo: X/@DrSJaishankar) New Delhi: India has outlined an ambitious programme of development assistance to Afghanistan, including the construction of hospitals, trauma centres and maternity clini...
Foreign Ministers of India and Afghanistan hold bilateral meeting in Delhi New Delhi: Upgrading its ties with Afghanistan, India announced on Friday to reopen its embassy in Kabul after the foreign ministers of two countries held bilateral meeti...
Chabahar port.New Delhi: The United States has delivered a major blow to India’s strategic interests by revoking the sanctions waiver for Iran’s Chabahar port, effective September 29, 2025. The renewed “maximum pressure” campa...
Vladimir Putin (L), Narendra Modi (C), and Xi Jinping at the SCO Summit in Tianjin, on September 1, 2025.The evolving strategic scenario in Asia, marked by China’s military ascendancy and America’s recalibrated foreign-policy approach, de...
Sergio Gor.The appointment of 38-year-old Sergio Gor as both US ambassador to India and special envoy for South and Central Asian affairs marks a watershed moment in India-US relations – and not necessarily for the better. As someone who has wi...
The external affairs minister, S Jaishankar, has repeatedly emphasized that relations with China cannot normalize until peace and stability return to the borders. Yet despite countless rounds of talks following Chinese transgressions in eastern Ladak...
Map showing India’s east and northeast with neighbouring countries’ locations for perspective. (Map not to scale)In the annals of military strategy, there exists a fundamental principle that nations ignore at their peril: threats, like ti...
Donald Trump (L) and Asim Munir.New Delhi: In an unprecedented and symbolically loaded move, the United States president, Donald Trump, hosted Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, for a private luncheon at the White House on Wednesd...