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...
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...
Operation Sindoor evoked mixed reaction from the global community.New Delhi: Operation Sindoor, India’s precision strikes against terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on the intervening night of May 6 and 7, ...
— By Prof Shantesh Kumar Singh & Dr Ravi Shankar RajIndia’s Union Budget 2025-26 comprises a strategic approach towards diplomacy that puts focus on promoting regional stability, strengthening bilateral relations with neighb...
[This is an excerpt from Iqbal Chand Malhotra’s book “The Nukes, The Jihad, The Hawala, and Crystal Meth: A Tale of Treachery, published by Ink.]As Trump’s presidency wound down, numerous reports emerged from the Pentagon, the Afgha...