NEW DELHI: With west Asia and the Gulf in turmoil over the US mediated Israel-UAE deal to normalise ties and Iran feeling angry and betrayed, defence minister Rajnath Singh will be making a quiet and unannounced visit to Tehran on his way back from Russia. But before his Iran “transit visit”, Singh may meet his […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing India-China border confrontation, there is a possibility that external affairs minister S.Jaishankar and defence minister Rajnath Singh may talk to their Chinese counterparts in Moscow on the margins of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meetings. While Singh reached Moscow on Wednesday to participate in the SCO defence ministers’ meeting, Jaishankar will […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s assault on the language and culture of the Uyghurs of Xinjiang is of recent origin, its assault on the Tibetans goes back to the decades since it invaded and occupied the region. In this exclusive interview with StratNews Global’s Parul Chandra, Tibetan researcher and human rights campaigner Tenzin Dawa said the Ethnic […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The first woman to stand for election as Sikyong (Prime Minister) of Tibet’s government exile in Dharamsala, has called on India to acknowledge her homeland’s occupied status. India “must abandon its very cautious position with regard to Tibet,” Gyari Dolma said during a recent webinar organised by the Foundation for Non-violent Alternatives, adding […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will address the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) on September 4, on the country’s foreign policy imperatives. The ICWA is a government-funded think-tank and while it has regularly hosted world leaders until COVID-19 played spoil-sport, no Indian foreign secretary has delivered a standalone address there in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s promise of funding big ticket projects in neighbouring Bangladesh appears to be unravelling. Four years ago, Beijing had offered to fund 27 projects worth $20 billion, but has not delivered on that, and there have been time and cost overruns. A news report in the leading Bangladesh paper The Daily Star on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With an elbow bump and broad smiles, ‘iron brothers’ China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi, reaffirmed their close ties on Friday. Adding to their celebration was President Xi Jinping lauding the CPEC (China Pak Economic Corridor) as the key to closer ties, and describing the two countries […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla referred to India’s “special and close relations with Bangladesh” when he called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Tuesday but there are wrinkles in the relationship that need to be ironed out at the earliest. It’s the first visit abroad by Shringla since March with Covid19 […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A corrupt man being held to account? Or was former Bangladesh Chief Justice SK Sinha the victim of a political witch-hunt after he fell out with the powers that be? The truth may never be known. Late last week, Dhaka filed charges of money laundering against Sinha, the country’s first Hindu chief justice of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: What prompted Nepal’s foreign minister Pradeep Gyawali to say recently that the tripartite agreement of 1947, which allows his country’s Gorkhas to serve in the Indian army, has become “redundant”? And that Nepal would instead like to have separate bilateral pacts with India and the UK—the other two signatories to the agreement. Gyawali’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In what could be a tentative effort to break the ice, Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli dialled his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for a chat on Saturday afternoon. The pretext was to congratulate India on the occasion of its 74th Independence Day and discuss cooperation on the coronavirus, but Oli may have […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Signs of a thaw in bilateral relations? India’s Ambassador in Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra is scheduled to hold discussions with Foreign Secretary Shankar Das Bairagi on August 17, the first such meeting in nearly nine months. The discussions are under the ambit of the Oversight Mechanism, which is normally a routine affair to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Iran has extended the lease for India to run their strategic Chabahar port by another year, even as New Delhi awaits word from Tehran on the entity that will partner with IRCON International Limited (of the Indian Railways) to undertake the Chabahar-Zahedan rail link. Both the port and railway link are vital for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An exercise in political absurdity. That’s how India snubbed the new political map released by Pakistan a day before the first anniversary of India scrapping Article 370 that gave special status to J&K. Ever since India split J&K into two union territories on August 5 last year, Pakistan has cried hoarse and tried […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In a parliamentary election that’s widely expected to see the Rajapaksa brothers, President Gotabaya and Prime Minister Mahinda, consolidate their hold on Sri Lanka, India with its huge stakes in the island nation will be keeping a close watch on the poll outcome. As will China, Japan and the U.S. that too have […]Read More
July 27, 2020: Ten broad gauge locomotives flagged off to be handed over to Bangladesh to help handle the growing volumes of passenger and freight traffic between the two neighbours. July 26: The first container train from India carrying FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) arrives at the Benapole railway station in Bangladesh, just across the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Development and security cooperation is the mantra for India in forging deeper ties with countries in the Indian Ocean region to keep growing Chinese influence at bay. On Thursday, it was the development aspect to the fore with the inauguration of the new Supreme Court building of Mauritius in its capital Port Louis. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Amidst the jostling for strategic space in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) by India and China, New Delhi has stepped up its outreach to the Maldives to help its economy recover from the devastating impact of Covid-19. Indian high commissioner to the Maldives Sunjay Sudhir handed over a “symbolic cheque” of USD 5.6 […]Read More
NEW DELHI: When Tripura received its first consignment of cargo from Kolkata via the Chattogram (Chittagong) port of Bangladesh on Thursday, it marked the revival of a historic route that had been in disuse for over a century. With the first trial run on this route completed successfully, India is hoping it will mark the beginning […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China appears to be making a renewed push to make Bhutan cede the strategically located Doklam and its adjoining areas by introducing a new territory—Sakteng wildlife sanctuary—in the border dispute between the two neighbours. The freshly minted Chinese claims on the sanctuary, close to Bhutan’s eastern border with Arunachal Pradesh were made last […]Read More
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