NEW DELHI: India chalked up two major wins as the G20 summit entered its final round in New Delhi on Saturday. First, a way around the prickly and highly divisive issue of Ukraine resulting in the joint declaration, and the inclusion of the African Union as the 21st member of the group. The declaration stopped […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I can assure you we have lived up to his vision. No document in the world will have such a strong voice for the developing countries and the Global South as the New Delhi Leaders Declaration which would be released at the end of the summit.” That was India’s G20 sherpa Amitabh Kant hinting […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India will play host to a gathering of the world’s most powerful leaders from Thursday, as U.S. President Biden, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau land in Delhi for the G20 summit. They will be followed by others including Saudi Crown Prince Salman and French President Macron. Missing will […]Read More
A “talented person” who “made serious mistakes in life.” That was how Russian President Vladimir Putin described the head of the mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who reportedly perished when his Embraer Legacy 600 jet ferrying him to St Petersburg from Moscow crashed in the Tver region northwest of the capital on August 23, killing […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The big fat takeaway coming out of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg: Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping agreeing “to direct their relevant officials to intensify efforts at expeditious disengagement and de-escalation” along their disputed border. That explains why they did not have a bilateral on the last day of the BRICS summit although […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The tourist brochures say the months from May to September are the best time to visit South Africa, and the “wildlife viewing is excellent”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have enough time to sample South Africa’s salubrious temperatures when he arrives at Waterkloof air base in Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon. But his agenda […]Read More
NEW DELHI: To repeat a tired cliché: politics is the art of the possible where today’s friends are tomorrow’s foes. Witness the Maldives where incumbent President Mohamed Solih of the ruling MDP, is running for a second term in elections due next month. His main rival is former ally Mohamed Nasheed, who has formed a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An Inquiry report on China released by the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of British Parliament last month accuses the government and the country’s intelligence agencies of sacrificing strategic interests for economic considerations. “China’s size, ambition and capability have enabled it to successfully penetrate every sector of the UK’s economy, and—until the Covid-19 […]Read More
Heinz Alfred Kissinger, better known to the world as Henry Kissinger, hit the headlines when he turned 100 on May 27, 2023. Less than two months later, he made news again when he flew to Beijing July 18-20, 52 years after his secret visit to the city in July 1971 to pave the way for […]Read More
Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe is in Delhi on his first visit since taking over as president last year amid economic collapse and political chaos. Addressing an Indian CEO’s forum a few days ago in Colombo, he said, “We need to determine our long-term objectives and aspirations for the next 10 to 15 years. This […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The disruption of global supply chains due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent Ukraine crisis could derail India’s plans to become a net zero nation by 2070. Net zero essentially means achieving zero emissions of greenhouse gases—the main culprit behind climate change—by using clean (non-fossil fuel) energy and removing or absorbing the remaining […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Hours after the German Cabinet released its first China Strategy paper on Thursday, which called Beijing out over its unfair practices and aggressive actions, the Chinese embassy in Beijing warned against “meddling” in China’s internal affairs and said “China will resolutely safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests”. While reiterating its One China […]Read More
The bounty of HK $1 million each announced July 3 on the heads of eight pro-democracy activists living abroad by the Hong Kong police has sparked howls of protest from western capitals. The activists — seven men and one woman, aged between 26 and 74 — left Hong Kong during and just after the 2019 […]Read More
On June 11, Nepal Press ran an article explaining how several Nepalese had joined the Russian military following President Vladimir Putin’s May 16, 2023 approval of a bill allowing foreigners who have served in the Russian army for one year to obtain Russian citizenship. Birat Anupam, the senior journalist who wrote the article, tracked down […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Even though the rules of engagement have changed, it does not mean we have stopped engaging with Pakistan,” former high commissioner to Islamabad Ajay Bisaria told a packed auditorium at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Delhi on Tuesday. “We keep engaging on three tracks: through our missions, military-military and intelligence agencies. It’s just […]Read More
In April this year, Nitin Gokhale in a chat on Bharat Shakti on theatre commands, underscored the following points: “The talk is about having three joint theatre commands with the Western Command, which will handle the western adversary, the Northern Command, which will handle the entire Himalayan border with China, stretching from Ladakh in the […]Read More
Attempting to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Inciting the attack on the US capitol on January 6, 2021, in which four people died. Illegally retaining and hiding classified documents after leaving the White House. Paying ‘hush money’ to former lovers just before the 2016 elections. Multiple charges of sexual assault and harassment Attempts to […]Read More
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to United States June 21-24, US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken inaugurated the US-India Business Council’s India Ideas Summit at the Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C. June 12, and urged the two nations “to build a free, open, secure, prosperous Indo-Pacific where people, where goods, where […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Leveraging partnerships to facilitate growth is India’s biggest foreign policy challenge, says External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar. He was responding to a question from StratNewsGlobal, after a special briefing on how Indian foreign policy had evolved over nine years of the Narendra Modi government on Thursday, June 8. “What does the rise of India mean, and how do […]Read More
Outgoing Australian High Commissioner Barry O’ Farrell is extremely upbeat about bilateral ties with India. ‘Thank you Minister @DrSJaishankar and Foreign Secretary @AmbVMKwatra for your continued support & patience during my tenure. What we have achieved in ties during my time here will be dwarfed by what is to come & be achieved.’ Thank you […]Read More
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