NEW DELHI: Earlier this month, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama anointed an 8-year-old Mongolian boy as the reincarnation of a deceased lama. The boy is now the 10th Khalka Jetsun Dhampa Rinpoche and will, when he comes of age, head the Jonang Monastery in Shimla. Tibet scholars and watchers say the move is guaranteed […]Read More
NEW INDIA: The die is cast, it seems, on India’s presidency of the G20. No consensus emerged at the end of the foreign ministers’ meeting in Delhi on Thursday, a repeat of what happened at the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank chiefs in Bengaluru last week. In the absence of a consensus […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s one of those coincidences India would prefer to have done without: the first meeting of G20 foreign ministers under India’s presidency takes place just days after the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Geopolitics will be the big elephant in the room and expect the G7 ministers to strain every vaunted […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Saudi Arabia had five women ambassadors at the last count, including one holding the crucial Washington post. On Tuesday, the foreign ministry in Riyadh announced a new appointment, a first in that country’s history. Sara al-Sayed, a woman with over 20 years of experience in senior managerial positions, especially in the health sector, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Indian establishment remembers well the late President Mubarak of Egypt. It took him 13 years to find time to come to India to receive the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, announced so many years earlier. Apparently, a protocol gaffe by India at a NAM summit had offended him deeply. Fortunately, fellow […]Read More