External Affairs Minister who attended the seventh Indian Ocean Conference in Perth addressed the Indian diaspora and reflected upon the new energy in the India-Australia relationship Read More
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35 states sign a formal declaration to tackle the menace of cyber spying tools. Tech giants like Microsoft, Meta and Google also joined inRead More
The leader of a cult in Kenya has been charged with the murder of 191 people though authorities say he may be responsible for as many as 400 deaths. Read More
Thousands of Indian H-1B visa holders to benefit from changes in rulesRead More
North Korea is seeking advanced military hardware, satellite technology and nuclear submarine knowhow from RussiaRead More
“The real terrorist or extremist groups are Al Qaeda and its offshoot the Islamic State (ISIS). Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis none of these are proxies … they are supported in their host countries … “ With that Tehran academic and foreign policy commentator Seyed Mohammad Marandi told The Gist in an interview to be aired […]Read More
India values the French connection, while Paris sees India as bringing strategic weight to the Indo-PacificRead More
In July last year, the Center for Strategic & International Studies authored a study titled France and India: Two Nuances of ‘Strategic Autonomy’. The opening line of the study quoted a former Japanese deputy national security adviser as saying: “We know India will be a very difficult superpower – like a big France.” In fact, […]Read More
Amid all the noise about Iran striking at sundry adversaries in Pakistan, Iraq and Syria, and backing armed proxies, the big question: what do the clerics gain from such disruptive activities in the region? Former diplomat Dilip Sinha argues that the clerics see their nation as the major non-Arab and Shia force in a Sunni […]Read More
Iran is no pushover, a point it has proved through years of US sanctions, economic boycotts and political ostracism. Rather, it has been able to maintain its position in the Persian Gulf and even push back through proxies, like the Houthis in Yemen or Hamas in Gaza or Hezbollah in Lebanon. Ambassador Dilip Sinha, a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: To China, he’s a “dangerous separatist” and “a troublemaker” but for William Lai Ching-te who led the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to an unprecedented victory in the polls in Taiwan on Saturday, it was all about democracy. As he put it: “We have shown the world how much we cherish democracy. We will […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Those in India monitoring party campaigns in Taiwan ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday may see parallels with India of not so long ago. The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) appears to be making waves among urban youth tired of the two parties that have dominated the political landscape for decades, the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: At the United Nations, the tables are being cleared for the Universal Periodic Review, a roughly quadrennial process where member states human rights situation comes under scrutiny. It could be a particularly troubling time for China given its discord with the West, that could see more countries taking a close look at Beijing’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Many people in Russia are not familiar with what has changed in India.” That was External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar while addressing the Indian diaspora in St. Petersburg, Russia recently. He had earlier called on President Putin and held talks with his counterpart Sergei Lavrov. The remark may seem odd given the long […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India is a factor in every election in Bangladesh because “geography and God have given this to us”. This does not necessarily result in “anti-Indianism”, rather India’s close ties to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina provoke negative reactions in the public mind that are stoked by “mischievous elements” in the ruling Awami League and, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In a little over two weeks from now, India will kick off the Global Artificial Intelligence Summit, a two-day (January 18-19) event focused on five key areas: defence and cyber security, healthcare, agriculture, education, robotics & automation. It is expected to take forward some of Prime Minister Modi’s ideas reflected at the summit of […]Read More
One summit in San Francisco and the announcement of the resumption of another with dates yet to be worked out, both with apparently one goal in mind: bringing down tensions with China. While the Biden-Xi Jinping chin wag last month on the side lines of the APEC summit, appeared to have gone some way in […]Read More
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