NEW DELHI: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lands in Ahmedabad on Thursday with the Indo-Pacific and under negotiation FTA high on his agenda. British officials said, “the Prime Minister is expected to announce major investment in key industries in both the UK and India, boosting jobs and growth at home, as well as new collaboration […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An agreement on an interim trade deal with India is doubtful during UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s two day visit beginning Thursday. That’s the view held out by Rahul Roy Chaudhary, head of the South Asia research programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. interviewed on The Gist programme, Chaudhary […]Read More
NEW DELHI: France’s President Macron has less than nine days to convince voters that he deserves to remain in the top job. This despite having reduced unemployment to its lowest level since 2008 and widespread approval of his handling of the Ukraine crisis. Macron is facing an extraordinarily tough challenge from Marine Le Pen. The […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has reason to be happy with the re-election of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic. Both far-right leaders are said to be close to the Kremlin and Orban in any case has never troubled to hide his preferences. As he remarked during victory celebrations, “we […]Read More
NEW DELHI:Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov is in India with, it seems, not just the war in Ukraine on his mind. With Western sanctions biting, Lavrov maybe hoping to work out ways in which India could expedite payments for Russian arms and equipment already supplied or in the pipeline. This may not be as easy […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Ukraine war has galvanised Germany. For perhaps the first time since its defeat in World War II, Berlin is casting off its own self-placed shackles, and is bidding to lead European resistance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Germany is sending arms and other equipment to Ukraine and most importantly, has nearly […]Read More
Eight and half million households may end up in fuel poverty, being forced to pay over £3,000 (about $4,000) a year to heat their homes amid the European energy crisis, which has been further exacerbated by sweeping anti-Russian sanctions. However, it’s only the beginning, economic observers have warned. “It was already a very big burden—on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Ambassador Asoke Mukerji, India’s Former Permanent Representative to the United Nations in analysis with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. India’s Former Ambassador to the UN discusses the resolutions that Russia has vetoed in the UN Security Council, India’s statements and the reasons for abstaining, India’s ‘consistent position on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Dr. Garima Mohan, Fellow in the Asia programme, German Marshall Fund of the U.S.(GMFUS), where she leads the work on India and heads the India Trilateral Forum, in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The Gist discusses External Affairs Minister(EAM) Dr S. Jaishankar at the European Union […]Read More
NEW DELHI: 2021 has turned out to be the Royal Family’s “annus horribilis II.” The word was first coined by the Queen in 1992 to describe a year where three of her children’s marriages ended in divorce and 100 rooms in Windsor Castle burnt down. What made it even worse was “Fergiegate” – when British […]Read More
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