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
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