NEW DELHI: The collapse of the alliance between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party has forced Israel to its fourth election in less than two years. Never friends at the best of times, the two men formed a coalition of necessity to fight the country’s pandemic that is […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has been pushing for the use of the Iranian port of Chabahar port, being developed with its assistance, to the five ‘stans’ of Central Asia for long. Now, Uzbekistan has become the first one to seek a trilateral meeting on Chabahar. The first trilateral working group meeting between India, Iran and Uzbekistan […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “India doesn’t have to get its knickers in a twist,” over Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks to the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) think tank, says Nandan Unnikrishnan, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation. “Judge them by the statement they’ve made through actions post Galwan. They’re supplying everything we’ve asked them for” he […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s latest round of Gulf diplomacy is being driven by three high-profile visits: Gen. M.M. Naravane will be the first army chief to visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday. Later this month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be in Qatar and Kuwait, while his deputy V. Muraleedharan will hold discussions […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has chosen to reveal little about the first ever visit by an Indian Army chief to Saudi Arabia. Gen. Manoj Naravane’s visit to Riyadh beginning Sunday (December 13) is significant. The two countries exchanged defence attaches way back in the 1990s, yet it took them three decades to agree on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “He does not have immunity, he did not have immunity and I don’t think he will have immunity.” Some say the above quote of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (recorded by a local broadcaster Kan two years ago) is the closest evidence of an Israeli hand in the killing of Iranian nuclear […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Was there a secret Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that was outed by Israeli media? The Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud may have denied it in a tweet, but Netanyahu himself hasn’t, saying, “I […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Israel took a major step towards normalising ties with its Arab neighbours when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to the Red Sea city of Neom in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for a secret meeting with Crown Prince Salman. Israel Army Radio reported the event adding that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The presence of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval at the Saudi National Day celebrations in Delhi, was rare and unusual signalling. Such signalling isn’t done on a concerned country’s national day celebrations, which are often discreet, low key affairs. The unwritten rule of diplomacy is that the government nominates […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With west Asia and the Gulf in turmoil over the US mediated Israel-UAE deal to normalise ties and Iran feeling angry and betrayed, defence minister Rajnath Singh will be making a quiet and unannounced visit to Tehran on his way back from Russia. But before his Iran “transit visit”, Singh may meet his […]Read More
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