Author: Shweta Aggarwal

In an indication that India’s relations with Pakistan are heading for a rough patch under a likely BJP government in New Delhi, India’s chief opposition asked Islamabad not to meddle in its internal affairs after a Pakistani minister said that the party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will “destabilise regional peace.” In remarks that are seen widely as intrusive and distasteful in India, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s comments that Modi, if elected o power, will destabilise regional peace, elicited sharp reaction from the BJP, with the ruling Congress also registering its outrage.

With the growing salience of internet in its economy and national security spawning new narratives of national resurgence, India has made a robust pitch for democratising internet governance and to keep cyberspace open, dynamic and secure amid competing models and vested interests.

Amid speculation about likely shifts in India’s foreign policy under a new government in New Delhi after the April-May elections, India’s top diplomat has underlined that the fundamentals of the country’s foreign policy will not change.

The large turnout in the April 5 polls in Afghanistan has cheered the world community and kindled hopes for a smooth democratic transition in the violence-prone country. India has been …