India and the World

Front doors, back doors and trap doors. The Indian government is knocking all doors to secure the release of  forty Indians kidnapped in Iraq,  a top priority for the new …

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a robust backer of stronger India-Japan relations, is expected to travel to Tokyo towards July-end or early August. Modi is known to be an admirer of Japan’s technological prowess and will be looking to enlist Tokyo’s proactive support and investment in building India’s infrastructure sector. Modi had visited Japan as the chief minister of Gujarat and had developed a personal rapport with the nationalist prime minister of Japan.

Taking the first major diplomatic challenge head-on, the new Indian government is working virtually 24×7 and is leaving no stone unturned to secure the release of 40 Indians abducted in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

In this interview with Manish Chand, Editor-in-Chief of India Writes Network (www.indiawrites.org), R. Dayakar, a former Indian envoy to Baghdad, shares his views on the unfolding crisis, its impact on the India and the options before New Delhi to secure the release of its nationals.

From the media in India it would appear that the attack by Taliban terrorists on the Karachi airport is the tipping point which would pave the way for India and …

In a diplomatic challenge for the newly-installed Modi government in New Delhi, forty Indian construction workers have been abducted from the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, controlled by a Sunni militant group.

On June 11, hundreds of Sunni militants aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and the al-Sham (ISIS) captured Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s home city. …