Home Beckons: Indian students in Ukraine escape turmoil
“Home beckons”! For the first batch of 500 Indian students, who were evacuated to Ukraine’s capital Kiev, leaving all that seething turmoil must be quite a relief. They will be …
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Gopinath Munde: BJP’s tallest leader in Maharashtra
Gopinath Munde rose from the fringes of society to the peak of success. A promising leader who led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra during difficult times, and wielded a profound influence on the masses, has passed away at a time when the party, who he served for years, sought him the most ahead of the state assembly elections.
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Goodwill diplomacy: Sri Lanka frees 29 Indian fishermen
Barely days after Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa held his maiden talks with India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s on May 27 in Delhi, Colombo has decided to release the 29 Indian fishermen arrested four days ago as a gesture of goodwill.
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India’s 29th state is born: The real journey begins now…
Amid frenzied jubilation and merry-making, India’s 29th state, Telangana, was formally born June 2, marking a culmination of over five decades of sustained struggle for statehood. K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), whose party Telangana Rashtra Samithi spearheaded the decades-long campaign for a separate state to be carved from Andhra Pradesh, was sworn in as the chief minister of Telangana. A jubilant Rao, popularly known as KCR, vowed to make Telangana “a role model for other states in India.”
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Oman minister in Delhi: Spotlight on India’s Look Middle East policy
After high-voltage, headline-hogging South Asia diplomacy, it’s time for the new government to infuse spark in India’s “Look Middle East” policy as it gets ready to host the foreign minister of Oman, the Gulf state which is home to 700,000 Indians who send home $3 billion in annual remittances.
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The View from Kathmandu: Nepal upbeat on ties with India
KATHMANDU: The first meeting between Nepal’s Prime Minister Sushil Koirala and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi has kindled hopes that the India-Nepal relations are headed for better days. During the …
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The mirage of peace in Pakistan
The latest round of ‘peace-talks’ between the representatives of the Radical Islamists (RIs) lead by Tehriq-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the interlocutors nominated by the Government of Pakistan is apparently leading …
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US keen to Modi-fy ties with India, eyes $500 billion trade
In the end, the winner takes it all, and Washington, which once shunned Narendra Modi, has rolled out a charm offensive to court the new leadership in Delhi and set an ambitious target of scaling up India-US bilateral trade five-fold to $500 billion.
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Beijing calling: India, China seek robust engagement
The election of Narendra Modi as the new prime minister of India has triggered much enthusiasm among China’s power circles, with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang seeking robust engagement between the two countries, who are often projected as rivals in the Asian hemisphere.
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India’s new foreign minister hints at out-of-box foreign policy
“Out-of-box thinking.” Striking an upbeat note on the trajectory of India’s external engagements in the days ahead, India’s new external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj indicated innovative thinking could well be the mantra of the foreign policy of the new government in India.
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