India’s GSLV launch: A major milestone for ISRO
After two successive failures of its Geostationary Launch Vehicle (GSLV) launches in 2006 and 2010 and an aborted mission in 2013, India’s endeavour to launch another GSLV on January 5 …
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New beginnings: Maldives leader India’s first state guest in 2014
New Year, new beginnings. Indian diplomacy has kicked off 2014 with the state visit of the newly-elected Maldives president, underlining the country’s focus on building robust relations with its neighbours …
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Maid’s Manhattan Dream: Finally, India-US relations turn reciprocal!
Forgive the exaggeration, but in the end, it has taken an Indian maid in Manhattan to spoil the party, and unravel all that grand rhetoric about “the defining partnership of …
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Chief Minister Kejriwal scripts a new politics of change
Symbolising a new politics of hope and people-centric governance in the world’s most populous democracy, Arvind Kejriwal, the engineer-turned-politician, has become the youngest chief minister of Delhi. In a carnival-like …
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Diplomat row: Distrust between New Delhi and Washington?
The arrest of the Indian deputy Consul General in New York, Ms Devyani Khobragade, earlier this month, based on a complaint by her maid of underpayment and on charges of …
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India-Myanmar economic cooperation: The road ahead
For once, there seems to be a convergence of interests for both the South-east Asian countries as well as the West in Myanmar, ever since the resource rich country undertook …
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Diplomat’s humiliation unites India, pressure on US to mount
In a rare show of unity and solidarity, India’s fractious political parties have set aside their partisan differences to join hands with the government and the country’s diplomatic-strategic establishment to …
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Engaging West Asia: India’s Arab diplomacy on an upswing
The Arab League chief’s visit to India telescopes burgeoning ties between New Delhi and the Arab world, home to around 7 million Indians and a vital lynchpin of the country’s …
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AAP landslide: A dawn of new politics for India
The results of just concluded elections for five Indian states, interpreted by many as the “semi-final” before general elections in 2014, has produced results of far-reaching consequence for the country’s …
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The Karzai ‘Kaper’: What India Must Do With Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai, it seems, is unfolding his last gamble. He continues to keep the US on tenterhooks by dilly-dallying over the signing of the Bilateral Security Agreement despite the overwhelming …
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