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Sunday, April 12, 2026
TopicBishkek

Topic: Bishkek

Sandwiched between Xi, Putin, Imran in Bishkek, Modi learnt an important political lesson

Modi must realise that world leaders like Xi, Putin and Imran are not cut from the same cloth as Rahul Gandhi.

Can ignoring Imran Khan get Pakistan to deliver on terror or should Modi resume engagement?

PM Narendra Modi and Pakistan PM Imran Khan appear unlikely to engage with each other at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Bishkek.

Beyond cold silences between Modi & Imran Khan in Bishkek, India needs to make nice with US

The US would like India and Pakistan to talk, if only to return the region to some modicum of stability.

On Camera

Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.