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Topic: Diplomacy

Graffiti meets diplomacy on walls of Lodhi Art District. India-Spain in Garden of Encounters

Curated this year under the theme “Dilate All Art Spaces”, the 2026 edition of the Lodhi Art Festival features six new murals across the art district.

Munir meets Haftar amid $4 bn defence deal talks. Why Pakistan & eastern Libya are strengthening ties

Haftar's visit to Pakistan comes just a month after Field Marshal Asim Munir’s trip to Libya’s Benghazi from 17 to 19 December.

Global summit in Delhi, now Devnimori relics to Sri Lanka–why India is pushing Buddhist diplomacy

In Sri Lanka, where Buddhism shapes national identity, political culture and daily life, the exposition of holy relics marks a deliberate move of Indian diplomacy.

RPI (A) link, sports director—the many faces of Assam woman held in Delhi for posing as diplomat

Ashma Begum, it is learnt, was primarily engaged in liaison work and had prima facie no association with any embassy or diplomatic mission.

India calls on families of staff at missions in Bangladesh to return ahead of 12 Feb polls

The latest advisory comes as anti-India sentiment continues to soar in Bangladesh. The first polls of the post-Sheikh Hasina era are scheduled for 12 February.

2025 was a year of many diplomatic gains for Beijing, say Chinese analysts

Looking ahead, Chinese analysts largely anticipate continuity rather than disruption, at least for China.

Retd major in ‘hot soup’—secrecy around Celina Jaitly’s brother spotlights UAE’s ‘blackbox detentions’

Retired Indian Army Major Vikrant Jaitly was picked up from a Dubai mall last year. Charges against him haven’t been made public & UAE authorities remain tight-lipped.

He’s just not that into confrontation & poll panel goes out canvassing

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

SubscriberWrites: Deals, diplomacy, and India’s dilemma

In the twenty-first century, diplomacy has shed its cloak of subtlety and revealed its true nature — as little more than a marketplace of interests.

On Camera

AI is officially ruining social media. It made brainrot boring

Every other account is a bot or a person posting AI content, and social media is getting less social by the day.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.