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Saturday, April 27, 2024
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Topic: Diplomacy

Indian and Pakistani electoral dynamics are now feeding off each other

India-Pakistan hasn’t had a negotiation in good faith. Pakistan’s objectives in Kashmir and the wider Indian context remain unaltered.

FIRs against Kashmir stone-pelters to be withdrawn on Dineshwar Sharma’s advice

New Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir government has announced that it will withdraw FIRs lodged against those charged with stone-pelting for the first time.

Talk Point: What did India’s surgical strike against terrorists in Pakistan achieve?

The surgical strike on terror launchpads was deemed a success in India but did it achieve what it was meant to?

India-Pakistan relations: Charting a course without reliable maps

Emotional handshakes seem to vaporize in the atavism of distrust that constantly reasserts itself.

Last Laughs – The Best Indian Cartoons (July 15 – July 21)

The best Indian cartoons of the week, chosen by senior editors of ThePrint. The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print...

Making sense of Xi slap

Timed perfectly with Xi’s arrival in Ahmedabad was that of nearly a 1,000 PLA soldiers in Ladakh’s Chumar area. There is a pattern to China’s actions: it is testing India’s resolve.

Diplomacy’s red flag

Nations need to negotiate with plenty of manoeuvrability and fleet-footedness, with lots of space to the left, the right, back and forth.

Show them the money

The great foreign policy challenge for India at this moment is to finally dump the old mindset of a lobbying nation and celebrate its new status as a buying power.

Govt’s one foot, several mouths

It seems that one of our former ministers visited Washington and caused so much confusion because of his pronounced Bengali accent that somebody in...

On Camera

Instagram reels on stoicism are the new rage — they can battle burnout and bigotry

The Romans’ version of stoicism is rapidly picking popularity on Instagram — Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca are some names that get thrown at you when you fire up your screen.

Government allows export of onions to six countries, sets buffer stock target

The government had imposed an export prohibition in order to ensure adequate domestic availability of onions in the country.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.