Ukraine’s outreach to India is about constructive engagement of a rising power that has bridged the broken links between East and West and North and South on many occasions.
Can Europe convert its geoeconomic heft into geopolitical traction? Its sovereign stature today is incomplete without its role as a security actor, an unfinished project for many decades.
India and 4 member countries of European Free Trade Association have held 13 rounds of negotiations between 2008 & 2013. Negotiations were placed on hold before resuming in October 2016.
Day of mourning declared tomorrow to remember victims of country’s worst-ever mass shooting in which 25 people were also wounded. Shooter may have killed himself, according to police.
There has been no drastic fallout of sanctions since Russia found customers for its oil in China & India, among other reasons. But Iran is proof that extended sanctions do have an impact.
The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
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’.
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.
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