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Saturday, January 31, 2026
TopicForeign policy

Topic: foreign policy

Pakistan doesn’t want Norwegian diplomat to attend Imaan Mazari’s trial. It’s ‘unwarranted’

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday summoned the Norwegian ambassador Per Albert Ilsaas, urging him to “respect established diplomatic norms.”

India Foundation to launch School of Global Leadership. It’s a foreign policy programme

Instead of conventional coursework, the School of Global Leadership focuses on practical training. The school will be inaugurated on 16 December at ITC Maurya in New Delhi.

Trump’s new national security strategy: China a threat, India a critical partner, Europe in ‘decline’

The fresh strategy reconfirms Taiwan’s status quo and approval for the QUAD grouping of the US, Australia, India, and Japan.

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

Global media dissects fractures in India-US ties & New Delhi’s ‘great-power delusions’

FT reports on SEBI’s call for structural reforms after Jane Street ‘manipulation’ while BBC highlights urban India’s new fad—fake weddings.

A weakened India is trying to make friends with China again. It has already failed twice

Being burnt once apparently wasn’t enough for India’s foreign policy decision-makers because they were back trying to reset relations with China.

Asian NATO? Why Japan PM’s big new idea won’t shake up foreign policy

One of the most difficult tasks for Shigeru Ishiba, apart from keeping together the divided LDP, will be implementing his foreign policy ideas—if he chooses to pursue them.

India’s geopolitical balancing act is important. Both US and Russia are critical to its needs

A multi-pronged engagement with major powers is central to India’s current foreign policy doctrine. But its Central Europe outreach clearly went beyond geopolitical balancing.

How global media is seeing Modi’s Kyiv visit, from calling it ‘balancing act’ to a ‘placating’ agenda

International media also highlights how Indian women are often 'left to bear the burden of their own safety' and the thousands of deaths caused by lightning strikes in rural India.

India must be patient to resolve China border dispute. First make economic strength comparable

In his book ‘Strategic Conundrums: Reshaping India's Foreign Policy’, Rajiv Sikri examines India’s current and looming foreign policy challenges from a strategic and policy-oriented perspective.

On Camera

CJ Roy’s death raises an important question. Why isn’t there a time limit on tax raids?

Deterrence cannot mean institutional licence for an endlessly extensible raid. A search that extends across days, followed by seals and freezes that linger for weeks, begins to resemble a siege.

Land, labour, licences: From UP to Tripura, states race ahead on Centre-led deregulation push

76% of Centre’s deregulation reforms implemented across states under Phase-I of compliance reduction exercise. Several states & UTs adopted flexible land use, 3rd party inspections, labour reforms.

During Op Sindoor, hackers targeted NSE website 40 crore times in 10 minutes, Exchange CEO says

NSE CEO Ashishkumar Chauhan was speaking at Off The Cuff event hosted by ThePrint's Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta. He said that NSE, on average, sees 20 crore cyberattacks each day.

Swiss report should now close Op Sindoor debate. Knowing when to stop the fight is key too

The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.