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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
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

Who grounded IndiGo flights? They are the culprits, not DGCA

The IndiGo crisis is nothing short of a threat to India’s stability. Could it be an experiment? Can this happen in any other crucial sector like power or railways?

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.