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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
TopicForeign policy

Topic: foreign policy

Majority Indians want their leaders to focus more on domestic issues than world’s, finds Pew survey

A new survey by the US think tank, however, found around 56 percent of citizens feel New Delhi should put other countries’ interests over its own when addressing international issues.

Palki Sharma is the unofficial ambassador of rising, angry India. Her list of foes is long

She writes a letter calling out Xi Jinping, 'cancels' New York Times and attacks the Soros cabal every night on Firstpost Vantage.

India and US becoming formal allies doesn’t mean unity. Far from it

A formal treaty may actually have negative consequences. The present hugs, backslapping and plenty of economic, financial and technological linkages work just fine.

India extending credit line to crisis-hit Egypt, says Bloomberg report

PM Modi is set to visit Egypt later this month as the two countries seek to become strategic partners, according to reports.

Indian foreign policy needs civil society experts. MEA must step up, go beyond conference model

Much of PP&R's engagement with civil society remains limited to event-oriented modes. There is a fundamental problem in the extant approach.

‘Privileged strategic partnership with India’, US’s ‘hybrid war’  — what’s in Russia’s new foreign policy

The 42-page document referred to India & China ‘friendly sovereign global centres of power’, and highlighted Moscow’s growing enmity with the West.

Germany announces ‘feminist foreign policy’, aims to have more women in senior roles

The move looks to give German foreign service 'a more female face', including creation of the post of an 'ambassador for feminist foreign policy'.

Turkey has a knack for picking the losing side. Erdoğan’s decline could change that

The earthquake has crystallised public anger against the President. Elections due this year could lead to secular parties coming to power.

Why PMO now has 7 IFS officers — ‘Modi govt’s foreign policy thrust, G20 summit’

Traditionally, there are only 3-4 foreign service officers in the PMO. But in order dated 24 November, 3 new IFS officers were inducted, taking the number to 7.

Why Taliban wants India in Kabul and New Delhi is upscaling mission

The Taliban and India are joined at the hip by a single date – 15 August. The similarity ends there.

On Camera

Indian shipping sector is vulnerable to geopolitical unrest. Build local, invest in air cargo

With the ongoing conflict at the Red Sea, India needs to take a long-term view of the PLI scheme and its ambition to emerge as a hub of shipping containers.

Complaints to RBI ombudsman up 68% in FY23, banks biggest cause for customer grievances

Data shows large public sector banks received highest number of complaints in absolute terms, but fared better than several private banks when looked at on complaints-per-branch basis.

Tiger Triumph-24 — India-US tri-services exercise to boost coordination begins

The exercise will be simulated to undertake HADR operations in a ‘friendly island nation’, where troops will execute amphibious landing ops.

CAA comes not with a bang, but with a whimper. Without NRC, it will fade into academic debate

For BJP, CAA was strategic move that did not quite work out because those it would benefit could’ve been accommodated under existing laws, and new entrants would remain excluded.