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India has more friends, more choices at 79. Real test is to turn them into power

At 79, India’s real test is whether the expanding geometry of ties and choices can be converted into a greater regional influence and a stronger global voice.

Our foreign policy contradiction today—Modi is visible, India is not

Today’s diplomacy often appears oddly eager for approval, as if foreign policy is an influencer campaign for Modi measured in likes, shares, followers or viral clips.

Global media analyses Air India turbulence & India’s imports battle to protect the rupee

Bloomberg notes that market share war between Campa Cola, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo has created an unlikely winner: commercial refrigerators.

Balen Shah is changing Nepal’s foreign policy. He’s treating India, China as equals

For a landlocked country like Nepal, prioritising India and China has not been merely a question of diplomatic courtesy, but a matter of survival.

Our people should learn Persian, your people should learn our languages: Nehru in Iran

On 21 September 1959, PM Jawaharlal Nehru delivered an address at a public function organised by the Indo-Iranian Association in Tehran during his four-day visit to the country.

Not pro-anyone, pro-economy—Bangladesh PM-elect Tarique Rahman sends clear global signal

Rahman also emphasised the scale of the challenge ahead, asking the opposition to be responsible as well. On Hasina, he said the legal route will be followed.

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.

On Camera

Delhi PGs didn’t become unsafe overnight. Students have been living with danger

Satya Niketan tragedy forces us to reconsider the everyday hazards that students are expected to tolerate. A cracked ceiling, exposed wiring, faulty plumbing, overcrowding, poor ventilation, or a neglected structural problem.

India foreign reserves to help earn more revenue, says RBI chief

India drew a record $127 billion from its vast diaspora, surpassing even the most optimistic estimates and giving policymakers a bigger war chest to defend the currency.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.