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Thursday, September 11, 2025
TopicForeign policy

Topic: foreign policy

With BIMSTEC, Modi govt should let India’s border states do the talking, not New Delhi

While India projects its border states as bridges to neighbourhood, its policy in reality remains led and steered by New Delhi.

By heading to Maldives, PM Modi is sending right signal but India needs more than signalling

In many of the challenges confronting the new Indian government, from neighbourhood to trade, China looms large.

Modi’s key test with Trump will be to ensure Make in India doesn’t clash with Make in America

US-India defence-security partnership has deepened over the years. But areas of divergence exist, primarily in trade.

Trump’s foreign policy has finally run out of road

US administration has mixed vaulting ambitions with weak planning & execution for its foreign policy, centering around Venezuela, North Korea & Iran

Modi’s international activism apart, India’s new govt will have foreign policy challenges

Evidence suggests that India is still unable to shape its surroundings, both near and afar, to suit its interests.

India has gone truly global so why is its foreign policy so outdated

Most foreign policy analysis is dominated by outdated concepts from an era of famine and vulnerability, when India was dependent on aid.

New Delhi finally gets Indo-Pacific wing but smaller regional powers are busy forum shopping

Indian foreign policy is far from being realist and has failed to devise methods to secure strategic alliances with smaller regional powers.

Former US envoy Blackwill rates Donald Trump — D+ in foreign policy, B+ for India ties

In report for Council on Foreign Relations, former US envoy to India Robert D. Blackwill says Donald Trump exhibits ‘contempt for diplomacy and the officers who conduct it’.

From principles to pragmatism: Five ways Modi has changed India’s foreign policy

Balakot airstrike wasn’t just to tame Pakistan. It charted a new foreign policy narrative that will impact the world and reshape global conversations

Not just Nehru, even sister Vijaya Lakshmi had strong reasons to decline UNSC permanent seat

Nehru declined UNSC offers because ensuing entanglements would likely have rendered India a muted marionette in Cold War.

On Camera

Coup, conspiracy & the foreign hand—What Indian TV news channels saw in Nepal this week

‘Gen Z v/s Govt’ TV news coverage went for two days—not sure about the source of the telecast from Kathmandu since no credit was given.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

‘Foreign policy rests on hard power’—from 1965 Indo-Pak war to Op Sindoor, key takeaways for India

A panel of experts moderated by ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta drew connections between insights of 1965 Indo-Pak War and strategic takeaways highlighted by Op Sindoor.

Punjab is fast becoming the new Northeast. And there’s a message in it for Modi

In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?