TopicForeign policy

Topic: foreign policy

Foreign aid to Nepal & Maldives gets big boost as Modi govt puts ‘Neighbourhood First’

Nayanima Basu - July 5, 2019

African nations, including Mauritius, also received a boost in Indian aid in Nirmala Sitharaman's maiden Budget presented Friday.

India must change its risk-averse stand on Afghanistan, given new Russia-Pak-China bonhomie

Vinay Kaura - July 5, 2019

India has maintained a policy of not engaging with the Taliban and pressing for an Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace initiative.

How capable is India’s foreign policy — IFS officers cover the base but MEA needs fixing

Kanti Bajpai - June 22, 2019

India is relatively strong at the level of individual competence but weak at the organisational and systemic levels.

Sandwiched between Xi, Putin, Imran in Bishkek, Modi learnt an important political lesson

Jyoti Malhotra - June 18, 2019

Modi must realise that world leaders like Xi, Putin and Imran are not cut from the same cloth as Rahul Gandhi.

Modi’s choice of Jaishankar and Doval shows days of powerful joint secretaries are over

Jyoti Malhotra - June 11, 2019

Modi wants quick decisions in foreign policy and here’s four reasons why he picked Doval and Jaishankar.

What Modi govt does with Pakistan the coming week will define its next 5 years

Jyoti Malhotra - June 7, 2019

Nobody can take Modi for granted. He is capable of upsetting the apple-cart, demolishing status quo and spoiling carefully laid-out plans.

India’s problem is its policy to pamper China while treating weak Pak as full-blown threat

Bharat Karnad - June 6, 2019

India needs disruptive foreign and security policies. Modi government’s most difficult decision will be to resume nuclear testing.

Modi’s foreign minister Jaishankar has a situation on hand – tackling angry US

Srinath Raghavan - June 4, 2019

The first priority for Indian foreign policy today is the same as the first priority for Indian domestic policy – economic renewal.

India needs to start winning the diplomatic war with Pakistan

Shivam Vij - June 3, 2019

In the post-Balakot dynamic, the old idea of linking talks to terror is obsolete.

Modi’s India wants to play an active global role, but paltry MEA budget won’t allow it

Shyam Saran - June 3, 2019

Balancing relations with US and China will become more difficult and India will have to contend with pressures to join one camp or another.

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