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Thursday, January 29, 2026
TopicLook East

Topic: Look East

India-Thailand set for strategic partnership, Bangkok keen on deeper military cooperation—Indian envoy

In exclusive interview with ThePrint, ambassador to Thailand Nagesh Singh says both countries have 'common threat perceptions'. Modi to be in Bangkok this week for bilateral & BIMSTEC.

Regaining the confidence of Bangladeshis is key to safeguarding India’s national security

An unfriendly government in Bangladesh can dilute the BIMSEC programme, undermining India’s status as a regional and emerging world power.

1800s Kolkata is key to Modi’s Act East policy. It needs imagination, not just bureaucracy

A globalised India is a project of imagination. It must model itself after 19th century Kolkata, as it seeks to integrate with the economic powerhouses to its East.

India ranks low in strategic relevance in Southeast Asia, China edges out US, finds Singapore institute

New Delhi has been actively pushing Act East policy. A majority don't consider it as strategically influential power for ASEAN in 2024, finds Singapore's ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.

Beijing is making inroads, Delhi is building fences. India shouldn’t give up on Myanmar

The real question for India is why it has allowed politics to mire strategically important states like Manipur in ethnic conflict, sabotaging its hopes of completing Asian Highway 1.

Kaladan Waterway India’s strategic stamp in Myanmar. Now work at breakneck speed, beat China

New Delhi supporting West-based sanctions helped China rush in and occupy the strategic spaced vacated by India.

Why Modi’s first foreign trip after Covid year is to Bangladesh

Bangladesh is India’s gateway into its eastern neighbourhood. It’s also China’s gateway to the Indian Ocean region.

India keeps focussing on a future China threat. But just looking east is bad security policy

In ‘Powershift’, Zorawar Daulet Singh writes that the threat of China shouldn’t compel India to abandon its multi-vector world and security view.

On Camera

Why sharp selloff in Japanese bonds has a message for India’s budget

Although its overall GDP will soon be bigger than Japan’s, on a per-capita basis India is still 12 times poorer.

India’s looking at 14 million metric tonnes of e-waste by 2030, recycling can’t keep up—NITI Aayog

Country's used lithium-ion battery problem is also set to grow sharply in next decade. India 3rd largest e-waste producer with 7% global share but currently recycles only about 10% of it.

Indian Army ties up with US drone company that made its name in the Ukraine conflict

Shield AI will provide V-BAT vertical takeoff & landing drones along with licences for software, which will be integrated into aircraft and made available to select Indian partners.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.