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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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.

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India has to move on now. Engage with ‘Nooton Bangladesh’

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has, in a sense, tasted her own medicine. The International Crimes Tribunal, the special court she instituted for...

The day Dharmendra ‘died’

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.