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Thursday, November 6, 2025
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Topic: Russia

India’s presence at Moscow-led Taliban talks is no real departure from the past

India has consistently looked to have a say in any settlement in Afghanistan but its ability to shape any outcome remains limited.

Why India should get out and leave Af to Pak

It’s of little strategic importance for us. If Pakistan thinks it can control Afghanistan where Britain, Russia and America at the peak of their power failed, wish them luck.

Delhi & Taliban at talks table after IC-814, in coordinated move with US, Afghanistan

India’s retired diplomats of the Afghanistan-Pakistan region are headed for Moscow to be observers at Russia-led talks on the Afghan peace process.

Ghani urges Taliban to end 17-year Afghan war that has cost US more than $900 billion

Ghani and the US are struggling to bring Taliban to the negotiating table

Vladimir Putin lives in a world with no rules

Putin doesn’t put much stock even in rules that he wrote himself; his vision, complete with pictures of heaven and hell, is metaphysical.

Indian Navy gets $600 million machines to make breathing easy in nuclear submarines

The Russian machines insulate compartments in submarines from water vapour and make it easier for crew to breathe and function better.

India beats UK, US and China as a preferred destination for expats

India slipped from 10th position in 2017 to 12th in 2018 in HSBC’s survey, but there has been a big improvement in expats’ experience of the country.

Nikki Haley is a hard act to follow at the UN

Nikki Haley leaves with her reputation not just intact but burnished. The same cannot be said of Trump’s other departed top-level appointees.

India will soon find out whether sanctions will apply after Russia deal: Donald Trump

The Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act is a US federal law that imposed sanctions on Iran, North Korea and Russia.

Unlike Trump, Nikki Haley wasn’t a transactionalist but an exceptionalist

There were moments when Haley’s foreign policy differed with Trump’s and even UN’s philosophy. She did not think all countries are equal.

On Camera

Zohran Mamdani is an authentic representation of modern India

Unlike many other Indian origin politicians, he has not converted to Christianity or played down his Indian roots. It would be hard for him to do that anyway because his mother Mira Nair is a well-known film director in India.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.