India and Sri Lanka as two immediate neighbours enjoy broad sustained bilateral ties. Over the two thousand years of coexistence, whole range of issues have dominated the bilateral ties many arising out of the dynamic domestic environment and some f....
Tags : Article , China , Sri Lanka , Investments , Port , security concerns
As the parliament in Nepal was dissolved by President Bidya Devi Bhandari on May 22 to pave the way for the mid-term elections in November, a week later, on May 29, in a televised address Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel presented the annual budget pl....
Tags : Commentary , Nepal , COVID-19 , Budget , Terai
The recent IISS paper titled “Nuclear Deterrence and Stability in South Asia: Perceptions and Realities” is something of a letdown. Though it contains some nuggets of value such as the assessment that, given the China factor, the conventional arm....
It is out in the open and it took a Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh to say it straight. China does not want Bangladesh to join the QUAD. On 10 May 2021, Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming said Beijing-Dhaka ties would be “substantially dam....
Tags : Commentary , QUAD , Foreign Minister , Covid , South Asian region , Chinese ambassador
NEW DELHI: The Taliban may have forced the U.S. and NATO forces to withdraw from Afghanistan but there is no guarantee that it will have a free run post-September, long time watchers of the country say. Pakistan’s ISI, suspicious of the Taliban’s....
अमेरिकी फौज अफगानिस्तान से लौट रही है। वहां किसी राजनीतिक प्रणाली को काबिज किए बगैर ही उसकी वा�....
Tags : Hindi , Article , चीन। रूस। अफगानिस्तान। तालिबान। अल कायदा। बाइडेन। दोहा समझौता। ईरान। पाकिस्तान। राष्ट्रपति घानी। सेना की वापसी
Imposing sanctions is not new to Myanmar and its economy and people. Since independence, the country has been under the impact of ethnic conflicts and a continuous fight for civilian versus the military rule. It took its worst shape in 1988, and sinc....
Tags : Article , sanctions , Neighbourhood , India in Myanmar , Ineffectiveness , Political Tool , Economic Implications , Russiain Myanmar , ASEAN role , Japan in Mynamar , China role , Coup in Myanmar
Being helpless to control the unbridled growth in coronavirus cases, the Nepalese Prime Minister, K.P. Sharma Oli has appealed to the international community to help the Himalayan nation by supplying vaccines, coronavirus testing kits, oxygen kits, I....
Tags : Article , India , KP Sharma Oli , COVID-19 , Vaccines , Oxygen , Mt. Everest
रूस के विदेश मंत्री लावरोव 5-6 अप्रैल 2021 को भारत दौरे पर आए था। उनका मकसद अपने राष्ट्रपति व्लादिमी....
The author had the opportunity to attend on 5 May 2021 a very engaging round table jointly hosted by the Vivekananda Foundation, New Delhi, and Hudson Institute, Washington DC on the imminent US/NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan and its impact on the ....
Tags : Article , India , Pakistan , China , Iran , Afghanistan , Taliban , Biden , Doha Agreement