Background On July 8th and 9th, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, visited Moscow to participate in the 22nd India-Russia Summit with President Putin. The summit was a significant event in global geopolitics, allowing Prime Minister Modi ....
Tension across the Taiwan Strait has risen in past weeks after the leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Lai Ching-te took over as Taiwan's new President. Since then, the Chinese authorities have mounted psychological and military pressure....
The changing world order is marked by the growth of new power centers and redistribution of spheres of influence. India is becoming one of the key poles, and the South Caucasus one of the regions of competition. Restoration of the regional balance of....
Summits between Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are invariably closely monitored in world capitals, especially since the onset of Russia’s war with Ukraine in 2022 and the two having declared a “no limits friendship”! C....
Election for the presidency of the Islamic Republic in Iran has brought into limelight the unlikely figure of Masoud Pezeshkian, who beat the arch-conservative Saeed Jalili in the run-off held on 5th July 2024. Winning by a good nine percentage poin....
मिथ्याज्ञानं तमोगुणः संशयात्मा यदा जायते। तदा जगदिदं सर्वं भ्रान्तं व्यामोहमोहितम्॥ (English Trans....
Introduction On 21 June the PM of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina arrived in New Delhi for a two-day state visit at the invitation of PM Narendra Modi, thus becoming the first leader to pay a bilateral state visit to India following the conclusion of the....
The National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), in its 25th year, continues to grow in size and importance. Led by India’s longest-serving National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval, the NSCS, which directly functions as part of the Prime Ministe....
On 12 June Pakistan’s Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb unveiled the country’s Federal budget for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-2025, a day after the Ministry of Finance came out with the Economic Survey Report for the outgoing year 2023-2024. The ....
The phase of intense politico-diplomatic relationship between India and China got over in May 2020, having lasted nearly thirty years plus. Of the guiding mantras of diplomacy and deterrence, the former was centre-stage, and the latter was underplaye....