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The Underside to the Sri Lankan Crisis: Lessons for India

From left: Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Narendra Modi and Mahinda Rajapaksa. In the background are protesters gathered outside the Sri Lanka P...

In debt and out of favour, Pakistan is struggling to patch...

Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif speaks to reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan, on June 14. Photo: Xinhua After Saudi Arabia,...

A new cold war may call for a return to nonalignment

GEORGE WYLESOL ILLUSTRATION FOR FOREIGN POLICY At first glance, the policy of nonalignment may seem irrelevant in today&rsquo...

India in trapeze act balancing US and Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are known to have a good relationship. Photo: AFP / Mikhail...

India arrests two opponents of the government

Before hobnobbing with other world leaders at the g7 summit in southern Germany on June 26th Narendra Modi, India’...

Afghan officials fled to luxury homes leaving millions to...

The Taliban has struggled to revive the war-battered economy since returning to power last August [File: Petros Giannakouris/AP Pho...

Can the United States kick its Afghanistan syndrome?

America’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan last fall has often been compared to the collapse of Saigon...

Hard times for the economy, complex times for geopolitics

How will Bangladesh manage to tackle the global economic recession that's knocking on the door? The world has come under economic pres...

Why should india reconstruct its discourse about Banglades...

On June 10, 2022, Ex-NSG chief of India Jayantho Narayan Chowdhury said that Bangladesh plays a major role in Northeast India...

Bangladesh treads cautiously on support from China

New Delhi: Even Bangladesh With Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina preparing to inaugurate the Chinese-built Padma bridge later this month, w...

'Rajapaksa said Modi insisted on Adani for power project',...

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Gautam Adani, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photos: PTI) New Delhi: The...

India, Vietnam deepen defence ties as Delhi seeks to boost...

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at Hong Ha Shipyard in Vietnam to hand over 12 high-speed patrol boats. PHOTO: RAJNATHSING...

Beyond Sri Lanka, economic cyclone bears down on South Asi...

MUMBAI -- For over a decade, Mattias Martinsson has been investing in frontier economies, including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka....

Imran Khan is jeopardising Pakistan’s attempts to fix its...

Once or twice a year, the approaches to Islamabad, Pakistan’s staid, leafy capital, start to resemble a jumbled cargo port....

A bleak future awaits Pakistan if politics and economics c...

May 25 presented a sorry spectacle of street clashes and a government-opposition showdown that plunged the capital into chaos. Bet...

How Bangladesh has surged past India on road to South Asia...

Workers adjusts fasteners during construction of the Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar railway line in Ramu, Bangladesh, on May 17. Phot...

Can US-led IPEF outshine RCEP or CPTPP?

A virtual display of the launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework in Tokyo, Japan, on May 22, 2022. Image: Handout On the eve...

America’s Pivot to asia 2.0: The Indo-Pacific economic fra...

Credit: Official White House photo On his Asia trip, U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Monday that Japan, India and 10 ot...

Rethinking Australia’s approach to Myanmar’s carnage

New Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong are expected to shift policy on Myanmar. Image: Screen...

Sharif flipping Pakistan’s US and China relations

New Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has the opportunity to reset Pakistan's foreign relations. Image: Screengrab / NTV In t...

Autonomous Hindutva could devour both India and the Bharat...

With the rapid radicalisation of sections of Hindu society, the Hindutva project has become dangerously autonomous. It is no...