Why Middle East won’t join US in isolating Russia
March 3 ,2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin and then-Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in 2019. Pho...
Pakistan walks a tightrope between Russia and the West
March 2 ,2022
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By: FM Shakil
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in a file photo. Image: Facebook
PESHAWAR – Pakistan...
India shouldn’t miss world war pointer
March 1 ,2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a phone conversation on February 24, 2022
The transition...
Reckoning with a divided India
February 28 ,2022
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By: Vir Sanghvi
Illustration: Binay Sinha
Does anyone still remember “the idea of India”? The phrase was popularised by the schola...
Imran Khan goes to Moscow as Pakistan romances Russia
February 25 ,2022
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By: C. Raja Mohan
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks at a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 19, 2020.&...
New sanctions on Russia spell trouble for India's defence...
February 24 ,2022
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By: Rahul Bedi
US and European sanctions on Russia could conceivably jeopardise India’s recent $375 million BrahMos cruise missile export orde...
GSP, democracy, RAB sanction to feature Dhaka-Washington t...
February 23 ,2022
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By: Abul Kashem
The suspension of the GSP (generalised system of preferences) facility in the US market has made Bangladesh miss out on anot...
War in Ukraine will test India's US-Russia diplomacy
February 22 ,2022
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By: Seema Guha
Ukraines Unity Day AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky
A war in Ukraine will be disastrous for the world. Nobody wants it. Neither Vladim...
Nepal: Between domestic politics and diplomacy
February 21 ,2022
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By: Purna B Silwal
Post Photo: Hemanta Shrestha
The protracted controversy over the $500 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact...
In bid to contain China, US turns up the heat on vulnerabl...
February 18 ,2022
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By: B. Z. Khasru
Schoolgirls walk to classes along a road near Srimangal in northeastern Bangladesh. (Photo by Larry Luxner)
The United States has...
Why QUAD is irreplaceable
February 17 ,2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
The scheduling of the QUAD ministerial meeting in Canberra on February 9 right in the middle of the Ukraine crisis and cascading U.S.-R...
The elections in Uttar Pradesh will show where India is he...
February 16 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The state of Uttar Pradesh is a tad larger than the United Kingdom and three and a half times as populous. Covering much of the va...
Kashmir journalists say local newspapers erasing their wor...
February 15 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Billboards with names of newspapers stand at the entrance of a building at Press Enclave, which houses many newspaper offices in Srin...
Maldives scrambles to silence anti-India campaign
February 14 ,2022
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By: Marwaan Macan-Markar
The Maldives, South Asia's smallest nation, is returning as an important actor in the regional power struggle between China and India...
The organs of India’s democracy are decaying
February 12 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
In the next four weeks some 175m Indians will vote in elections across five states with a combined population approaching 300m. Th...
Time to save Congress is now. Modi knows that, Gandhis don...
February 11 ,2022
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By: Vir Sanghvi
PM Modi in Parliament, Jan 2022 | PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a savage verbal assault on the Congress in Parliament...
Myanmar’s NUG Foreign Minister Zin Mar Aung wants China to...
February 10 ,2022
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By: Bhavan Jaipragas
Police arrest a man in Taunggyi, Myanmar on February 28, 2021, as security forces continue to crackdown on demonstrations by proteste...
The price of Modi's economic incompetence
February 9 ,2022
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By: Shashi Tharoor
NEW DELHI – With India now in its 75th year of independence, perhaps the biggest disappointment has been the country’s fail...
India has its own ideas about Russia and Ukraine
February 8 ,2022
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By: C. Raja Mohan
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok,...
G.L. Peiris’s visit to India: Outstanding issues in bilate...
February 7 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris with S. Jaishankar
Colombo: The Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris’ visit to Ne...
US outruns regional states in race for Kabul
February 5 ,2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Taliban supporters gather to celebrate the US withdrawal of all its troops out of Afghanistan in Kandahar on September 1, 2021, follo...
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