Decoding India's Global rise

Modi’s visit to Saudi Arabia: Focus on enhancing military cooperation

Seeking to impart greater momentum to India’s ‘Think West’ policy and multifarious ties with Saudi Arabia, home to around 7 million strong Indian diaspora, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will prioritize enhancing maritime security and military cooperation during his visit to Riyadh early April.  The two countries will be looking to buttress strategic geopolitical and […]

PM Modi on TIME’s ‘Most Influential People on Internet’ list

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is among the most influential people on the Internet, according to the TIME magazine. The magazine described the Indian leader as an “Internet star” who often uses social media to “conduct diplomacy”. The magazine also mentioned Mr Modi’s unconventional announcement on Twitter of his visit to Pakistan in 2015 while […]

India to pursue “neighbourhood first” policy with renewed vigour: Jaishankar

POKHARA (Nepal): Pushing for enhancing regional connectivity, India has underlined its unflagging commitment to pursue “neighbourhood first” policy with renewed vigour. India has said that there is scope for further rationalisation of the processes and the time has come for the group to take stock of past decisions and initiatives on which there has been […]

No progress in SAARC plan on regional integration

The SAARC plan for regional integration has suffered a setback, with top diplomats of South Asian countries failing to reach an agreement in the resort town of Pokhara in Nepal on various issues, including regional integration. The foreign secretary level meeting, held on March 16, could not make any breakthrough on expediting the regional integration, […]