Supreme Court allows Italian Marine to go home
The Supreme Court has finally allowed Salvatore Girone, one of the two Italian marines accused of killing two fishermen off Kerala, to return to Italy. The Centre did not raise any objection to the court’s decision on May 26. Massimiliano Latorre, the other co-accused in the case, is already in Italy. He was allowed to […]
India, US and an eastward tilt
On an ordinary globe, India and the United States cannot be seen together, so far apart are they that when it’s daylight here it is night there. Yet, preachy, noisy democracies have a strange pull for each other. They now say that they are in the process of establishing a strategic relationship, which the cheerleaders […]
Jerusalem Calling
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bilateral visits to the United Arab Emirates (August 2015), Saudi Arabia (April 2016) and Iran (May 2016) are an affirmation of the government’s continuing efforts to correct the anomaly of limited high-level contacts with West Asia. Despite the significant stakes India has in the region, high-level contacts have been few and […]