Amid election season, India set for deft diplomacy
Amid political rumblings in the run up to national elections, it’s business as usual for Indian diplomacy as New Delhi braces to host the leaders from Norway and Mauritius, among others, and a host of foreign ministers from countries as diverse as Iran, Mongolia, Spain, Japan, and Australia. And India is not going to be […]
Bhutan PM’s maiden visit showcases all-weather ties with India
Bhutan’s newly elected Prime Minister Lotay Tshering’s three-day visit to India is set to reaffirm and galvanise all-weather ties between the two neighbours, which remain robust amid geopolitical flux in the region.India has rolled out the red carpet for Bhutan’s prime minister, who touched down in New Delhi on December 27, the last foreign leader […]
P2P & culture to power India-China ties: A 10-point agenda
In the dying days of 2018, a new idiom of India-China relations was birthed on a crisp wintry afternoon in New Delhi as the two Asian giants unveiled a 10-point agenda to enhance culture exchanges and people-to-people (P2P) contacts to undergird their growing relationship with the glow of soft power. Culture and P2P, normally a […]
Wuhan spirit: India & China focus on P2P, eye an Asian Century
Putting culture, communication and creativity at the heart of their burgeoning relationship, India and China are set to launch the pioneering People-to-People (P2P) mechanism, which will enable them to harness their civilizational connect to shape an Asian century amid the evolving global geopolitical landscape. Capping months of intense diplomatic engagements and a record number of […]
‘Multilateral order under threat, BRICS must show the way’
The BRICS summit in Johannesburg was unique in many ways as it not only marked the 10 th anniversary of this grouping of emerging powers, but also culminated in an ambitious joint declaration to bolster intra-BRICS unity against the rising tide of protectionism and unilateralism. In this interview with Manish Chand, Editor-in-Chief, India and World […]
From Wuhan to Buenos Aires: Modi, Xi upbeat about an ‘even better 2019’ for India-China ties
Four meetings between the leaders of India and China, spanning three continents in eight months! In a milestone that underscores the new normal and confidence in India-China relations, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping for the fourth time this year in Argentine capital Buenos Aires, with both leaders agreeing that “2018 […]
India at G20: Modi unveils 9-point agenda to tackle economic offenders
BUENOS AIRES: Burnishing India’s credentials as a champion of a transparent international economic system at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented a nine-point action plan to deal with fugitive economic offenders and proposed a joint G20 mechanism that denies safe havens to them. PM Modi presented the 9-point agenda at the […]
Modi’s G20 anthem: Showcasing India story & reformed multilateralism
The world may obsess about the upcoming meeting between Donald Trump-Xi Jinping meeting in Buenos Aires, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi is determined not to let the trade spat hijack the G20 agenda as he prepares to showcase the India growth story on the global stage and chant the tune of a reformed multilateralism amid […]
A decade after 26/11, India asks ‘insincere’ Pakistan for justice & action
In a frontal attack on Pakistan’s duplicity and insincerity on the 10th anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai terror carnage, India has asked the Government of Pakistan “to give up double standards and to expeditiously bring the perpetrators of the horrific attack to justice.” In an act of solidarity cutting across the political spectrum, the nation mourned […]
India, Vietnam to launch maritime dialogue, back rules-based Indo-Pacific
HANOI: Amid rising security threats and shifting geopolitical alignments in the region triggered by China’s assertiveness, India and Vietnam have agreed to launch a bilateral maritime dialogue and intensify collaboration in shaping a peaceful Indo-Pacific, underpinned by a rules-based order. With around 500 Vietnamese legislators listening in, India’s President Ram Nath Kovind announced the decision […]