How is the world responding to China’s newly unleashed Wolf Warrior diplomacy? To be honest, the West, which is just about waking up to this phenomenon now has so far been ‘shocked’ or ‘surprised’, but to the smaller and weaker neighbours of China, this nature of projection has resulted in a certain amount of stress […]

This final week of May 2022 is quite significant. There is a WEF summit going on in Davos, while Tokyo just witnessed the formation of a new economic bloc that has 12 countries – one that is being called the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework or IPEC. This summit was held on May 23 and was attended […]

NEW DELHI: India and the US signed the Investment Incentive Agreement (IIA) on Monday which is expected to boost investment support by the US International Development Finance Corporation in a wide range of sectors. The IIA was signed in Tokyo by foreign secretary Vinay Kwatra and Scott Nathan, the chief executive officer of the DFC. […]

NEW DELHI: On the backdrop of the Indian government’s push for electric vehicles in the country to curb the country’s dependency on fossil fuel, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Suzuki Motors Corporation (SMC)’s advisor Osamu Suzuki in Tokyo. The meeting was also attended by Suzuki’s son Toshihiro Suzuki, president and COO of SMC, […]

The conventional thinking among the Indian population, those that are aware of the behemoth named CPEC, is that it is China’s way of encircling India by debt-trapping Pakistan into a project that Pakistan does not have the financial capacity to absorb. And they would be partially correct in assuming so. An infrastructural project of that […]

After turning barely a couple of pages under its new leadership, Afghanistan is in the news again. This time there brews trouble across several sectors. On April 18, a barrage of rockets were fired into Uzbekistan. While the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed responsibility for that, and through their official news agency Amaq […]

NEW DELHI: India is committed to extending support to the economic crisis that hit Sri Lanka, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Tuesday. Earlier this year, India allocated an amount of USD 3.5 billion to Sri Lanka “to overcome their current difficulties”. “As a close neighbour of Sri Lanka, with historical ties, India is fully […]

  Is Russia in trouble? It is. In a manner of speaking, Vladimir Putin, till the start of 2022 had about him all the signs of a master strategist and a ruthlessly efficient man – a leader that had clear portions of the kind of boldness that China lacked, or the intelligence that the West […]

  NEW DELHI: The growing bonhomie between India and France was evident as Prime Minister Narendra Modi met French President Emmanuel Macron during his brief stopover in Paris. PM Modi hugged President Macron on his arrival, signifying the warmth in the relationships between the two countries, before the two leaders held extensive discussions on a […]

  COPENHAGEN: Climate change, post-pandemic economy and global security are at the top of the plate as Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his counterparts from the Nordic countries for the 2nd India-Nordic Summit in Denmark on Wednesday. PM Modi met Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark, Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir of Iceland, Prime Minister Magdalena […]