Pranay Sharma

For India, striking a balance between its two strategic partners — the United States and Iran — who have been at daggers drawn for long, has never been an easy task, writes Pranay Sharma.

If anything can be called a unifier in 2019, it is the street protests running around the globe—various skeins of outrage bound as a common strand.

Narendra Modi has assured Sheikh Hasina repeatedly that Dhaka has nothing to worry but the CAB and the NRC could change all equations

Will the new government make religious and ethnic minorities in Sri Lanka feel safe and wanted? Gotabaya Rajapaksa's every move will now be monitored

Video on Sikh pilgrims visiting a Pakistani gurdwara with a poster of 'Khalistan 2020' written on it has irked India

After failing to win the world with his Kashmir rants, Imran Khan faces the challenge to retain power in Pakistan. Will the Azadi March topple him?

After Kashmir, the Narendra Modi-Xi Jinping meeting at Mamallapuram on Oct 11-12 stabilises ties, injects momentum needed to wrestle prickly issues down

The categorical Chinese support to Pakistan comes days before the crucial plenary session of FATF.

Dutch investors are not sure how safe their data and technology is while doing business in China. India, therefore, becomes a natural option.

The two other names doing the rounds for the coveted post are Ruchi Ghanashyam, India’s High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, and Harshvardhan Shringla, India’s Ambassador in the United States.

'The Order of Zayed', the UAE's highest civilian award, is being conferred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a time when Pakistan is busy pushing a hostile campaign against India over Kashmir among world leaders, especially in the Islamic countries.

The Washington meeting with Imran Khan makes it clear that US-Pakistan relations are on the mend, and in the coming days, is likely to show more warmth.

Every time Hafiz Saeed has been released by the courts of Pakistan, it's been for the want of credible evidence that establishes his links with terrorism, especially the Mumbai attacks.

If at all, the verdict interpreted differently in the two countries across the border could harden the position of the two South Asian neighbours further.

As a diplomat, S Jaishankar has served both in China and the US as India’s ambassador. Later, as Foreign Secretary, he was also part of several key negotiations involving the two countries.

The induction of Jaishankar as a Cabinet minister at a juncture when Sino-US relations are getting more complex, especially on trade and cyber-security, is an interesting choice.

Policy planners in Delhi feel India should take advantage of the small window of opportunity that opened in the Maldives after the last year’s presidential elections.

Politics and violence have always gone hand-in-hand in Bengal. The first two decades after independence, which witnessed a steady stream of refugees from across the border, abject poverty and Delhi’s “indifference” might have set the stage for what was to follow.