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![]() Jyoti MalhotraThe Times of India |
In many ways, Sheikh Hasina has stood out as a fierce beacon of hope. The Americans, on the contrary, aren’t impressed.
There is no real contradiction between India’s anti-Israel vote at the UN and its strong, public support for Israel. Both are simply different sides...
The truth is that in the UN system, abstentions don’t count. So the resolution, even if it was a binding one, is toothless.
The answer is embedded in the bitter history that Afghanistan and Pakistan share.
PM Narendra Modi’s video message described the “vision of connectivity” with Sri Lanka that goes beyond the boat. It includes digital payments,...
India vs Pakistan fever: Airline tickets and hotel rates have gone through the roof in Ahmedabad. Fans are checking into hospitals. Over 200 private...
Even after four days since Hamas attacked Israel, India’s Ministry of External Affairs has not issued a statement on the matter.
India was so confident about Ibrahim Solih and to decapitate Abdulla Yameen’s pro-China agenda that it forgot to take the others along in the...
The question no one asked is: Why hasn’t the investigation been done yet? And did Trudeau jump the gun by going public with his Indian accusation?
Indian govts over the decades have complained about Canada’s lackadaisical approach to terrorism. A commission of inquiry into the 1985 Kanishka...
At the end of the first round, there’s no question that Nasheed is the kingmaker, not Ibrahim Solih or Mohamed Muizzu.
There is no question that the G20 summit is already a feather in Modi’s cap – it doesn’t matter that Russia's Putin and China's Xi won’t be...
Xi Jinping thinks the Asian value of saving face only applies to big powers like China – India need not bother. But he must know that two can play...
Modi realises that the political problems in neighbouring countries have to be smoothened out if profit-making has to be taken to its logical...
A complete lack of trust between the Sinhala elite and Tamil minority is apparent across Sri Lanka, which seems unable to even begin laying some of...
Is Pakistan finally confronting a moment of truth after 75 years of independence? Has its terrible economic situation forced it to confront why it has...
Whether or not this is the beginning of the de-dollarisation of the globe’s most popular currency is another debate. The rupee-rupee trade is good...
Xi has been invited to Delhi to participate in the G-20 summit. But will he show up if no understanding between India and China has been reached after...
As relations between the Taliban government in Kabul and Rawalpindi worsen, here’s the other question: What does this do to ties between Delhi and...
The thing about islanders – and island nations – is that fickleness is a much-admired quality. And Delhi understands that well.
PM Modi could have used the chance to deliver some homilies about Democracy over One-Party Dictatorship
The attacks BJP leaders led against Obama’s comments on Modi government’s treatment of minorities shows Modi cannot be touched.
Sullivan knows that just as the US helped China become a world power – at its own cost, increasingly – the name of the game with India will have...
There are several reasons why Modi must push for a closer relationship with the US, although not at the cost of becoming a camp follower.
India has backed Prachanda, like it usually does traditional political parties such as the Nepali Congress, because it doesn’t fully trust Oli.
The US and, indeed, all the Quad nations realise that they need India if they want to contain China.