Ten Years of PM Modi’s Foreign Policy
It has been a most successful ten years, though not everything could have been predicted. Like the aggressive stance of China, the two wars that have attracted global attraction, and the new found belligerence among neighbours ...
FTAs: India’s Track Record. How Present Agreements may be Different?
Given the significant differences in developing countries’ capacity to open markets fully, the WTO has not managed to move forward in many areas. With WTO making only incremental progress in many areas of negotiations, member countries ...
Japan Honours Amitabh Kant, Celebrates India-Japan Relations
Amitabh Kant, India’s G20 Sherpa, was conferred The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, by the Government of Japan at an impressive and well attended event at their embassy in New Delhi. The ...
Two Years of The Ukraine War: Lessons For India
Peace is costly. Only thing is war costs more – Shimon Peres,2015 Introduction As the war in Ukraine is entering its third year, few observers would have imagined that it would still be raging. After the ...
Iran and Pakistan: Another Flash Point
Introduction In an unexpected development, on 16 January 2024, Iran launched missiles into Pakistan’s, Baluchistan, aimed at Jaish al-Adl strongholds, Turbat & Panjgur. Jaish al-Adl, is a Sunni militant group operating in Sistan-Baluchistan. It is designated ...
Maldives and its Centrality to the Indian Ocean Region
Maldives’ geography explains its strategic importance. The 960 km long submarine ridge below provides only two SLOCs for all sea traffic from the Gulf of Aden and Straits of Hormuz in the West to Malacca Straits ...
Time to Accelerate our Soft Power with our neighbours
In our immediate neighbourhood, the China card has been persistent and remains as challenging as ever! There is no visible reason that we can expect this to scale down, in fact, only expect them to escalate ...
India-Maldives Ties in Choppy Waters
Relations between India and Maldives hit a rocky patch when the new President Mohamed Muizzu was elected in September, 2023. It was expected that bilateral relations under Muizzu would not be as warm and cordial as ...
Traffic Rights: Will Indian Carriers Pick Traffic over Dubai?
News on airline bilateral rights between nations always attracts attention. Given the ever-growing interest in travelling international, India remains one of the fastest growing originating markets globally. This is where the world’s single biggest aircraft orders ...
VFS Global to deliver UK Visa Services across 142 countries; 6 countries signed in 2023
Mumbai grown, ‘Made in India’, now a global gold standard in visa outsourcing, VFS Global, which has been a trusted partner for the UK Government since 2003, has won the global contract for overseas UK visa ...
