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China has built many model villages in uninhabited places along the LAC to claim these places as part of its territory. (Representational image: AFP)

Kamal Davar | Time to be firm tackling Dragon on LAC standoff & human...

Both nations, according to these reports, now have between 50,000 to 60,000 troops deployed along the LAC in Ladakh

12 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Gorby's model: 1980s' Sweden as socialism was being...

Gorbachev, as the subsequent years proved, was clearly out of touch with the nation he had set out to transform

9 Sept 2022 12:06 AM IST

Ukrainian soldiersrest near their position in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/LIBKOS)

Syed Ata Hasnain | 1 yr of Ukraine war: No victor, no vanquished

Options are being discussed but except for a determination to continue the war, not much appears emerging.

24 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, the remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Feb. 4, 2023. The downing of the suspected Chinese spy balloon by a missile from an F-22 fighter jet created a spectacle over one of the states tourism hubs and drew crowds reacting with a mixture of bewildered gazing, distress and cheering. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | US downing of Chinese spy balloon justifiable

Fear of advanced aerial technology of cutting edge kind to spy on a country's nuclear missile silos is perceived to be...

7 Feb 2023 12:10 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May Theresa May speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels. (Photo: AP)

A new Cold War looms

A former Russian spy who turned a double agent and was in jail was brought over to Britain in a spy swap back in 2005.

31 March 2018 12:20 AM IST

The Helsinki summit between Presidents Trump and Putin on July 16 reinforced these trends.

Changing geopolitics: New order is emerging

It is very clear that the United States will no longer be looked upon as a dependable partner.

1 Aug 2018 12:39 AM IST

A file photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Donald Trump in Manila, Philippines, in November 2017.

70-year itch: Which way is the India-US relationship headed?

Though Eisenhower got a warm welcome in India (1959) Nehru's meeting with John F. Kennedy in Washington in 1961 was...

21 Aug 2018 12:22 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

If the populist leaders fail, the people will tire of them

The murderers have been official armies, militias and even common citizens, with at least one such event in every decade...

26 Sept 2018 6:37 AM IST

How Democracy Ends by David Runciman, Hachette, Rs 599.

Democracy past its prime, but still resilient

Finally there is the fear of a technological takeover. Current-day unintelligent but super-efficient machines already...

16 Sept 2018 12:11 AM IST

Donald Trump has been talking of consequences if Xi Jinpings government was knowingly responsible for the Covid-19 outbreak. (AFP)

Sunanda K Datta Ray: US, China on the brink of a new global cold war

And India is caught uneasily between the contending giants

23 April 2020 3:58 AM IST

India and China flags (Photo: PTI/File)

Is China losing its edge?

Finance being prosperity and firepower, destruction thereof, the external posturing of the Dragon is more than...

3 Aug 2017 5:37 AM IST

India and China have been locked in a prolonged standoff in the area in the Sikkim sector since June 16 after Chinese troops began constructing a road near the Bhutan trijunction. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

War inevitable if India keeps ignoring China's warning: Chinese daily

The daily extended its advised to Indian government and said not to be as na¯ve as the Nehru government.

8 Aug 2017 3:33 PM IST