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Pavan Varma | Don’t play Big Brother, be nuanced with a long view

Pavan Varma | Don’t play Big Brother, be nuanced with a long view

The Narendra Modi government has declared that it will pursue a “Neighborhood First” policy. How has it...

14 Oct 2024 12:52 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Can Bangladesh control attacks on minorities, move to secular future?

Aakar Patel | Can Bangladesh control attacks on minorities, move to...

The events in Bangladesh and the Sheikh Hasina government’s overthrow have come with predictable violence...

13 Aug 2024 12:12 AM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | The Delhi-Dhaka saga: Past, present & future

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | The Delhi-Dhaka saga: Past, present & future

This is not about the recent ouster of Sheikh Hasina, till the other day the Iron Lady on the Padma. As...

12 Aug 2024 12:02 AM IST

India hit back, saying there has been yet another attempt by Pakistan to misuse the UN forum by referring to situations that are extraneous to the discussions. (Photo: Representational | AP)

Report on Kashmir not even fit for consideration by UNHRC members:...

Pakistan raked up the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at a UN session on Monday, the third time it did so in as many weeks.

10 July 2018 12:33 PM IST

Women are a heterogeneous group and a product of their society.

Peg gender on human rights, not only in an economic lens

We tend to equate worth with economic strength, social standing and occupation in positions of authority.

26 Nov 2019 12:10 AM IST

Rani Mukerji. (Photo: ANI)

Rani Mukerji is now 'Most Influential Cinema Personality' award in...

Rani Mukerji's last release 'Hichki' had grossed over Rs 250 crores worldwide.

9 Nov 2019 8:24 AM IST

Low literacy rates, proliferation of deadly weapons, rising poverty and ethnic tensions and deprivation make the region a perfect breeding ground for extremist forces and this must be seen and tackled as a global challenge, he said. (Representational Image | AFP)

South Asia has become a perfect breeding ground for religious...

Half of the population in the region is under 25 years of age, SAMAF chairman Nadeem Nusrat said at the US Capital...

13 Jun 2019 3:09 PM IST

Dr C Christine Fair from the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University examined Pakistans enduring imperative to use cross-border terrorism to try and resolve its basic conundrum; it wants to try and change maps, but it has an army that cannot win wars and has nuclear weapons it cant use. So it has settled upon a strategy of proxy war in Kashmir and elsewhere in India under the safety afforded by its nuclear arsenal, according to Fair. (Photo: ANI)

Cross-border terrorism poses major threat in South Asia: Experts

Taha Siddiqui, Pakistani journalist now living in exile, offered a brief history of Pakistan's obsession with jihadi...

5 Jun 2019 1:17 PM IST

Of concern to India is the United States pushing Afghanistan towards what the draft paper sent to all parties, including the Taliban, calls the Afghanistan Peace Agreement. (Photo: AP)

K.C. Singh | Afghan trouble looming: Pak likely to make gains

The Biden presidency has directly or indirectly impacted other South Asian developments too

11 March 2021 4:06 AM IST

The victory of Opposition candidate Mohammed Muizzu in the Maldives presidential election seemed imminent when he led in the first round, though falling short of the 50 per cent vote that was needed for an outright victory. (Image : Twitter)

K.C. Singh | Maldives the latest play in India-China games

Warning signals that India's Maldivian policy was fraying had been visible for some time

4 Oct 2023 12:00 AM IST

Indias economy sprang a pleasant surprise last week by registering better than expected growth of 7.6 per cent in the July-September quarter as against the RBIs projected growth rate of 6.5 per cent. (Image:Twitter)

Aakar Patel | Has South Asia hobbled itself? Can we turn into Korea,...

China is slightly ahead of the world average GDP, and Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are one-fifth.

12 Dec 2023 12:10 AM IST

Representational image . (Source: wikipedia)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | The politics of geography and how societies...

The demography of geography creates society, economy, polity, the rise and fall of empires and their borders, as well as...

29 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST