GCC Summit Fails To Provide A Breakthrough
Hopes for resolution of the Gulf crisis festering for a year and half were shattered after the Qatari Emir decided to not attend the 39th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Riyadh. Qatar was re...
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Winter Session Of Parliament
The winter session of Parliament will begin from Tomorrow. The nearly month-long session will have 20 sittings. During the session, eight important bills will be tabled in the Rajya Sabha and 15 in t...
Reforming The World Trade Organisation: The Way Forward
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organisation have ensured the smooth functioning of global trading syste...
Terrorism And Dialogue Cannot Go Together
Of late, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been calling for revival of the stalled dialogue process with India. He has said it is the only way to resolve all issues between the two countries. He...
Sri Lanka’s Political Imbroglio Continues
A bird in hand, is said to be, better than two in the bush. Replace the ‘bird’ with ‘Prime Minister’ in that statement, and it nearly sums up the current situation in Sri Lanka. For the past five wee...
Russia-India-China Format At The High Level Becomes Active At G20 Summ...
After a gap of 12 years the leaders of India, Russia and China (RIC) met at the sidelines of G20 meet in Buenos Aires. The meeting took place at the initiative of the Russian President Vladimir Putin...
JAI: Emerging Role In Indo-Pacific
The first trilateral summit among the leaders of Japan, America and India took place during the recent G20 meeting. Prime Minister Narendra Modi aptly called it “JAI”—Japan, America and India and poi...
Simmering Russian-Ukrainian Confrontation
The recent Russian-Ukrainian naval clash in the Kerch Strait at Crimea, which is a gateway for both Russia and Ukraine from the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea, threatens to rekindle their four year old...
G 20 Summit In Argentina
The G20 leaders issued a watered down joint statement, at the end of the meeting in Buenos Aires. This in itself is a creditable achievement. The host country had lowered expectations ahead of the Su...
America Faces Migrant Caravan
Tensions have increased at the United States southern border as President Trump sent the US military to reinforce border security to stop a ‘caravan’ of migrants from Central America from entering th...