Commentaries

Afghanistan In Limbo After Trump Cancels Talks With Taliban

September 15, 2019

Taliban had constituted a fourteen member peace delegation earlier this year which was tasked with the difficult peace negotiations with the United States. The negotiations were supposed to go ahead ...

7th Meeting Of RCEP

September 14, 2019

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) meeting was held at Bangkok recently. It took place under the shadow of US-China trade war and the economic face-off between Japan and South Kor...

India Deepens Eastward Engagement

September 13, 2019

Marking his first set of bilateral visits to the ASEAN region after assuming office, India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar visited Indonesia and Singapore.  During the first leg of his...

India’s Strong Rebuttal At The 42nd UNHRC Meeting

September 12, 2019

With the aim to move a resolution on Kashmir at the 42nd meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi made a desperate attempt to ...

India-Nepal Petroleum Pipeline: First In South Asia Inaugurated

September 11, 2019

India and Nepal achieved yet another milestone in their bilateral relations when the Prime Ministers of both countries jointly inaugurated South Asia’s first ever cross border petroleum products pipe...

Iran Decides To Downgrade Its Commitments Under The Nuclear Deal

September 10, 2019

Iran has announced that it is further withdrawing from its commitments under the Nuclear Deal that it had agreed with the world powers in July 2015. Iran’s reason behind this action was that since th...

Pakistan Shunned Again

September 9, 2019

Pakistan is finding itself in a bind over the Kashmir issue. Islamabad has been trying vigorously for international attention over India’s decision to revoke the special status of the state of Jammu ...

RBI Links Repo Rate To Floating Loan Rates To Ensure Higher Credit Dis...

September 8, 2019

Borrowers from formal banking channel can now heave a sigh of big relief with the latest decision of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to link floating rate loans in the personal, retail, micro, small ...

India Re-Emphasises Its Act East Policy

September 7, 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was on a two day visit to Russia, also met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. India has a very strong relationship with Japan; the two Prime Ministers are also ...

India-Russia Strategic Partnership

September 6, 2019

The 20th Annual Summit between India and Russia’s was a testimony of the ‘special, time-tested and privileged’ strategic partnership in the changing dynamics of the world order. Indian Prime Minister...