India and Pakistan concluded their talks on various aspects of the Indus Water Treaty in Lahore. This was the first bilateral engagement between the two countries after new administration headed by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan took charge of prime ministerial office in Islamabad. Significance of the talks on water treaty, however,…

India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj visited Vietnam for the 3rd Indian Ocean Conference and the 16thMeeting of the Vietnam-India Joint Committee on Economic, Commercial, Scientific and Technological Cooperation between 27-28 August 2018. Held in Hanoi, she also met her counterpart Foreign Minister of Pham Binh Minh on August 28, 2018…

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is creating ripples around the world because of its perceived hidden agenda of creating situations in which smaller nations engaging with China’s BRI run risk of falling into debt trap. China has never spared any effort to portray its BRI, a grand trillion-dollar-plus global…

Emmerson Mnangagwa, 75, was inaugurated as the new president of Zimbabwe on Sunday, 26 August 2018, after winning a closely contested election, which marked the country’s first election since the ouster of Robert Mugabe from power. It was for the second time that Mnangagwa was sworn in as President after he…

Like many nations in the WANA region, Yemen too could not escape the political upheavals amidst Arab uprising and very soon the movement was hijacked by the regional players and local militias and sectarian groups. Today the Yaman political crisis is marred by large scale conflict and violence across the country and…

  India's first lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 (Chandrayaan One), launched ten years ago, has helped American scientists confirm the presence of frozen water deposits on the Moon. The findings mark the first time scientists have confirmed by direct observation the presence of water on the moon's surface. Previously, scientists have suspected…

Defence cooperation between India and China constitute an important aspect of the complex India-China relations. It is more so when the two countries share an undefined and un-demarcated border. In this backdrop, the four day visit of the Chinese defence minister and the State Councillor Wei Fenghe that began on…

In first American high level interaction with new Prime Minister of Pakistan,US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Pakistan`s new Prime Minister Imran Khan to take decisive action against all terrorists operating from its soil targeting India and Afghanistan. In a telephone conversation with Khan he also talked about Pakistan`s…

India-Japan Defence Ministerial Dialogue was held in New Delhi. Situating the annual dialogue within the framework of India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera prioritised maritime security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region during the meeting, given the mutuality of strategic interests…

Campaigning for forthcoming Presidential Elections in the Maldives is in full swing by the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) nominee President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom and Joint Opposition nominee Ibrahim Mohamed Solih (Ibu) from the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) along with their running mates. Nonetheless, possibility of postponement of the…