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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US has proved to be well-timed. Rather than wait for the mercurial and unpredictable President Donald Trump to say and do things on his pet peeves, which include an obsession with tariffs, Modi took the initiative to engage him directly on exploring together how his concerns could be…
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The world in 2024 stood at a crossroads, with global fault lines deepening and crises multiplying. Wars in Europe and the Middle East upended the global order, disrupting energy markets and food security, while cascading challenges rippled through every region. The Indo-Pacific remained a theatre of contention, with China’s aggressive manoeuvres destabilising the South China…
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When Julius Caesar’s Senate fixed January 1 as the ‘first day of the year’, the idea wasn’t only to ‘start afresh’. It was also when those in civil office were to set in motion their responsibilities. In that tradition, coming down from 45 BC, let the existing coalition government headed by Narendra Modi set out…
It was a moment of great pride for India when the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, conferred Nigeria’s highest civilian award, the ‘Grand Commander of the Order of Niger’, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This honour recognised Modi’s statesmanship and significant contributions to fostering ties between the two countries through…
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The victory has also caused a dramatic 1,514% surge in related Google searches. Donald Trump’s historic comeback has sparked a wave of congratulatory messages and statements from across the globe. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed it as a “historic election victory,” while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described it as “history’s greatest comeback.” Vikas Swarup,…
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A view of a sand sculpture depicting Donald Trump at Puri beach in Odisha on November 6, 2024 after he won the U.S. Presidential elections. | Photo Credit: Reuters Five years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a crowd in Houston, Texas, that India had “connected well” with Republican candidate Donald Trump and followed it…
When it comes to Bibek Debroy, two words, ‘polyglot’ and ‘polymath’, promptly come to mind. Post-Independence, India has been graced with numerous scholars and some ideologues masquerading as scholars, as well as propagandists masquerading as intellectuals. Unfortunately, very few of the lot have consistently kept an open mind and studied issues and contemporary events with…
All eyes have been on Iran for more than a year. Naturally, the first BRICS summit with Tehran’s membership is bound to breed speculation about what the prospective new world order would look like. At home, there needs to be an examination of India’s bilateral ties with a country that is seen firmly anti-West in…
All eyes have been on Iran for more than a year. Naturally, the first BRICS summit with Tehran’s membership is bound to breed speculation about what the prospective new world order would look like. At home, there needs to be an examination of India’s bilateral ties with a country that is seen firmly anti-West in…
It is 15 years since its first summit. Back then. BRICS was BRIC. And now, it’s not just BRICS but BRICS+. The summit in Kazan is seeing the member nations go up from five to nine, with one more, Saudi Arabia, having been invited to join. According to Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, there are…
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