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Security personnel stand guard during restrictions in Jammu on Monday. Restrictions and night curfews were imposed in several districts of Jammu and Kashmir as the Valley remained on edge with the authorities stepping up security deployment. (Photo: PTI)

A visionary gamble, or a serious misstep in J&K?

India-Pakistan relations have been impacted along predictable lines, if not the government's calculated ones.

10 Aug 2019 12:00 AM IST

Tourists and passengers wait for their trains at Jammu Railway Station on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Any major J&K changes will play into Pak hands

The events in Jammu and Kashmir over the past few days need to be closely examined against this backdrop.

5 Aug 2019 12:21 AM IST

US President Donald Trump greets Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House in Washington DC on Monday. (Photo: AFP)

Trump, Imran & J&K: Wake-up call for Modi

On all three India had to address the increasing US impatience with expected outcomes.

24 July 2019 1:32 AM IST

The 48-year-old former Naval officer, Kulbhushan Jadhav, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism on April 11, 2017. (Photo: File)

India needs to rework its tactics on Pak, J&K

Pakistan had earlier linked its airspace reopening to India removing its Air Force fighters from forward deployment.

22 July 2019 4:45 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Diplomatic challenges mount for Modi 2.0

Choosing not to overfly Pakistan, despite having to take a detour, solidified the impression that India was not yet...

15 July 2019 1:47 AM IST

Sources said that though junior level officials from both sides were having flag meetings.

Post-Balakot, Delhi is watchful, not risk-averse

The Pakistan policy of the current government in New Delhi naturally flows from these events.

8 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Donald Trump and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe share a fist bump during their meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. (Photo: AP)

Match interests with pull from China, Russia, US

The US threatened to take the matter before UN Security Council, where China feared questioning by members in open...

1 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

US President Donald Trump

Why Donald Trump 'blinked' in the crisis with Iran

The implication was that there would be some military action, proportionate to the provocation.

24 Jun 2019 7:35 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Risk, opportunity faces India in unstable world

Tariffs on Chinese goods were further raised, and Huawei severed from US supply chains, sharpening the trade war.

13 Jun 2019 3:03 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Maldives & Sri Lanka: PM starts with a bang

The presence of the Indian Prime Minister thus sends a strong signal of Indian solidarity with democratic forces in the...

8 Jun 2019 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on Wednesday. (Photo: Abhijit Mukherjee)

Time for rise of Modi the statesman

It invariably has diminishing returns, the subject targeted compensating by realigning with powers opposed to India.

25 May 2019 12:13 AM IST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) said he hoped that his visit to India will strengthen cooperation between the two countries in various areas like technology, agriculture and other spheres that are changing the world. (Photo: PTI)

After May 23, India has to reset ties with key powers

The next Indian Prime Minister has to loosen the China-Pakistan alliance by a combination of rewards and punishments.

20 May 2019 12:00 AM IST