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SCO summit will see the presence of three major leaders Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (PTI file image)

KC Singh | Balancing Russia, China & US gets more challenging

The other nations in the queue as SCO dialogue partners are Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Turkey.

13 Sept 2022 1:29 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba during a bilateral meeting, at Lumbini in Nepal. (PTI Photo)

Kamal Davar | How Agnipath' hiring by Army impacts India's ties with...

Nepal has rightly been worried about the adverse financial impact of the Agnipath scheme on its fragile economy

12 Sept 2022 8:32 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is on his fourth day of the Bharat Jodo Yatra (PTI File Photo)

Sunil Gatade | Will Rahul's Bharat Jodo' become a game-changer?

The 3,750-km Bharat Jodo Yatra is taking place at a time when many predict the further decline and demise of the Grand...

12 Sept 2022 1:23 AM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Trespassers Will Be Garlanded

Over the years, I have got used to receiving my own posts as WhatsApp forwards attributed to others

11 Sept 2022 1:00 AM IST

INS Vikrant, Indias first indigenously-built aircraft carrier. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Can India become an Indian Ocean power?

India sits astride critical sea lines of communication, a position that uniquely empowers it to become a truly regional...

11 Sept 2022 12:09 AM IST

In this file photo taken on June 5, 2012 Britains Queen Elizabeth II (C) waves from the balcony of Buckingham Palace next to (L-R) Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince William, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry at the end of a coach procession on the final ceremonial day of the Queens Diamond Jubilee in London. (Photo: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Queens and Kings: Why the Brits love the royals

The hours and days to follow will tell us whether or not the royal family absorbed their emotions with dignity

10 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Gorby's model: 1980s' Sweden as socialism was being...

Gorbachev, as the subsequent years proved, was clearly out of touch with the nation he had set out to transform

9 Sept 2022 12:06 AM IST

A boy pushes a table in a flooded locality of Bellandur after heavy monsoon rains, in Bengaluru, Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | India's sinking story: Can we reimagine our...

Bengaluru continues to reel from torrential rains, flooded homes, widespread power cuts, submerged roads and more

9 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Babu exit saga shows cracks in Centre-UP ties

While often discussed in quiet conversations, Awasthi episode has once again brought the uneasy Centre-UP government...

8 Sept 2022 12:02 AM IST

Tomato fever is not the official name of any disease. (Representational Image)

Chandrakant Lahariya | As tomato fever' emerges, misinformation...

It has become clear that what has been reported is not a new virus but rather a form of the hand, foot and mouth...

8 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has once again left for Europe on a personal visit. (PTI file photo)

Anand K. Sahay | Will Rahul's Bharat Jodo' unite India's most needy?

The campaign to begin on September 7 may be seen as a nationwide jan jagran , or awakening of people to their own...

7 Sept 2022 12:08 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, leaves from Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland, on September 6, 2022, after meeting with Britains Queen Elizabeth II and being invited to form a Government. (Photo: AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can a flexible' Liz Truss usher in Global...

Long the front-runner in the race to replace Boris Johnson, Ms Truss is the Conservatives' fourth Prime Minister since...

7 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST