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Kamal Davar | Time To Rebuild Relationship With Dhaka, With Eye On China & Pak

Kamal Davar | Time To Rebuild Relationship With Dhaka, With Eye On...

One wonders how ordinary Bangladeshis, including radical elements, can forget the brutal terror unleashed by the West...

17 Aug 2026 12:11 AM IST

Syed Ata Hasnain | 2025: Conflicts Unresolved Amidst Global Security Drift

Syed Ata Hasnain | 2025: Conflicts Unresolved Amidst Global Security...

One of the clearest lessons of 2025 was that having military power is not enough. What matters is when it is used, where...

30 Dec 2025 10:56 PM IST

Syed Ata Hasnain | Pakistan’s Confidence Trap & India’s Strategic Caution

Syed Ata Hasnain | Pakistan’s Confidence Trap & India’s Strategic...

At the helm of the Pakistan military today stands a chief with an ambitious streak, emblematic of the institution’s...

9 Oct 2025 12:08 AM IST

Kamal Davar | To Check Chinese Mischief, Let India Take The Lead In Revival Of Saarc

Kamal Davar | To Check Chinese Mischief, Let India Take The Lead In...

Though right from the time of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, the nation not only endeavoured for global...

10 July 2025 10:30 PM IST

Pavan Varma | Don’t play Big Brother, be nuanced with a long view

Pavan Varma | Don’t play Big Brother, be nuanced with a long view

The Narendra Modi government has declared that it will pursue a “Neighborhood First” policy. How has it...

14 Oct 2024 12:52 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Can Bangladesh control attacks on minorities, move to secular future?

Aakar Patel | Can Bangladesh control attacks on minorities, move to...

The events in Bangladesh and the Sheikh Hasina government’s overthrow have come with predictable violence...

13 Aug 2024 12:12 AM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | The Delhi-Dhaka saga: Past, present & future

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | The Delhi-Dhaka saga: Past, present & future

This is not about the recent ouster of Sheikh Hasina, till the other day the Iron Lady on the Padma. As...

12 Aug 2024 12:02 AM IST

India hit back, saying there has been yet another attempt by Pakistan to misuse the UN forum by referring to situations that are extraneous to the discussions. (Photo: Representational | AP)

Report on Kashmir not even fit for consideration by UNHRC members:...

Pakistan raked up the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at a UN session on Monday, the third time it did so in as many weeks.

10 July 2018 12:33 PM IST

Women are a heterogeneous group and a product of their society.

Peg gender on human rights, not only in an economic lens

We tend to equate worth with economic strength, social standing and occupation in positions of authority.

26 Nov 2019 12:10 AM IST

Rani Mukerji. (Photo: ANI)

Rani Mukerji is now 'Most Influential Cinema Personality' award in...

Rani Mukerji's last release 'Hichki' had grossed over Rs 250 crores worldwide.

9 Nov 2019 8:24 AM IST

Low literacy rates, proliferation of deadly weapons, rising poverty and ethnic tensions and deprivation make the region a perfect breeding ground for extremist forces and this must be seen and tackled as a global challenge, he said. (Representational Image | AFP)

South Asia has become a perfect breeding ground for religious...

Half of the population in the region is under 25 years of age, SAMAF chairman Nadeem Nusrat said at the US Capital...

13 Jun 2019 3:09 PM IST

Dr C Christine Fair from the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University examined Pakistans enduring imperative to use cross-border terrorism to try and resolve its basic conundrum; it wants to try and change maps, but it has an army that cannot win wars and has nuclear weapons it cant use. So it has settled upon a strategy of proxy war in Kashmir and elsewhere in India under the safety afforded by its nuclear arsenal, according to Fair. (Photo: ANI)

Cross-border terrorism poses major threat in South Asia: Experts

Taha Siddiqui, Pakistani journalist now living in exile, offered a brief history of Pakistan's obsession with jihadi...

5 Jun 2019 1:17 PM IST