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Sanjayovacha | New Delhi Needs To Reject Trump’s Donroe Doctrine | Sanjaya Baru

Sanjayovacha | New Delhi Needs To Reject Trump’s Donroe Doctrine |...

Given this history, it is not at all surprising that the United States is out to grab yet another oil-rich republic

5 Jan 2026 9:27 PM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | As Ladakh Boils, Statehood For J&K India’s Litmus Test

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | As Ladakh Boils, Statehood For J&K India’s...

The predecessors of today’s Ladakh’s population of 300,000 were part of the independent Jammu and Kashmir kingdom from...

16 Oct 2025 10:46 PM IST

Shashi Warrier | Adieu, Arkady Renko, Soviet Police Detective

Shashi Warrier | Adieu, Arkady Renko, Soviet Police Detective

Smith died in July, aged 82. Parkinson’s disease hadn’t stopped him writing: instead, he shared it with Arkady Renko,...

5 Oct 2025 12:34 AM IST

K.C. Singh | Trump Assaults UN, Targets All, Fuels Global Uncertainty

K.C. Singh | Trump Assaults UN, Targets All, Fuels Global Uncertainty

President Trump’s 56-minute address was meandering, critical of the dysfunctional UN escalator and teleprompter, besides...

26 Sept 2025 12:40 AM IST

Aakar Patel | If China Overtakes US As World’s Most Powerful Economy, Will Shift Hit India?

Aakar Patel | If China Overtakes US As World’s Most Powerful Economy,...

From the outside, it can be seen as the struggle for global economic dominance between the West and Asia. Ordinarily we...

20 May 2025 1:26 AM IST

Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist Heroes

Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist Heroes

Yet remarkable and compelling as their stories may be, there is an unsteadiness to this juxtaposition, an awkwardness of...

19 April 2025 5:58 PM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | After US, UK, EU; it’s time for India FTA with Russia

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | After US, UK, EU; it’s time for India FTA...

Despite this, however, at the height of the Cold War, the United States, in a bid to drive a wedge between its main...

28 March 2025 12:24 AM IST

A representative for the event saying it was investigating and cited a medical report saying that she had septicopyemia. (Photo: Facebook/Vlada Dzyuba)

China agency denies dead Russian model, 14, was overworked

There was no immediate reply from Shanghai Fashion Week or Russian officials in China.

30 Oct 2017 4:07 PM IST

Orthodox Church (Photo: AFP)

Why Russia & China went separate ways

The Gorbachev-Yeltsin duo made the mistake of effecting political re-forms instead of liberalising the economy first.

9 Nov 2017 6:45 AM IST

This file photo taken in 1917 shows people demonstrating in Moscow during the period of the Russian revolution. It was the year that ended centuries of royal rule, brought two revolutions, ushered in Soviet domination and changed the course of Russian history irrevocably. A century later, the country seems unsure how to treat the tumultuous events of 1917 that saw it hurtle from the abdication of the last tsar Nicholas II to a Communist dictatorship in a matter of months (Photo: AFP)

Tate Modern in London to exhibit visuals on Russian Revolution

The exhibition at the Tate will display an extremely rare poster which proclaims the birth of the Soviet Union.

6 Nov 2017 4:10 PM IST

Castro Diaz-Balart had been working as a scientific counsellor to the Cuban Council of State and Vice-president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences at the time of his death. (Photo: AFP)

Fidel Castro's eldest son Fidelito commits suicide after battling...

Castro Diaz-Balart, also known as 'Fidelito' was hospitalized for depression and then continued treatment as an...

2 Feb 2018 10:32 AM IST

The Battle for Pakistan: The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighbourhood, By shuza nawaz Penguin Random House pp.374, Rs 799.

What keeps ties between US and Pakistan ticking

The US decision to make Pakistan an ally and stand by it no matter what has often hurt India.

22 Nov 2019 1:26 AM IST