On 30 October, 2024, Botswana, the continent’s longest-serving democracy held its presidential elections. The contest for power was fought between the country’s ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) led by President Mokgweetsi Masisi, and the...
The VIF delegation led by Lt. Gen. R K Sawhney, and joined by Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (retd) and Shri Avadhesh Mathur visited Nepal between 21 September and 24 September, 2024. The visit included extensive interactions with various dignitaries and...
The VIF delegation led by Lt. Gen. R K Sawhney, and joined by Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (retd) and Shri Avadhesh Mathur visited Nepal between 21 September and 24 September, 2024. The visit included extensive interactions with various dignitaries and...
Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu’s warm relations with China has caught the attention of the public not only in India but also abroad. The recent advances by him to court China have come at the time of intensification of strategic rivalry in the...
Although terrorism has yet to find a universally acceptable definition and continues to be contexed with insurgency and militancy, we in India go by a generic description. Terror is associated with acts of unbridled violence against established...
With the dust of the 2024 election having finally settled and a new National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government having been sworn in it is now appropriate to attempt to tease out some of its key takeaways.
For starters, it should definitively put...
Afghanistan
Pakistan asks Afghanistan to hand over perpetrators of March terror attack – Tolo News
Pakistan confirmed on May 31 that it had formally asked Afghanistan to hand over the alleged perpetrators of a recent terrorist attack that killed...
Introduction
In February this year, PM Sheikh Hasina undertook her first overseas official visit to Munich, after her re-election for the fourth consecutive time, to attend the Munich Security Conference (MSC) which was held from February 16 to 18,...
When a colonised nation gets rid of its masters, one of its first acts is to reclaim its civilisational and cultural narrative, a legacy that had been pummelled and distorted beyond recognition and replaced by the coloniser’s worldview. For, what...
Afghanistan
Amir Khan Muttaqi invites new Pakistani FM to Kabul-The Khama Press
The Afghan National Television reported that Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting Foreign Minister of the Taliban, has invited Ishaq Dar, Pakistan’s foreign minister, to Kabul...