Economy and Foreign Affairs
India-USA: 2+2 Could be 5
Indian diplomacy during the Russia-Ukraine crisis has been on a high drive. Recently, she has also been a favorite destination (virtual or physical) for dozens of dignitaries including Prime Ministers…
By Amb Anil Trigunayat
Western Powers are Funding the War on Ukraine
The debate on imposing the ‘‘Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act’’ on India is at an all-time high in the United States as India decides to maintain neutrality on the…
By Ritwij Shandilya
How Russia-Ukraine Conflict has Put Cryptocurrencies in Spotlight
Just days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, thousands of people in Canada joined a truckers’ protest movement called the “freedom convoy” to oppose government health measures. To support the…
By PTI and Chanakya Forum
Japan Decides To Keep Russian Gas
By Yoshifumi Takemoto, Yuka Obayashi and Ritsuko Shimizu TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's announcement on Thursday that he would not abandon a massive Russian gas project was…
By PTI and Chanakya Forum
India’s Vote – Deft or Daft Diplomacy
Russia-Ukraine war is touching everyone in different ways as the already stressed global world order goes through a premediated churn. As if pandemic was not enough, geo politics between Moscow…
By Amb Anil Trigunayat
Oil Industry’s Plastic Boom Threatens U.N.’s ‘Historic’ Pollution Pact
By John Geddie and Joe Brock NAIROBI (Reuters) - When the United Nations agreed a landmark deal to create the world's first ever global plastic pollution treaty this week, every…
By PTI and Chanakya Forum
The Rising Tide of India’s Multilateralism
The treaty of Westphalia[1] marked a crucial genesis that led to the process of countries transform and becoming a nation-state. In its essence, the treaty was intended to mark the…
By Sankalp Singh
India Australia Trade Relations – Future Beckons
Today when Covid19 seems to be waning, other realities of the present times dawn onto us. The world is undergoing a major digital revolution; we are fighting climate change and…
By Mukesh Maru
The Third India-Central Asia Dialogue: Towards Greater Cooperation
Introduction The Third India-Central Asia Dialogue will take place in New Delhi on 18th-19th December, 2021. Foreign Ministers of all the five Central Asian states viz Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan…
By Ashok Sajjanhar
A Foreign Policy for the Next Decade
A report authored by eight strategic thinkers, including two former foreign secretaries and hosted on the website of the Centre of Policy Research (CPR), entitled ‘India’s Path to Power: Strategy…
By TP Sreenivasan
Exclusive-Afghan central bank drained dollar stockpile before Kabul fell – document
By John O'Donnell and Rupam Jain FRANKFURT/MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Afghan central bank ran down most of its U.S. dollar cash reserves in the weeks before the Taliban took control…
By PTI and Chanakya Forum
India-Russia Friendship Renewed
Minister Jaishankar’s visit to Russia from July 7 to 9 was important in the context of the new instabilities surfacing in the international system, the increasingly strident US-China rivalry, the…
