Diplomacy

 Now that all the jubilations after the landslide victory that led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to enjoy absolute majority in Lok Shabha is settling down, it is time for Prime …

More than five years after the 26/11 terror attacks, Hafiz Seed, the mastermind of the Mumbai carnage, continues to roam free, spewing anti-India rhetoric and what New Delhi calls “malevolent …

“Trust and partnership” –- the two words French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius love to use to describe the India-France relations have acquired a new resonance, with Paris pledging 1 billion euro for bolstering India’s urban development and sustainable development projects.

Taking a “proactive approach,” the Indian government is looking to evacuate all Indians from a rapidly disintegrating Iraq. The government has prepared a plan to deploy aircraft from the Indian …

Partnership, not rivalry, is the way forward in India-China relations. In an overarching speech, India’s Vice-President Hamid Ansari has envisaged a cooperative  relationship between the two Asian giants and underscored …

Pitching India’s SAARC diplomacy into a higher trajectory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged Indian scientists to develop a SAARC satellite that will encompass the entire South Asia through a satellite based navigation system.

India is poised to rejuvenate its multi-pronged strategic partnership with France, a top arms supplier and a leading backer of New Delhi’s global nuclear entente, during French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius’ visit to the country. The talks in Delhi June 30 between India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her French counterpart are expected to focus on ramping up economic ties, resolving lingering issues to fast-track civil nuclear cooperation and expanding the canvas of strategic partnership between the two countries. The signing of a clutch of preliminary pacts on higher education will underline the increasing salience on bolstering innovation-driven knowledge partnership between the two countries.