India and the World

Taking the first major diplomatic challenge head-on, the new Indian government is working virtually 24×7 and is leaving no stone unturned to secure the release of 40 Indians abducted in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

In this interview with Manish Chand, Editor-in-Chief of India Writes Network (www.indiawrites.org), R. Dayakar, a former Indian envoy to Baghdad, shares his views on the unfolding crisis, its impact on the India and the options before New Delhi to secure the release of its nationals.

From the media in India it would appear that the attack by Taliban terrorists on the Karachi airport is the tipping point which would pave the way for India and …

In a diplomatic challenge for the newly-installed Modi government in New Delhi, forty Indian construction workers have been abducted from the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, controlled by a Sunni militant group.

On June 11, hundreds of Sunni militants aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and the al-Sham (ISIS) captured Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s home city. …

Prof. S.D. Muni speaks about the growing Chinese influence in Bhutan and contends that the forthcoming prime ministerial visit should be used to discuss with Thimphu the latter’s ties with Beijing in the spirit of special partnership between India and Bhutan.

What makes India-Bhutan ties special, unique, time-tested and exemplary? Indeed, it’s a long roster of laudatory adjectives that’s generously used to describe the India-Bhutan relationship; they evoke an organic relationship that is grounded in idealism as well as realism.