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When she presented her credentials in New York to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to assume charge as India’s Permanent Representative (PR) to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj cracked the final frontier or glass ceiling of the…

It is ironic, and sad, that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) now has to increasingly defend India from adverse foreign commentary on the country’s internal processes. It is tragic that the country’s “independent judicial system,” once…

এক সমৃদ্ধ দেশের দিশা দেখানোর প্রতিশ্রুতি দিয়ে ২০১৯ সালে বিপুল সংখ্যাগরিষ্ঠতা নিয়ে ক্ষমতায়

If the UN cannot agree on what constitutes terrorism and cannot stop even its permanent Security Council members from waging war and violating the UN charter, how useful can it be?

The anger and racism Indians are facing has more to do with the position India has adopted on the conflict.

While Government seems fixated on putting up statues to honour the memory of icons it wants to appropriate, its reluctance to embrace the ideals they held dear is striking

BIMSTEC, a sub-regional grouping, comprising some geographically contiguous South Asian and ASEAN countries in the Bay of Bengal, was formed to leverage synergies in their capabilities for their development.

It remains unclear why no leader from India’s closest neighbour Bangladesh has ever been a chief guest at the Republic Day parade

With the situation in Afghanistan rapidly descending into a bloody chaos, as one provincial city after another falls into the clutches of the incredibly barbaric Taliban militias, the nightmare for the ordinary people of that war-ravaged…

The government’s vaccination outreach to remote border areas, in Kashmir and the Northeast, and the local people's smiling embrace of these efforts was an indication of their comfort level and confidence in the Indian system, writes Nilova…