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Beyond Signatures

India’s recent trade diplomacy has produced an unusual paradox. New Delhi is negotiating or concluding trade agreements with a range of partners even as questions persist about what earlier agreements have actually delivered.

Beyond Hormuz

The geopolitical shock created by the Iran conflict is forcing countries far beyond West Asia to confront an uncomfortable reality: energy security can no longer be built around a single region, a single route or a single set of political assumptions.

Years of Grace

It was in 1982 that Dr Grace McCann Morley was bestowed the prestigious Padma Bhushan Award by the Government of India for her stellar contributions to the establishment of the National Museum in New Delhi.

Agencies on trial

When a court rebukes India’s premier investigative agency as sharply as the Rouse Avenue court did last week, the verdict travels far beyond the fate of one politician.

Naxal terror vanquished

3 March 1967: By any historical yardstick, the date carries weight. On this date, a peasant uprising in Naxalbari lit a fuse that burned through India’s internal security landscape for nearly five decades.

Nukes alone can deter Trump

The United States and Israel launched coordinated air attacks on Iran. The build-up by the US, including moving two carrier groups into the region, alongside relocating dozens of aircraft from Europe to Israel, all at a cost of billions of dollars, was never intended solely for application of pressure.