West Asia crisis exposes fragile multipolar order and forces India to navigate ties with US, Israel, Iran and Gulf while safeguarding energy security diaspora and trade ...

Conflict exposes reliance on Gulf for energy and trade while posing diplomatic challenge to Narendra Modi’s government ...

As Iran has continued to engage cordially with India despite its nuanced position in the ongoing war, former Foreign Secretary Nirupama Menon Rao has stressed one needs to read between the lines to ...

In what appears to be targeted attacks, gangs of suspected Somali men have been terrorising Indian-origin shopkeepers and ...

Sir — Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the recently killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been chosen as his successor (“Iran picks Mystery Mojtaba”, Mar 10). Unlike his father, the 56 ...

In an international forum what matters is not superlative oratory.  What matters is effective communication and not linguistic gymnastics. At the Raisina Dialogue Foreign Minister Vijith Herath did ...

Former ambassador Nirupama Menon Rao has written (external link) about the structural vulnerability that the LPG supply disruption is now exposing. The roadside dhaba, the small mess, the pushcart ...

Former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal believed that while the government need not have taken on that task, it could have come from the Indian Navy after clearance from the MEA. “A word of condolence ...

The West Asia conflict intensifies as over 200 ships remain stuck in the Persian Gulf and 150 await passage outside the Strait of Hormuz, including 38 Indian vessels. Amid these disruptions, the ...

US President sees the world in terms of entertainment, but his actions threaten to bring down economies across the world ...

Foreign secretary Vikram Misri visited the Iranian embassy on Thursday afternoon and signed the condolence book on behalf of ...

Geopolitical experts, too, underlined the shift in India’s foreign policy that is increasingly leaving it vulnerable to US pressure ...