Opinion

Need for balance

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 ...
The United States remains militarily preeminent, but it no longer operates in an uncontested system. China watches carefully. Russia calculates within constraints. Regional actors hedge.
Retired Indian diplomat and former foreign secretary of India Nirupama Rao said that the guiding principle for India should ...
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 ...
Conflict exposes reliance on Gulf for energy and trade while posing diplomatic challenge to Narendra Modi’s government ...
Pune: India will have to trade off autonomy for efficiency if it relies entirely on borrowed algorithms for using artificial intelligence, said former.
In what appears to be targeted attacks, gangs of suspected Somali men have been terrorising Indian-origin shopkeepers and ...
They used to argue about where I belonged. India, Pakistan, maybe somewhere in between. Committees debated, sentries explained, maps changed colours. I kept standing. Standing is safer than choosing.
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 ...
“Issue is not whether India should be ‘for' or 'against' Israel, the US, Iran, or the Gulf states in some emotional or ideological sense,” wrote Nirupama M Rao.
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 ...
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