'It was always anticipated that the return of the Taliban would embolden armed Islamists including anti-India groups like the Lashkar and Jaish.' IMAGE: A Talib sits guard while his comrades pray,......
The United States and the international community expects the Taliban to form an inclusive government with representations from different communities and interests, Secretary of State Antony......
The world's attention is on the new Taliban and the imminent announcement of an inclusive government in Kabul, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar, who played a stellar role in beginning India's......
'The hardliners in Delhi are in for a big disappointment,' predicts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. From the Indian perspective, the prospect of a Joe Biden presidency becomes a moment of......
'It is unrealistic to expect that security dilemmas and strategic distrust to disappear or even diminish any time soon,' says Rup Narayan Das. The three-day 9th Brazil, Russia, India, China and......
The Fifth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation due to commence this week at Cancun promises modest progress in trade negotiations. The setting for this ministerial is quite......
India on Thursday approved crucial amendments in the WTO agreement on TRIPS permitting governments to break the monopoly of manufacturers of patented drugs by giving 'compulsory licenses' in......
With battle lines drawn between the developed and the developing countries for the fifth World Trade Organisation ministerial beginning From Wednesday in Cancun, Commerce and Industry Minister Arun......
Next week's meeting of trade ministers from all the 157 member-countries of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is an important one. This year is the tenth anniversary of the Doha Round of global......
The fresh proposals submitted by the G-20, a grouping of developing countries, on the contentious issue of market access for agricultural products seek to weave in food and livelihood security......