'The Indian version is that the two top diplomats merely exchanged pleasantries, while the Pakistani side characterised the encounter as an 'informal dialogue'.''The truth, as always in such......
An expert in international and development economics has been appointed president of the prestigious California-based Monterey Institute of International Studies. As president of the institute,......
The horrendous terrorist attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul on Monday has no precedents. Never has our Kabul mission been attacked in this fashion -- not even during the darkest periods of the......
It is indeed a matter of great honour and happiness for us that the 4th International Conference on Federalism is being held in India. As one of the newer members of the Forum of Federations, we......
I hope to share with you how India perceives the changing international environment and how we assess its impact on our prospects. At independence, it was natural that the primary task of India's......
The infrastructure spending target for 2020-25 was revised because of additional and amended data provided by central ministries, state governments since the release of the summary NIP Report in......
The Budget must feature key elements of the pending trade and business facilitation reforms to reduce the massive trade transaction costs plaguing the Indian economy. India is yet to......
India must adopt game-changing strategies that can power up India on global trade. Till last week, the politically sensitive question of India's food subsidy dominated the public discourse......
Watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India on Wednesday tightened norms aimed at countering money laundering and terror financing through the capital markets and asked market entities to......
Policy makers believe that the new Hindu rate of growth is eight per cent-plus, when in reality, this has only been achieved on a consistent basis during the short 2003-2007 period, writes Jayanta......