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On the face of it, India has little reason for concern over the health of its relationship with Bhutan. The recent visit of Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck to New Delhi saw India continue to extend strong support to the Himalayan kingdom.

Pakistan’s multiple crises are worsening by the day. On the internal security front, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which pulled out of the ceasefire with the government late last year, has escalated attacks on civilians and security forces. The situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces is dire. Meanwhile, relations with the Taliban regime continue to

India has done well to extend concrete support to Sri Lanka’s economic recovery. New Delhi has sent a written financial assurance to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expressing support for Sri Lanka’s loan programme “with financing/debt relief consistent with restoring the island’s public debt sustainability.” With this written support to Sri Lanka, India has become the

The latest global report of Oxfam, a non-government organisation, has presented a bleak picture of widening inequality all over the world, and particularly in India. The report titled “Survival of the Richest: The India Story,” says that the richest 1% of the population in the country now own more than 40% of its total wealth, while the bottom half shares only 3%. Just 21

Talks between Bhutan and China to settle their border dispute seem to be moving forward. At a recent expert group meeting at Kunming in China, officials of the two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on implementing the memorandum of understanding on the Three-Step Roadmap for Expediting the China-Bhutan Boundary Negotiations that they reached in late 2021.

The mid-term financial review has painted a rosy picture of Karnataka’s revenue position, but this is only one side of the story as the state could land in deep trouble if it fails to keep its current rate of accumulation of debt and borrowings under control. According to the report tabled in the Assembly, the state has demonstrated strong economic recovery from the

When we look back from the vantage point of the last day of December, how did India’s world change in the year gone by? What should we look forward to in the coming year? The wise thought in this country, handed down through generations, is that the world has always been like this, unchanging and immutable. That could be true in a philosophical sense, or over the long span

The controversy over the redesign of the logo of India’s premier management institute, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), has not ended with the adoption of the new logo by its board. The controversy involves quite a few issues which touch upon IIMA’s identity, its self-image, and the decision-making process in the institute. It has adopted and unveiled the

The Supreme Court has rightly expressed its concern over the erosion of independence of the Election Commission and the absence of a law governing the appointments of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and the Election Commissioners. It has also red-flagged the “disturbing trend” of successive CECs being handicapped by short tenures over the past two decades. A five-judge

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ongoing State visit to India has been productive with the two sides signing pacts for cooperation in water sharing, trade, connectivity, space, railway infrastructure, and science and technology. The agreement on sharing the waters of River Kushiyara is significant. This is the first river water-sharing pact that the two sides have