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Imran Khan to ‘hurricane’ Firdous — two street visits to show Pakistan govt at work Pakistani politicians from all parties have used the Ramzan month for PR activity in the past. But only Imran Khan govt has managed to pull off such a self-contradictory show. Naila Inayat 6 May, 2021 12:42 pm IST Text Size: A+ Last year, this time, we were discussing the storm that was ‘colonel ki biwi’. This year, we have ‘hurricane’ Firdous taking over the reins of Pakistani people’s attention. It so happened that the adviser to the ...

Text Size: A+ India is in the middle of its second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Our social media feeds have morphed into SOS helplines with citizens running from pillar to post to arrange medicines and oxygen cylinders. Amid this, the pack of foreign correspondents and their desi counterparts, who in the first wave couldn’t explain India’s low death rates, have made a triumphant comeback, with many of them claiming that India is grossly underreporting its Covid-19 death numbers now. As per John Burn-Murdoch of the Financial Times, who put together data for seven districts throug...

India’s energy transition path is on track. Now it needs to pick pace: Analysis The ongoing Covid-19 recovery efforts offer five key lessons, and also reveal some blind spots that can potentially undermine the hard-earned progress. Text Size: A+ The global energy transition has crossed many milestones over the past decade, surpassing most expectations. Thanks to technological innovation, entrepreneurship and risk-taking by policymakers and businesses, the installed capacity grew sevenfold for solar PV, and threefold for onshore wind since 2010. Once considered a pipe dream, the share...

On Afghanistan, India’s worry shouldn’t just be Pakistan. There’s a rogue player waiting General Bipin Rawat recently said Iran and Pakistan could exploit the situation in Afghanistan after the US pullout. But he made it clear they weren't the only ones. Snehesh Alex Philip 23 April, 2021 11:41 am IST Text Size: A+ A lot of key changes are taking place in the South Asian region, which has both direct and indirect bearing on not only India’s national security but also strategic interests in the long run. One such development is the Afghan ...

Unintended victims of Covid — India’s foreign policy and an MEA unable to do its real job India urgently needed to reach out to world capitals and engage with nations that were looking for an alternative to China. But the pandemic kept MEA occupied. Seshadri Chari 23 April, 2021 10:31 am IST Text Size: A+ The second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is seriously affecting the economy and whatever green shoots were appearing seem to have subsided. The lockdown and its debilitating implications seem to have seriously affected India’s foreign poli...