Opinion

For India, Abe will remain a very special Japanese leader. His fondness for India and his vision for India-Japan ties has been central to his vision of the Indo-Pacific.

It is very likely that the GDP numbers could get revised further downward going forward due to challenges in data collection during the lockdown months.

People may be disillusioned with the current state government but whether a change in power will take place or not will be determined when people place their trust on an opposition leader as a better alternative of Nitish Kumar.

Recent Chinese moves have ensured that for decades to come India and Australia will become even closer strategic friends.

If you want the next generation to live a rich life – not in terms of the stock market or their bank balance but in terms of the life that is throbbing within them – what is important is clean air, pure water and nutritious food. For all these to become p...

We are already aware that in the parliamentary elections of 2019, a section of Dalit voters moved towards the Bharatiya Janata Party. A few political observers also noted that a section of Muslim women supported the BJP in those elections due to the aboli...

Will becoming ‘atmnirbhar’ reopen shuttered factories, create jobs, and resurrect the economy? Not always, not for all products and not anytime soon.

For decades, the Congress, under Rajiv, P V Narasimha Rao, Sitaram Kesri and Sonia Gandhi’s leadership, faced many predicaments in either supporting Ram temple or staying on as a mute spectator in events relating to Ayodhya.

In India, the essential gap between master's and PhD for those like me who did not spend much time on field after completion of post-graduation was filled by a pre-doctoral programme like MPhil.

While car and bike dealers are facing low inventory issues, airlines are saddled with so much excess inventory -- seats -- that they are faced with unprecedented challenges in just staying afloat.

The Moplah or Malabar rebellion has been variously described as a nationalist uprising against British authorities and their Hindu allies or a Muslim peasant uprising against Hindu landlords.

With different experts weighing in with several opinions on coronavirus, one thing is for certain -- for now we have to live with the virus. We have to mitigate its impact on our society, especially those who are already vulnerable.

The Khilafat Movement may be roughly said to have played out in two phases before it lost steam. The first phase (December 1918-July 1920) was the phase of petition and persuasion.

By creating multiple pressure points and opening multiple fronts, China likes to catch its neighbours completely off guard with new demands every now and then and shifting the goalposts.

The initiative covers a wide expanse of 71,452 square kilometers with Myanmar having the maximum share of 66 per cent, followed by China with 22 per cent and India with 12 per cent.

China had reached a stage where it could dominate the world with sheer soft power, but Xi Jinping was in a hurry and chose hard power.