The first of the four rounds of elections in Odisha ended on May 13 (the fourth phase of the general elections) and the second round will be held today. Far from Delhi and away from the mainstream noises, elections in this coastal state assume critical significance for two reasons.
Amb Anil Trigunayat For India the first ever contract for managing the foreign port is a significant development even as several Indian companies have been engaged in developing ports in Oman, Myanmar and Israel and elsewhere. And this 10 year-term…
The untimely death of President Ebrahim Raisi has caused a leadership vacuum, as he was mostly slated to succeed the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamanei, who is 85 and is said to be ailing.
Gender studies and women's studies, as a discipline, have made efforts as a theoretical and conceptual rethinking of the linear rlationship between migraton, urbanisation and development.
If Rafah, which Netanyahu calls the last bastion of Hamas, is fully invaded amid large-scale casualties, then the region may not see peace for years to come.
The context of Xi's visit is burgeoning European desire to consolidate a European geopolitical salience
When China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping recently toured Europe, he concluded assorted agreements with France, the more refined of the European Union’s twin hearts, Serbia, a candidate member of the EU, and Hungary, the EU’s perpetual bad boy, often friendlier with Moscow than with Brussels. It was seen as a triumph of Chinese diplomacy, designed to reinforce Europe’s resistance to American pressure to choke off the burgeoning Chinese lead in high-tech and otherwise isolate Beijing.