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India-Japan Strategic Partnership: Science, Technology and Healthcare Cooperation

As technological competition increasingly shapes geopolitical alignments in the Indo-Pacific, India and Japan are expanding their strategic partnership beyond infrastructure and economic cooperation...

Resilient Supply Chains and High-Tech Components: New Paradigms in Bilateral Cooperation

The dialogue held on May 11 between India and Japan marks an important development in the evolving framework of bilateral economic security cooperation, representing one of the earliest substantive...

Multipolarity in Motion: The Reordering of Global Power

The article argues that the unipolar world order dominated by the United States is steadily giving way to a multipolar international system, where power is increasingly distributed among multiple...

EAM S. Jaishankar Concludes Caribbean Tour with Signing of Eight Major Agreements 

India’s External Affairs Minister  S. Jaishankar wrapped up his two-day visit to Trinidad and Tobago...

UAE bids farewell to OPEC: A “Crude” necessity or a “Refined” move?

The UAE’s shift likely reflects a broader objective of maximising returns from its hydrocarbon reserves before global fossil fuel demand begins to decline more sharply...

Strategic Silence: How India is Redefining Power in the Indo-Pacific

India's approach can be described by the use of the term “strategic silence”, which is a stance of maintaining a balance between flexibility, selective engagement and strategic autonomy...

Bhutan’s “transition” to constitutional democracy: A reality check

The “transition” has largely failed even after close to two decades and multiple elections, as the democratic process is non-inclusive, particularly for the Lhotshampa (ethnic Nepali and Hindu)...

India and Vietnam Are Closer Than Ever -The Timing Is No Accident

India and Vietnam have agreed to elevate their relationship to an Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, marking an important milestone, with cooperation expanding in trade, critical minerals...

Coal, Power, and Pollution: Why India’s Energy Choices Still Choke Its Cities

Indian cities are suffering because the country’s power grid relies too much on coal. Urban India needs a steady supply of electricity, but the electricity that comes in often makes life in cities...