India and RCEP: The way forward
Months before the conclusion of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement by the end of 2019, India finds…
Boris at the Helm: What Next for Scotland?
Boris Johnson’s recent appointment as the Prime Minister (PM) of the UK has caused the Scottish independence debate to gain…
Future of Security: The North – East Dimension
The political complexities of India's North East can be best understood by examining the historical genesis of the conflict.
Yemen: who is fuelling the war?
Western countries - the US, UK and France have continued to sell arms to both Saudi Arabia and the UAE,…
US mediation on Kashmir
At the meeting with Imran Khan, US President Trump stated that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of…
RTI Amendment: Threat to autonomy?
The Lok Sabha has passed the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2019 which seeks to make changes to the statutorily…
Tanker tussle in the Strait of Hormuz
A British oil tanker and a British-owned Liberian-flagged ship were seized by the IRGC in the Strait of Hormuz. Is…
Israeli spyware targets cloud services
Israeli company NSO whose spyware hacked Whatsapp claimed that it could gather an individual’s data from servers of Microsoft, Apple,…
The Essar insolvency saga
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, in a recent ruling has removed the historical separation between secured and unsecured creditors.…
Chinese cameras ban at U.S. facilities
U.S. federal agencies are yet to comply with a mandate on Chinese made surveillance cameras which was imposed by the…
The reset in US-Pakistan ties
With the Trump administration desperate for a quick and honourable exit from Afghanistan, the role of Pakistan is to facilitate…
Tolerating intolerance in the US
A Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump’s "racist comments" towards four Democratic congresswomen of…
Facebook to be fined $ 5bn
US regulators have approved a forfeit of $5bn on Facebook to settle an investigation into data privacy violations. Would this…
Taliban negotiates with Afghanistan
An Afghan delegation (not representing President Ashraf Ghani) met Taliban officials in Qatar to seek a political solution to end…
Universities under scrutiny for foreign funding
The U.S. Education Department has opened an investigation into Georgetown, Texas A&M University over foreign funding from Qatar Foundation and…