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Putting India Emphatically on Global Map – Part 2

Jul 3, 2015 - 5:58 am EDT Kanwal Sibal 0

Continued from Putting India Emphatically on Global Map – Part 1 It defies logic that a country that is considered as our most serious adversary and whose policies in our region has done us incalculable strategic harm should […]

US says Iran nuclear deal deadline may ‘slip’

Jun 26, 2015 - 7:23 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

VIENNA (TIP): High-stakes talks to nail down a historic deal with Iran to curtail its nuclear programme may “slip” past a June 30 deadline, a top US official admitted on June 25 ahead of crunch […]

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Putting India Emphatically on Global Map – Part 1

Jun 19, 2015 - 7:58 pm EDT @theindpanorama 1

Prime Minister Modi has surprised his own people and, no doubt, external observers, by his foreign policy activism since he took office. In his year in power he has travelled abroad 16 times- and 19 if […]

A way with the world

Jun 5, 2015 - 11:55 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, scored most in foreign policy in his first year in power. No one anticipated Modi’s natural flair for diplomacy, to which he has brought imagination and self-assurance. Modi has been more […]

European officials sing ‘we are the world’ at Nato meeting

May 15, 2015 - 3:09 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

ANTALYA (TIP): In a distinctly different note for a military alliance meeting, European officials ended a Nato meeting with a spirited rendition of “we are the world.” Taking a break from issues such as the […]

Strategic Autonomy as an Indian Foreign Policy Option

May 8, 2015 - 9:09 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

[quote_right]For a large country like India, which has the potential of becoming a big power in the future, strategic autonomy is a compelling choice. By virtue of its demographic, geographic, economic and military size, India […]

Indian-American Diplomat Puneet Talwar (sitting) sworn in as US Assistant Secretary for Bureau of Political-Military Affairs by US Vice President Joe Biden

Deepening Ties Will Shape Global Balance of Power: Indian-American Diplomat

Apr 5, 2015 - 5:19 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NEW YORK: The deepening India-US ties are among the most significant strategic developments of the past several years and will shape the global balance of power in the years to come, a senior Obama Administration official […]

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SMART MOVES – Modi Government on US & China

Mar 27, 2015 - 12:11 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

Pakistan tried to strike a deal with Osama?

Mar 13, 2015 - 8:29 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

WASHINGTON (TIP): President Obama on Wednesday nominated career diplomat David Hale as the US ambassador to Pakistan amid continuous misgivings about the country’s commitment to fight terrorism, fueled by new disclosures that Islamabad tried to […]

US-Israel spat intensifies over Netanyahu speech

Feb 27, 2015 - 6:24 am EST @theindpanorama 0

WASHINGTON: The US and Israel escalated their increasingly public spat on February 25 over Benjamin Netanyahu‘s Republican-engineered congressional speech next week, with the Israeli prime minister accusing world powers of rolling over to allow Tehran […]

(Gen. Ashok K. Mehta is the convener of the India-Pakistan and India-Afghanistan Policy Groups.)

Reset of a policy of equidistance

Feb 13, 2015 - 7:46 am EST @theindpanorama 0

Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office, an Indian TV channel held a discussion on likely foreign policy reorientation. When the doyen of South Asian Studies, Stephen Cohen, was asked in which direction Mr. Modi […]

Visit successful beyond expectations

Feb 6, 2015 - 9:08 am EST @theindpanorama 0

China concerned at breakthroughs achieved and Obama-Modi chemistry China, by being in such a haste to downplay the visit of President Obama to India, without even waiting for the visitor to leave India’s airspace, has […]

Business & Economics

INDIA’S RELATIONS WITH THE US MUST NOT BE ONE-SIDED

Jan 24, 2015 - 9:10 am EST @theindpanorama 0

‘It is in the interest of both sides that the visit is seen as being successful. Both sides have invested considerable political capital in it…….This rapid exchange of visits and the decisions taken have to be justified, […]

Resolving the nuclear liability deadlock

Jan 24, 2015 - 8:59 am EST @theindpanorama 0

“By putting in place a comprehensive, fair and pragmatic legislation on civil nuclear liability, there is no reason why India cannot reap the long-term benefits of civilian nuclear energy and resolve a prickly foreign policy issue”, […]

Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty

Dec 5, 2014 - 9:02 am EST @theindpanorama 0

I.S. Saluja Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 68th Independence Day of India on 15th August, 2014. It has been almost 4 months since he […]

Quran is not for Muslims alone

Nov 21, 2014 - 7:30 am EST Mike Ghouse 0

The very first verse in Quran reads, “1:2 (Asad) All praise is due to God alone, the Sustainer of all the worlds (that exist),” and the very last chapter opens with this line, “114:1 (Ali) […]

Business & Economics

Why did I quit being a Republican?

Nov 8, 2014 - 8:51 am EST Mike Ghouse 0

It is one of the most difficult decisions of my life to quit being a Republican. The more people I talk to, the more confident I feel that the GOP has completely lost its anchor […]

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Emergency was a blunder; Operation Bluestar an unmitigated disaster

Oct 31, 2014 - 8:40 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Operation Bluestar was grievously handled. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I know that Indira Gandhi’s instructions were disregarded by those who in Amritsar were in charge of the operation. The Golden Temple […]

Business & Economics

NEED FOR A LONG-TERM PLAN NOW

Oct 25, 2014 - 5:10 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

It can be considered the biggest strategic failure of Indian diplomacy that even after more than six decades, India has not found a way to neutralize the malevolence of a neighbor one-eighth its size”, says […]

Europe

Shinzo Abe becomes first Japanese PM to visit Sri Lanka in 24 years

Oct 17, 2014 - 7:50 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

COLOMBO (TIP): Shinzo Abe on October 12 became the first Japanese prime minister to visit Sri Lanka in 24 years, on the second leg of a South Asian tour that sought to assert Tokyo’s interest […]

Sweden to become first major European country to recognize state of Palestine

Oct 4, 2014 - 7:30 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

STOCKHOLM (TIP): Sweden’s new centre-left government will recognize the state of Palestine in a move that will make it the first major European country to take the step, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Friday. […]

SUMMITRY OVER SUBSTANCE?

Sep 18, 2014 - 1:03 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

“Expectations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s visit to the United States later this month need to be modulated with stiff doses of reality. Structural weakness in the United States means that it cannot offer much; […]

Steven Sotloff, U.S. hostage slain by ISIS, was also a citizen of Israel

Sep 4, 2014 - 6:09 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NEW YORK (TIP): The beheading of Steven J. Sotloff, the American journalist from Miami who had been held hostage by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, suddenly loomed larger for many Israelis on Wednesday, […]

Business & Economics

Questions about Nuclear Weapons

Aug 8, 2014 - 6:24 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Non-Proliferation Ayatollahs are again chasing India In a partisan and condescending editorial in early July 2014, New York Times wrote: “If India wants to be part of the nuclear suppliers group, it needs to sign […]

SHARIF FELT BELITTLED IN INDIA, CLAIMS PAKISTANI MEDIA

Jul 25, 2014 - 6:45 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI (TIP): Even as Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif reached out to his counterpart Narendra Modi by dispatching gifts for the Indian PM’s mother, Pakistani media reported that he was “not too happy” with the […]

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