Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
On May 7, 2026, Leilma, an Ismaili woman and wife of Salam Maftoon, a local singer, was killed at the Ishkashim Bazaar in the Ishkashim District of Badakhshan Province. The attacker used
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There is an inimitable French expression — ‘ennui’. I first came across it while reading Jean-Paul Sartre as a university student in Thiruvananthapuram in the mid-sixties. It roughly translates as a feeling
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The brief but intense India–Pakistan confrontation of May 2025 will likely be remembered not only for military exchanges or cross-border strikes, but for something equally significant: the contest over narrative, credibility and
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In the refined idiom of jurisprudence! The term “shall” wields commanding authority of the highest order, elevating a mere expression into an obligatory mandate. More clearly, in legal parlance, the word “shall”
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In the realist tradition of international relations, regimes driven by ideology and internal consolidation often transform into sanctuaries for non-state actors. They provide safe havens to aligned militant groups as proxies for
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While congratulatory messages continue to pour in from across India and beyond, Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar — marketed for decades as “Thalapathy”, the commander — is now discovering that Tamil Nadu is not
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One month after the United States and Iran reached a fragile ceasefire agreement, the world’s humanitarian system remains under severe strain as the fallout from the conflict around the Strait of Hormuz
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Syria’s Interior Ministry has announced what it describes as a major crackdown on Hezbollah-linked cells operating inside the country, alleging that coordinated networks tied to Iran-backed actors were preparing assassination attempts, attacks
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Civilizations, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee famously argued, “die from suicide, not by murder.” They collapse from within. They fall prey to moral, social and spiritual decay. They are seized by
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The most consequential escalations in South Asia are no longer confined to artillery exchanges across the Line of Control or aerial confrontations between nuclear-armed rivals. Increasingly, they unfold through the manipulation of
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