The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
Editor’s Note: This column is based on excerpts from a speech by Chase Hughes, a behavioral science expert, author, and former U.S. Navy officer. Hughes has spent over two decades studying human
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In a small corner of the third page of the Divaina newspaper in 1992, a photograph appeared that went largely unnoticed. The headline read, “Chandrika on a Tour to India.” The accompanying
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Donald Trump’s return to power has transformed South Asian politics. The United States has long regarded India as a strategic ally because it joined the QUAD alliance to pursue specific goals in
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On November 2, 2025, the US President Donald J. Trump announced that he instructed the US Department of War to prepare for attacks in Nigeria – “if the Nigerian government continues to
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A group of former British spy chiefs, including Sir Jeremy Fleming, former head of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), has launched a company aimed at protecting corporate secrets from being inadvertently exposed
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J.N. Dixit, India’s former National Security Adviser and one of the country’s most seasoned diplomats, once wrote that the establishment of relations “with South Africa and then with Israel” was the most
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A year has passed since November 2024, when Donald Trump won the US presidential election for the second time. And it makes more sense to start the clock there, rather than on
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Bangladesh, a nation shaped by the vision of its founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is facing a perilous political and social crisis, according to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. In a detailed
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On Wednesday, a high-level delegation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, led by intelligence chief Abdul Haq Wasiq, arrived in Istanbul for the third round of talks with Pakistan. The discussions, between
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The overnight visit by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to India has been rather thin on the ground. Although this has been his first visit to India as Foreign Minister, and notwithstanding
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Decades ago, during the intense US–Soviet standoff of the Cold War, a deterrence competition was unleashed through both covert and overt means. From strategic firepower to nuclear deterrence, the Soviets and the
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Somewhere between New York’s Studio 54 disco and the White House, Donald Trump became infused by militant Christianity. At the same time, he also seems to have been imbued by the most
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Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has expressed strong support for India’s long-standing quest for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), describing it as an acknowledgment of “global
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The state cannot take Decisions abruptly overnight; it follows a series of processes to identify enduring strategic objectives. For that matter, viewing Pakistan’s October 9 strikes on Afghanistan as a counter-response to
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China’s shadowy next-generation fighter jet programs appear to be accelerating, with newly released commercial satellite imagery showing both the J-36 and J-XDS stealth aircraft at a remote and heavily expanded airbase near
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