A greater proportion of Muslims migrate from India as compared to Hindus. Art 14 and other human rights institutions tell us why. Only 15% of India’s population is Muslim but 33% of all India-born migrants in the world are Muslims. About 80% of the people in India are Hindus, but Hindus are only 41% of emigrants from India, according to […]

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s visit to India is long overdue and timely, in elevating a new way forward of a strengthened Kuala Lumpur-New Delhi ties, which forms one of the most strategic and critical bilateral relationships in the region for both economic and geopolitical domains. Anwar’s three-day visit is also a chance to reset Malaysia’s relations with India, following […]

The continued pricing dispute over the Power of Siberia II gas pipeline might lead to Russia prioritizing its new gas MoUs with Iran and Azerbaijan to pioneer a southern-directed pipeline for facilitating Russian-Iranian gas swaps with India. The South China Morning Post reported earlier this week that “Future murky for Russia-China pipeline as Mongolia omits project from long-term plan” after […]

On August 8, 2024, a trooper of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA), the special anti-Naxal [Left Wing Extremism, LWE] unit of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), was injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion during a search operation against the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres in the Saranda Forest area under the Chotanagara Police Station […]

India calls out US for destabilizing Hasina under garb of “transformative power of collective action” The recent statement of US Senator Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hailing the ‘coup’ against the democratically-elected leader of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina as “transformative power of collective action”, is a confirmation of the American role in destabilizing Bangladesh. This statement is […]

This drone deal is admittedly surprising since few could have predicted that Russia either wouldn’t lend credence to reports of Pakistani arms sales to Ukraine or would still bolster its anti-terrorist ISR capabilities in spite of them if they were believed. Sputnik India cited unnamed media reports on Tuesday to tweet about Pakistan’s purchase of Russia’s Supercam S350 drones, which […]

According to a report by the Russian TASS news agency, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, recently re-elected, made an official visit to Russia in July. This visit marked a departure from the tradition of newly elected leaders first visiting neighboring countries, indicating India’s focus on its relationship with Russia and its commitment to “strategic autonomy”. Raj Kumar Sharma, a senior […]

The need is for measured steps to rescue Indo-Bangla relations from the nadir it has touched, not once but twice in the last 49 years. India’s relationship with Bangladesh touched the nadir this month when its trusted friend in Dhaka, Sheikh Hasina, quit the Prime Ministership and fled to India unable to face the wrath of her people who were […]

What appears to have convinced American policymakers to consider returning back to their pragmatic approach towards India instead of continuing to pressure it on Russia is those two’s newfound convergence on Tibet and especially Ukraine. US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell admitted during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that “[India] will never be a formal ally or partner […]

June 15, 2024 marks the fourth year since China’s deadly escalation at the Galwan Valley. Since they began in 2020, negotiations and dialogue are yet to deliver any resolution to the border dispute. As such, India’s multi-alignment strategy, precisely implemented to ‘manage’ China, has run its course and requires recalibration. The multi-alignment strategy is conceptually synonymous with the non-alignment approach […]