Taliban Govt: ISI Has The Last Laugh

ISI chief Faiz Hameed coerced the Taliban to announce an interim government guaranteed to preserve Pakistan's control over the levers of power in Kabul, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar, who......

US Influence in Afghanistan has touched Ground Zero

A confrontation with the Taliban in Kabul in this fading light of a twilight zone would have been sheer madness, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar, who played a stellar role in beginning India's......

Weaponising Hinduism will win elections, but...

'...It won't help the party run a peaceful and equitable India,' warns Vir Sanghvi. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi addresses Bharatiya Janata Party leaders a day after the National......

'It is important for India to prepare for war'

'It will be a repeated folly to ever think that China will not attack us.' IMAGE: Indian Air Force aircraft in Ladakh. Photograph: ANI Photo "Why is Pakistan opening up fire on the Line of Control......

COLUMN: The goals and challenges of Rio+20

The bad news about the environment far outweighs small advances that have been made, writes Rajni Bakshi.Twenty years ago, it was mostly people who were displaced by dams, mines and other projects......