'India has skills to deal with the Taliban'

'Even during the worst days during the 1990s, India was dealing with the Taliban.' IMAGE: Talibs at a checkpoint in Kabul, August 29, 2021. Photograph: Reuters   "The Pakistanis, Chinese,......

'Abhinandan is a typically aggressive fighter pilot'

'Wing Commander Abhinandan would not have even worried if he was going to cross the LoC or not because he was not going to let go of a shot.' IMAGE: Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik with a sand......

'It is not so much about dropping bombs on a target, it is the effect that that bomb creates'

'The Balakot mission was an act of political signaling that India is willing to raise the price that the Pakistani State has to pay in order to support terrorism.' Through the 1990s, the Indian......

Modi @3: The view from the foreign office

Diplomats agree that amid stormy relations with China and Pakistan, Modi has posted impressive foreign policy successes, notes Aditi Phadnis.  When veteran diplomat Hardeep Puri retired from......

India to be developed nation: Blackberry CEO

James Laurence Balsillie, founder and co-chief executive officer of Research in Motion, feels that in the next 20 years, India will reach the developed nation status with $20,000 per capita income......