Engagement with neighbours is a strategic imperative, and not an option, asserts Rup Narayan Das.
Chinese Ambassador Sun Weidong has said peace and tranquility in the border areas with India is important but it is not the "whole story" of the bilateral relations and that the current status of the ties is obviously not in the fundamental interest of either side, remarks that came amid the Ladakh military standoff.
BJP has announced the name of former Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Subrata Saha, credited for establishing the Army Design bureau for Make in India for the army, as its candidate from Rashbehari constituency.
Names of BJP veterans like L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi also do not figure in the list.
111 light helicopters have to be built indigenously through joint ventures between Indian and foreign firms.
Visakhapatnam is buzzing with excitement as residents have been thronging every available vantage point, parks and footpaths to witness the ongoing rehearsals for the international fleet review.
The Union home ministry on Tuesday directed the Punjab government to submit a report over the Pathankot Air Force Base attack within 24 hours.
Union Tourism Minister Shripad Naik has said that the pub culture needs to be controlled and that tourism should not be promoted on its basis.
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar gave this information to the Parliamentary Committee on Exernal Affairs.
The anguish of the party MLAs seems to be directed at Digvijay Singh who has been handling the party affairs in Goa.
50 terrorists had been killed this year while 12 security forces personnel lost their lives.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday accused a Nigerian diplomat of sending "offensive SMSes" to a senior police officer over the controversy relating to the killing of a Nigerian national that had sparked protests by his compatriots in Panaji.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar expects to see progress in India-US defence relations at the speed of a year per month.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa looks all set to score a hattrick in the coastal state with the support of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, as vote counting trends of the February 14 elections indicated the BJP missing the majority mark by a whisker.
Ahead of the Cabinet expansion and reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hosted a breakfast meet for the new faces to be inducted in his Cabinet.
Government sources said that since the allegations were of a serious nature, the CBI has been asked to probe.
Although the BJP has never been ballistic about the BJD and Narendra Modi has avoided being critical of Naveen Patnaik, the BJP is optimistic that the party can improve its electoral fortunes in Odisha on its own, notes Rup Narayan Das.
Sawant on Tuesday said his government had sought a floor test on Wednesday to prove its strength in the assembly.
