The pilot’s tower at Colombo port, in Sri Lanka’s capital, provides a telling snapshot of India’s struggle with China in South Asia. To the east lie the berths where Indian and Chinese warships often dock, a port official explains. Southwards sits the Chinese-operated container terminal that was an early part of China’s Belt and Road...
Janakpur (Nepal), Feb 05 (ANI): Aiming to strengthen bilateral cooperation in tourism and allied sectors, the Consulate General of India and the States Division (MEA India), in collaboration with the PHDCCI India-Nepal Centre, organized the India-Nepal Tourism Summit 2025 in Janakpur on Tuesday. The summit focused on developing new roadmaps to enhance collaboration and implementing...
In January 2025, the Maldivian foreign and defense ministers made high-profile visits to New Delhi. Occurring against the backdrop of an administration that initially rose to power on an anti-India platform, these visits signal a striking recalibration of Maldivian foreign policy. Not long ago, anti-India rhetoric dominated the discourse of the government led by Maldivian...
Breastfeeding support services throughout Nepal have been suspended due to a stop-work order issued by the United States for foreign aid and development programs. The services, funded by the US Agency for International Development and administered by the Nepali government, were key to ensuring the lives and health of infants in the country, where nearly...
Michael Kugelman is the Director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center, a Washington DC-based think tank mandated by the US Congress to offer counsel and insights on global affairs to American policymakers. In this interview with the Post’s Biswas Baral, Kugelman discusses America’s South Asian policy under Trump and how it will...
EU leaders agreed at their summit with Keir Starmer in Brussels this week that much more spending is urgently needed to support Ukraine and to strengthen Europe’s own defences. But they have yet to get real about how to fund it, how to spend it, or how to staff it. Nearly three years after Russia’s...
विश्वमञ्चमा उभिन प्रयासरत भारतले विस्तारवादी नीति त्यागेर छिमेकीसँग सहअस्तित्वको सम्बन्ध बनाउन जरुरी छ। जातीय, भाषिक, सांस्कृतिक र भौगोलिक रूपमा विविधतापूर्ण भारतको आन्तरिक मात्रै होइन, बाह्य सम्बन्ध पनि सहज रहँदै आएको छैन। लोकतान्त्रिक राष्ट्र भए पनि आन्तरिक व्यवहार त्यस्तो देखिंदैन। त्यस्तै, छिमेकीसँगको सम्बन्ध पनि सधैं उतारचढावपूर्ण रहँदै आएको छ। दक्षिण-पश्चिमको अधिकांश भूभाग समुद्रको तटीय क्षेत्र रहे...
A recent executive order of US President Donald Trump to pause for review all American assistance funded by or through the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has affected at least four projects run by the government in partnership with USAID. Moreover, as many as 300 NGOs, consultancies, and nonprofits that...
China’s ongoing expansion of its nuclear arsenal may be aimed at eventually achieving nuclear parity with the United States. But regardless of the rationale, China’s nuclear expansion, along with possible changes to its nuclear doctrine, are of great concern to India, its neighbor in South Asia. This report—based on interviews with nearly two dozen Indian...
Congress leader Pawan Khera has challenged AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal to a debate following a CAG report highlighting a revenue loss of Rs 2,026 crore in Delhi’s excise policy. Khera criticized Kejriwal’s silence on the matter, questioning his integrity ahead of the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections. In a fiery exchange, Congress leader Pawan Khera lambasted Aam...