Background An year after the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) revoked the security clearance of the Turkish Celebi company in the aftermath of Turkiye’s support to Pakistan during Op Sindoor in May 2025, Canan Celebioglu-the chairperson of the company has described it as the most unfortunate blow to its existence, stating that the Indian …
The Armenian Parliamentary elections, which concluded earlier this month, yielded a highly polarised outcome, underscoring the deep ideological divide between the incumbent Civil Contract party and the primary opposition coalition, Strong Armenia. This domestic polarisation raises fundamental questions regarding the alignment of Armenia’s strategic priorities, and whether the current policy path reflects a genuine national …
The meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit has largely been viewed through the lens of bilateral diplomacy. Much of the commentary focused on trade negotiations, regional tensions, and the state of India- U.S. relations. Yet doing so risks overlooking the more important story. …
How Unchecked Illegal Migration Is Redrawing India’s Demographic Map For decades, India’s eastern and northeastern borderlands have served as ground zero for one of the subcontinent’s most consequential and least frankly acknowledged crises: the large-scale, unchecked influx of illegal migrants — overwhelmingly from Bangladesh — that has steadily and irreversibly redrawn the demographic, political, and …
The post-Cold War international order – built on the twin pillars of American unipolarity and liberal institutionalism – is unravelling with conspicuous speed. In its place, a more contested, multipolar architecture is emerging, one defined by systemic rivalry between the United States and China, the resurgence of a revanchist Russia, and the ascent of middle …
Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi landed in Oslo on 18 May 2026, marking the first visit by an Indian PM to Norway in over four decades. This visit signalled a structural recalibration of India’s Europe strategy. The Nordic region, long regarded in New Delhi’s diplomatic calculus as a geography of goodwill and sustainability …
Nations of the world have long been defined and understood within the dominant framework of borders, constitutions, and flags, and though this identification of a nation with modern symbols has become imperative in the current world order, it seems rather inadequate for explaining India’s position on the world stage. A country rising through the ranks …
When the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) admitted India and Pakistan simultaneously at its June 2017 Astana summit, the official narrative was institutional maturity – a body confident enough to expand. A closer reading of what each founding power stood to gain suggests something layered. The two admissions fit the interests of Moscow and Beijing so …
The world is not drifting toward disorder; it is already there. Wars, coercion, cyber attacks, supply-chain shocks, and climate stress are no longer separate crises but parts of the same unstable global landscape, and the Quad has emerged as one of the few serious attempts to answer that challenge. From Europe to the Indo-Pacific, conflict …
Background India’s relationship with Central Asia is not new. It is rooted in centuries of historical interaction, cultural exchanges, trade linkages and shared strategic interests. The five Central Asian countries i.e. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan occupy a vital position in the Eurasian region and hold growing strategic importance in India’s foreign policy framework. …
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