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Strait of Hormuz: More than a Regional Flashpoint; Prolonged Instability Could Ripple Across Continents

New Delhi, May 12 -- For decades, the Strait of Hormuz functioned as one of the world's most critical free waterways, a narrow but vital maritime corridor through which oil, gas, trade, and global com... Read More


Trump-Xi Reset Could Leave India Strategically Exposed

New Delhi, May 12 -- When United States President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14 and 15, the world will parse every signal on tariffs, Taiwan and trade. In New De... Read More


How India's Monetary Policy Shapes Nepal's Economy: Nepal Needs Greater Monetary Flexibility

New Delhi, May 11 -- Nepal officially adopted the current exchange rate peg of NPR 1.6 per INR in 1993, with implementation beginning in 1994, an era when the internet was still a novelty and Nepal's ... Read More


Renewing Ties with Bangladesh: An Agenda for the new Indian High Commissioner

New Delhi, May 11 -- India-Bangladesh relations suffered a serious setback during the unconstitutional Interim Government of Md Yunus after Sheikh Hasina's ouster from power and exile to India in Augu... Read More


Two Visits and Strategic Signalling: Sri Lanka at Focal Point of Indian Ocean diplomacy

New Delhi, May 10 -- In a single week, Sri Lanka has hosted two strategically important leaders from the region, President Mohamed Muizzu of the Maldives and Vietnamese President To Lam, signaling tha... Read More


Dying Rivers, Disappearing Species: Zoological Cost of Pollution in Pakistan and India

New Delhi, May 10 -- Rivers have always shaped the political and economic foundations of South Asia, but contemporary debates surrounding the Indus and Ganges systems remain narrowly centred on water ... Read More


Climate Migration: The Next Global Humanitarian Crisis?

New Delhi, May 9 -- Human beings have always migrated from one place to another. Sometimes for jobs. Sometimes for safety. Sometimes for a better life. But today a new and ever more urgent reason is d... Read More


Why India Has Modest Presence in Global Citrus Trade: Agricultural Export Policy Must Move Closer to Ground Realities

New Delhi, May 9 -- A mandarin picked in Nagpur does not become an export success at the orchard. It has to survive the 'mandi' (wholesale agricultural market), the trader, the grading table, the truc... Read More


Pakistan Needs Integrated Maritime Strategy: Fragmentation Carries Strategic Costs

New Delhi, May 9 -- Pakistan's coastline is not peripheral; it is strategic. Stretching over 1,000 km along the Arabian Sea, it connects critical sea lanes, energy corridors, and regional markets. In ... Read More


Rethinking Electoral Governance: Making Indian Democracy Manipulation Free

New Delhi, May 8 -- Concerns about the direction of electoral politics in India's democracy often emerge in moments of visible political shift, such as recent outcomes in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, t... Read More