There is discernible anxiety in the UAE, or “a general apprehension towards Washington going the extra mile in empowering the Islamists and treating them as new political allies”, as a prominent artic

Counting India as being “among our extremely important friends and neighbours”, a top official of the United Arab Emirates lamented, however, that the country “was being consumed by its own politics”.

Noting that Afghanistan was going through a very critical phase in which it was “going from dependency to self-reliance”, the country’s ambassador here, Shaida Mohammad Abdali, said on Monday that Kab

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Armed Balo-ch nationalists are at the centre of the story, but only as ind-ividuals. The larger idea they stand for is giv-en credence more through the Baloch yea-rning for their lost culture than through the political nationalism.

Eric Hobsbawm, the famous British historian who died at his home in London on October 1 at the age of 95, mesmerised the audience when he delivered a lecture at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi a

When the Congress party officially announced recently that Rahul Gandhi could consider a position in the Union Cabinet and also assume more responsibility in the party organisation, some in the Congress were surprised.

The dramatic developments on Wednesday unleashed by UPA-2 partner Mamata Banerjee on the issue of the presidential poll leave two clear messages.

Mohamed Nasheed, Maldives’ first democratically elected President who was ousted from power two months ago in a development that he has called a “coup”, is arriving here on Tuesday as part of his inte

It was extraordinary, and not a little curious, to see the young Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, stand right behind Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, his father, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after the

There appeared to be broad informal consensus in political circles on Wednesday that heeding Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee’s peremptory warning to withdraw the proposal of even a marginal hike in railway fares can place the government in jeopardy when the national Budget is debated in Parliament in a few days.