Owing to the China's growing influence in South Asia, Senators Mark Warner from Virginia and John Cornyn from Texas in a joint letter to US Defense Secretary James Mattis have urged the Trump...

In 1959, Cuban leader Fidel Castro (1926-2016) established communist rule in Cuba after overthrowing military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista who was perceived to be a puppet of USA. Castro promised Cubans to free...

The rise of China has broken the world from the shackles of the uni-polar world as it’s the only contender that is capable of challenging United States of America. In 2016, when the...

In 1286 King Alexander III of Scotland died without leaving any successor. So the crown passed to his three-year-old granddaughter Margaret (“Maid of Norway”) who succeeded him. It was a dark period of...

On February 27, 1933 the Reichstag (German Parliament) was set on fire. The Nazis arrested Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch council communist who was caught on crime scene. They put the...

Recently I read a book ' Perilous Intervention: The Security Council and politics of chaos ' penned by Mr. Hardeep Singh Puri who as a diplomat has served India in various parts of...

Election results of five states Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttrakhand,Goa and Manipur are talk of the town after they were out. Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand are swept by the Modi wave, Punjab is captured...

George Orwell in his famous work 1984 depicted a dystopian country, Oceania, which is ruled by Big Brother, the leader of the dictatorship that governs it. The oppressive regime of Oceania keeps a...

Last year Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Iran signed a pact to develop the strategic Chabahar port. The port is located in the southeastern Iran in the Gulf of Oman...

China the all weather friend and ally of Pakistan has repeatedly blocked Indian attempts in UN to ban Masood Azhar, chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad (terror outfit based out of Pakistan) is now facing terror...

The Indian economy last year was struck by a Black Swan called Demonetisation. Well, to begin with its the phrase black swan is derived from Latin "rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno"...

In December, last year OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) and non-OPEC members agreed to be on the same page and cut oil production. It was a deal that the oil producing...