2017 ,
On Monday, 12 December, 2016 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a landmark resolution on strengthening international judicial cooperation in countering terrorism. Resolution 2322 aims to enhance the efficacy of...
Read More
2017 ,
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority (PNA) and the head of Fatah - the main constituent of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) for quite some time, is at...
Read More
2017 ,
Significant developments took place regarding Syria in December 2016. The partial cease-fire brokered, or rather, brokered and imposed, by Russia and Turkey, with Iran’s concurrence, on President Basher al Assad...
Read More
2017 ,
When, not whether? Many observers have pondered over this question regarding a prime ministerial visit to Israel ever since Narendra Modi assumed office. In the light of Modi’s admiration for...
Read More
2017 ,
As the year 2016 drew to a raucous close, memories of the Pathankot strike by militants on January 2, 2016 sound like an echo from the distant past. So much...
Read More
2016 ,
The declared use made of earth observation satellites (Cartosat Series) for facilitating the surgical strikes conducted across the Line of Control (LoC) in September 2016 represents a new precedent. India’s...
Read More
2016 ,
I was not “officially invited” to be an observer for the recently-held presidential elections in Uzbekistan. On the contrary, I was a tourist during the last few days of campaigning...
Read More
2016 ,
In response to an invitation by Uzbekistan’s Foreign Ministry, I had visited Tashkent as an observer to monitor the presidential election held on 4 December 2016. To play the role...
Read More
2016 ,
The security situation in Manipur is increasingly becoming alarming. Besides rising violence, the state has witnessed a spate of shutdowns and blockades in support of various demands by civil society...
Read More
2016 ,
The air forces of Latin America are unique in comparison with any region except perhaps sub-Saharan Africa, in that their combat aircraft components are composed of an odd but nonetheless...
Read More
