Bijoe Kap

Religion has come to play a major role in the ongoing provincial elections in India as a mahant (monk) from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party is seeking re-election as chief minister of a crucial provincial state in northern India.

The $500 million aid from U.S.-based Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has caused confusion and din in the Himalayan country which is majorly under Chinese influence.

Since the humiliating Afghan debacle by the U.S. in August 2021, new world order is shaping up. In fact, the U.S. sanctions against Russia and China have ended up helping them rather than hurting them.

The Arab solidarity with the Palestine cause is a relic of the past and the Palestinian leadership, which historically defended its position based on a collective Arab vision, is now left orphaned and abandoned.

China is fully aware of the fact that the U.S. cannot handle the two-front confrontations with both China and Russia simultaneously and go unscathed.

At the fourth QUAD foreign ministers' meeting in Melbourne Feb. 11, involving the US, Australia, India, and Japan, vaccine delivery, critical and emerging technologies, and the global security environment - all aimed at China -- will be discussed and will be put into action.

The Elon Musk-owned Tesla is having a bumpy ride in India as the government is insisting on making Tesla cars domestically while the billionaire entrepreneur wants India to make tax concessions to debut in the Indian market.

Encouraged by China, Khan is taking a nuclear-powered Pakistan into the Sino-Russia camp after he refused to give the green signal to the US request to set up a military base in Pakistan.

Sri Lanka linked mega infrastructure projects with tourism and is paying a heavy price for it. But rising to the occasion, China, India, and Japan may come to the rescue of the debt-ridden vital nation.

The invitation list for the upcoming Summit for Democracy in the United States indicates the superpower's attempt to reassert its global leadership position following the challenges it is facing from China and Russia.

It has been 37 years since the worst industrial disaster in the history of the world occurred in the central Indian city of Bhopal, killing thousands of people, and then slowly claiming many lives over a long period of time.

Much to the discomfort of the U.S. and China, India is all set to roll out the red carpet for President Vladimir Putin on Dec. 6 for the 21st India-Russia Annual Summit.

India has reached out to African nations with medical aid as the Omicron COVID-19 variant is set to wreak havoc on several African nations.

Seizure of radioactive substances on a China-bound ship from Pakistan by Indian authorities raises concern over nuclear transparency in Asia.

Though reports of Kampala's Entebbe International Airport takeover was denied by both China and Uganda, the tough clauses in the $200 million loan to expand the East African nation's only international airport can still spew venom.

Quoting the fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), the federal health ministry Nov. 24 stated that India's population rate has started to decline.

Geopolitical and domestic compulsions forced the South Asian Island nation to put its green efforts on the backburner.

The active cases in the country of 1.3 billion people stand at 111,481, lowest in 537 days, India's health ministry said.

The residential areas in Balochistan, a least developed province of Pakistan, are facing 21 hour-long electricity cuts and severe water shortage as the supplies have been diverted for Chinese use.

Foreign ministers of the four nations – India, Israel, the UAE and the U.S. -- are holding their first physical meeting in the coming weeks in Dubai as part of their West Asia Quad grouping.

Even as experts discuss the outcome of Xi-Biden virtual summit, the U.S. President said on Thursday that he is considering diplomatic boycott of 2022 Winter Olympics.