Indian Foreign Policy

Trade, economic interests drive India's foreign policy

How the oil price cap will actually play out is not clear, but our government remains unfazed because the cost of crude is anyway on a downward trend

France respects India keeping Russia ties, says foreign minister

India has not condemned Russia's February invasion of Ukraine, instead calling for negotiations and peace

Indo-Pacific Economic Framework: Opportunity and challenge

India's ability to successfully conclude its FTAs with the EU and Australia, according to schedule, will signal to the world its readiness and capability to play the role envisioned of it in the IPEF

"Not flipping a light switch": US defends ties between India, Russia

The United States appeared to be defending India's policy choices, saying that it will take a long time for countries who have historic ties with Moscow to reorient their foreign policy

President Ram Nath Kovind arrives in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

President Kovind arrived in Kingstown after participating in a range of activities in Jamaica, including an address to the joint sitting of the Jamaican parliament

How will being invited to G7 summit impact India's foreign policy?

G7 leaders want to 'woo New Delhi away from Russia'. To this end, the German Chancellor has invited PM Modi to the G7 leaders' summit next month. What's going to be the outcome of this attempt

India's international branding up due to initiation of new dialogues: EAM

We are today seen as a country which has serious events, where a different set of people come and talk and I think that helped us enormously in terms of our international reputations, said Jaishankar

Winning back some neighbours

Whether it is Sri Lanka, Maldives, or Nepal, quietly but steadily, India has been reclaiming some of the ground it had lost to China

Imagine: The common good

'I propose a common "offer" to countries that are engaged in imagining a joined-up foreign, trade, defence and development policy framework', says the author

Economic heft and foreign policy posturing

India's foreign policy options are circumscribed by its relatively inadequate economic size and technological capabilities

A geopolitical roadmap in uncertain times

Book review of India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, the Present

Thaw on the western front

Talks with Taliban, J&K leaders, thaw with Pakistan are strategic imperatives for Modi govt. It can't covet US as Quad ally in the east and work at counter-purposes with them in the west

Funds to MEA inadequate considering India's foreign policy needs: Par panel

The budgetary allocation to the MEA is inadequate, considering the extent and magnitude of India's diplomatic outreach and foreign policy objectives, a parliamentary committee said in a report

India losing power, respect globally; govt has no idea what to do: Rahul

Congress leader cites media report that claimed that Iran has dropped India from the Chabahar rail project

Distant neighbours

Modi govt's foreign policy falters

Foreign policy: Not by Ahimsa alone

New Delhi should see India's military capacity as an insurance against the failure of diplomacy around the world

Ensuring that the MEA delivers

Comprehensive diplomatic goals, broken down into action plans for embassies, needed