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With Nepal disallowing the Indian Army’s proposal to recruit Gorkhas to join its new Agneepath scheme, India’s uneasy relations with its regional neighbours have surfaced again. Under the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, often perceived as being ‘right wing’, India cannot apparently avoid its diplomatic missteps in dealing with its smaller neighbours.

The war between Russia and Ukraine with an overt involvement of the NATO has killed thousands, pushed millions to refugee status and caused immense destruction of resources. Much in danger are the nuclear power plants in Ukraine which if damaged by intentional attack, accident, technology failure or cybercrime, would become potential nuclear bomb. The Plant at Zaporhizhzhia which has been occupied by the Russian forces can be a flash point. Ukraine has a history of dreadful Chernobyl nuclear accident.

At first glance, a potential bid by Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two of the world’s worst human rights violators, together with Greece, to host the 2030 World Cup sounds like an invitation to a perfect public relations fiasco.

Most informed observers agree that the Ukraine war which has crossed six months, will either end at the negotiating table, or remain a bloody stalemate that drags on indefinitely. So what are the prospects for some kind of diplomatic solution to the fighting?

The first battle of Panipat in 1526 had changed the history of India and began the Mughal rule; two and a quarter century later, the battle of Plassey had changed the course of history of Indian nation and had its impact on the global economy.

NEW YORK: The constitutional right to abortion and democracy itself took centrestage and gave Democratic Ulster County, N.Y., Executive Pat Ryan a win in a special congressional election in a swing U.S. House seat in New York’s Hudson Valley this week.

Serena Jameka Williams, the world’s greatest tennis player, announced her retirement last week. An African American woman, Serena, along with her sister Venus, has dominated an essentially white sport—both in tennis of who played it and the audience that followed it.

At first glance, there is little that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an Islamist and nationalist, has in common with DoguPerincek, a maverick socialist, Eurasianist, and militant secularist and Kemalist.

This spring, the Democratic Party’s prospects in the coming midterm congressional elections looked extremely bleak. With high inflation squeezing wallets, President Joe Biden’s approval ratings at record lows, and most of the party’s national policy agenda apparently dead in the water, a Republican sweep in November seemed likely. And the risky strategy being pursued by Democrats in some states — boosting far-right candidates in GOP primaries in the hope they’d be easier to beat in the general election — seemed like a dangerous Hail Mary from a party short on ideas.

China is tightening its grip and strategic strangle hold around India faster than perceived earlier.