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Four decades after 1970-71, the US and its European allies have failed in their second attempt to organise an undeclared diplomatic isolation of the Awami league-ruled Bangladesh.

The UPA-II’s countdown has begun. Once again, Rahul Gandhi seems to be in his unpredictable best. BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s ‘Jayanti tax’ jibe at disgraced former environment minister Natarajan apart, it was probably one of the most politically puzzling decisions by the Prime Minister and the party leadership to dump veteran Tamil Nadu Congress leader Jayanthi Natarajan stigmatizing her solely for environment clearance delays most large core and infrastructure sector projects, just ahead of the Lok Sabha election.

New Delhi: Afghanistan is ready to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with US as its supreme people’s council, Loya Jirga has approved such a move.

New Delhi: With a view to develop their strategic partnership in a “more substantial and concrete manner”, India and South Korea signed as many as nine agreements, including those relating to cooperation in defence, outer space and cyber security.

Political commentators who heaved a sigh of relief after the Chairman of the interim government, Khil Raj Regm, announced a few days back that the first session of the new Constituent Assembly (CA) would be held on 22 January got a sudden shock with a writ petition by an advocate Sallu Tiwari, a day after, seeking a stay on the sitting of CA. The petition which is up to the Supreme Court of Nepal argues that 26 seats are still to be filled in the 575-seat CA – 240 directly elected through the first-past-the-post system, the rest under proportional representation, based on votes polled by the parties in the direct voting, should not be convened.

Aam aadmi has suddenly become the toast of the country. It was the celebrated Times of India cartoonist R K Laxman who popularised the aam aadmi concept. Through his funny cartoons he connected the common man to the happenings of the country and these were highly appreciated by the public.

New Delhi: India is slated to discuss civil nuclear and defence cooperation with South Korea as the South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrived here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: In the beginning of the year 2014, India is hosting two important conclaves of countries to help Afghanistan have a peaceful presidential election and subsequently to prepare itself for the transformation process following the slated withdrawal of NATO forces from the war raged country in the current year.

As India is in the process of bidding its oil blocks for the 10th round of exploration and development under the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP), a lot of unresolved and seemingly insoluble issues have cropped up. This is over and above the electoral calendar coming in the way of any prospective investor to take a serious call till the new government is in place by June 2014 particularly when stability in policy has seldom been India’s forte and strength to attract investment.

Emergence of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on national level has become a new factor in the politics of Bihar. Since Bihar is notorious for its caste and community politics, it will be difficult for AAP to influence its politics. If we analyze its success in Delhi, we find that AAP was successful, where identity politics was weak. Success of AAP was restricted in those constituencies, where identity politics mattered. For example, AAP candidates were defeated by big margins in the constituencies dominated by Muslims.