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India’s neighbourhood is in great turmoil, but New Delhi seems unable to fashion a coherent, balanced, mature and self-confident response to it. In particular, India has dealt with Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar and Nepal in confused and indecisive, if not wholly inept, ways. This has eroded India’s influence and legitimacy in the “Gujral Doctrine” countries, comprising South Asia without Pakistan, with whom India pledged to establish close relations by “going the extra mile” without demanding reciprocity.

It is ironic that the chief minister who was held responsible for the BJP’s 2004 defeat by Atal Behari Vajpayee is now being presented as the party’s prime ministerial candidate in 2014.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Asia has become increasingly integrated over the past decade, led by growing trade and tourism and, most recently, as the region faced down the global financial crisis and subsequent eurozone crisis, according to a new integration index published in the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) latest Asian Economic Integration Monitor.

New Delhi: India and Kazakhstan agreed to explore possibilities of creating direct trade and energy corridors between the two countries. Both the countries also agreed to enhance air connectivity with airlines from Kazakhstan and India soon having up to 14 flights a week to destinations in each of our countries.

New Delhi: After signing bilateral Social Security Agreement with India yesterday, Portugal said that it would soon sign an agreement for visa free travel for diplomatic and official passport holders.

New Delhi: After signing bilateral Social Security Agreement with India yesterday, Portugal said that it would soon sign an agreement for visa free travel for diplomatic and official passport holders.

WASHINGTON - Africa’s farmers and agribusinesses could create a trillion-dollar food market by 2030 if they can expand their access to more capital, electricity, better technology and irrigated land to grow high-value nutritious foods, and if African governments can work more closely with agribusinesses to feed the region’s fast-growing urban population, according to a new World Bank report launched today.

On a day this February when newspapers front-paged Afzal Guru’s family’s lament over being denied his remains for burial, the sports pages had a story on off-spinner Pervez Rasool, a cricketing sensation from Kashmir, who staked claim to a Test cap with a spell that tore through the Australian batting in Chennai recently.

Some events have the potential of changing political equations. They also reflect changes taking place in standards of public life. The outcome of the Moga by-election was among such events.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) toughened measures to battle fraud and corruption in 2012, as complaints reached a new annual high.