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Strange as it may seem, it is not always difficult to pinpoint the moment when a politician’s downfall begins. For instance, in Atal Behari Vajpayee’s case, it was the time when he allowed himself to be persuaded by LK Advani, Pramod Mahajan, Arun Jaitley and others not to sack Narendra Modi after the 2002 Gujarat riots. The result of this misjudgment was the BJP’s defeat in the general election two years later, as Vajpayee himself acknowledged.

New Delhi: Initiating the topic of regional security, the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said “peace and stability in South Asia is consistent with China’s interest.”

New Delhi: The Vice President of India M Hamid Ansari left for a four-day visit to Uzbekistan on Tuesday to discuss regional efforts for peace and development of Afghanistan following the slated withdrawal of NATO forces in 2014.

New Delhi: While agreeing to work for reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement of the border issue, India and China stressed for cooperation in economic development sectors.

Events slated to take place during 2013-2014 may prove to be a turning point for Jammu and Kashmir. The first event was the May 11 elections in Pakistan which have catapulted Nawaz Sharif as prime minister-designate. The second will be the Lok Sabha elections in India which will decide whether the Congress-led UPA or the BJP-led NDA will form the government. The third event will be the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir to be held late in 2014 after Omar Abdullah completes his six-year term as chief minister. The fourth, an important but, in a way negative event, will be the US forces pullout from Afghanistan and the likelihood of the Pakistan and Afghanistan-based terror organizations intensifying their activities in Pakistan and India, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir.

It was meant to be an exercise aimed at refurbishing the badly tarnished image of the Congress and redress the ‘communal imbalance’ in the State Cabinet. But the move is threatening to degenerate into a no-holds-barred factional feud.

New Delhi: About 83% of the people in India consider China as a security threat while at the same time 63% Indians like relations with China to strengthen.

New Delhi : India’s greater involvement in maintaining internal security and defence of Afghanistan post-NATO forces withdrawal is likely to decided when the Afghan President Hamid Karzai will be here on a three-day visit beginning on Monday.

Two studies by the World Bank and OECD make rosy projections for developing countries to account for 50 per cent of global accumulated capital stock, with more than two-thirds of world investment, by 2030 but these assumptions are on a given set of policies to unfold and challenges to be overcome.

Can the Central Bureau of Investigation be truly made independent or granted complete autonomy? Perhaps not, till politicians stop using the premier investigation agency for settling scores with their rivals. Once in opposition politicians decry political misuse of the agency but when in office, they cheerfully lord over the CBI.