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New Delhi: High Committee on India-France Defence Cooperation is slated to meet in Paris in October, this year to finalise and expand bilateral defence cooperation.

New Delhi: Going beyond the concept of its bilateral relationship with India, Bangladesh has proposed a regional cooperation bloc that goes beyond the boundaries of the two countries and that is based on ancient civilisation links of the region.

Should political parties play politics over tragedies and natural calamities? Only last month, we witnessed the political blame game after the Uttarakhand tragedy in which many were killed and thousands left homeless. Now the same is happening in Bihar where 23 children were killed eating poisoned mid-day meal provided by the government.

BHOPAL: The passage of a bill imposing a series of stern restrictions on religious conversions has become of the subject matter of a fierce controversy in Madhya Pradesh.

Now it is clear that Narendra Modi is in the centre of the Congress’ strategy for the next Lok Sabha elections. Congress spokespersons and other leaders are reacting against the remarks of Gujarat CM in a manner, which suggests that by demolishing Modi, they can win the elections. The latest in the series of ‘Demolish Modi Campaign’ was a tweet by Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmad, in which he claimed that Indian Mujahideen was formed only after the Gujarat riot of 2002.

Unless they happen to be part of the ruling dispensation at the centre, political parties in India mostly express only a token commitment to the concept of federalism.

The BJP is again firing all the shots, which brought it considerable success in the early 1990s. It’s a long list comprising, among others, Ram temple, uniform civil code and Article 370 – the three items on its Hindutva agenda which Atal Behari Vajpayee put on hold in 1996. Now that the known moderate – or mukhota (mask), as a saffron apparatchik said – is no longer active in public life – the party has evidently decided to turn the clock back to the days of the Ramjanmabhoomi movement.

New Delhi: India needs an investment of Rs 2,000 crore in forensic technology alongwith necessary measures to upgrade and modernise police force in the country to meet the challenges of internal security.

The global lobbyist for genetically modified (GM) crops, ISAAA, has now shifted its focus from advocacy for transgenic crops to the geo-politics of re-drawing political boundaries of countries.

We can see in the history of modern states that revolutions are sometimes followed by reactionary repulse. Bangladesh had her version of the tale in 1970s when the nation’s revolutionary birth was hugely offset by the resurgence of Islamist fundamentalist later that decade. By next two decades, these regressive forces consolidated their revival under the auspice of the military rulers and the centre-right political forces for sheer political expediency of the latter.