Shubhajit Roy

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri has met Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, India's highest-level contact yet with the regime since it came to power in 2021. The meeting was the culmination of the incremental progress of India's policy of ‘cautious engagement' with the Taliban – how has it negotiated the relationship over the last three and a half years?

The US Entity List is a list of foreign individuals, businesses and organisations that are subject to export restrictions and licensing requirements for certain goods and technologies.

The government has not taken any names, but the US had earlier alleged the involvement of Vikash Yadav, a former Indian official, in a foiled plot to kill Khalistan separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York in 2023.

The initiative on critical and emerging technologies will continue with the incoming Trump administration, says outgoing US ambassador

Japanese Foreign minister Takeshi Iwaya; Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong; and Jaishankar will have the opportunity to meet US Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio on the sidelines of the inauguration.

A Constitution Reform Commission has recommended that secularism, along with nationalism and socialism, should be removed from the preamble of Bangladesh's constitution. Can the concepts of a state religion and secularism coexist?

His analysis is insightful and educative for anyone who negotiates and navigates global politics, particularly Indian diplomats. As India's ties with Russia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan are always in churn, this is an important book to inform India's negotiators.

While India-US relations are on a strong footing, Delhi is concerned about two specific issues – tariffs and illegal immigration – that Trump flagged in his 29-minute inaugural speech.

Amid concerns over tariffs, impact of crackdown on illegal immigration

His aides had promised a “shock and awe” start to Trump 2.0 — “days of thunder”, as the former Trump strategist Steve Bannon had described it.