International Affairs
Lessons to be learnt from NSG setback
The Opposition and others have rightly slammed the Narendra Modi government for the “ham-handed” manner in which it sought entry...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 03 Jul 2016, 05:15Brexit: Revolt against intellectual, political elites
The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union has been presented as a big setback, if not a catastrophe,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 Jun 2016, 12:00India should be a US ally
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to the US was indeed fruitful; civil nuclear cooperation and defence ties, for instance,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Jun 2016, 08:04Chabahar: Need to tap potential
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Iran visit is perhaps his most fruitful foreign tour so far. Typically, in our country every...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 May 2016, 01:18SC errs on defamation law
By upholding the constitutionality of the current criminal defamation law, the Supreme Court has done a disservice to the cause...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 15 May 2016, 10:56Govt maps out a draconian law
The Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016, with severe punishment for the wrong depiction of the map of India, is yet...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 10 May 2016, 08:04China makes India turn tail
By buckling under Chinese pressure over the issue of visa to Chinese dissident Dolkun Isa, the Narendra Modi government has...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 25 Apr 2016, 08:45Getting back Kohinoor: Crass nationalism
The demand to get the Kohinoor (literally, ‘Mountain of Light’) diamond back to India is as weird as it is...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 18 Apr 2016, 03:59Belgium should discard political correctness
Belgian security and law-enforcement agencies have been criticized for their inability to preclude the Brussels attacks that killed over 31...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 10 Apr 2016, 06:29Obama’s Indo-Pak remarks are condemnable
India has rightly objected to US President Barack Obama’s bracketing of India with Pakistan. For this is moral equivalence of...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Apr 2016, 08:56