The Covid-19 pandemic has, ironically, thrown into sharp focus the plight of a largely invisible constituency — India’s migrant population. After the Centre hastily imposed a poorly-planne...

The horror of the jihadi ambush that killed dozens of CRPF soldiers and its aftermath, the attacks on Kashmiri students in India, is a clarifying moment.It demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt that Pa...

The first phase of the Indian elections will begin today. These elections and their results are being viewed with a lot of interest in Pakistan. Earlier this week, the prime minister, Imran Khan, told...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Saturday announced that fencing of the international border between the two countries would be completed at the earliest wh...

The junior Union home minister, Nityanand Rai, recently rolled out interesting data in Parliament in response to questions on issues such as the progress in the fencing of the Indo-Bangladesh border a...

India’s trade with its South Asian neighbours accounts for just 3 per cent of global trade and is much below potential, a World Bank team said on Monday. Trust deficit, tariff and non-tariff barrie...

The Kulbhushan Jadhav case began with Pakistan’s arrest and detention in March 2016 of Jadhav, an Indian national. A Pakistani military court sentenced him to death for his alleged involvement in es...

“Things are quite different this time around. They really mean it now.” This is one of the best illustrations of what we could call acute optimism bias and it often comes into play when analysts a...

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As Srinath Raghavan writes the history of the US in South Asia in The most dangerous place: A History of the United States in South Asia, his story begins from the early 19th century, when South Asia ...