LONDON — It would be an understatement to suggest that Indian diplomacy faced a major setback at the Afghanistan Conference in London. India was humiliated and its concerns were summarily ignored. In one stroke, Pakistan rendered New Delhi irrelevant in the evolving security dynamic ...

LONDON — For a long time, Chinese foreign-policy thinkers and the political establishment have been trying to convince the world that China’s rise is peaceful, that China has no expansionist intentions and that China will be a different kind of great power. What’s striking ...

LONDON — Recently the Indian Army chief, Gen. Deepak Kapoor, drew attention when he suggested at a training command seminar that India is preparing for a “two-front” war with Pakistan and China as it brings its war-fighting doctrine in sync with emerging scenarios to ...

LONDON — Speculation has been building up on the Subcontinent that dialogue between India and Pakistan is about to restart. Last month Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir that if Pakistan showed “sincerity and good faith,” ...

LONDON — It’s been a year since Pakistan-based militants struck the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, killing 163 people and creating panic among the city’s populace. The attacks drew comparisons with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. Indian public outrage accompanied ...

BANGALORE, India — A government unable to control large parts of its territory, a military in disarray, loss of control over nuclear assets, radical Islamists intent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction — that’s the stuff nightmares are made of, at least for the ...

LONDON — In the second such strike in as many years, a suicide car-bombing outside the Indian Embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul recently left at least 17 dead (none of them embassy staff) and scores of others wounded. India has long been developing ...

LONDON — With a new U.N. climate treaty to be considered in Copenhagen in December, the developed world and the emerging economies are trying to bridge their differences on how to curb greenhouse-gas emissions that cause global warming. The United States wants developing countries ...

LONDON — As tensions have risen between China and India in recent days and months, India is awash with predictions about China’s impending attack on India. Most recently, it has been suggested that China will attack India by 2012 primarily to divert attention from ...

LONDON — Euphoria in India surrounding the launch of the INS Arihant is not entirely unwarranted. After decades of investment, India finally has the ability to indigenously build and operate a nuclear-powered submarine, a feat accomplished by only five other countries. Yet, this should ...

LONDON — Even as all eyes were focused on the issues of global economic revival, world trade and climate change, the Group of Eight sprung a major surprise on India during its summit at L’Aquila. The G8 statement on nonproliferation committed the advanced industrial ...

LONDON — With India facing a regional security milieu in which all states on its periphery, barring Bhutan, are engulfed by crises of various kinds and magnitude, the new government has little time to waste in the realm of foreign policy. For all the ...