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The mosque that was to come up at Dhannipur remains on the drawing board. Meanwhile, a politician has promised to build a “replica” of the demolished mosque in West Bengal.

2026 looks to be a pivotal year in which the trilateral hydropower project will either make serious steps forward or languish, as previous efforts have, in the void between ambition and reality.

While Chung Dong-young’s political agenda is clear, his comments fail to recognize that the DMZ is governed by specific rules and procedures for important reasons.

The new National Security Strategy offers important insights into how a second Trump presidency views the Indo-Pacific and the role India is expected to play within it.

The defense spending hike is a necessary step, but it avoids harder questions.

The PLAN’s deployments – the biggest to date – stretched from the southern Yellow Sea through the East and South China Seas and deep into the Western Pacific.

Amid difficult relations with the U.S., India is keen to show that it has other options.

China’s foreign policy bureaucracy faces a mounting succession crisis that will only multiply in 2026.

Too often opportunities concentrate within capital cities or designated special economic zones, and thereby render the rest of the country peripheral. 

Strong economic performance sent government revenue soaring in 2025, putting the country in an enviable fiscal position.

Unlike Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram are not opposed to the Protected Area Permit given their concerns over the influx of refugees and rebels from Myanmar.

Three major areas of strategic concern were discussed in Delhi: defense purchases, nuclear power generation and space technology.

With the search for MH370 set to resume on December 30, China has approved its first compensation claim involving the doomed aircraft.

More than four years after its establishment, the country's opposition government has come under increasing pressure to reform.

Meera Gopal joins host Tushar Shetty to examine the outcomes of COP30 in Belém, Brazil and the implications for South Asia.

Half as long as his previous administration’s NSS, Trump’s newly revealed strategy is perhaps the clearest (though still confusing) outline of the U.S. president’s worldview.

A high-ranking Thai military official has announced that the army plans to "render Cambodia militarily ineffective for a long time."

The potential is growing for China-Japan tensions to escalate into an actual armed clash. 

“Xi Jinping himself – ideologically and politically – was committed to a form of totalitarian rule. And he was skillful enough, ruthless enough to bring it about.”

The plan codifies demands for Japan to spend more on defense and increase its capabilities – efforts Japanese officials say are already underway.