Pallab Bhattacharya

IF there has been one segment of India's foreign policy on which there has always been a multi-party consensus all along, it is the ties with Africa.

One of the most important reasons behind Indian democracy's remarkable strength is the impeccable and impartial conduct of the Election Commission (EC).

There was more than one reason why the recent plenary session of India's main opposition party Congress stood out as an important political event.

The Indian government yesterday withdrew the 20 percent export duty on sugar in a bid to boost sales abroad and lift domestic prices amid surplus production in the world's second largest producer of the sweetener.

Indian banking regulator has banned the use of letters of undertaking (LoUs), an instrument which was used by

One of the first things that Biplab Kumar Deb did even before taking oath as the new chief minister of Tripura was make a phone call to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and seek her cooperation for the development of the landlocked northeastern state.

French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the need for more global pacts to fight climate change and pitched for

Five years is a long time in electoral politics. From zero to zenith—that is how Prime Minister Narendra Modi described BJP's rise to power in Tripura assembly elections. What he was pointing to is statistics. In the previous assembly elections in 2013 in the state, BJP had failed to get a single seat but this time it won an emphatic majority on its own in a state where its organisational growth comprised largely of imports from other parties like Congress, Trinamool Congress and CPI(M).

In his last assignment as India's top diplomat, former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar had paid a previously unannounced visit to the strategic Indian Ocean island of Seychelles late in January this year when the two countries signed a revised pact to develop military infrastructure on Assumption Island.

India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has flayed the country's banking regulators for failing to detect the $1.77 billion fraud at the

In his first public comments on the 1.77 billion dollar fraud that hit India's second-biggest public sector bank Punjab National Bank.

Odisha has finally applied for a Geographical Indication (GI) for its own version of a beloved sweetmeat called “Odishara Rasagola” (Rasagola of Odisha).

Indian analysts, newspapers and several opposition parties have slammed army chief General Bipin Rawat's controversial remark that

Coalition pangs and stuttering unity efforts are staring at India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and opposition parties as they brace for fresh national elections due early next year.

Are simultaneous elections to national parliament (Lok Sabha) and assemblies in states in India, with its huge size and geographical and cultural diversity, feasible?

Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone seems to have put the intense controversy over “Padmaavat” behind her and basking in the

An idea of BJP's rise in the northeast can be derived from the fact that just three years ago, it was the Congress party which ruled four northeastern states—Meghalaya, Nagaland, Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh, and was the main opposition in Tripura.

While the use of hard power and tough diplomatic negotiations almost invariably hog the spotlight in international relations, the soft power rarely comes into play.

The members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have mounted pressure on India for clinching a

The vivisection of the Indian subcontinent has torn asunder the life of millions including some of the finest writers from the region.