India and the European Union have signed a landmark free trade agreement creating the world's largest economic zone, but the success of this historic pact hinges on completing a critical transport corridor through the volatile Middle East.
As tensions escalate following early January threats from President Trump over Iran's crackdown on civilian protesters, American naval strike groups and strategic assets are repositioning in a pattern that mirrors previous military operations against Tehran.
US President Donald Trump believes Greenland is vital for his Golden Dome missile shield — reason why the US has missile tracking radars on the island since the Cold War, to warn of ballistic missiles arcing over the Arctic from Russia.
With its actions over the past few days, the US has effectively announced it controls the majority of the oil reserves in the Americas. Trump's so-called 'Donroe Doctrine', a portmanteau of Donald and Monroe, invokes the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President James Monroe in 1823 declaring the Americas to be off-limits to European powers.
High cost and questionable relevance in today's drone-infested battlefields have put paid to further acquisitions.
Bipasha Basu, the dusky actress who put 'sexy' back into Bollywood films, turns 47 on January 7
An Indian Navy-Ministry of Culture project to imagine how 5th-century CE sailors traversed the oceans will make landfall in Oman soon. With the Kaundinya, India joins a select club of seafaring nations that have recreated ancient sailing vessels.
An extraordinary US special forces mission exorcises the ghosts of past failures.
Dhurandhar attacks the third pillar of Pakistan's centre of gravity strategy — targeting India's civilian mind space. So far, the Indian movie industry has failed to see the Pakistan deep state's duplicity.
Low fares helped make air travel a reality for many Indians. But the boom only exposed the ugly underbelly of aviation infrastructure
