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Suspending Afghanistan from SAARC and international law (Prabhash Ranjan, ORF)

The meeting of the foreign ministers of the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), planned on the sidelines of...

How the Taliban benefited from internal rifts amongst Islamic powers in West Asia (Kabir Taneja, ORF)

The three-day long visit of Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al-Saud, to India came at a time when the Taliban had firmed its...

Merkel’s vision for Europe: ‘All about what is possible’ (Andrea Moreschi, ORF)

In 2019, Angela Merkel’s government presented its ‘climate protection law’, a series of arguably ambitious measures, which put Germany on track to reduce its...

North Korea’s nuclear drama continues (Shashank Mattoo, ORF)

Tensions have ratcheted up in the Korean Peninsula after both the North and South conducted missile tests in the span of a few days....

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) gears up to double its production by 2025 (Saranya, ORF)

One of the unforeseeable consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is the shortage of semiconductor chips across the world. According to a report from Susquehanna...

India is not a bystander in the AUKUS saga (Abhijit Singh, ORF)

The announcement last week of AUKUS — a new security pact between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia — is making waves around the world. The...

Climate Action and the Quad (Aparna Roy, ORF)

Climate change is one of the most anticipated issues on the agenda of the upcoming first-ever in-person meeting of the Quad scheduled to be...

The Quad’s Counterterrorism Priorities (Kabir Taneja, ORF)

The Quad’s first in-person meet in late September, to be hosted by US President Joe Biden in Washington D.C., comes only weeks after the...

A Quad 2.0 Agenda for Critical and Emerging Technologies (Trisha Ray, ORF)

The Quad, once thought to belong to the graveyard of international relations, is witnessing a Renaissance, with critical and emerging technologies as its keystone....

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