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International Day of Women in Diplomacy 2025: Know the date, theme, history, significance, and more
June 26, 2025 6:36 am
International Day of Women in Diplomacy 2025: This year, in 2025, the International Day of Women in Diplomacy will be observed on Tuesday, 24 June, with the theme 'Eliminating structural barriers to women's leadership in diplomacy'.
When PM Modi went to Cyprus: A Mediterranean push, a buffer against Turkey
June 23, 2025 3:45 pm
To counter a belligerent Turkey-Pakistan-Azerbaijan axis, India has systematically deepened relations with Greece, Cyprus and Armenia, which have their own troubled histories with this alignment
Supriya Sule writes: How we combatted Pakistan’s fake news in all-party diplomatic mission
June 11, 2025 12:09 pm
India’s choice is development over destruction. The world has responded with solidarity
PM Modi’s France visit: From AI Summit to boosting ties, what’s on the agenda?
February 11, 2025 12:58 pm
India’s relationship with France is old and deep, based on the principles of strategic autonomy and mutual respect. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Paris as co-chair of the AI Summit is testimony to the endurance of the relationship, and its positive evolution in a changing world.
The Jaishankar-Modi doctrine: Can India balance its foreign relations in a Cold War 2.0?
December 05, 2024 12:00 pm
The key test for India's 'mult-alignment' approach is whether it is using its newfound elbow room to pursue naked interest, or whether there is what the doctrine says there should be — a moral stance as well as a rational one. When pressed, can Indian diplomats and other spokespersons present a narrative that reflects India’s values as much as it reflects India’s interests?
A lonely elephant in Delhi zoo and the case against animal diplomacy
November 12, 2024 3:23 pm
What is needed is an international convention and bilateral agreements about the welfare of diplomatic animals. But these are only stop gap arrangements. Ultimately, animal diplomacy is a relic of the past
Expert Talk | What diplomatic expulsion means, tells the first Indian Head of Mission to be ever expelled by any country
October 27, 2024 5:16 pm
From being expelled in Fiji to being attacked by assailants in Nairobi, Ambassador T.P. Sreenivasan recalls events from his career as diplomats' expulsion in India-Canada standoff makes headlines.
UNGA President pays tribute to Indian reformer Hansa Mehta on International Day of Women in Diplomacy United Nations
June 25, 2024 2:32 pm
Mehta is widely credited with significantly changing the language of Article 1 of the UDHR, by replacing the phrase "All men are born free and equal" with "All human beings are born free and equal." She died in Mumbai at the age of 97 in 1995.
Chinese vice foreign minister arrives in Nepal to attend high-level meeting
June 24, 2024 8:48 pm
The high-level meeting in Kathmandu will discuss overall areas of bilateral relations and bilateral cooperation between Nepal and China.
C Raja Mohan writes: Rising power, rising responsibilities — five geopolitical challenges before Modi 3.0
June 19, 2024 11:02 am
India’s growing global influence must, in essence, be about leveraging the world for the rapid expansion of domestic prosperity and equity
DIPLOMACY VIDEOS
News in Numbers: India’s busiest passport office.
June 22, 2020 6:23 pm
#NewsInNumbers How much work the busiest passport office in India does. (PS: It’s Lucknow which was recently in the news over an inter-faith couple’s complaint.
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