Nirupama Subramanian is National Editor (Strategic Affairs). She writes on India’s foreign policy and national security issues.

September 08, 2021 11:36 IST
The government said the emergency was required to check soaring prices of food and hoarding of essentials by a "food mafia". But the Opposition said it was "in bad faith".
Tue, Sep 14, 2021
September 05, 2021 11:18 IST
This column is a tour of Mumbai through some of these neighbourhood gardens, parks and grounds which citizens have fought for and guard jealously. The series kicks off with Bhakti Park Udyan.
Mon, Sep 06, 2021
September 03, 2021 04:00 IST
The issue has sowed distrust between Afghans and Pakistan for decades, and is a potential flashpoint in relations between the Taliban and Pakistan.
Thu, Sep 09, 2021
August 30, 2021 04:20 IST
They were former president Hamid Karzai and former vice-president Abdullah Abdullah, who was also the chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation in the ousted government of Ashraf Ghani.
Mon, Aug 30, 2021
August 27, 2021 04:02 IST
ISKP, the group blamed by the US for Thursday’s bombings at Kabul airport, is the Afghan chapter of the Islamic State. What kind of attacks has it been involved in earlier, and what is its rivalry with Taliban?
Mon, Dec 27, 2021
August 26, 2021 04:18 IST
Kargar, who has been a parliamentarian since 2010, told The Indian Express that she had travelled many times to India on the same passport in the past.
Fri, Aug 27, 2021
August 20, 2021 04:30 IST
Extracts from the book 'Murder on the Menu: The Sensational Story of the Tycoon who Founded Saravana Bhavan', tells the story of P Rajagopal, founder of the Saravana Bhavan chain of restaurants, who went to jail in 2019 for the 2001 murder of an employee whose wife he was intent on marrying.
Sat, Aug 21, 2021
August 19, 2021 04:30 IST
Military victory is theirs, the Taliban will now seek to build a government — and here, negotiations and accommodation may have a bigger role to play. Who are the men to watch out for in the coming weeks?
Tue, Aug 24, 2021
August 17, 2021 04:10 IST
Many in Afghanistan and India see Pakistan's hand in the Taliban seizure of Kabul. A look at Pakistan's long relationship with the Taliban, and how its proxy victory in Afghanistan raises new concerns in India.
Tue, Aug 24, 2021
August 03, 2021 04:00 IST
The Pakistan government has finalised legislation for incorporating the region as a province. How was it ruled so far, and why the change of status now?
Sat, Aug 07, 2021
July 24, 2021 03:18 IST
Some 20 lakh voters in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir will vote for a new five-year Assembly tomorrow. For all practical purposes though, the territory is run directly by the Pakistan government and Army.
Fri, Jul 30, 2021
July 16, 2021 04:05 IST
The Taliban's possible triumph threatens not just India's diplomatic stakes in Afghanistan, but also 20 years and $3 billion worth of Indian investment in various projects — dams, roads, trade infrastructure.
Tue, Aug 24, 2021
July 03, 2021 03:57 IST
What both Ladakh districts fear is that alienation of land, loss of identity, culture, language, and change in demography, will follow their political disempowerment.
Thu, Jul 08, 2021
June 28, 2021 03:21 IST
Nirupama Subramanian writes: They could have more to do with BJP’s electoral calculations, than giving signals of assurance.
Mon, Jun 28, 2021
June 20, 2021 01:15 IST
Through the last two decades, Delhi’s development assistance of around $3 billion to Afghanistan gave it a good-size footprint in that country, much to the chagrin of Pakistan.
Sun, Jun 20, 2021
June 02, 2021 04:00 IST
The theory that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a Wuhan lab is now being taken more seriously, with Biden ordering a probe and India weighing in. A look at what is understood so far, and what is speculated.
Thu, Jun 10, 2021
June 01, 2021 07:51 IST
Pakistan's journalists, used to dealing with direct or indirect military rulers for decades, are also known to push back every now and then.
Tue, Jun 01, 2021
May 19, 2021 04:00 IST
India’s statement at UNSC seeks a balance between its old ties with Palestine and growing relations with Israel. Tracing India’s journey through the world’s oldest conflict, from Nehru years to Modi regime.
Wed, Jun 02, 2021
May 11, 2021 04:20 IST
What is the significance of the mosque and its location, and why has it become the site of clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians over the last one week?
Tue, May 18, 2021
May 09, 2021 03:26 IST
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. But Maldives police chief Mohammed Hameed has said the attack is being investigated as a “terrorist act”.
Sun, May 09, 2021
April 30, 2021 02:13 IST
International TV channels have run visuals of waiting ambulances and patients outside hospitals, and cremations to underline India's lack of preparedness.
Fri, Apr 30, 2021
April 29, 2021 04:18 IST
On Tuesday, the Myanmar military bombed villages on its border with Thailand in retaliation for the loss of one of its outposts in the southeastern Karen (now renamed Kayin) state that the Karen National Union (KNU) had seized earlier in the day.
Thu, Apr 29, 2021
April 28, 2021 04:25 IST
This is one of the details to emerge from a four-hour-long interaction Pakistan’s Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa had on April 23 with about 20 top journalists at an official iftar.
Wed, Apr 28, 2021
April 20, 2021 12:03 IST
Pakistan's decision to discuss in Parliament a resolution demanding the expulsion of the French Ambassador to Pakistan is the latest in a long series of surrenders to the group and its radical agenda.
Tue, Apr 27, 2021
April 16, 2021 04:36 IST
President Biden has announced withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan by September 11. What are the implications of the move for the Afghan govt, the Taliban, and neighbours India, Pakistan and China?
Thu, Apr 22, 2021





