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

August 25, 2016 01:50 IST
India has supported some human rights causes and ignored others.
Thu, Aug 25, 2016
August 16, 2016 07:00 IST
Modi has announced the opening of a new chapter on relations with Pakistan. It does not read well, and it has discredited the Baloch struggle.
Tue, Aug 16, 2016
August 15, 2016 02:39 IST
The event was advertised only through social media and word of mouth, and it was free.
Mon, Aug 15, 2016
July 30, 2016 01:23 IST
Michael D’Antonio’s biography is a powerful treatise on how the US got to the point where they are prepared to vote in a person like Donald Trump
Mon, Oct 10, 2016
July 28, 2016 00:02 IST
China has a history of troubled relations with the foreign media, a trait that India has managed to overcome in this century, despite its instinctual suspicion of foreign journalists.
Thu, Jul 28, 2016
July 12, 2016 00:06 IST
In its new phase, the ‘azadi’ struggle in Kashmir is leaderless, and has a strong death wish.
Tue, Jul 12, 2016
July 10, 2016 02:24 IST
The headmaster of a higher secondary school at Lurgam, 5 km from Tral, Wani said he had never worried for his son, although security forces were hot on Burhan’s heels and by April, had eliminated many of his comrades-in-arms.
Sun, Jul 10, 2016
June 16, 2016 02:59 IST
The 30-year-old teacher’s brother Manjinder Singh is among the missing. Over the last two years, the articulate and determined Gurpinder has taken charge as the voice and face of the affected families.
Thu, Jun 16, 2016
June 15, 2016 03:12 IST
Today marks two years of the disappearance of 39 Indians in Iraq. While the govt has intervened for workers caught in the conflict zone — from Iraq to Yemen to Libya – on these 39, all that their families have heard is silence. After an assurance that they are alive.
Wed, Jun 15, 2016
June 14, 2016 00:01 IST
Gupta came on an official visit to Islamabad for the home secretaries’ meeting under what was then called the Composite Dialogue
Tue, Jun 14, 2016
May 21, 2016 00:15 IST
A divided opposition and the perception of the DMK as a tainted party helped the AIADMK win Tamil Nadu.
Sat, May 21, 2016
May 17, 2016 04:50 IST
Not surprisingly, the absence of major investment in Tamil Nadu over the last five years was one of the main talking points in the election.
Tue, May 17, 2016
May 15, 2016 03:53 IST
Sasikala is said to have fully resumed her role as her friend’s gatekeeper and counsel in a party whose centralised functioning is so opaque that even the seniormost ministers are clueless about important matters.
Sun, May 15, 2016
May 14, 2016 00:10 IST
In his new book, former Pakistani diplomat Husain Haqqani urges India and Pakistan to engage with each other as countries rather than as communities still caught up in communal politics
Mon, Aug 01, 2016
May 12, 2016 03:34 IST
Just two months ago, Sankar was hacked to death in Udumalpet town for marrying Kausalya, 19, who belongs to the Thevar caste, a powerful OBC group in Tamil Nadu. Sankar died on the way to hospital.
Thu, May 12, 2016
May 10, 2016 03:18 IST
There’s only one wave in the Tamil Nadu assembly election, and it’s called prohibition.
Tue, May 10, 2016
May 09, 2016 19:45 IST
"Pakistani nationalism is defined as anti-Indianism; in India a new nationalism is emerging to delegitimize India’s minorities and by extension, delegitmising a neighbouring country where a minority is in a majority," Haqqani said.
Mon, Aug 01, 2016
April 26, 2016 11:01 IST
Despite the open demonstrations of pique or aggression with each other, what is clear is that officials from both countries have been in touch with each other through quieter channels.
Tue, Apr 26, 2016
April 24, 2016 00:18 IST
The teachers at this college say that given their experience of students from outside the state, they are unable to fathom the fears and insecurity of the protesting NIT students.
Sun, Apr 24, 2016
April 23, 2016 02:50 IST
Security forces say the alarming alienation among the youth in south Kashmir needs a politician’s healing touch, which is missing.
Sat, Apr 23, 2016
April 22, 2016 03:32 IST
Ironically, at a time when the Jammu and Kashmir state government, seen here as an alliance of the “soft separatist” People’s Democratic Party’s and the “nationalist” Bharatiya Janata Party, is held up as a bold political experiment to bridge the deep divide between J and K.
Fri, Apr 22, 2016
April 21, 2016 03:50 IST
While at the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar, both Kashmiris and “non-local” boys stressed that their names not be published, here, in this corner of south Kashmir, young people insisted they be named in this report.
Thu, Apr 21, 2016
April 20, 2016 03:35 IST
Coming within 10 days of Mehbooba Mufti taking over as Chief Minister, the incidents at Handwara threatened to add one more layer to the challenges that the new PDP-BJP government faces.
Wed, Apr 20, 2016
April 20, 2016 00:01 IST
Pakistan already has a strong legal regime in place against the likes of Masood Azhar that gives the government enough powers against those designated by its own law as terrorists or members of such groups designated as terrorist
Wed, Apr 20, 2016
April 10, 2016 04:33 IST
"Demand to shift NIT (Srinagar) is out of line, 3000 J&K cops have died for Flag," says Jammu and Kashmir's Deputy CM Nirmal Singh.
Sun, Apr 10, 2016


