If the strongman from Gonda felt he was indispensable in his political backyard, he was mistaken
Veteran BJD leader and Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, setting off talk of whether the MP would switch sides to BJP.
As democracy returns to the Maldives, fresh hope has arisen in a country that had lapsed into dictatorship. Omkar Khandekar reports from the victor’s exile camp in Colombo
China’s massive investments in South Asia pose a huge geopolitical challenge to India