Pakistan throws down gauntlet at the US

By M K Bhadrakumar The foreplay of Russian-American high-level exchanges can be very revealing. This time too the two sides indulged in some robust shadow play in the run-up to the overnight "working visit" of the United States Secretary of State ...

By M K Bhadrakumar The probability is that the United States President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry got around to reading the congressional testimony titled "Negotiating with Iran" given by Ambassador James Dobbins on the Hill on ...

By M K Bhadrakumar For a rare visit by a Japanese prime minister to Russia after a glaring gap of a decade, Shinzo Abe himself set three benchmarks as he set out from Tokyo last Sunday. He said he sought to establish a relationship of personal trust ...

By M K Bhadrakumar Any event that impacts on the United States' "homeland security" would have worldwide repercussions. The repercussions of the Boston Marathon bombings are most expected on the United States' ties with Russia. President Barack ...

By M K Bhadrakumar The Chinese have a saying, "Dream different dreams while on the same bed" - meaning that even the closest partners are never alike in their minds. It is tempting to cast the China-Russia relationship in the spirit of the proverb.

M K Bhadrakumar analyses the reason why Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is brimming with confidence since his trip to South African capital Durban. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's journey home from visits abroad always provides a moveable feast. Those are rare occasions when the taciturn prime minister opens up to the media persons accompanying him -- willing to share thoughts, shedding innate reserve for an hour. The journey back home from Durban, South Africa, on Thursday after attending the ...

By M K Bhadrakumar Tomsen wrote, "The merchant can load frogs on one tray. But as he begins to load the second tray, some of the frogs on the first Tomsen's prognosis might well be turning out to be the miserable fate of the United States today in ...

Is the India-Italy rift set to get wider? M K Bhadrakumar, former diplomat and foreign policy expert shared his perspective with IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue.

'India could have used different approach while tackling with Taliban', former Ambassador to Uzbakistan and Turkey, M K Bhadrakumar, has said.