The 'Indian' Challenge For Foreign Food Brands
Not long ago, UK based pizzeria Metro Pizza landed in Mumbai with its trademark meter-long pizza. The menu retains similarities to that of its principal counterparts, yet some items have been added on to suit the Indian palate and product mix.
Assad Turns the Tide
After months and months of supporting, arming, financing and coordinating terrorist groups in Syria, Turkey is now in a bind. There are several factors that are playing now. First, there has been an overall erosion of support for Turkey among the Arab world, including among those who wanted to see Assad go.
Into An Irreversible Abyss?
Back in July 2011, after a long civil war, South Sudan split from Sudan to become an independent country. However, even though statehood was achieved and a new country was born, the efforts to transform South Sudan into a proper nation-state seem to have come to a standstill.
Polio's War on Pakistan
The Pakistan Medical Association believes that there is great scope of "Medical tourism" between Saarc countries
The Last of The Mohicans
It was well past the afternoon that a diplomat at from the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi called to break the news
Erdogan's Ottoman Abyss
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not totally wrong in claiming that certain countries are involved in magnifying the graft scandal case that has rocked his country in the past few days. He also noted that it is directly related.....
Khodorkovsky: Myths, Hagiography and the Pardon
President Vladimir Putin's decision to pardon
Bangladesh's Own Nero
If there is a classic example of how an elected government can work towards destabilizing its own country, it has to be Sheikh Hasina's Bangladesh
Test Of Fire
The positive election result came as a relief. It is a hopeful result that gives a well deserved finger to the bitter, whinging opposition, and their private media buddies
Nepal: Trouble is not over
The results of elections in Nepal have further complicated the already bad situation. While no party is expected to get absolute majority
Turkey's About Turn Moment
Since the beginning of the ongoing crisis in Syria, the position taken by the Turkish government on the situation in its southern neighbor has been quite different from the relations that Ankara maintained
What's Cooking?
Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, is in the midst of a diplomatic flurry these days.
The Problematic Peninsula
When General Sisi was planning to topple the discredited Mohammad Morsi led government in Egypt, he made every possible calculation that would make the post-modern coup seamless and acceptable in the eyes of the world.
Honey, I shrunk the Gop
The US shutdown finally got over after a little over two weeks and from political pundits to economic analysts; everyone took a sigh of ...
Make or Break Moment
The nuclear program of Iran has turned into a national and multi-partisan issue, just in the same way that the religious prohibition on the manufacture and stockpile of nuclear weapons
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
