Only 373 Indians died due to COVID-19 in foreign countries – this is according to V Muraleedharan, Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, as stated in Parliament on Monday. But The Lede has found that Muraleedharan has not got his facts right. Here’s the whole reply by…

The year 2020 may go down in history as the “Annus Horribilis” as Queen Elizabeth called a year of calamity to the British royalty. In such a year, there is only one imperative, not only for foreign policy or any other policy, but for humanity itself – survival. We do…

In 1954, India and China signed an agreement in which the two sides emphasised that the Five Principles (“Panchsheel”) of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence, would ensure peace and stability in Asia. But…

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A tusker-less male wild elephant, widely named by locals as “Bulldozer” because it broke down houses in search of food, was found dead due to serious injuries in mouth suspected to have been caused by an explosive. The elephant had, in fact, been attended to and treated by a senior…

As the Minister of External Affairs S.Jaishankar leaves for Teheran en route to Moscow to attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the situation on the China border has deteriorated, indicating that his meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister is not likely to lead to disengagement . The…

India-UAE relationship of recent years is a success story, which transformed the geopolitics of the Gulf region. The Gulf state pledged high investments in India, including in Jammu and Kashmir, decided to store its strategic oil reserves in India and joined India in its fight against terrorism. Many grievances of…

Electromagnetic fields/waves are ubiquitous and play a major role in modern day technology. They are encountered in wired and wireless communications, radar, consumer electronics, defence electronics, wireless health-monitoring systems, healthcare diagnostic systems, to name a few. Most undergraduate engineering curricula include a one-semester course in electromagnetic theory comprised of basic…

The contributions of the age-old national party that holds the legacy of the national movement, the Indian National Congress, to the largest democracy in the world, India, are invaluable or irreplaceable. But the present plight of such a large democratic party is very painful. Mrs Sonia Gandhi took over as…

I was at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Havana in 1979 soon after Egypt normalised relations with Israel with the blessings of the United States. A pall of gloom descended over the summit chaired by Fidel Castro as the entire Arab world demanded that Egypt should be expelled from…