Russia’s Grand Game in West Asia
Moscow has worked to regain political will and military capability and its role in Syria has put it at centrestage alongside the US in the oil-rich region
Lt Gen Rameshwar Yadav Delhi
Terrorism
Mumbai train blasts: Dr NARCO and Other Stories from KAFKA Land
Here is a re-look at the kind of evidence that led to the conviction of all but one accused in the Mumbai suburban train blasts of 2006
Manisha Sethi Delhi
‘ISIS’ in Afghanistan: Spectre or Mirage?
The declared goals of ISIS are territorial conquest and the establishment of a worldwide Islamic Caliphate, ahead of a predicted apocalypse of Islamic theology. Is Afghanistan on their radar?
Shrinivasrao S Sohoni Dili
TADA is dead, will Memon live?
Why must Yakub hang? There is little evidence of his direct involvement in the blasts
Manisha Sethi Delhi
Shattering the Ladder
When The Indian Express reported that National Investigating Agency (NIA) officials told the Special Public Prosecutor in the Malegaon bomb blast case, Rohini Sailan, to quietly withdraw from the case, not many were really surprised. The report suggested that the agency official told Sailan that, after the new government took over in Delhi in 2014, there was little reason to pursue the case vigorously, as the political environment had changed.
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor will change the region: Andrew Small
In an interview with Hardnews, Small explains Beijing's changing relationship with Islamabad
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
For the Record: Delhi Police Encounters
From the CP encounter in 1997 to the recent encounter of Manoj Vashisht, Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association sees a pattern to these killings carried out by the Delhi Police
Gujarat's anti-terror bill: Law with a flaw
Pratik Sinha Ahmedabad
Pakistan: Lessons from a tragedy
Arshad Yusufzai Peshawar
‘Focus Africa Programme, which is the precursor of IAFS, was initiated by BJP in 2002’
Former education minister of Ethiopia, and one of the most articulate members of Delhi’s diplomatic community, Gennet Zewide shares her views with Hardnews on how traditional ties between her country and India could be strengthened
Sadiq Naqvi New Delhi