Kerala seeks MEA intervention to bring back people from state stranded in Kabul

The Kerala government on Tuesday sought the intervention of the Ministry of External Affairs to bring back at least 36 people from the state who are stranded in Kabul. The Department of Non-Resident Keralites Affairs (NORKA), at the behest of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, sent a letter to the MEA, urging that the…

China tried to use Left to scuttle n-deal: Former foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale

China used its “close connections” with Left parties in India to “build domestic opposition” to the Indo-US nuclear deal between 2007 and 2008. This might have been the “first instance for China to operate politically in Indian domestic politics”. This revelation, that could have political and diplomatic…