The recently implemented CAA law grants Indian citizenship to certain non-Muslims. Critics decry it as yet another step towards fascism in the world's largest democracy.

While the US may see India as a potential counterweight to China, Arab Gulf relationships with India — and China, for that matter — are part of a plan to diversify their global partnerships.

The iconic Indian nationalist leader famously said: 'Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense as England belongs to the English and France to the French.'

India's opposition simply cannot compete with the BJP's money, power, mass mobilisation tools and media control, making a Modi victory come April a near-guarantee

From Ukraine to Russia, South Africa to India and Taiwan to the US, elections gain added significance in a turbulent world

In election-year India, the ruling party knows that discontent among the poor is a threat to its chances

Oil remains at the forefront of the wider impact of Israel's war on Gaza, but other implications will be felt for years to come, including currency factors.

There are fears in Egypt that new regional maritime projects will decrease Suez Canal's geostrategic relevance

India's stance on Israel's war on Gaza will likely test its relationship with the Islamic world, which is aghast at Israel's blatant disregard for international law

The political goal was a US and European effort to demonstrate the capacity for connectivity idea generation, or less generously, to try and out-China the Chinese Belt Road Initiative.