Trump now has lost the support of two demographic cohorts without which he simply cannot win: Suburban women, and college-educated whites. Both groups are reliably Republican.

While Americans are engrossed in Donald Trump's vulgar and offensive comments on women, and allegations about his sexual misconduct with multiple women in the past, seemingly the US Administration is busy teaching the pro-Iranian Houthi rebels a lesson.

The future of South Asia, as a community does not look too promising in the wake of the postponement of the SAARC summit. As a person who has been engaged over 40 years in civil society initiatives to recreate a South Asian community, I have witnessed a number of such fluctuations in the fortunes of the SAARC process.

Having visited Thailand for over five times during my lifetime, I would like to believe that I learnt quite a lot about the country and its culture. Its booming tourism industry and ever growing clothing market are attractive to travellers and foreign investors alike.

China's rising prosperity and the shift to a strategy of economic rebalancing, for the better part of a decade now, presents a unique opportunity for much stronger trade and economic relations with the country, not only for developed countries but also for developing countries, including South Asia, as it shifts resources to grow its domestic market.

Despite positive developments in bilateral trade, there are certain gray areas and constraining factors disfavouring Bangladesh in optimising mutual gains from trade.

The historic adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the 193 UN Member States has led governments to commit to implement national action plans geared towards fighting poverty, combating climate change, promoting inclusive economic growth,

The Cold War that began in the wake of World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) terminated with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Americans since the founding of the United States seem to be in a perennial state of narcissist obsession.

The appearance of swallows at the beginning of summer has helped craft a wonderful English idiom: “One swallow doesn't make a summer.” All it warns against is forming 'a general opinion or judgment on the basis of a single event, remark, etc.'

First it was an Indian government official belonging to the “National Institution for Transforming India” berating SAARC mercilessly and

I realise more than most people that these are abnormal times. In fact, my career as a foreign correspondent would have been impossible without unstinted help, on a personal basis, from friends in the foreign office.

Would it be so wrong if anyone rephrased Marx, and said: America determines everything? To some extent we cannot deny the truth of such a statement. And when their foreign policies have sure effects on us—the people who live in the “third world” countries, waiting,

Over the past couple of weeks, relations between India and Pakistan have taken a nasty turn. Rhetoric emerging from Delhi and Islamabad has not only deeply worried people in the sub-continent, but also leaders around the world. The heightened military tension between the two nuclear neighbours of South Asia did not come suddenly. It was in the making since July, 2016.

Though There is a strong demand for a deeper regional integration in South Asia, the progress has been rather slow.

India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj may have appeared belligerent in her speech at the United Nations. But she represented India's

In the chaos that is the running theme of the US elections, another election of a world leader is underway, albeit largely unnoticed, on US soil.

The jury is still out on who won the debate here, but the punditocracy in the United States seems fairly unanimous. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton crushed Donald J. Trump, the Republican candidate.

After the US and Russian foreign ministers agreed upon an effective ceasefire following a number of discussions, expectations for

The European Union's list of crises keeps growing. But, beyond the United Kingdom's “Brexit” vote to leave the bloc, Poland's constitutional-court imbroglio, Russian expansionism, migrants and refugees, and resurgent nationalism, the greatest threat to the EU comes from within: a crisis of political leadership is paralysing its institutions.