New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) While trade negotiations between India and Canada have in the past been derailed due to political tensions between the two countries, the relaunch of talks during the visit of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in March this year has provided a second chance to build a durable bilateral economic relationship amid the changed geopolitical landscape, according to India’s former envoy to the North American country.”Canada faces its own structural dilemma. Its overwhelmin…
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New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The ongoing two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran offers a narrow window for de-escalation, with its durability uncertain, a report said on Monday. Writing for India Narrative, former Indian diplomat Sanjay Kumar Verma stated that what is clear, however, is that the conflict extends beyond territorial disputes or immediate retaliation, reflecting a deeper struggle over the nature of regional order and the principles that will shape its future.He stresse…
Ottawa, April 6 (IANS) Canada’s recent legislation, Bill C-9, the ‘Combatting Hate Act’, directly addresses the kinds of incidents promoted by Khalistani extremists that have caused concern among Indian diaspora communities by criminalising the intimidation or obstruction of individuals seeking to access religious or cultural spaces, a report said on Monday. Writing for India Narrative, India’s former High Commissioner to Canada, Sanjay Kumar Verma said that the effectiveness of law will hinge o…
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Reimagining the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is not about drafting a new constitution for the seas but about rescuing the existing one from strategic insufficiency, a report said on Thursday. Writing for ‘India Narrative’, former Indian diplomat Sanjay Kumar Verma said that the Strait of Hormuz underscores how geography can make settled legal rights vulnerable to coercion. He stated that the developments in the Taiwan Strait highlighted th…
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Delhi Education and Urban Development Minister Ashish Sood, on Thursday, attended the 2nd ICC Aviation and Tourism Summit 2026, vowing to develop the national capital as a leading tourism city. “The time has come to develop Delhi not just as a transit hub, but as a leading tourism city,” Minister Sood said at the summit organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC).He added that the Delhi Budget 2026–27 reflects a vision of a developed national capital defined by…
Ottawa/New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) As Canada recalibrates its diplomacy in Asia, India is emerging as the country with which Ottawa seeks to build a long-term strategic partnership. Amid efforts to reset India-Canada relationship, the phrase “building a new normal” reflects the situation more accurately than merely “rebuilding ties”, with repairing trust as the immediate challenge and forging a stronger and more institutionalised strategic partnership as the larger objective, a report hig…
New Delhi/Ottawa, Feb 12 (IANS) India and Canada are not linked by geography or alliance structures but by economic complementarity and shared global governance interests – ties that have historically endured, a report said on Thursday. If current trends persist, India–Canada relations over the next decade are likely to be driven less by political turbulence and more by investment flows, energy integration, supply chain partnerships and deeper people-to-people ties, former diplomat Sanjay Kuma…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) As India–Africa relations evolve, ambitions need to align with strategic clarity and disciplined execution. The synergy between Africa’s continental development goals and India’s long-term path towards enhanced economic, technological, and institutional capacity presents a historically significant opportunity, a report stated on Thursday. Writing for ‘India Narrative’, former diplomat Sanjay Kumar Verma said that an effective policy approach for India must be ground…
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) India’s most credible role in the Arctic lies in being a stabilising, norm-reinforcing force, promoting openness, sustainability, and multilateralism without pretence amid the great-power rivalry in the region. Although India’s position is often ignored in the evolving landscape, its significance in the region becomes clear when the Arctic is viewed not as a remote polar enclave, but an interconnected system linking climate, oceans, trade, and governance across latit…
Ottawa/New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos outlined a way for Canada to navigate the impasse with India, over unsubstantiated allegations — a path defined not by capitulation or rhetorical hardening, but by procedural discipline, a report said on Thursday. It added that in Davos, Carney repeatedly stated the central idea that legitimacy flows from truth, and truth arises from robust institutions.“Canadian Prime Min…