The diplomatic bust-up between India and Canada is not without its uses. The bogey of Khalistan, for one, has much use at home as well as abroad and not only for the nation’s political leadership.

Spotlight | India-Canada row: What you see is what you don’t get 

Stripped of the hype, the much-vaunted India-Middle East-EU Economic Corridor (IMEC) launched on the sidelines of the overblown G20 summit—essentially a routine diplomatic event—is neither a new idea nor one that may come to fruition, if at all, in the lifetime of the leaders who gathered in New Delhi.

WION Spotlight |  India-Middle East-EU Economic Corridor: Chasing a mirage in the desert 

Some three years after an interview to The New York Times in 2020, where US President Joe Biden famously said that he would encourage the Turkish opposition to defeat Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the election, Washington wants to make nice with Turkey’s president.

WION Spotlight | The importance of being Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “long and meaningful” telephone conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on April 26 has set the cat among the pigeons in the US-led West that is fighting a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

Spotlight |  Xi overture to Zelensky: More than meets the eye

Thousands of Indian students have been banned from admission to Australian universities in view of the phenomenal surge in bogus applications. The clamp-down is specifically against applicants from the two Indian states of Punjab and Haryana.

WION Spotlight | Bogus applicants trigger Australia ban on Indian students

The tide of China’s so-called wolf-warrior diplomacy appears to be receding. As significant as the reversal of China’s policy on the containment of COVID-19, is President Xi Jinping’s policy of moving the combative diplomats away from the frontline.

Spotlight: Changing notes of China’s diplomacy     

It is interesting that even before arriving at any definition of the kind of welfare state India should aim to become, the debate has been reduced to political rhetoric that equates welfare measures with freebies.

WION Spotlight | Many ways to becoming a welfare state

The unprecedented benefits expected to flow both ways from the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), which comes into force today, are by now well-known in the two countries.

WION Spotlight: Unity Agreement to boost India-Australia ties

In stark contrast to many countries, including India and the US, putting in place tough Covid testing rules for travellers from China in view of the surge in infections there, Australia has refused to give in to the fear and alarm that is spreading.

WION Spotlight | Canberra keeps its cool over China Covid surge

The Melbourne Cricket Club is very keen to host a Test series between arch-rivals India and Pakistan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Should that happen, it would be historic, as the world’s best-known rivals have not played a test series in the last 15 years.

WION Spotlight | Melbourne raring to host India-Pakistan test series 

A recent report from London said that now, for the first time since census began, Christians make up less than half of the population in the United Kingdom. That Christians no longer account for a majority of the UK’s population is attributed to the remarkable rise of the non-religious population.

WION Spotlight | Faith Accompli: Australian way of being inclusive

In what may become a global landmark and inspire people in other robust democracies to seek reversal of unjust impositions by governments during the coronavirus pandemic, the Australian state of New South Wales has revoked 33,000 Covid fines totaling more than AUS$ 30 million.

WION Spotlight | Courting justice: Australia scraps Covid-era fines

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