Over 17 weeks after New Delhi forged the India-Middle East-Europe-Economic Corridor during the G20 Leaders' Summit which doesn't include Iran, Indian foreign minister Dr S Jaishankar visited the Iranian capital earlier this week.

The Capitals: New Delhi achieves crucial strategic breakthrough with Tehran outreach

In 1995, when Mayawati, the leader of India's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) became Chief Minister of the country's politically significant Uttar Pradesh state for the first time, the corridors of power in New Delhi were left stunned.

The Capitals: Taiwan’s corridors of power witness a ‘miracle of democracy’

For the latest tenure of Dhaka's Jatiya Sangsad, Bangladesh's supreme legislative body, while the numbers are not entirely in, the verdict is already out. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League (AL) party looks set to win the country's twelfth parliamentary polls after the conclusion of the voting process on Sunday (Jan 7).

The Capitals: Dhaka's tryst with PM Sheikh Hasina-styled democracy

In a year when Moscow dodged an unprecedented mutiny bullet, Washington and Beijing wrangled with a consequential geo-economic confrontation over the development of semiconductors, the Israel-Palestine conflict entered its worst phase in decades — New Delhi's rising economic clout coincided with its presidency of the grouping of world's wealthiest economies: the G20.

The Capitals in 2023: The year when New Delhi proved sceptics wrong

This week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made his third wartime visit to Washington in order to make a personal plea for the military and economic aid he said Kyiv needs to face Russia during ongoing war.

The Capitals: Kyiv suffers one blow after another from Washington, Brussels

With a ceremonial motorcade, cavalry escort and Russian flag's colours in the sky, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the United Arab Emirates' capital Abu Dhabi.

The Capitals: Putin's Moscow is West Asia's 'dear friend'

Nigeria's Benin bronzes, Egypt's bust of Ramesses the Great, Mexico's double-headed serpent, India's Amravati Marbles and Greece's Parthenon sculptures. To view these pieces of history from different parts of the world, one must visit London's British Museum.

The Capitals: Athens renews campaign to get back stolen pieces of Greek history

Last week, we ended The Capitals on the note that the Qatar's Prime Minister in capital Doha told the world that they are nearing a deal to free over 240 people held hostage by Hams in Gaza.

The Capitals: Doha and Cairo's move towards ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

Over the weekend as the Indian subcontinent, Australia and parts of Europe were spellbound by the blockbuster Cricket World Cup final between India and Australia, a ray of hope for the longest duration of pause of conflict in Gaza emerged.

The Capitals: Between killed and killers, Doha's vital role for peace in West Asia

When Saudi Arabia and Iran restored their diplomatic ties in Beijing in March 2023, the successful rapprochement had come after seven years of estrangement between the Sunni and Shia powerhouses of West Asia.

The Capitals: Riyadh's show of Islamic unity for Palestine amid Israel-Hamas war

The death toll due to the raging Israel-Hamas war is nearing 11,000 at the time of filing The Capitals this week, and is set to rise further with no ceasefire in sight.

The Capitals: Can Sheikh Hasina sail through stormy season of Dhaka politics?

On September 9, 2023, when India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted the leaders of the world's biggest economies during New Delhi's stewardship of the G20 Leaders' Summit, the ambitious India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) prompted The Capitals edition of that week to be headlined as follows: Delhi delivers as the leader of Global South.

The Capitals: Delhi's G20 delivery faces war-stocked West Asia wicket

The first week of the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7 had US Secretary of State Antony Blinken dominating the news cycle. Blinken's shuttle diplomacy consisted of 10 stops across multiple West Asian capitals during the course of five days after Israel's retaliatory offence against Hamas in Gaza Strip stoked a rare humanitarian crisis in the region with thousands of lives lost and lifelines — food, water, power and medical supplies — stopped.

The Capitals: Washington's waning political capital in West Asia delays aid into Gaza Strip

The contested peace between Israel and Palestine came to a fierce end over the weekend as Islamic Jihad and HAMAS — the latter is the most dominant Islamist militant group in control of Palestine since 2007 — launched the most ferocious attack on the Jewish state in over 50 years.

The Capitals: Jerusalem vows to change ground reality in Palestine 'for next 50 years'

In 1958, when the coastal city of Karachi was still Pakistan's capital, General Ayub Khan made the move to push the boundaries of country's administration inside military barracks as he staged Pakistan's first successful coup d'état.

The Capitals: Islamabad's game of thrones stacked against Imran Khan

New Delhi's longstanding foreign policy principle of strategic autonomy -- the pursuance of self-sufficient and independent strategic goals without an allegiance to a conventional "alliance" -- was vindicated by the state of affairs stoked by a geopolitical slapdash by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The Capitals: For New Delhi, a silver-lining in Ottawa's assassination accusation

Diversity of viewpoints spurs innovation, a groundbreaking Harvard research in 2013 had concluded. Since then, reports as well as anecdotal insights have pointed out to a pattern of international investors rejecting the composition of proposed directors at shareholders' meetings that do not include women.

The Capitals: Tokyo and Tehran take women's rights in contrasting directions

The absence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping from New Delhi's G20 summit was widely described as a sign of impending floundering of India's stewardship of one of the world's most important geo-economic forums.

The Capitals: Delhi delivers as the voice of Global South

The capital of the world's largest democracy will host the G20 summit this week. In the months before, New Delhi has worked hard to assert its presidency of the grouping as one of a geo-economic forum.

The Capitals: New Delhi's test to ace the G-20 exam

Last week, The Capitals told you that all eyes were on New Delhi after Moscow's failed attempt at repeating Soviet era triumph of its lunar mission. This week, with a big smile, a minimalistic grin, and a Faux pas, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended up at the center of India's lunar leap that closely mirrored New Delhi's diplomatic push to establish India as an ambitious power on the rise.

The Capitals: When New Delhi's Chandrayaan triumph took over BRICS leaders in Johannesburg

About 62 miles northwest of the US capital Washington DC, in Camp David, the presidential holiday retreat, Biden hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol.

The Capitals: All eyes on New Delhi after Moscow fails to repeat Soviet-era triumph of its lunar mission

Hello and Welcome. This is The Capitals. Your weekly recap of some of the biggest stories from capitals all over the world. Within and beyond the corridors of power in New Delhi, the capital of the world's largest democracy, often, the dishonest characterisation of an individual has a number: 420.

The Capitals: New Delhi's bid to truly own its books of law

Hello and Welcome. This is The Capitals. In Saudi Arabia's Jeddah, the national security advisers and representatives of more than 30 countries met with a purported goal to end war in Ukraine.

The Capitals: Saudi Arabia's peace bid for Ukraine minus Moscow, Ottawa's 'cigarettes cause impotence' warning

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