Rakesh Sood

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Rakesh Sood is a former diplomat who served as Ambassador to France and is currently Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation.

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The new parliament building under construction in Kathmandu.

Making sense of the political tsunami in Nepal

‘The global nuclear order is under strain’

Donald Trump shakes up the global nuclear order

‘Elections have been fixed for March 5, 2026 but questions persist’

The turmoil in Kathmandu, the road ahead for Nepal

India’s first Power Reactor Fuel Reprocessing plant (PREFRE) and Advanced Fuel Fabrication Facility (AFFF) at Tarapur.

Redeeming India’s nuclear power promise

Workers repair the main entrance of Evin Prison after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike on June 23, on July 1, in Tehran, Iran.

Remaking the nuclear order in West Asia

‘After the Pahalgam attack on April 22, 2025, it was clear that the Indian government would respond with force’

The new normal after Pahalgam, India’s response

At the Republic Day celebrations

What makes the India-France ‘strategic partnership’ tick

‘Humanity has survived 75 years of the nuclear age without blowing itself up’

The global nuclear order is under strain

‘Today, there is no Warsaw Pact, and NATO has expanded to include a number of former Warsaw Pact members’

Nuclear signalling, the need for new guard rails

‘The fact that both sides successfully avoided controversial issues and public disagreements went a long way in keeping the focus on economic ties and ensuring that the Prachanda visit was successful’

More HIT than miss in India-Nepal ties

‘The ‘Vision’ is to “enable, encourage and develop a flourishing commercial presence in space” that suggests an acceptance that the private sector is a critical stakeholder in the entire value chain of the space economy’

A ground view of the Indian Space Policy 2023

The space sector is poised for take-off — as a transformative growth multiplier like the IT industry did for the national economy in the 1990s.

Awaiting lift-off into the Second Space Age

Nepal Congress leader Ram Chandra Poudel

Nepal’s coalition politics, a game of musical chairs

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal completing formalities at the swearing-in ceremony

Nepal politics, past, present, and future

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