Rajnath Holds Talks with Chinese Defence Minister in Moscow, Focus on Ways to Ease Border Tension
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart Gen. Wei Fenghe held talks in Moscow on Friday on ways to ease escalating border tension in eastern Ladakh, government sources said... Read more
China Rattled By News of Indian Warship Presence in South China Sea
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) mouthpiece Global Times recently raised the issue of Indian Navy warships operating in the South China Sea in an article titled ‘Is South China Sea card u... Read more
China plans to double nuclear arsenal, Pentagon says
WASHINGTON ― China plans to double its stockpile of nuclear warheads in the next decade, including those designed to be carried atop ballistic missiles that can reach the United States, the... Read more
Army Chief Naravane and Foreign secretary Shringla put off Myanmar trip amid LAC crisis
NEW DELHI: India said on Tuesday that it has taken up the recent provocative and aggressive actions by Chinese soldiers and urged Beijing to “discipline and control” frontline troops even as... Read more
A 29% Non-Govt GDP Fall is Behind Abysmal Growth
The collapse of GDP growth by 23.9% for the Apr to Jun period isn’t a surprise. The economy was under a strict lockdown for most of the time to contain the pandemic. Nevertheless, a little d... Read more
BRO at Work: Development of Third Axis to Ladakh, Securing India’s Crown
On 26 July 2020, as the nation commemorated Kargil Vijay Diwas two decades after the Kargil conflict, a seminal moment quietly passed into history as the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) achi... Read more
Pakistan’s Attempts to Get Islamic Countries to Condemn India Over J&K have had Mixed Results
Khaled Ahmed writes: Pakistan and India have changed their maps, if that gives any satisfaction to the affected people, but they must strive for the normalisation of relations needed in the... Read more
Joe Biden is Strongest Advocate for U.S.-India Ties: Former U.S. Ambassador to India Richard Verma
former U.S. Ambassdor to India (2014 – 2017) and currently the Vice-Chair of strategy advisory firm The Asia Group, recalls that Barack Obama and Joe Biden carved out a separate design... Read more
Force Preservation in Online Social Domain
The digital realm is an increasingly important dimension of contemporary battle-space. We have focused our attention on cyber-threats, limited attention paid to challenges arising from the m... Read more
Is Putin about to make a costly mistake in Belarus?
From 2001 to 2004, as a deputy assistant secretary of state, I was the senior American official to visit Belarus. The United States and European Union were thoroughly dissatisfied with Presi... Read more