Enforcement Directorate Conducts Raids Across Country in Pilatus Aircraft Deal
The Enforcement Directorate is carrying out raids at 14 locations in Delhi, Surat and Gurgaon in connection with Pilatus aircraft deal allegedly involving absconding arms dealer Sanjay Bhand... Read more
China Offers a New Normal to End Ladakh Border Standoff. India Shoots it Down
The Indian Army will continue to sit it out along the 1,597 km Line of Actual Control in East Ladakh till China restores status quo ante, people familiar with the development told Hindustan... Read more
Defence Ministry Removes Report of Chinese Intrusion from Website, Looks at Prolonged Standoff at Pangong Tso
Describing the Chinese aggression in Ladakh as “transgressions”, India has said the standoff is likely to be “prolonged” amid China’s demand for India to move back further in the region alon... Read more
India and the United States Need Each Other Mostly Because of China
On Dec. 15, 1971, the USS Enterprise, the largest aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy at the time, entered the Bay of Bengal as the spearhead of a naval task force of the U.S. 7th Fleet. The t... Read more
Top Pentagon Official Confirms US Moving Toward Deployment of Hypersonic Missiles in Indo-Pacific
The Pentagon announced plans to position new ground-based missiles in the Indo-Pacific region last year, after the US scrapped the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia.... Read more
Part 3: Lessons IPKF Debacle Sri Lanka-A Foray without Hope
Editor’s Note This article is the concluding narrative of the three-part series covering the Indian Peace Keeping Force’s operations in Sri Lanka. The author has already dwelt upon the short... Read more
Lack of Human Rights in CCP’s China
The percepts of communist or socialist ideology positions itself in opposition to liberal democracy and capitalism, advocating a classless system. But exactly who are beyond the class divisi... Read more
Could This New Fighter Plane from France Carry India’s Nuclear Weapons?
The first five of the Indian Air Force’s new Dassault fighters recently landed in India after a two-day flight from France. The fighters, from Dassault’s Rafale line, were piloted by Indian... Read more
Pakistan’s Road to Nowhere
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) which was started with much fanfare in 2013 is now a ‘trillion-dollar blunder’. The project is marred by corruption, the opposition of the local p... Read more
Why Indian Navalist Hopes of Using the ‘Quad’ to Pressure China in Ladakh are Misplaced
Indian strategists, navalists and senior defence officials like to believe the recent round of exercises between the Indian and United States navies in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) could ‘u... Read more