Amid Chinese Drills Across LAC, IAF Chief Visits Ladakh To Review Operational Preparedness
At a time when the Chinese forces are holding exercises at their training areas opposite Eastern Ladakh, Indian Air Force chief RKS Bhadauria today visited Leh to review the operational prep... Read more
Ladakh Has Lessons For India’s China Policy
Soon after disengagement from the Pangong Tso Lake in February during which India generously surrendered its vital ground on Chushul heights for the Chinese vacating the Fingers area, it was... Read more
India keeping Close Eye on Chinese ‘City’ in Sri Lanka
Despite a slowed outreach due to its preoccupation with the Covid crises within the country, South Block is nevertheless keeping a close eye on the Sri Lankan law passed on Thursday that all... Read more
US Considers In-Person Quad Summit
Biden’s Indo-Pacific czar said the United States has truly abandoned its strategy of engagement with China, continuing a break from the past strategy spelt out explicitly first by the Trump... Read more
New Tibetan Prez Penpa Tsering Bowls a Googly at China Over Its ‘White Paper’
Penpa Tsering, president of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Thursday offered to send a team to Lhasa to verify claims made by Beijing in its much-publicised ‘white paper’ on Tib... Read more
India has conveyed its support to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for his candidature as chief of the world body for a second five-year term beginning January 2022. External Affairs Mi... Read more
Critical Capability Voids in Indian Armed Forces – To Lease Or Not
The MoD is also in advanced negotiations with the French Government to lease one Airbus Defence and Space A330 multi-role tanker transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF) for trainin... Read more
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Volkan Bozkir said on Thursday that it was Pakistan’s duty to bring the issue of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute to the United Nations pl... Read more
Deadline Over, Twitter, Facebook Yet to Comply With Ethics Code
Even as the deadline for social media platforms to comply with the new government regulations ended on Tuesday midnight, there is little chance of Twitter, Facebook and other companies facin... Read more
Cyclone Yaas Weakens into a Deep Depression Over Jharkhand
Jharkhand was put on high alert and a complete lockdown was imposed in some parts of the state to prevent people from venturing out as the authorities evacuated those staying in low-lying ar... Read more