Editor’s Note: The UN’s influence on avoidance of conflict and stabilisation of global security seems to be sliding deeper along the contours of a descending graph. The singular, all importa... Read more
India Has To Be A Key Partner In Engaging China From Position of Strength: Antony Blinken
WASHINGTON : India and the US face a common challenge in the form of an “increasingly assertive” China and New Delhi has to be a key partner in engaging with Beijing from a posit... Read more
Neighbours out to marginalise India in SCO
THE recent virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Moscow, which brought together top Chinese, Indian and Russian leaders face-to-face, could hardly respond to the e... Read more
A Better Way to Fight the Forever War
While it is certainly time to end the war in Afghanistan, doing so does not necessarily require a complete withdrawal of all American forces. Indeed, this would leave the United States with... Read more
Any China-Russia Alliance Faces Three Complications
China and Russia seem determined to improve their formal relationship. But they face three problems: enduring mistrust, ultimate divisions of interests, and India’s increasing alignmen... Read more
Indian Rafale fighter jet adds Hammer stand-off weapon to its lethal arsenal
France has agreed to equip Indian Rafale fighters with air-to-surface Hammer all-weather smart weapon apart from air-to-air MICA, METEOR missiles and air-to-ground SCALP stand-off weapon. Th... Read more
Get Ready For President Biden To Throw U.S. Security
Contrary to the predictions of some pundits, the presidential race is not tightening up as Election Day approaches. To quote Niall Stanage of The Hill, “The Democratic presidential nominee h... Read more
India set to lose Farzad-B gas field; Iran to prefer domestic companies over foreign firms
New Delhi: India has all but lost the ONGC Videsh Ltd-discovered Farzad-B gas field in the Persian Gulf after Iran decided to prefer domestic companies over foreign firms for the development... Read more
Trump Demands a Plan to Withdraw U.S. Troops From Somalia
President Donald Trump has told top advisers he wants to withdraw U.S. troops from Somalia, according to people familiar with the matter, allowing him to make good on campaign pledges to bri... Read more
The grand Air India One that will fly the Prime Minister, President and Vice President arrived in India. This is a B777 plane on the lines of Air Force One. The B777 will be fitted with the... Read more