New Delhi: Exactly a year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in our special series on the war, Ambassador D.B.Venkatesh Varma, India’s Envoy to Russia from September 2018 to October 2021 in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ambassador Varma assesses “India has acquitted itself very well” during “a year of considerable stress […]Read More
NEW DELHI: If the Covid-19 pandemic came as a blow to global health, consequent lockdowns in various countries disrupted global supply chains. Among the commodities hit big time were critical minerals, which are in demand for making semiconductors, batteries for electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, etc in the globe’s quest for clean energy. These […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Three years ago, India launched its first homegrown semi-high-speed train it connected New Delhi and Varanasi via Kanpur, Allahabad. Officially, it is called Vande Bharat. But at the Integral Coach Factor in Chennai, where the ambitious project to create a modern state-of-the-art train, it was christened Train-18—so that the staff working on the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Kuril Islands are a chain of volcanic islands stretching across 1150 Km (715 miles) from the northeast of Japan’s Hokkaido to the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Japan claims sovereignty over the four southernmost islands— Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, and Habomai Islands— which it refers to as the Northern Territories. However, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The economic destabilisation caused by Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine are there to see. From rising fuel and fertilizer prices to the shortage of food grain. Yet, the reverse is also true, argues P S Raghavan, Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board and former ambassador to Russia. In this chat on The […]Read More
New Delhi: In the second of our special series on the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Brigadier Ben Barry(Retd), Senior Fellow for Land Warfare, International Institute for Strategic Studies(IISS) London, Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King’s College, Author,’Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Amid reports of Russia’s renewed military campaign in Ukraine, Europe has stepped up its own response, agreeing (albeit some reluctantly) to send Leopard tanks to aid President Zelensky’s troops. There is even talk of sending fighter jets, which could mark a significant escalation of the war. In this conversation marking one year of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As Sri Lanka desperately awaits a bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China is unwilling to follow the debt sustainability targets set by the IMF. China is Sri Lanka’s biggest bilateral creditor—accounting for about 20 per cent of the island nation’s foreign debt—and hence plays a key role in its debt […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Earlier this week, the Union Cabinet approved the construction of a tunnel which would provide year-round connectivity to areas close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. The 4.1-km-long tunnel at Shinku La on the Nimu-Padum-Darcha road axis will cost nearly ₹1700 crore and is expected to be completed by December […]Read More
South Africa’s Naval Drills With Russia, China Strains Ties With West South Africa is hosting a joint naval exercise, Exercise Mosi II, with Russia and China. The Russian military frigate Admiral Gorshkov” was greeted by protests when it arrived in Cape Town harbour ahead of naval exercises hosted by South Africa from February 17 to […]Read More
Security forces cleared a five-storey police building in Karachi on the city’s main thoroughfare in an hours-long operation during which three terrorists were killed while four others died on Friday evening. At least 19 men, mostly security personnel, were injured in the exchange of fire with Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists who stormed the heavily guarded […]Read More
With Nepal’s presidential election scheduled early next month, talks and serious bargaining are going on between major parties, particularly the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre). Congress leaders have reportedly met Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and offered to revive their pre-election alliance after the presidential election slated for March 9. Prachanda […]Read More
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that his party would launch ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ (court arrest movement) on February 22 to protest what he called a government crackdown on his party members. In a video address, Khan who is also chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) said the movement would begin from Lahore and […]Read More
Tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka have crossed the 50,000 mark in the first two weeks of February, reigniting hopes of a faster recovery in the tourism sector, one of the mainstays of the island nation’s battered economy. According to provisional data from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA), 54,685 international visitors entered the country […]Read More
A top Chinese investment banker has gone missing, his company has said. China Renaissance Holdings told the Hong Kong Stock Exchange earlier this week it had not been able to reach its chief executive Bao Fan. The company didn’t give further details but the announcement led the firm’s stock to tumble about 30 per cent. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Cleo Paskal, Non-Resident Senior Fellow focussing on the Indo-Pacific at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Cleo Paskal discusses External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar’s trip to Fiji, the first high level visit since the change of government in December […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The ongoing Ukraine crisis has led to significant losses for Russia, which has lost at least 50 per cent of its armoured vehicles, including its pre-war fleet of T-72B3 and T-72B3M tanks and many of its T-80s in the fighting, says the 2023 edition of The Military Balance, produced by The International Institute […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The proliferation of digital technologies has forced an amazing and profound makeover of India’s financial services landscape. India Post joined this transformation in 2018 with the launch of the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB). The idea was to leverage the humongous network comprising of 1.55 lakh post offices and around 3 lakh postal […]Read More
The Aegean Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, is an 83,000-square-mile stretch between Europe and Asia. It lies between Greece and Turkey and has been a point of contention between the two countries. Strategically the position of the Aegean islands is very important as they are in close proximity to Turkey but are controlled […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In an unusual reversal of roles, former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan sabotaged a peace move with India proposed by then Army Chief Gen. Qamar Bajwa, says Pakistani journalist Mohammad Shehzad. In the second part of his interview with Ramananda Sengupta, he says Imran was advised by former foreign minister Shah Mahmood […]Read More
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