NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Olga Tokariuk, Journalist, Disinformation Researcher and Freelance Correspondent, EFE Agency and Sergej Sumlenny, an expert on Eastern Europe in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel discusses the Biden-Putin virtual summit, the U.S. President warning of strong economic consequences if Russia invades Ukraine and President Vladimir […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India lost its first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)—General Bipin Rawat— to an air crash today. The helicopter carrying the General, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 12 others to the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington crashed minutes before it was to touch down. Twelve others on board lost their lives as well. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the second of StratNewsGlobal’s three-part series on the Bangladesh war, former diplomat G Parthasarathi recalls the time when he was a young officer in the Indian Embassy in Moscow, and got a sense of the complex negotiations leading to the signing of the Indo-Soviet Treaty of Peace Friendship & Cooperation. As he […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist’, Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhaya, Former India Envoy to Myanmar in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. India is “disturbed” and “deeply concerned” at ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi being sentenced to four years(later reduced to two) in the first of a series of expected verdicts against […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Fifty years ago, India outfoxed Pakistan and won a 13-day war that resulted in the formation of Bangladesh. That remains a glorious chapter in India’s military history; no doubt about that. Then army chief Gen. Sam Manekshaw’s role in preparing/strategising for the war is part of the military folklore. But a recent book […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ambassador P.S. Raghavan, the Former Chairperson of India’s National Security Advisory Board and Ex-Envoy to Russia, Dr Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Centre and Dr. Anna Kireeva, Associate Professor, Department of Oriental Studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations(MGIMO University) in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Monday (December 6) will be a busy day for bilateral engagements between India and Russia. President Vladimir Putin will fly into New Delhi for the 21st India-Russia annual summit and hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His visit last year couldn’t take place due to the pandemic. The last time the two […]Read More
NEW DELHI: This month half a century ago, India defeated Pakistan in a war that lasted just 13 days and led to the creation of Bangladesh. India was troubled by the steady stream of refugees from what was East Pakistan after the Pakistani army went on a killing and torturing spree. But India didn’t want […]Read More
Highest Grossing Movie Is Great Propaganda The Chinese war epic The Battle At Lake Changjin is probably the highest grossing film in China’s history. As of November 25, the film had taken in $933.7 million, surpassing another action film Wolf Warrior 2. The film, which debuted a day before the week-long Chinese National Day holiday, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador Kanwal Sibal, Former India Foreign Secretary and Ex-Envoy to Russia and Nandan Unnikrishnan, Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation(ORF) in analysis with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panellists discuss President Vladimir Putin making only his second visit abroad since the pandemic for the December 6 […]Read More