NEW DELHI: The Coast Guard, though an integral part of India’s armed forces, is relatively less talked about compared to the other three services. It’s a 20,000-strong force but performs multiple functions both during war and in peacetime. Defending India’s vast coastline is among the key functions of the organization. In this episode of ‘Simply […]Read More
Xinjiang Gets Its First ‘Plateau Airport’ Xinjiang is especially in focus during the Games and Beijing seems to be going out of its way to showcase the economic strides made in the region. The 170-hectare Zhaosu Tianma “plateau airport”, built at a cost over $100 million, is claimed to “improve the transportation conditions of more […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Dr Anna Kireeva, Associate Professor, Asia & Africa Studies and Research Fellow, China Centre at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations(MGIMO University) and Nandan Unnikrishnan, Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel discusses India’s officials boycotting the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Ambassador Pankaj Saran, India’s Former Deputy National Security Adviser(May 2018-December 31, 2021), Former Ambassador to Russia and Former High Commissioner to Bangladesh in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. In his first interview since demitting office as Deputy NSA, Ambassador Saran discusses the $ 374.96 million BrahMos […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The reports filtering out of Myanmar are grim. The death toll has touched 8,800 and there are over 1,500 people in the army’s prisons where torture is routine. Aung San Suu Kyi has been convicted on clearly fraudulent charges while others have been killed. In this conversation on The Gist, Dr. James Gomez […]Read More
NEW DELHI: What explains China’s belligerence and its foreign policy decisions? While external elements play a role, there are several internal factors that are crucial to understanding Chinese behaviour and actions, says former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon. Speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale on ‘The Gist’, Menon, who has also served as […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Jaijit Bhattacharya of the Centre for Digital Economy Policy Research argues that the 2022 budget could be a game changer in terms of its focus on technology. Speaking to SNG, he says the government has sent a clear signal that it does not like cryptocurrencies but for now is holding back from a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the budget, what are the trends and issues that could influence the finance minister? Global headwinds exist in the form of lower growth in the US and China, says Anil Padmanabhan, former editor of the Mint who is currently running the substack CapitalCalculus on business and economy. In a chat on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: ‘Operation Meghdoot’ launched by India in 1984 to preempt Pakistani designs of trying occupying the Siachen glacier remains a glorious chapter in India’s military history. India continues to hold those strategic heights ever since by outthinking its western neighbour. In this episode of ‘Simply Nitin’, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale explains the […]Read More
Techie Becomes Overnight Hero A Chinese tech programmer has become an overnight “hero” for speaking out against the tech industry’s long working hours. The 25-year-old employee at tech giant Tencent, slammed the bosses for applauding overtime culture in their department’s annual review, saying extended hours spent at work shouldn’t be seen as an honourable deed. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, Ambassador Asoke Mukerji, India’s Former Permanent Representative to the UN, Ex-Envoy to Kazakhstan and the diplomat who opened India’s Uzbek, Tajik, & Turkmen Missions and Ambassador Phunchok Stobdan, India’s Former Envoy to Kyrgyzstan, Ex-Joint Director in the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) and Author of the ‘The Great Game in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Many of you are probably using the UPI, United Payments Interface that has transformed digital payments, making it fast, efficient. That in turn has seen the government making payments directly to farmers, to those below the poverty line and others. Now a new revolution is in the making: it’s called Open Network for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist’, Dr Tanvi Madan, Senior Fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy Programme and Director of The India Project at the Brookings Institution and author of the book ‘Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped U.S.-India Relations during the Cold War’ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On January 17, two Indians and a Pakistani were killed in a massive explosion in Abu Dhabi. The blast is believed to have been the result of a ‘drone attack’ by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. This attack on the capital of UAE has once again drawn the spotlight to a conflict that has been […]Read More
NEW DELHI: StratNewsGlobal spoke to P S Raghavan, former ambassador to Russia and ex-chairman of the National Security Advisory Board, on US and Russia sabre rattling over Ukraine and whether that would lead to war. India has vital stakes in a peaceful resolution as that would enable it to develop strategic ties with all players […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On the request of the United Nations, India will send in more troops for peacekeeping in the restive region of Abyei in Africa. Ever since India first contributed to UN peacekeeping operations in 1950, it has taken part in 51 of 71 such missions. Some Indians have commanded multinational peace efforts under the […]Read More
Gearing Up For Military Recruitment Military recruitment for the first half of 2022 will start on Feb. 15 and end on March 31, according to the Central Military Commission. Recruitment for the second half of the year will run from August. 15 to September 30. Starting last year, China’s military extended conscription from once a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Not a single shot has been fired on the Siachen Glacier after India took control of it through ‘Operation Meghdoot’ in 1984 by foiling Pakistani designs. Recently, responding to a question on whether the glacier can be demilitarised, Army chief General MM Naravane said India wasn’t averse to the idea but the precondition […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Tomohiko Taniguchi, Former Special Advisor to Ex-Japan Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s Cabinet and Professor, international political economy and Japan’s strategic diplomacy at Keio University and Robert A. Manning, Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Centre for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council of the United States, Former Director, Energy and regional affairs, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India isn’t averse to demilitarization of the Siachen Glacier, given that Pakistan accepts the Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL) that divides the positions of the two countries, says Indian army chief General MM Naravane. India was forced to take countermeasures on the world’s highest battlefield after Pakistan unilaterally tried to change the status […]Read More
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