NEW DELHI: Barely 24 hours after India’s foreign secretary Harsh Shringla departed Myanmar after two days of talks with the military leadership, China gifted a submarine to the Myanmar Navy amid much fanfare. Does this suggest a certain lack of regard for India in Myanmar? In this conversation on StratNewsGlobal, Gautam Mukhopadhaya, former ambassador to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It was a decade of turbulence for Assam’s tea industry, which began in 1987 when the militant group ULFA turned its focus on what was then a flourishing trade. Kidnappings for ransom and imposition of levy led to an atmosphere of fear and frustration, all of which has been documented in the book […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An India Pakistan war on the size and scale of what happened in 1971 that led to the liberation of former East Pakistan now Bangladesh, is unlikely. In this conversation on The Gist, Dr. Manpreet Sethi argues that Islamabad’s acquisition of nuclear weapons deterred India from crossing the Line of Control during the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Ambassador Mohan Kumar, India’s Former Envoy to France, Chairman of the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) think-tank, Dean, International Affairs and Professor of Diplomatic Practice at Jindal Global University in analysis with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Dr Kumar discusses the third India-France Annual Defence […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s indigenous 5G technology is now part of the international mainstream, meaning it has been accepted by the International Telecommunication Union as part of the global 5G standards. This is a first for India. It also gives this country an IPR in the strategic telecom sector, which until now, has been the preserve […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Goa tomorrow and take part in celebrations organised to mark Goa’s liberation day. Although India gained independence from the British in 1947, Goa, Daman and Diu that were ruled by the Portuguese had to wait 14 years to be integrated with the Indian union. In this episode […]Read More
Covid Outbreak In Industrial Cities Authorities in east China’s Zhejiang province are making all-out efforts to contain the latest COVID-19 outbreak while mitigating its impact on manufacturing and business activities. The Chinese mainland reported 50 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, of which 45 were in Zhejiang Province, said the National Health Commission. The province has […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador Asoke Mukerji, India’s Former Permanent Representative to the UN and Ex-Envoy to Kazakhstan, who also opened India’s first Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan Embassies in 1992 and Samantha Custer, the Director of Policy Analysis, and Co-author of the AidData report, ‘Corridors of Power: How Beijing Uses Ties to Exert Influence […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Muhammad Waffaa Kharisma, Researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Indonesia in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Mr Kharisma discusses several high-level visits to Indonesia, including those of India’s Deputy National Security Advisor(NSA) Ambassador Pankaj Saran, Secretary of Russia’s Security Council Nikolay Patrushev and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The government’s decision to throw open space programmes to private industry and enterprise could be criticised as late, yet as the saying goes: better late than never and India has developed distinct strengths. For example, there’s the Indian Space Research Organisation as the premier space agency, the Defence Space Agency overseeing space warfare […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation(ORF) in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. ‘The Gist’ discusses several Afghan Taliban officials criticising Pakistan and the Inter-Services Intelligence(ISI) in interviews and whether they’re highlighting ruptures with their sponsors or if it’s just theatrics of independence, the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Gen. Bipin Rawat’s untimely and tragic departure ups the pressure on his successor, who not only has to take forward his predecessor’s agenda but also build equations with the other service chiefs. And unlike the outspoken Rawat who tended to call a spade a spade, the new incumbent will have to tread softly […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Two decades ago, a dastardly terrorist attack on India’s parliament by Pakistan-based terrorists led to a massive mobilization of troops on India’s western front. The threat of a war between two-nuclear armed countries alarmed world powers. Eventually, no war took place but the exercise—Operation Parakram—offered several lessons that India took note of and […]Read More
Push For Mandarin Could Hit Minority Languages The government has launched an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin. A circular by the Ministry of Education said the number of people who speak Putonghua, or Mandarin Chinese, will increase to 85 percent of the population by 2025. It stressed the importance of promoting Chinese language education and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Roman Babushkin, Russia’s Deputy Chief of Mission(DCM) to India in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Mr Babushkin highlights the outcomes of the annual India-Russia Summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin in Delhi on December 6, the first 2+2 between the Foreign and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A mathematical model developed in India has proved helpful in gauging the likely impact of the Omicron variant of the Covid virus. Prof. Manindra Agrawal of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur, says the SUTRA (Susceptible Undetected Tested & Removed Approach) model will help not only with the Coronavirus but […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Bangladeshi schools textbooks even today do not comprehensively reflect the 1971 war of liberation, argues Ayesha Kabir, editor of the English language edition of the leading Dhaka daily Pratham Alo. This has had an impact on how young people view those events although the government of Sheikh Hasina has done more in that […]Read More
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
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