NEW DELHI: Is the ambush of an Assam Rifles convoy in Manipur’s Churachandpur the prelude to something larger? That’s hard to say, but Lt. Gen. Shokin Chauhan (Retd), former director-general of the Assam Rifles, points to the situation on the ground. Talking to StratNewsGlobal on The Gist show, he said there is chaos in neighbouring […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Solar Industries Ltd, a Nagpur-based explosives and ammunition company, has announced that it has become the first Indian firm to successfully demonstrate prototypes of weaponised drones (Hexacopter) and loitering munitions. The company, already a world leader in packaged explosives and accessories, said in a press release that it is developing an array of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Long hailed as the bastion of journalism, the New York Times continues to have a dedicated readership in the US and in other parts of the world for its “factual” and “unbiased” coverage. But Tel Aviv-based journalist and author Ashley Rindsberg calls these beliefs into question in his recent book called The Gray […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Chinese President Xi Jinping has managed yet another endorsement from the Communist Party, one that puts him in league with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, the two leaders who ruled China for long. Xi, however, has charted a distinctly belligerent course, unleashing aggression against one country after the other. He hasn’t spared the […]Read More
Covid Worries For Oil Firm China National Petroleum Corp, the world’s third-largest oil firm, has told all of its Beijing units to enter a “state of emergency” after four of its employees tested positive for COVID-19. The state-owned giant said it immediately started to conduct nucleic acid testing for all employees. The move came after […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Chinese Communist Party’s central committee comprising the top brass, has ended four days of deliberations behind closed doors in Beijing. The meeting is seen as giving Xi Jinping another leg up in his push for a third term, one that seems pretty certain to happen next year. Ananth Krishnan, correspondent of The […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, Dr Ming-shih Shen, Director of the National Security Research Division at Taipei’s Institute for National Defence & Security Research and a retired army Colonel and Dr. Roger C. Liu, Associate Professor, Chair, South & South East Asia Studies at FLAME University in Pune in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Geographically, India and Russia are similarly placed vis a vis Afghanistan: they don’t share a border with it but nevertheless, feel affected by developments there. India because it is always concerned about Pakistan’s activities in that country that abet terrorism against India. Russia because it shares borders with three former Central Asian satellite […]Read More
New Delhi: Security czars of India, Russia, Iran and the five Central Asian states have ended their confabulations in Delhi. The Delhi Declaration issued after their deliberations is a comprehensive though familiar document. It restated their concerns about Afghanistan, terrorism and extremism, drugs trafficking and the demand for an inclusive government in that country. In […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The situation in Ethiopia is dire but confusion persists about the war on the ground: in this conversation on Stratnews Global with Samuel Getachew, a journalist based in Addis Ababa, it appeared that misinformation and fake news are making it difficult to tell just who is telling the truth or even what is […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘The Gist’, Jack Detsch, National Security Reporter, Foreign Policy in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi on the U.S. Secretary of Defence’s annual report to the U.S. Congress on ‘Military and Security Developments Involving China’.Read More
NEW DELHI: The India-China relationship as we see it today is both complex and prickly, rooted in history. And it has had its share of ups and downs, mostly the latter. How were the formative years of the ties? What was Jawaharlal Nehru’s take on China and Tibet? And why did the two countries go […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s been more than two years since the Centre scrapped Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu & Kashmir and downgraded the state into two union territories. Recently, Home Minister Amit Shah visited J&K to take stock. In this episode of ‘Simply Nitin’, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale explains the messaging […]Read More
Govt Notice Sees Rush At Supermarkets A recent notice from the Ministry of Commerce, calling on citizens to stock up on daily necessities has seen people rushing to supermarkets and grocery stores to stock up on rice, noodles, cooking oil, and other essentials, according to posts on social media platforms. One resident said he bought […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point’, Colonel S. Dinny(Retd), Defence and Security Analyst, who served as Commanding Officer of the Pangong Tso Battalion and Nitin A. Gokhale, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of StratNews Global and Bharat Shakti in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel analyses building during crises in a whole-of-government approach, strategic signalling, military integration, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Buried in paragraph 32 of the declaration issued at the end of the G20 Summit in Rome, is the reference to a minimum corporate tax of 15% on companies using tax havens to avoid paying their legitimate dues. The question is why this weighty announcement figured so low in the declaration? According to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Swati D’souza, Research Lead for Climate Action at the National Foundation for India and co-editor, ‘The Next Stop: Natural Gas and India’s Journey to a Clean Energy Future’ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Swati D’souza discusses the significance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Panchamrit’ announcement—made […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Despite its military might and cutting-edge technology, why did the United States suffer huge reverses in the wars it launched in Iraq and Afghanistan? Was it faulty planning, poor strategy or just plain refusal to adapt to changes on the ground? Retired U.S. Army colonel Christopher D. Kolenda, the first American to have […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated seven new defence PSUs to the nation, created out of the 41 ordnance factories that were a drag on the defence budget. Proposals to corporatize the ordnance factories had been doing the rounds for over a decade but in 2019 the Centre decided to go […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The 26th UN climate conference (COP26) opens in the Scottish city of Glasgow tomorrow. The idea is to speed up action to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement, even better that as the globe is heating up faster than expected. With heads of state/government of various countries attending, here’s a lowdown […]Read More
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