NEW DELHI: The 12th Bangladesh general elections threw up no surprises. The results of Sunday’s voting haven’t been declared yet but the ruling Awami League by all accounts is headed for absolute majority. Unofficial results say the party has won over 220 seats in the 300-member parliament. Independents come a distant second, with a little […]Read More
China Sanctions Five US Companies In Response To Washington’s Arms Sales To Taiwan The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Sunday that China has decided to impose sanctions on five US defense companies, including freezing movable and immovable assets and other types of property held within China, as well as prohibiting organizations and individuals […]Read More
Pirates Are Leveraging The Houthi Attacks For Their Benefit’ This may appear unprecedented, but the Indian Navy has five of its frontline warships deployed in the Arabian Sea and near the piracy infested waters of Somalia and civil war torn Yemen. Former naval veteran Capt DK Sharma told StratNews Global that their presence was made […]Read More
UDHAMPUR, J&K: More than three years and a half after the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh began, the “situation is stable but sensitive and not normal,” says Northern Army Commander Lt Gen. Upendra Dwivedi. In an exclusive interview with StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There has been no let-up in subversive activities in the run-up to January 7, the day Bangladeshis will vote in the 12th general election. At least four people died after miscreants set some coaches of the Benapole Express, a passenger train, ablaze in Dhaka late on Friday. A fortnight ago, four people had […]Read More
The Houthis have carried out 23 attacks since Dec 19 on ships they claimed were enroute to Israel. It is their way of demonstrating support for Gaza’s Palestinians. In the process, they disrupted the flow of commerce through the Red Sea forcing merchant vessels to take the longer and more costly route around Africa. Watch […]Read More
Visuals of Prime Minister Modi snorkelling in the scenic Lakshadweep islands have gone viral on the internet. In fact, they seem to have coincided with reports of the Maldives preparing to welcome a Chinese vessel after throwing out the unwelcome mat to India. The million-dollar question exercising netizens is whether the prime minister was […]Read More
Myanmar’s military junta has reportedly offered major concessions to China on the $8 billion Kyaukphyu deep sea port and special economic zone in western Rakhine state on the Bay of Bengal. The nature of the concessions is not clear with the junta’s commerce ministry merely stating that “Addendum was signed for clearer and more accurate […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Next week, Rajnath Singh is scheduled to travel to the United Kingdom, and he will be the first Indian defence minister to do so in 22 years. “Till now, the focus of both countries has been on trade; the defence minister’s visit to the UK is an attempt to correct this, put more […]Read More
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar kickstarted his first foreign trip in 2024 with a visit to Nepal. The trip which is a two-day official visit saw Jaishankar meet with his counterpart N.P. Saud for the India-Nepal Joint Commission meeting. Set up in 1987, the Joint Commission, which is the highest-level political mechanism between […]Read More
NEW DELHI: For the last few weeks, the Indian stock markets have been on a tear. The Sensex has progressively logged new peaks. Similarly, the other index, Nifty, too has been outperforming itself. India’s investor base grew by a fifth to 8.5 crore in December 2023. This prompted Uday Kotak, the former big boss of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The peace accord signed by Home Minister Amit Shah and the Arabinda Rajkhowa faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in New Delhi on December 29 brings a sense of closure to the decade- old conflict between the militant outfit and the government. In this episode of The Gist, Dr Samudra […]Read More
NEW DELHI: From Kyaukpyu and Chittagong ports on India’s eastern seaboard to Hambantota in Sri Lanka and Gwadar in Pakistan, China has strategically invested all along this country’s maritime borders, with serious implications says Alok Bansal, former naval officer who has been writing and researching on India’s neighbourhood. He was on The Gist talking about […]Read More
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s visit to Moscow last week would have been an opportunity to update himself on the Ukraine war, specifically how the Russians see it and whether peace is on the horizon. In this chat on The Gist, Ambassador Pankaj Saran, head of the Natstrat thinktank and former deputy national […]Read More
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NEW DELHI: This year saw an old war (Russia-Ukraine) drag on and the emergence of a new one (Israel vs Hamas). It was also about great power competition and some diplomatic effort by the United States to sort of stabilise its tumultuous relationship with rival China, with the two presidents meeting in person. All of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The recent round of elections to state assemblies saw the Bharatiya Janata Party pull off an audacious win in Madhya Pradesh. Not only did it overcome four-term anti-incumbency, but it also managed to win two-thirds majority in the state assembly. Undoubtedly, the big draw was Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, there is a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Sikhs for Justice, the outfit led by New York-based lawyer Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, is nothing but a bunch of criminals and goons, believes Sukhi Chahal. A San Jose, California based IT Entrepreneur, Speaker, Activist & Philanthropist and Founder, CEO & Editor-In-Chief of The Khalsa Today, Chahal asserts that while Khalistan is no longer […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The unique relationship between India and Oman was clearly underlined by the Joint Vision Document adopted during the three- day State visit of the Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tarik, to New Delhi from December 16. Titled a ‘A Partnership For the Future’, the document aims to leverage the remarkable synergy between Oman […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As Chinese coercion rises and American deterrence around the world wanes, what are the lessons for India? There needs to be a change in strategic thinking and we need to scale up hi-tech advancements and make cultural transitions to reduce the power asymmetry with China, says Lt Gen. Raj Shukla (Retd), former commander […]Read More
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