NEW DELHI: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has announced his first Cabinet and national security nominees this week. India’s former Ambassador to the U.S. and Germany Meera Shankar and James Traub, Author, Journalist and Scholar at New York University’s Centre on International Cooperation discuss the expectations around the world and in America on ‘Talking Point’ with […]Read More
Iran Blames Israel As Top Nuclear Scientist Murdered A leading Iranian scientist, dubbed as the architect of the country’s nuclear programme, has been killed, the country’s state media has reported. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was murdered in his car after an explosion and gunfire in Absard, near the capital Tehran. While the Iranian defence ministry confirmed the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In this age of information warfare, it’s imperative for nations to build narratives and control them so as to improve their image and standing abroad. The West has been on the top of this game, says Vikram Sood, former chief of Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW), India’s external intelligence agency. Building a national […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Chinese aggression in the maritime domain and its utter disregard for international norms governing the seas and oceans is actually making world powers recalibrate their approach to Indo-Pacific. New alliances are being formed; small countries are now standing up to China’s belligerence and naval exercises involving powers such as the U.S., India, Japan and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Fugitive Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri reportedly died of “natural causes” a month ago. That’s according to Hassan Hassan, a respected American journalist and author of Syrian origin. In a tweet, he said: “The news is making the rounds in close circles. I know the issue with such claims but corroborated it with sources […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy’s Vikramaditya Aircraft Carrier Battle Group has conducted naval exercises with the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, Australian and Japanese vessels in Phase II of Malabar 2020 in the northern Arabian Sea. In ‘Talking Point’, Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd), former Chief of Indian Naval Staff and Capt. James E. Fannel(Retd), […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There are a number of vaccines that are being tried and tested to fight the global pandemic that has killed millions and devastated the global economy over the most part of this year. But the leading ones currently are from US Biotech firms Moderna and Pfizer. Moderna which recently released its study claims […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point’ Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, Japan’s former envoy to the U.S., WTO and UN and Ambassador Mohan Kumar, India’s lead negotiator first at the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and then at the WTO (World Trade Organization) and ex-Ambassador to France and Bahrain in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor […]Read More
LEH: Air Force Station Leh, home to the legendary Siachen Pioneers since the beginning of Operation Meghdoot in April 1984, has never been as busy as it has been since May. Ever since the standoff began with China in May, the IAF has swiftly deployed its offensive assets to match Chinese mobilisation. Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In Session Two of ‘Talking Point’, Bonnie S. Glaser, Senior Advisor for Asia and Director of the China Power Project at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. is in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ms Glaser works on issues related to Asia-Pacific security with […]Read More
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