India’s new High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami, appears to have struck all the right notes after reaching Dhaka. He made it a point to visit the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial and wrote in the visitor’s book: “No journey can be started without being at the point of origin. This poignant memorial to the luminous […]Read More
The Indian Foreign Service marked its 74th birthday on October 9, a time for celebration and sober stock taking. Among the first to greet was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who tweeted that its work in furthering national interests globally is commendable. He also acknowledged the role it has played during the Covid-19 pandemic and in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Our objective remains advancing the security and the economic interests of all countries having legitimate and vital interests in the (Indo-Pacific) region,” India’s Foreign Minister Dr S Jaishankar said at the second Quad(Japan, Australia, India, U.S.) Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Tokyo this week. On ‘Talking Point’, Admiral Sunil Lanba(Retd.), Former Chief of the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Tuesday’s meeting of Quad foreign ministers in Tokyo could be a game changer. The speculation is a distinct hardening of India’s stand on the security challenges in the Indo-Pacific (meaning China), which could see a consensus emerge, resulting in a Quad joint statement, the first of its kind. Some would say the signs […]Read More
The farewell organised for Vijay Thakur Singh, secretary (east) in the ministry of external affairs on her retirement was live streamed across the globe, allowing her colleagues posted in various missions to join in. Over 100 officers were present, from the senior most foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla to greenhorns, and there were warm speeches […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s the largest province of Pakistan, making up 45 per cent of its geographic area, yet Balochistan remains the most neglected area there. The region is mineral-rich, known especially for its gas reserves and the government has mined it to the hilt. Pakistan has saved $3 bn a year for decades by exploiting […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s well known that India and China have differing perceptions about where the Line of Actual Control (LAC) lies. But amid the ongoing standoff in eastern Ladakh, China has renewed a claim it made over 60 years ago—that it is following the line put forth by its then premier Zhou Enlai in 1959. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The second Quad (Japan, Australia, India, U.S.) Foreign Ministers meeting is in Tokyo on October 6. The analysts on ‘Talking Point’ this week are Tanvi Madan, Director of The India Project at the Brookings Institution and Cleo Paskal, Senior Fellow, focusing on the Indo-Pacific region, at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD). […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The months-long standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh has put relations between the two countries at a crossroad, says noted China watcher Major General Dipankar Banerjee (Retd). An unsettled border will continue to be a reason for friction; besides, there’s a fundamental contradiction in how each of them sees the […]Read More
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NEW DELHI: “For how long will India be kept out of the decision making structures of the United Nations?” With that Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched into a severe critique of the United Nations during a virtual address of the annual session of the UN General Assembly. Speaking in Hindi, he demanded to know how […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With the current India-China standoff in eastern Ladakh showing signs of extending into winter, what does the Indian army do by way of preparation at a place where winter could mean temperatures dipping to 40 degrees below freezing point? At the super-high altitudes of Ladakh, winter that’s just around the corner is no […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The UN General Assembly is being forced to hold its annual General Assembly virtually this year by the coronavirus pandemic. But, that hasn’t stopped global leaders from sparring in their online addresses. Secretary General António Guterres has even cautioned the U.S. and China not to “split the globe in a Great Fracture” between” […]Read More
When foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla spoke to members of his alma mater, St.Stephen’s College earlier this week via a virtual platform, there was nostalgia in his opening remarks. Noting that it was a “very special occasion” for him to be addressing students of the certificate course at the Centre for Advanced Learning launched nine […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Sixty years of China’s occupation has not diminished the Tibetan desire for freedom, says renowned author and scholar on Tibet affairs Claude Arpi. In a skype chat with StratNews Global’s Surya Gangadharan on Books Corner, Arpi talked about thte fourth volume of his Tibet series titled The End of An Era: India Exits […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The current standoff in Ladakh is far bigger in scope and strength than ever before but attempted intrusions and transgressions by the Chinese ground forces is not a new occurrence. For a decade now, the size and duration of India-China faceoffs have increased with each year. Depsang, 2013, Chumur 2014, Doklam 2017 are […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Xi Jinping-led Chinese state has bitten off more than it can chew in its overreach in trying to redo the world order, especially in lashing out in the South China Sea and around India, says Daniel Blumenthal, the author of ‘The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State’. Beijing uses the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There is no need for India to revise its policy of no first use policy insofar as nuclear weapons are concerned since the country’s deterrence redlines are fairly well established for any of the adversaries to take chances, two of India’s well-known analysts in this specialised field, Dr Manpreet Sethi of Centre for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s one of the glorious chapters in India’s military history. Five years after suffering a defeat at the hands of China, India hit back hard at the border pass of Nathu La in 1967. It’s a story of courage and determination and what a determined leadership can do. In many ways, it laid […]Read More
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