NEW DELHI: At a time when the world is gripped by panic over the Coronavirus pandemic, a United Nations panel has been doggedly visiting world capitals making the case for a seven-decade-old issue, the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. Why the UN would want to spend so much money and time over an exercise […]Read More

PUNE: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar underlined the importance of trade in the current international order when he stated, “The pulls and pressures of the international system are today most evident in the trade domain.” Talking about the increasing focus on trade the minister added that the last few decades there had been what he […]Read More

NEW DELHI: In the political pecking order, Myanmar’s President is at roughly the same level as India’s President: Their posts are largely ceremonial and they play second fiddle, to Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar and Narendra Modi in India. It partly explains the limited media coverage accorded to Myanmar’s President U Win Myint who […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. That old dictum may have to be completely revisited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after back to back visits of two world leaders to India this February. The first being Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka whom Delhi would like to qualify as […]Read More

NEW DELHI: February 26, 2019 — a red-letter day for India’s political will and military operations with the Balakot air strikes against Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists deep inside Pakistani territory. Air Marshal SBP Sinha, a fighter pilot who retired from service on December 31, 2018 as the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Central Air Command, in conversation […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The absence of any big ticket announcement on trade during Trump’s visit may not be a bad thing. Rajat Kathuria of the economic policy think tank ICRIER, believes that any bilateral trade deal should be done in a measured fashion. In a chat with StratNews Global ahead of the Trump visit, he said […]Read More

NEW DELHI: “There’s always a problem between lakhs and millions.” With that, government sources steered the media away from questions regarding U.S. President Trump’s claim in Washington DC the other day that millions would welcome him on his forthcoming visit to India. In fact, the sources indicated “no big ticket announcements” during Trump’s 36-hour long […]Read More

NEW DELHI: She came and was deported! Debbie Abrahams, a Labour MP of British Parliament and a vocal critic of the Indian government’s Kashmir policies including the abrogation of Article 370, was booted out of the country shortly after her arrival at Delhi Airport. Immigration authorities put her on an Emirates flight to Dubai (from […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Japan may be inching close to a decision on joining RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) although Tokyo had earlier given the impression it would wait until India made up its mind. But with India determined to stay out, Japan is being asked by other states (that plan to join) how long it intends […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Photographs available with StratNews Global show a group of three heavily armed terrorists, who were planning a sophisticated terror attack, intercepted and killed near the Bann toll plaza in Nagrota close to Jammu. Some markings found on the arms, ammunition and other items recovered from the terrorists reveal a clear Pakistani hand. The […]Read More