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: 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: Seven new defence companies, carved out of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), will enhance functional autonomy, efficiency and unleash new growth potential & innovation, officials say. Government had decided to convert OFB from a Government Department into seven 100 per cent Government-owned corporate entities as a measure to improve self-reliance in the defence preparedness […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India made 4G over a decade after it was actually developed overseas? Is India reinventing the wheel? To answer the first, 4G lays the ground for transition to 5G, since many of the devices for the former are compatible with the latter. Also, India needed to develop 4G on its own to ensure […]Read More
ARUNACHAL PRADESH: India’s Eastern Army Commander, Lt Gen Manoj Pande has one of the longest borders with China to look after. During his tenure, he has worked closely with the Indian Air Force and the State governments in the region to improve infrastructure and operational efficiency of the troops deployed on the difficult border. In […]Read More
ASSAM/ARUNACHAL PRADESH: The Indian Air Force is doing the heavy lifting quite literally when it comes to augmenting military capabilities in the mountainous terrain of the eastern sector. The Chinooks are not just transporting manpower but also firepower (the ultra-light Howitzer M777s) from one remote valley in Arunachal Pradesh to another, thanks to upgrades of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Gas is good and therefore the way to go, argues Vikram Singh Mehta, in this seminal volume The Next Stop, which he has edited. The book has 24 chapters written by experts and professionals covering everything from “Why Gas?” to supply and demand issues, the case for India, regulation and sustainability and so […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Glasgow climate summit in late October, US climate czar John Kerry was in Delhi heaping praise on India’s drive for 450 GW of renewable energy by 2030. “PM Modi has set very ambitious targets in India. The target of 450 GW by 2030 of renewable energy, is one of the most […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Energy security is a major component of national security especially for a fast developing economy such as india’s. Ensuring a smooth supply of petroleum oriducts and making sure there are enough strategic reserves for unforeseen situations is the responsibility of the Ministry of petroleum and natural gas. In this exclusive interview to Editor-in-Chief […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Meet Aashish Chandorkar, management consultant and the first “non-babu” to be appointed a director at India’s Permanent Mission to the World Trade Organisation. As a public policy specialist, he will bring to his new appointment over two decades of experience heading business and technology transformation projects for clients across industries and geographies. Chandorkar […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The top brass of the Indian military has decided to continue more discussions and conduct in-depth cross-services studies before finalising the number of theatre commands it needs to create for enhancing joint combat potential of the three armed forces, last week’s top-level meeting appears to have concluded. Last Thursday, India’s first Chief of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Amid the pandemic induced gloom and doom about the Indian economy, Deepak Bagla is refreshingly different. In a frank chat on The Gist, the CEO and managing director of Invest India, the government agency charged with bringing foreign direct investment into the country, says there’s a lot of overseas interest in the India […]Read More
NEW DELHI: One would presume that microblogging site Twitter with an estimated 34 million users in India and a growing revenue base would do anything to safeguard and promote its business. But Twitter’s behaviour has been decidedly odd. Over the last month, it has had four criminal cases filed against it (one for posting child […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani has unveiled an ambitious ₹75,000-crore plan to transform his company’s core energy business with the focus on green and renewable energy. At the company’s annual general meeting, he announced that work is underway on developing the Dhirubhai Green Energy Giga Complex on 5000 acres in Jamnagar. “We plan to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has embarked on an ambitious Deep Ocean Mission over the next five years at a cost of over Rs.4000 crore. The mission is as much a result of deep sea research and expertise over the last few decades, as also the recognition that India needs to step up the pace of research […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Indian diplomacy’s “secret sauce” is fence sitting! India manages to be all things to all men, with the result it is neither influential nor indispensable to the world. These and other descriptions about Indian foreign policy may not be new but Mohamed Zeeshan has brought some fresh insight into it through his book […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Twitter will now be held legally liable for all Tweets on its platform in India. Meaning criminal action can be taken against its top executives in India for any content deemed inflammatory or unlawful. This flows from Twitter’s failure to comply with the new social media guidelines which came into effect on May […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The new IT rules that took effect earlier this week has pitted the government against social media platforms such as Twitter and Whatsapp who say it could compromise data encryption and, as an extension, user privacy. The government insists it’s committed to the right to privacy of its citizens but at the same […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the centre of gravity of geopolitics and the world economy shifts towards Asia where the biggest beneficiaries of globalization are housed, what should India’s approach be? More engagement, especially in the immediate and extended neighbourhood, says Shivshankar Menon, who has been India’s Foreign Secretary and National Security Adviser. We must use the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: 5G trials will begin in India in about two months and will last six months, according to the Department of Telecom. In a press note, it said four telecom providers will carry out the trials, Bharti Airtel in tie-up with Ericsson, Vodafone with Samsung, Reliance Jio Infocomm with Nokia and MTNL with C-DOT. […]Read More
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