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
It was hardly surprising that the focus of this year’s Raisina Dialogue would be on dealing with the fallout of Covid-19 and how nation states could better work together to realise this aim. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for global systems to reinvent themselves to face “common challenges that threaten humanity”. In this way, he […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Taking up from his testimony to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee in March, Admiral Philip S. Davidson, the outgoing head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), sounded the bugle against “China’s very pernicious approach to the region”. In a virtual discussion at ORF’s Raisina Dialogue with India’s Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The global pandemic has caused nation states to re-examine the way they look at and deal with one another. From earlier age-old alliances that were more fixed in nature countries are now increasingly exploring bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral alliances that work for the greater good rather than simply coming together for ideological or […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands give India a distinct advantage due to their strategic location—close to the Malacca Strait, a potential chokepoint for China. Most of China’s oil imports from West Asia via the Indian Ocean pass through the Malacca Strait. Besides, the Andamans give India the opportunity to keep an eye on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The army crackdown in Myanmar and the security of the Indo-Pacific were the overriding concerns expressed by a three-member panel on Day Two of the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi. At the discussion titled Crimson Tide, Blue Geometries: New Partnership for the Indo-Pacific, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said: “I think all of […]Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a number of key messages to put forward on day one of the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi, and one of them not surprisingly was to Pakistan. Speaking virtually in English, he warned that “proxy wars” and “unending terror attacks” were unabated and that world must now look towards “different solutions.” […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are home to India’s only tri-services command. Tasked with securing the huge stretch of Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) around the islands, the Andaman and Nicobar Command is now also keeping a hawk eye on Chinese activities in the Bay of Bengal. In this episode of ‘The Gist’, StratNews […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As geopolitics over the Indo-Pacific hots up, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands—India’s easternmost seaboard—find themselves in the midst of renewed focus and infrastructure development activities. Their location, close to the Malacca Straits, is a strategic asset as is their proximity to Indonesia and Thailand. In this episode of ‘The Gist’, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Simple though not a simpleton! There could be many ways to describe the late Manohar Parrikar, former defence minister and chief minister of Goa, but author and journalist Nitin A. Gokhale has a particular preference for those words, given his close relationship with the man widely credited with transforming an inefficient, hidebound and […]Read More
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