NEW DELHI: As the dynamics of war fighting keeps changing, national security paradigms need to keep pace. This holds good for a country like India that’s up against an adversary such as China. The biggest challenge now is how to transit from an industrial ear military to a digital era military, says Lt Gen. Raj […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Jaijit Bhattacharya of the Centre for Digital Economy Policy Research argues that the 2022 budget could be a game changer in terms of its focus on technology. Speaking to SNG, he says the government has sent a clear signal that it does not like cryptocurrencies but for now is holding back from a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the budget, what are the trends and issues that could influence the finance minister? Global headwinds exist in the form of lower growth in the US and China, says Anil Padmanabhan, former editor of the Mint who is currently running the substack CapitalCalculus on business and economy. In a chat on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, Ambassador Asoke Mukerji, India’s Former Permanent Representative to the UN, Ex-Envoy to Kazakhstan and the diplomat who opened India’s Uzbek, Tajik, & Turkmen Missions and Ambassador Phunchok Stobdan, India’s Former Envoy to Kyrgyzstan, Ex-Joint Director in the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) and Author of the ‘The Great Game in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India and Central Asian leaders have agreed to hold summits every two years to keep up the momentum in their relationship. The national security advisers will meet regularly and India will set up a centre in Delhi which will be the secretariat for forthcoming summits. A joint working group on Afghanistan at senior […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Many of you are probably using the UPI, United Payments Interface that has transformed digital payments, making it fast, efficient. That in turn has seen the government making payments directly to farmers, to those below the poverty line and others. Now a new revolution is in the making: it’s called Open Network for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India isn’t averse to demilitarization of the Siachen Glacier, given that Pakistan accepts the Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL) that divides the positions of the two countries, says Indian army chief General MM Naravane. India was forced to take countermeasures on the world’s highest battlefield after Pakistan unilaterally tried to change the status […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The government’s efforts to indigenise defence production is a good move but there’s the need to leverage the expertise that the country has, says Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd), former Director General (Artillery). He was in conversation with StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, where he cited the example of Dhanush gun and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The government’s move to cut down on defence imports with the overarching aim of making India self-reliant in the critical sector is a welcome move but needs a clear roadmap, says Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd), former Director General (Artillery). Speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale on ‘The Gist’, Lt Gen […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An India Pakistan war on the size and scale of what happened in 1971 that led to the liberation of former East Pakistan now Bangladesh, is unlikely. In this conversation on The Gist, Dr. Manpreet Sethi argues that Islamabad’s acquisition of nuclear weapons deterred India from crossing the Line of Control during the […]Read More
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