Are Automated Driving Cars Safe? A fatal car crash reportedly involving the usage of a partially automated driving system has once again thrust self-driving technology safety issues into the spotlight. The accident occurred on a highway in the eastern city of Ningbo when a XPeng P7 vehicle crashed into a pulled-over car in the same […]Read More
NEW DELHI: How does one deal with a perpetually hostile neighbour like Pakistan? There’s no dearth of solutions but Ambassador Sharat Sabharwal, from the insight gained during his years as high commissioner to Islamabad from 2009 to 2013, has put his experience together in a book with some lessons to be understood. Amb. Sabharwal has […]Read More
China’s Schools Tell Kids To Ask Their Grandparents To Get Vaccinated Several schools are linking students’ performance evaluations or even registration to their grandparents’ vaccination records. A screenshot of an announcement by Xuelang Middle School in the eastern city of Wuxi, required junior school freshmen to show the vaccination certificates of their grandparents aged 60 […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India needs to reach out to Pakistan as the current situation of “non-dialogue” is not an option, argues Suba Chandran, head of the school of conflict and security studies, National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore. Chandran believes that if India can go out of its way to talk to Bangladesh, Nepal and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s capital Islamabad is in lockdown, not due to Covid but to prevent the entry of thousands of supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan. The latter is leading a long march on the city with the aim of forcing a commitment from the government of Shehbaz Sharif of early elections. That has […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Dr C. Christine Fair, Professor at the Security Studies Programme, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and Author of several books including, ‘In Their Own Words: Understanding the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’ and ‘Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War’ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Making a new political beginning at 70 isn’t always easy but experience can come in handy. And Shehbaz Sharif has plenty of that. The younger brother of three-time Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif has been chief minister of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous and wealthiest province, thrice. Born to an industrialist family in Lahore, dealing […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Imran Khan is a crafty politician who understands the value of publicity, the more the better,” says TCA Raghavan, former high commissioner to Pakistan during a chat on StratNewsGlobal. With the numbers in the national assembly stacked against him, Khan seems to be wanting to drag things out, and has even filed a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that the Deputy Speaker’s decision to dismiss the no-trust resolution against Prime Minister Imran Khan in the National Assembly last week was unconstitutional. A 5-judge bench unanimously set aside the dissolution, restored the assembly (and Imran Khan’s government) while setting Saturday as the date for the vote on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The ceasefire along the LoC notwithstanding, there has been no let-up in infiltration of terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir. And seizures made by Indian security forces in counter-terror operations along the LoC and in the hinterland bear enough evidence about Pakistani complicity. The weapons and radio sets used by terrorists, the kind of […]Read More
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