It was this week sixty-five years ago that will remain etched in the minds of Tibetans as a watershed. On March 31, 1959, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, entered India to seek refuge. It was a particularly troublesome month for the Tibetan administration when Chinese troops marched into Tibet and took control. […]Read More
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The Assam Rifles marks its 189th Raising Day on 24 March. On the occasion we replug our series ‘East of the Northeast’ aired first in May 2023. In our ground report, StratNews Global travels along the Burma border in eastern Arunachal Pradesh from Pangsau Pass to Vijaynagar. Firstly, in this episode, we fly on board […]Read More
It may seem odd that less than a week after hosting his Bhutanese counterpart Tsering Tobgay, Prime Minister Modi is packing his bags for two days (Mar 21-22) in Thimphu. A ready explanation offered by a former Indian diplomat was that “Any relationship requires tending, and back and forth visits are not only needed to […]Read More
Any attempt to exacerbate anti-China sentiment among the public to gain votes will ultimately cause more trouble for the bilateral relationship and bring more instability to India, said the Global TimesRead More
Assam Rifles is India’s oldest paramilitary force, which was set up as ‘Cachar Levy’ in 1835 by the British, to defend their commercial interests flowing from the tea gardens in India’s North East. Since then, its role and sphere of operations have undergone a sea change. In this episode of Simply Nitin, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief […]Read More
The Guns Of Kyapho & Ptso. In a documentary series, ‘Along The China Front: Commanding The Tawang Heights’, Part IV, we travel from Tawang to the Kyapho model border post along the Tibet border. We also document the Pankang Teng Tso or PTSO Lake area. In addition, we get a glimpse of the Indian Army’s […]Read More
The deadly June 2020 Galwan clashes, between the Indian and Chinese armies, have changed the rules of the strategic game in terms of India’s foreign policy and military posture. As a result, Post Galwan, China’s PLA failed in two more incursion attempts in Yangtse, Tawang sector in western Arunachal Pradesh at the other extremity of […]Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and dedicated the Sela Tunnel to the nation on March 9, virtually from Itanagar. Illustrating the difficulties of weather, and the importance of the tunnel in such situations, the PM could not visit the location as planned and instead inaugurated the tunnel virtually from Itanagar. Strategic Importance Of Sela Tunnel […]Read More
Imagine, a cancer treatment tablet for Rs 100! According to an NDTV report, researchers and doctors at the Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai, which is among the premier cancer hospitals in India, said the tablet is the product of over 10 years of research. It can help prevent cancer recurrence and reduce the side effects […]Read More
The Indian government, led by Home Minister Amit Shah, has recently announced plans to erect a fence along the 1650 km-long India-Myanmar border. This border spans across four Indian states, namely Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, and Mizoram. This proposed fencing project has stirred a significant debate, as it would potentially bring an end to the […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point‘, Claude Arpi, Historian, Author, Tibetologist and Distinguished Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies at the Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Claude Arpi talks about his recent revisit to Arunachal Pradesh and areas near the LAC on the China-occupied-Tibet border. […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘The Gist‘, Tenzin Tsundue, Tibetan Activist & Writer in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. On India’s Tibet policy, Tenzin reiterates what he says is the Dalai Lama describing it as “overcautious”, while acknowledging since 2008, India “has stopped giving China a free certificate” in its statements on ‘One-China’. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unexpected announcement of appointing a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) as principal military adviser to the government from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, 2019. Four years after that rather sudden decision, three or four areas have seen substantial progress in reorganisation of India’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Some parts of our border infrastructure are about national security and the area with China is about national security. The quality of infrastructure also tells you how serious we are about our border.” That was External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar speaking on border infrastructure and connectivity at a breakfast meeting with journalists on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On July 26th, the Indian Wushu (Martial Arts) team were to board the flight to Chengdu, China, to participate in theWorld University Games, when the news from the Indian Government to put the departure ‘on hold’ reached them. This news came as three players from Arunachal Pradesh were issued ‘Stapled Visa’ by the […]Read More
New Delhi: In the third part of our series, Eastern Front Airpower, Air Marshal D.K.Patnaik(Retd), Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Air Command (EAC) from October 2021 to September 2022, assesses the challenges and capabilities of the EAC. In this interview with StratNews Global Associate Editor, Amitabh P. Revi, Air Marshal Patnaik explains the vast area the […]Read More
IAF Station, Tezpur: In the first of our series, ‘Eastern Front Airpower‘, we speak to Air Commodore V.J. Singh, the Air Officer Commanding(AOC), Indian Air Force Station, Tezpur. StratNews Global’s team of Amitabh P. Revi and Rohit Pandita travel to the IAF base Tezpur, in Assam, after filming two other series: ‘East of The Northeast‘ and ‘Along The China Front: Commanding The Tawang Heights‘ . In […]Read More
In April this year, Nitin Gokhale in a chat on Bharat Shakti on theatre commands, underscored the following points: “The talk is about having three joint theatre commands with the Western Command, which will handle the western adversary, the Northern Command, which will handle the entire Himalayan border with China, stretching from Ladakh in the […]Read More
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