BENGALURU: As India concludes a fascinating 5G auction which lasted 40 rounds with the bids reaching over ₹1.5 lakh crore, all eyes are now on how 5G will change India. Since Jio entered the market, competition ensured the internet was affordable and accessible pan-India. Covid-19 pushed those on the fence as the nation grappled with lockdowns. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With less than five months to go before India takes over the G20 presidency on December 1, a question doing the rounds is whether the issues that arose during Indonesia’s presidency could “spill over”. Recall that within two months of Indonesia taking over the G20 presidency last year, the Ukraine war exploded on the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Largely missing from the Indian media coverage of developments in Sri Lanka is the role of left-wing organisations such as the Janatha Vimukthi Perumana (JVP) and its more radical offshoot, the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP). There’s growing suspicion (perhaps more so in the Sri Lankan government) that the mobs on the streets are […]Read More
NEW DELHI: He was trying to be a round peg in a square hole but his regimented and military approach to governance could not save Sri Lanka. The very people who elected Gotabaya Rajapaksa President of this beautiful island nation with great enthusiasm and popular support in November 2019, eventually turned against him on Saturday, July […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The India-GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) FTA may not happen at the same pace with which the agreement with the UAE was negotiated and operationalized. GCC states are currently in “prep mode”, sources told StratNews Global, each of them (except UAE) reviewing what the requirements would be, and the implications, a process that could […]Read More
NEW DELHI: When is an India-China thaw a thaw? More to the point, does a possible Chinese withdrawal from Patrolling Point 15 indicate (as some reports suggest) a thaw in the making? Or the fact that Foreign Minister Wang Yi gave an audience to newly appointed Indian ambassador Pradeep Singh Rawat last week (after keeping […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Regardless of whether the video of a ‘War Preparedness Mobilisation Exercise’ convened by the Guangdong Province Communist Party Committee on May 14, 2022 was deliberately ‘leaked’ as part of psywar, or was an unauthorised recording of the meeting by a disgruntled People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officer, it reveals some interesting details. It will […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “By the end of this decade, we should be able to launch 6G services and our task force has started working on this.” That announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a telecom event in Delhi earlier this week reportedly triggered alerts in some world capitals and the headquarters of international telecom firms, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A hop, skip and a jump would almost describe Prime Minister Modi’s helicopter flight from Kusinagar in Uttar Pradesh to a helipad in Lumbini Park, across the border in Nepal. At a day-long event combining elements of faith, politics and diplomacy, Modi will, along with his Nepali counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba, lay the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s a new buzz across the vast stretch of water linking the west coast of India and the Arabian Gulf states. The buzz is about commerce with the India-UAE free trade area coming into force on May 1. Oman and India are beginning the feasibility study for a limited FTA even as Delhi […]Read More
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