How has Kashmir changed after Article 370 that gave J&K special status was abrogated more than four years ago and the state downgraded into two union territories? During his first visit to the Valley after the government’s landmark decision in 2019, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale came back enriched. The security deployment isn’t as […]Read More
Last week, China renamed 30 places, nearly two-thirds of them being geographic features such as mountains and rivers, in Arunachal Pradesh.Read More
Next week on Baisakhi, it will be four decades since India launched ‘Operation Meghdoot’ to foil Pakistani designs and gain full control of the Siachen glacier. To date, it remains the Indian Army’s longest deployment, one that continues. A decade ago, a book titled ‘Beyond NJ 9842: The Siachen Saga’ was published. Set on the […]Read More
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
Earlier this month, the defence ministry signed a contract of over ₹8,000 crore with the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for acquisition of 24 Advanced Light Helicopters (ALH) Dhruv Mark III for the Indian Army and the Coast Guard. It demonstrates another significant push in the government’s quest for self-reliance in defence. It also shows renewed […]Read 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
India’s Cabinet Committee on Security on March 7 approved the project to design and develop the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft more popularly known as AMCA as a fifth-generation, medium weight low observable fighter jet. To be designed and developed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) which functions as a Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) […]Read More
On Simply Nitin this week, we look back at a groundbreaking event: India’s strike five years ago on a jihadi camp in Balakot, in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It was in retaliation for the attack on Feb 2019 in Pulwama J&K, on a bus carrying CRPF personnel in which 40 were killed. A […]Read More
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A rise in conflicts in various parts of the world has meant governments are spending more on their militaries than they did earlier. And defence spending is projected to rise further, says the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in its Military Balance report for 2024. The Russia-Ukraine war is almost two years old and […]Read More
Why is the Indian Ocean important and what makes the Indian Ocean conference so special that the seventh edition of the annual event which took place in Australia’s Perth on February 9 and 10 saw ministerial representations for 17 countries? External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar too was present. The theme of the conference this year […]Read More
The Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) by India and the United States has added an extraordinary layer to the bilateral relationship. It involves not just the two governments but private entities too—industry, academia, research institutes, etc. One of the key components of the mechanism is its thrust on joint innovation and building an […]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: India’s premier defence research body—the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)—which was set up over 60 years ago needs to change the way it operates. That’s what a committee headed by K. VijayRaghavan, former principal scientific advisor to the government, has recommended. So what is wrong with DRDO and what changes has the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The pro-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) led by Arabinda Rajkhowa recently signed a tripartite peace accord with Centre and Assam Government. According to the deal, ULFA has agreed to give up violence, disarm and disband the insurgent group and join the democratic process. However, a faction of the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On this day 52 years ago, India won the war against Pakistan, which led to the creation of a new country (Bangladesh). It was a swift military operation but was planned over months after the Pakistani army went on a killing spree in late March that year in what was then East Pakistan. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The India-US Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) is emerging as a key pivot around which the India-US relationship will be defined in the coming year. In a session moderated by Nitin Gokhale at the recently held Global Technology Summit hosted in conjunction with Carnegie India and the Ministry of External Affairs […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A decade and a half has passed, yet the wounds of one of India’s worst terrorist attacks remain raw and the emotional scars refuse to heal. The 26/11 Mumbai attacks did not just expose holes in the intelligence and security set-ups but showed how all norms of responsible reportage by a section of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the past couple of weeks, Operation 1027—an alliance of three armed anti-junta groups in Myanmar which was formed on October 27—has intensified its offensive against the country’s military and gained more ground. To escape the fighting, thousands of Myanmarese have crossed the border and taken refuge in adjoining Mizoram. Ever since the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Building on the visits of PM Modi to the U.S. and President Biden to New Delhi earlier this year, the foreign and defence ministers of both countries met here on Friday under the 2+2 format that was instituted in 2019. They noted the substantial progress in transforming India-U.S. relations across domains, according to […]Read More
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