SAMARKAND: The SCO summit in Samarkand was a Made for Uzbekistan event, designed to showcase its natural beauty, magnificent and perfectly preserved historical monuments and organisational (read government) competence and efficiency in carrying through a successful world summit. But in a move perhaps harking back to Soviet times, access to Samarkand was tightly controlled for the […]Read More
Russia was not unduly bothered by Prime Minister Modi’s remarks to President Putin at the recent SCO summit, about this not being the era of war, said Denis Alipov, Moscow’s ambassador to India. At a media briefing, he said the remarks had been deliberately pulled out of context by the West. “There is nothing new […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The latest round of disengagement involving Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh notwithstanding, two more friction points still remain, says Army Chief General Manoj Pande. In a free-wheeling chat at the India Defence Conclave 2022 with founder and editor-in-chief of Bharat Shakti Nitin A. Gokhale, Gen. […]Read More
SAMARKAND: The recently concluded heads of state summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan presents India many opportunities: the question is can it capitalise on them? The question is very valid. India is a relative late comer to this region, waking up about a decade ago with the focus on connectivity and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have exacerbated an already disruptive world order, says former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale. The former career diplomat told StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale on ‘The Gist’ that India has managed the twin crises better than most countries and is on course to developing its economy, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The latest round of disengagement at PP-15 in the Gogra-Hot Springs area along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh has triggered differing opinions among analysts and in the social media. While some back the move, calling it pragmatic, there are others who are critical of the government, claiming that the […]Read More
SAMARKAND: The United States has been dragging it feet for months now with regard to renegotiating the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, says Seyed Mohammad Marandi, adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiating team. Speaking to StratNews Global Editor Surya Gangadharan during the SCO heads of state summit here, he said Iran wants to get full benefits […]Read More
SAMARKAND: The summit of the heads of state of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Uzbekistan has ended and the rotating presidency of the bloc has been handed over to India which will host the gathering next year. Addressing the summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined the import of land connectivity to Central Asia and, without […]Read More
Samarkand was once a great centre of Buddhism and Sanskrit learning. It lay on the trade route from India via Bactria (Balkh) in today’s northern Afghanistan and Termez, a border city in Uzbekistan. Both Bactria and Termez had flourishing Buddhist monasteries. Bactria had the honour to construct the very first Buddhist stupa during the life […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point’, Ambassador P.S. Raghavan, Chairman, National Security Advisory Board and India’s Former Envoy to Russia in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. For the first time since the deadly border standoff between China and India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi came face-to-face with China’s President Xi Jinping at the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Despite […]Read More
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