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
SAMARKAND: India gives primacy to the interests of Central Asia and to ties with the region but connectivity is a major issue, says Manish Prabhat, India’s Ambassador to Uzbekistan. Speaking to StratNews Global Editor Surya Gangadharan ahead of the SCO heads of state meeting in Samarkand, Prabhat said Chabahar port in Iran has the potential […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Addressing the 45th annual general meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Mukesh Ambani, the company’s chairman, made a big promise: Launching Jio’s 5G operations by Diwali, And audaciously once again, Ambani promised to dare commercial boundaries and roll out “highly affordable fixed broadband services to hundreds of millions of locations in a […]Read More
SAMARKAND: The SCO heads of state summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan takes place at a time of enormous geo-political contestation. The Ukraine war, its economic impact and China’s seeming inexorable rise has severely tested the international order and long standing relationships are being questioned. In this chat on The Gist, Prof. Ulugh Beg of the […]Read More
SAMARKAND: Does the India-China agreement on withdrawal of troops from Gogra-Hot Springs lay the ground for a Modi-Xi Jinping bilateral at Samarkand’s SCO summit? The withdrawal meets the line in the sand drawn by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar—no improvement in bilateral relations could take place without China pulling back its forces from areas occupied […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India and China announced last week that their troops will disengage from Patrolling Point-15 ((PP-15) in the Gogra-Hot Springs area along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh. This comes after a year-long impasse in talks between the two sides and a week before the SCO summit in Uzbekistan, which will be […]Read More
SAMARKAND: Welcome to Central Asia, the biggest geopolitical battlefield in India’s neighbourhood. This is where India’s mettle will be tested against a China that has made aggressive inroads into the region. The big question: does India have the stomach to take on China here? Prime Minister Modi’s presence at the heads of state summit of […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘The Gist‘, Professor Tomohiko Taniguchi, Former Special Advisor to Japan’s Ex-Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s Cabinet and the Former PM’s foreign policy speechwriter and Ambassador Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, Former India Envoy To Japan in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel discusses the Japan-India 2+2 meeting in Tokyo following […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On the 15th and 16th of this month, leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a regional bloc comprising eight member states, including India, Russia and China, will meet in person in the Uzbek city of Samarkand. A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping is scheduled on […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point‘, Lt General C.P. Mohanty(Retd), Former Vice Chief of the Army Staff and Ex-Brigade Commander, MONUSCO, the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic(DR) of Congo in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Lt Gen Mohanty explains the background and context of India’s UN peacekeepers in the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The discussion paper put out by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in late July is revealing. In very blunt terms it argues that the risks from climate change are for real and need immediate mitigation. Further, the inclement fallout of climate change was posing a financial risk to banks. The logic is […]Read More
The Myanmar military regime and Russian state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom have signed a roadmap for further atomic energy cooperation including the possible implementation of a modular reactor project in Myanmar. The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF-2022) in Vladivostok, Russia, where regime chief Min Aung Hlaing has been since […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘The Gist‘, Ambassador Pankaj Saran, India’s Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Ex- Envoy to Bangladesh in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ambassador Saran says “China has been pursuing a fairly aggressive stance, vis-a-vis all our neighbors, particularly those which are contiguous to us. Sometimes, it is quite […]Read More
To her critics she’s a political chameleon, one who has donned many ideological hats in the race to the top. She calls it being mature. Others say she’s an opportunist, transitioning from the left to the right seamlessly. She’s transformed from describing Brexit as a “triple tragedy” to becoming the arch-Brexiteer. Time magazine described her […]Read More
The junta-appointed electoral body chief has further confirmed the regime’s plan to switch to the proportional representation (PR) electoral system, saying the closed-list PR system will be applied in future elections in Myanmar. Speaking at the conclusion of a training session for staff of the Union Election Commission (UEC), junta-appointed UEC chairman U Thein Soe […]Read More
NEW DELHI:The new Agnipath scheme to recruit troops (Agniveers) into the Indian armed forces has drawn flak in Nepal. The concern is it will affect the recruitment of Gorkha soldiers into the Indian Army with the resultant impact on jobs and pensions in the long run. The politicians have also stepped in, hoping to use […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India rolled out the red carpet for Sheikh Hasina, for possibly the last time given hints that the Bangladeshi prime minister may hang up her boots after elections next year. Of course she gave no such indication, but complimented Modi for his efforts on building ties with Dhaka. She also voiced the wishes […]Read More
New Delhi: The new Agnipath scheme to recruit troops (Agniveers) into the Indian armed forces has drawn flak in Nepal. The concern is it will affect the recruitment of Gorkha soldiers into the Indian Army with the resultant impact on jobs and pensions in the long run. The politicians have also stepped in, hoping to […]Read More
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