NEW DELHI: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lands in Ahmedabad on Thursday with the Indo-Pacific and under negotiation FTA high on his agenda. British officials said, “the Prime Minister is expected to announce major investment in key industries in both the UK and India, boosting jobs and growth at home, as well as new collaboration […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An agreement on an interim trade deal with India is doubtful during UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s two day visit beginning Thursday. That’s the view held out by Rahul Roy Chaudhary, head of the South Asia research programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. interviewed on The Gist programme, Chaudhary […]Read More
NEW DELHI: One of the high points of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine is the sinking of Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. There are conflicting Russian and Ukrainian versions about how the ship sank but the incident does come as an embarrassment for Russia. Several factors could have contributed to the incident, says Rear […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The economic crisis Sri Lanka finds itself in was in the making for over a decade or so. Although the LTTE war ended in 2009, the country’s internal and external finances never improved due to the lack of required policy reforms, says Dr. Sirimal Abeyratne, Professor of Economics at the University of Colombo. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: France’s President Macron has less than nine days to convince voters that he deserves to remain in the top job. This despite having reduced unemployment to its lowest level since 2008 and widespread approval of his handling of the Ukraine crisis. Macron is facing an extraordinarily tough challenge from Marine Le Pen. The […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador Manpreet Vohra, India’s High Commissioner to Australia in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. An Indian Navy P-8I Neptune deployed to Royal Australian Air Force(RAAF) Base Darwin this week to conduct submarine and surface surveillance patrols with one of the Royal Australian Navy’s(RAN) P-8A Poseidons “is […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Dr C. Christine Fair, Professor at the Security Studies Programme, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and Author of several books including, ‘In Their Own Words: Understanding the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’ and ‘Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War’ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The day may not be far off when the world will be witness to, a land grab of unprecedented proportions: a land grab centred on the Moon! In this conversation on The Gist, Chaitanya Giri, space science and technology consultant, points to recent US legislation, notably the rather innocuously named One Small Step […]Read More
Tainting its unblemished track record of timely servicing its external financing obligations ever since it gained independence, the Sri Lankan Government has announced that it is suspending servicing of selected debts amidst the worst economic crisis the country has ever endured. With international media reports having mentioned that it is only a matter of time […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine. The US obsession with Ukraine and its need to get India on board with suitable condemnations of Russia’s behaviour, cast a long shadow on the 2+2 dialogue in Washington DC. India didn’t come on board the way the US would have wanted, so some dissatisfaction there and annoyance here. In […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As expected, Ukraine cast a long shadow on the 2+2 dialogue in Washington DC between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and their US counterparts, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin. At a joint media briefing, Blinken urged that the “rules-based order” – a term […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “India and the US are natural partners,” Prime Minister Modi told US President Biden in initial remarks during their virtual meeting late on Monday night. He thanked Biden for initiating the meeting, underscoring that their talks would add substance to the 2+2 dialogue between the two countries foreign and defence ministers in Washington […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Making a new political beginning at 70 isn’t always easy but experience can come in handy. And Shehbaz Sharif has plenty of that. The younger brother of three-time Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif has been chief minister of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous and wealthiest province, thrice. Born to an industrialist family in Lahore, dealing […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Sanctions-hit Russia has proposed restarting the rupee-rouble mechanism through which it can trade with India. The two countries did trade through this mechanism in the past largely for tea, and not for very long because there was not much Russia could buy from India. Also that mechanism functioned well enough because relations between […]Read More
NEW DELHI: After the UNGA vote on Thursday, Western diplomats took to Twitter to hail Russia’s expulsion from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The vote which is the latest in a series of measures – most notably the imposition of sanctions on President Putin’s daughters – was a bid to cement international pressure on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that the Deputy Speaker’s decision to dismiss the no-trust resolution against Prime Minister Imran Khan in the National Assembly last week was unconstitutional. A 5-judge bench unanimously set aside the dissolution, restored the assembly (and Imran Khan’s government) while setting Saturday as the date for the vote on […]Read More
Strapped for hard currency, the Myanmar junta has moved to seize foreign currencies in the country by ordering that foreign exchange earned by locals must be converted into the local currency at the “official rate” within “one working day”. Financial experts and the business community voiced concern that the order would not only hurt the […]Read More
Despite the continuous deterioration of the Sri Lankan economy, the upcoming meeting at the end of the month with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to secure an IMF programme and the impending maturity of the $1 billion international sovereign bond (ISB) issuance in July, the post of Finance Minister remains vacant following the resignation of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Is it end game for the US dollar as the international reserve currency? The International Monetary Fund recently warned that US sanctions on Russia could lead to what it described as “a more fragmented international monetary system with small currency blocks emerging based on trade between separate groups of countries”. In this conversation […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has reason to be happy with the re-election of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic. Both far-right leaders are said to be close to the Kremlin and Orban in any case has never troubled to hide his preferences. As he remarked during victory celebrations, “we […]Read More
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