NEW DELHI: Is Kashmir again on the brink of the kind of violence that swept the valley in the 1990s? While the targeted killings are alarming and have had widespread impact, the point is the army and state and central police forces have not lost their grip on the situation. So the short answer is […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the past seven years, China created and developed its first overseas military base for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at Djibouti. Djibouti is strategically situated astride the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in the northern Indian Ocean, which separates the Gulf of Aden from the Red Sea, and functions as a “choke point” for maritime […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhaya, India’s Former Envoy to Afghanistan in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The former Envoy discusses India’s first publicly announced Kabul meetings with the Taliban since it re-took Afghanistan on August 15th last year. “It was a matter of time before some level of official engagement took […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On #TalkingPoint, from Mashobra, Himachal Pradesh, Ambassador Navtej Sarna, Former Indian Envoy to Israel, U.K & the U.S. and Author, ‘Indians at Herod’s Gate: A Jerusalem Tale’ and from Tel Aviv, Anat Bernstein-Reich, CEO, BDO Israel-India Investment Banking and Chair, Israel-India Chamber of Commerce joins StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The […]Read More
The currency swap worth $1.5 billion provided by China in December last year cannot be utilised by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka as it came with a condition that Sri Lanka must have sufficient foreign reserves to cover imports for several months, a threshold that was not met even in December, before reserves began […]Read More
NEW DELHI: After months of secret, back-channel contacts both in Kabul and Doha, India on Thursday publicly acknowledged that it has sent a team of diplomats to Kabul to “oversee delivery operations of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan” and “meet senior members of the Taliban”. . An official delegation led by Joint Secretary (in charge of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Ukraine issue hung over both New Delhi and Tel Aviv, as Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz visited India to celebrate 30 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Gantz first met with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh after which a “Vision Statement”, charting out the future strategic and defence cooperation between the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: UN peacekeeping is changing with less resources available and missions therefore, being called upon to make do with less. This flows from the pandemic and the economic hit the world has taken. But there are other lessons to be drawn, notably by countries such as India that have traditionally been major contributors to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: After 15 rounds of dialogue at the level of military commanders, and a 16th round in the offing, India appears no closer to getting the Chinese out of Patrolling Point 14 which they occupied in the wake of the Galway clashes. In this chat on The Gist, Jayadeva Ranade of the Centre for […]Read More
The Sri Lankan Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to amend five Acts, aiming to increase the government’s tax revenue to pre-2019 December levels, in a nearly total reversal of the controversial tax amendments made under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and then Finance Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. “Minister of Finance, Economic […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On #TheGist, from Miami, Florida, Cleo Paskal, Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ms Paskal discusses China Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s island-hopping blitz across Pacific Island Countries days after the Tokyo Quad Summit, visiting seven […]Read More
In a letter to Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the main Parliamentary Opposition, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), expressed its support to repealing the 20th amendment to the Constitution and presented five key proposals to the 21st amendment to the Constitution draft Bill put forward by the government. “As we informed you at the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: President Putin’s blockade of Ukraine’s sea ports has sparked off fears of a global food crisis. In a phone call last week with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Russian president made it clear that while Moscow was “ready to help find options for the unimpeded export of grain, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Rapidly changing geopolitics has had a welcome fallout for India in at least one respect: the apparent willingness of some of the world’s defence hardware majors to transfer key technologies to India. This could be the case with jet engines given reports that the government has told France’s Safran and GE of the […]Read More
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe plans to introduce a new committee system to strengthen Parliament’s financial powers, as well as a National Committee to make the President and Prime Minister answerable to Parliament. He made this announcement during a special statement on the 21st amendment to the Constitution and proposed political reforms. He said […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On #TalkingPoint, in Tokyo, Dr. Tomohiko Taniguchi, Former Special Advisor to Ex-Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s Cabinet, Professor on International political economy and Japan’s strategic diplomacy, Keio University Graduate School of System Design and Management, Senior Fellow, GRIPS Alliance and in Washington, D.C., Seema Sirohi, Columnist, The Economic Times in discussion with StratNews Global […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The special relationship that India has had with the people of Afghanistan over centuries will guide India’s approach; nothing can change this. With these words National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval underlined India’s policy and approach towards Afghanistan. And to dispel any doubts, Doval drove home the point: “India was and is an […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Indian troops were among the peacekeepers that repulsed an attack by an armed group on positions of the Congolese army and the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this week. The UN Security Council has condemned the ‘deliberate attack targeting peacekeepers’ by Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) in the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Philippines has a new president. Ferdinand Marcos was formally proclaimed president at a Congressional ceremony in Manila but will take over on June 30th. Speaking on The Gist, Charmaine Willoughby, associate professor of international studies at De La Salle University in the capital, that although Marcos won nearly 59% of the popular […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The proposed 21st amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution, which aims at curbing the unbridled powers of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and was presented before the Cabinet earlier this week, will be distributed among party leaders for their observations, after which it will be sent back to the Cabinet for final approval. The 21st […]Read More
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