NEW DELHI: On #TheGist, Air Marshal S.K.Jha, Air Officer-in-Charge, Personnel(AOP), Indian Air Force(IAF), in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. “We will start reaping the benefits right from the time these youngsters start coming to us for training,” Air Marshal Jha says, adding, “it will give us an opportunity to mould the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The global economy is becoming more intertwined and innovation-driven, and this creativity needs to be supported by intellectual property (IP). For many entrepreneurs, investors and businesses, IP is the lifeblood of innovation but it is turning into a battleground between the world’s biggest economic powers because of the theft of such property. According […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On #TheGist, Lt Gen A.K. Bhatt (Retd), Director General, Indian Space Association, Former DG Military Operations, Former 15 Corps Commander and Ex-Military Secretary in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Lt Gen Bhatt discusses the ‘Agnipath’ recruitment scheme for the armed forces at the soldier level. 75 % of soldiers(recruited […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Regardless of whether the video of a ‘War Preparedness Mobilisation Exercise’ convened by the Guangdong Province Communist Party Committee on May 14, 2022 was deliberately ‘leaked’ as part of psywar, or was an unauthorised recording of the meeting by a disgruntled People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officer, it reveals some interesting details. It will […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s policy towards India’s neighbours is driven by a mix of commerce and the need to limit Delhi’s expanding strategic footprint, argues Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury, author of The China Factor. An M.Phil. from Oxford, Roy-Chaudhury wrote the book based on his understanding that other than the strategic community, there was little in the public […]Read More
Onib Dadgar’s letter is reproduced as received. Plea To India On Visa Issue Shared With StratNews Global (Onib Dadgar is an Afghan PhD Scholar at the University of Mysore)Read More
NEW DELHI: Notwithstanding the war in Ukraine, the “geo-strategic” weight remained in the Indo-Pacific and India would be central to shaping the new geo-political order here as it “sits at the crossroads of Eurasia, South Asia and Southeast Asia.” That was Gen Charles Flynn, Commander of the US Pacific Army who was in Delhi earlier […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On #TalkingPoint, Dr. Foad Izadi, Associate Professor at the Department of American Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran and Author of the book, ‘United States Public Diplomacy Towards Iran’ and Dr. Deepika Saraswat, Associate Fellow at the West Asia Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA) and Author […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), which was launched last month a day before the fourth Quad summit in Tokyo, is billed as the first major trade initiative of the Biden administration. It reinforces the centrality of ASEAN in the region, something the Quad has harped about. In addition to the four Quad members—the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On #TheGist, Ambassador Navdeep Suri, Former India Envoy to UAE, Egypt in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ambassador Suri discusses the fallout on India’s interests following the now suspended BJP national spokesperson and expelled Delhi media head’s remarks on the Prophet Muhammad, the external affairs ministry statement that the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The BJP remains in damage control mode in the wake of the furore generated by remarks on the Prophet Muhammad by party members. Only authorized spokespersons and panellists will participate in TV debates, is the new directive from the top. No religion will be criticized nor its symbols or religious figures. “Spokespersons and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian lands in Delhi later this evening, which suggests that outrage in Teheran over remarks on the Prophet Mohammad by BJP members is not being allowed to decide the course of the bilateral relationship. Iran has its reasons. It is facing censure with the IAEA board of governors […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On #TheGist, Ambassador Vivek Katju, India’s Former Envoy To Afghanistan and Ex-Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs(MEA) in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ambassador Katju discusses the first publicly announced visit since the Taliban takeover on August 15, 2021 of a team led by J.P. Singh, Joint Secretary(Pakistan, […]Read More
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
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