NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist’, Ambassador Dilip Sinha, Former Head of the UN Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Ex-Envoy to the UN in Geneva and Author,’Legitimacy of Power: The Permanence of Five in the Security Council’ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. India has assumed the rotational UN Security Council(UNSC) Presidency […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Consultations are on at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for an emergency session on Afghanistan. India assumed the rotational UNSC presidency for a month on August 1. On Tuesday, Afghan Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar spoke to India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on the issue saying, the “UN and the international community […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Nearly 20 months after Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India Austin Fernando completed his term and returned to Colombo, his successor is expected to take charge later this month. Milinda Moragoda, a former Cabinet minister, knows he has to hit the ground running. Especially when relationship between the two countries has been strained […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Is India justified in feeling let down by the U.S. on Afghanistan? Diplomats say the U.S. has every right to change policy in keeping with its national interests. But it is the manner in which they go about it that is causing heartburn in Delhi. The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was taken […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Over a year and counting! That describes the standoff between India and China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh. Disengagement from the north and south banks of the Pangong Lake took place in February after the ninth round of talks between the Corps Commanders of both sides. On Saturday, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the second of StratNewsGlobal’s three-part series on science and technology, we talk to Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology on Geospatial data. This is now an area of vital focus with the government relaxing controls on the collection and dissemination of geospatial data, throwing it open to the private […]Read More
The Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM), which is controlled by the military regime, has sold nearly US$90 million (148 billion kyats) since the February coup as the kyat’s value tumbles. The CMB auctioned $6.8 million to domestic banks in February following the coup, $12 million in April, $24 million in May, $12 million in June […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador Nirupama Menon Rao, Former Indian Foreign Secretary, Ex-envoy to the U.S., China, and Sri Lanka and Ambassador Teresita C. Schaffer, Former U.S. Envoy to Sri Lanka, Ex-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, one of the State Department’s leading experts on South Asia in her 30 year career, Co-author, ‘India at […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Bonnie S. Glaser, Director of the Asia Programme at the German Marshall Fund of the United States analyses a flurry of high-level visits; U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin’s meetings in Singapore, Hanoi, and Manila, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s discussions in New Delhi and Deputy Secretary of State […]Read More
NEW DELHI: If there were any doubts in Delhi about the visit of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, these were dispelled when he said “There are few relationships in the world that are more vital than the one between the US and India. We are two of the world’s leading democracies and diversity fuels […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The visit of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sends an important signal to the world about how the US views India, says Arun Kumar Singh, former ambassador to the US. Speaking on StratNewsGlobal, he pointed to Blinken’s remarks where he said “We view Indian democracy as a force for good in defence […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s first and only overseas military deployment in strength started this month in 1987. The induction of the Indian Peacekeeping Force or IPKF into Sri Lanka was a result of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord of 29th July 1987. So the IPKF went in with an understanding that it would keep peace in Sri […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s Sri Lanka policy is an unprecedented mess. The easy way out for Indians to console themselves is to blame the Rajapaksa brothers and, of course, China. The truth is, however, more bitter and complicated. A genuine self-critical autopsy will reveal that India is to blame for much of its present predicament. This […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As expected, the elections to the POK legislative assembly saw Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Pakistan win 25 of the 45 seats at stake (8 more seats are nominated). The PPP won 11 seats and the PML(N) 6. Farooq Haider of the PML(N), who was ‘prime minister’ until now, claimed that the entire election exercise “was […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in India for his first visit to the country (since taking office), a statement was issued from Beijing on foreign minister Wang Yi’s meeting with his Pakistani counterpart in Chengdu. After the customary fulsome tribute to their partnership, the statement said: “The two sides …. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The top brass of the Indian military has decided to continue more discussions and conduct in-depth cross-services studies before finalising the number of theatre commands it needs to create for enhancing joint combat potential of the three armed forces, last week’s top-level meeting appears to have concluded. Last Thursday, India’s first Chief of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Myanmar presents tough choices for India: the generals who seized power from the democratically elected government some months ago are well disposed towards Delhi. But the manner in which they have gone about imposing their authority on their citizens, including killing them, should give pause to their strongest supporters. In this conversation, Rajiv […]Read More
BENGALURU: The February 1, 2021 military coup that overthrew the democratically elected parliament in Myanmar on unsubstantiated charges has exposed the limitations of regional and international diplomatic response to it. The Myanmar military has consistently resisted calls for change in political governance ever since 1962, when Ne Win illegally seized power and installed the Burma […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With technology seen as the key driver for the economy, the government came out with a draft Science and Technology Innovation Policy earlier this year. It’s the fifth in the series with the focus on building an eco-system that could push indigenous technologies and encourage grassroots innovation. In this, the first of StratnewsGlobal’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been doing some stellar work in developing missiles of different ranges and potency for decades. Despite getting involved in some of the Covid-19 mitigation related work in 2020-21, DRDO has continued to keep pace in developing and testing some new systems as Chairman Dr. G. […]Read More
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