NEW DELHI: On 24 November 2020, China launched one of the most ambitious space missions undertaken by it all these years. The Chang’e-5 mission to the Moon is a robotic mission with the goal of drilling through the Moon’s surface to a depth of around two meters, collecting 2 kg of rock and soil samples and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has announced his first Cabinet and national security nominees this week. India’s former Ambassador to the U.S. and Germany Meera Shankar and James Traub, Author, Journalist and Scholar at New York University’s Centre on International Cooperation discuss the expectations around the world and in America on ‘Talking Point’ with […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The space for those expressing secular, liberal or progressive views is shrinking rapidly in Bangladesh–this is a view expressed by Bangladeshis as they see hardline elements gaining increasing salience in the Muslim-majority nation. Even more worrying, they say, is that such radical views are no longer confined to Islamist outfits but have spread […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla appeared to have struck all the right notes in Kathmandu, describing Nepal as “nikatam mitr” or close friend in initial remarks at the airport. As the day unfolded, protocol was brushed aside as Shringla called on Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, for a one-on-one that included a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is scheduled to travel to Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo on Friday and Saturday to carry forward the recent momentum in India-Sri Lanka relations, exactly a year after Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected President in the island nation. On top of the agenda during Doval’s two-day visit is the revival […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I expect the Biden administration to uphold the Trump administration’s precedent with regard to arms sales to Taiwan,” says Charlie Lyons Jones at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in Canberra, adding, “it would be really helpful for bolstering deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.” The Trump administration notified Congress of military deals to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On the 12th anniversary of the Mumbai attacks, India must remind the world that one of the key men behind the attacks that killed so many Indian, Israeli and Western nationals (total 166), remains free in Pakistan. The man in question is Sajid Mir, who is accused of serving as chief planner for the attacks, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Why is 2019 Nobel peace laureate Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed conducting a ‘war’ on the country’s Tigray region? Theodore Murphy, Director of the Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, explains the genesis of what PM Abiy describes as a ‘campaign to uphold the rule of law’, the “explosion of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Winds of change in the India-Nepal relationship? That remains to be seen, but the visit later this week of India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla to Kathmandu suggests a determination to address the bumps in the relationship. The most recent bump of course, is the bitter border dispute over Nepal’s claims to the […]Read More
KABUL: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday arrived on a day-long visit to Afghanistan where he met top Afghan government officials including President Ashraf Ghani and the talks between the two were focused on a number of important issues pertaining to the Afghan peace process, bilateral relations and cooperation between the nations on mutual […]Read More
China’s diatribes are getting positively theatrical. On Thursday, none other than Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said, “It doesn’t matter whether they have 5 eyes or 10 eyes, if they dare to damage China’s sovereignty, security and development, they should be careful or their eyes will be plucked out.” The threat was directed at Britain, Australia, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: White sands, turquoise waters, soothing sea breezes–a bunch of island nations scattered in the Indian Ocean region (IOR) drew tourists by the thousands until the pandemic struck. But these islands are more than just playgrounds for tourists. There is a maritime ‘Great Game’ going on here, a game triggered by their location along […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Fifteen countries, including Australia and Japan that are members of the Quad, have signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). How does this impact the larger Indo-Pacific concerns and strategy? Will commitment to the Indo-Pacific gradually get diluted as other countries scramble to get on board the RCEP gravy train? Answers to these […]Read More
PUNE: There are very few modern-day wars that have ended decisively. The shining example of one which did is the 1971 Indo-Pak war for the liberation of Bangladesh. The Azerbaijan and Armenia conflict for the independent region of Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) has now become the second example of a decisive war. Last week, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict […]Read More
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has made no secret of the need to cultivate Europe and this is something that India has focussed on in recent times. With a GDP of around $20 trillion and with India bound in strategic partnerships with two major countries – Germany and France – New Delhi has […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In a few weeks from now, India will get an opportunity to understand and explore a U.S. proposition, to set up a new naval fleet possibly in Singapore, to more fully address the challenges in the Indo-Pacific. U.S. Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite, who is expected in Delhi in the next few weeks, spelt it […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There are a number of vaccines that are being tried and tested to fight the global pandemic that has killed millions and devastated the global economy over the most part of this year. But the leading ones currently are from US Biotech firms Moderna and Pfizer. Moderna which recently released its study claims […]Read More
KABUL: The US-Taliban agreement—signed in Doha in February—cannot be the basis for all topics that will be discussed in the peace negotiations in Qatar, said Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, reiterating that Afghanistan needs inclusive peace. The negotiations in Doha have been paused for the last many weeks over […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Fifteen Asian countries signed a trade deal on Sunday that has been eight years in the negotiation. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) brings together the 10-member Asean bloc, Japan, South Korea and China in a trading arrangement that sharply reduces tariffs for their goods, and establishes common rules for e-commerce and intellectual […]Read More
NEW DELHI: These days no India-Asean summit is complete without the ritual reference to free, open, inclusive, rules-based Indo-Pacific, which annoys China no end. And so it was with Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the 17th Asean-India Summit via video-link on Thursday. But the prime minister also had a bone to pick with Asean […]Read More
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