NEW DELHI: Since the beginning of May this year, China has created an arc of sustained military pressure along India’s northern borders. This presently stretches from Daulet Beg Oldi in Ladakh, to Naku La over a thousand kilometres to the East in north Sikkim and possibly on to Bhutan. China’s action appears to blend military, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan, like the rest of the world, has been busy battling the Covid-19 pandemic with the numbers having spiked ever since the government lifted the lockdown on May 31. By Saturday morning, according to the Pak government, the total number of Covid-19 positive cases had surged to 93,983, with 4,734 cases being reported […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the last few days, TikTok, the app developed by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, with a huge following in India, has dropped many notches in the popularity stakes, from number 5 to 10 in the App playstore. The drop coincided with the India-China standoff in Ladakh. China’s Global Times was quick to notice and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China is sending India a message, that the pinpricks on the Line of Actual Control will continue until Delhi acknowledges Beijing’s interests in this part of the world. Prof. B.R. Deepak, who teaches and researches on China at Jawaharlal Nehru University, told StratNews Global that China does not believe India has lived up […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s 14 Corps Commander meets the chief of China’s Southern Xinjiang Military District on June 6 to try and resolve the standoff between the Indian and People’s Liberation Army in Ladakh. ‘Talking Point‘ with Lt. Gen Susheel Gupta, the former Deputy Chief of Army Staff and Nitin Gokhale, Founder and Editor-in-Chief StratNews Global and BharatShakti […]Read More
The head of the National Security College at the Canberra-based Australian National University, Prof Rory Medcalf is no stranger to India. Not only has he served as a diplomat at the Australian High Commission in New Delhi in the early 2000s but over the years he’s kept a sharp eye on the evolving India-Australia relationship […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Australia didn’t get an invitation from India to join the trilateral Malabar naval exercise due in July or August but Narendra Modi and Scott Morrison have taken the bilateral relationship to a whole new level by sealing a comprehensive strategic partnership during their virtual summit on Thursday. So Malabar may only be a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The quelling of student protests at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 31 years ago remains one of the bloodiest episodes in contemporary Chinese history. What was the trigger and how did the violent end come about? Former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale, who was a young diplomat at the Indian embassy in Beijing in 1989, shares […]Read More
NEW DELHI: One question: why would China open a confrontation in Ladakh when it is provoking maritime face-offs against its Asean neighbours in the South China Sea, and against Japan? Some Indian diplomats argue that Beijing believes it can provoke such incidents because it dwarfs Asean, and because Japan despite its technological superiority, is militarily […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Until COVID-19 struck the world, who would’ve imagined that the prime ministers of India and Australia would be forced to hold a virtual summit? Or the two would discuss their tensions with China? Given that, it’s clear Narendra Modi and Scott Morrison will be hoping to further crank up their security cooperation in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Tit-for-tat: after India expelled two Pakistan High Commission staffers on Sunday for spying and asked them to leave the country within 24 hours, the Pak foreign office in Islamabad summoned the Indian Cd’A on Monday and issued a demarche protesting the action. The two Pakistanis—Abid Hussain Abid, assistant in the trade fair section and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s state-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), has extended to June 24 its Rs 9000 crore (around $1.3 bn) tender for upgrading 50,000 new 4G sites in four zones and nearly 7000 new sites in Delhi and Mumbai for MTNL. Reports in the pink papers said “some officials in the Department […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka last year are a grim reminder of the kind of challenges India and its neighbourhood faces, says Gopal Baglay, India’s High Commissioner To Sri Lanka. In an exclusive interview to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, Baglay says India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives are […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With an unannounced ceasefire largely holding in Afghanistan, is there hope for a reduction in bloodshed? Are the Taliban and an Afghan team moving towards negotiating a future political structure? How does the U.S. continuing troop withdrawal affect the government’s position? And should India open a public channel to the Taliban before intra-Afghan […]Read More
NEW DELHI: President Trump’s offer of mediation, repeated twice, has been rejected by India and also by China. Diplomats and scholars described it as “non-serious”, given the manner in which it was conveyed. Also, mediation never works when two big countries are involved. Nevertheless, there are some interesting points to be noted. Trump’s offer comes […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Meet Major Suman Gawani, India’s first peacekeeper to be selected for the prestigious UN Military Gender Advocate Award. Major Suman served as a Military observer in UNMISS(United Nations Mission in South Sudan) from November 2018 to December 2019. On her mission, she was the principal focal point of contact for gender issues for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s deliberate initiation of a face-off in the Galwan Valley must be seen in the context of its “incremental nibbling” of Ladakhi territory since the 1980s. Noted Tibet scholar and China watcher Phunchok Stobdan traces the current tensions back to 1984 when China encroached into Nagtsang, followed by Nakung in 1991, Lungma-Serding in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The first flight from the Netherlands post the COVID-19 lockdown has brought back Indians from as far as Mexico and Portugal as well as the first batch of those stranded in the host country. Nearly 300 Indians from Mexico, Lima, Lisbon and Amsterdam were on the first KLM flight to Mumbai. India’s Ambassador Venu […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The million dollar question many Afghans are asking: will the Taliban extend the three-day ceasefire that ended on Tuesday? The Taliban is yet to reveal its mind but the buzz is it may be extended without a formal announcement. The government’s release of 900 Taliban prisoners, with a thousand more expected to be […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An approximately 1,700 km long porous border between India and Nepal has contributed to the deep and strong civilizational and people-to-people links between the two nations. But as often happens with close neighbours, the two are currently at loggerheads over contesting territorial claims. At stake are the territories of Kalapani, Lipu Lek and […]Read More
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