NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador P.S. Raghavan, the former Chairman of India’s National Security Advisory Board and an Ex-Envoy to Russia and Jeff Smith, a specialist on South Asia as a Research Fellow in the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Centre and author/editor of ‘Asia’s Quest for Balance: China’s Rise and Balancing in the Indo-Pacific’, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Amid the often frenzied diplomatic to and fro over Afghanistan, last week’s gathering in Delhi of security czars from seven countries, including Russia, Iran and the five Central Asian states, had a distinct flavour. Driven by Russia and anchored by India, it sent multiple messages to the region and beyond: that while Pakistan […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Europe is once again the “epicentre of the pandemic.” These alarming words stated by none other than WHO’s Regional Europe Director Dr Hans Kluge showed that despite lockdowns and stringent rules, the 27-member-nation bloc had failed to curb Covid-19. Statistics in the WHO’s weekly report showed that Europe had reported a “5% increase […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Looking back on the recently concluded COP26 in Glasgow, former foreign secretary and climate change envoy Shyam Saran says two points clearly stand out: developing countries cannot rely on the developed world to deliver on the $100 billion of climate financing they had committed, to simply because their own economies are in trouble; […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Early next year, IIT Madras plans to hold trials of its home grown 5G equipment on its 700-acre campus in Chennai. The trials should start around January or February 2022 and continue till about April. “We have developed a stack entirely in-house, we have the nucleus or the core, the base station and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Lt Gen P.R. Shankar (Retd), Former Director General of Artillery in the Indian Army and currently Professor of Practice at the Aerospace Department at IIT Madras in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Gen Shankar discusses “Russia starting supply of the S-400 air defence system to India, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Presidents Biden and Xi Jinping set the tone early for the world’s most awaited virtual conference. Their opening remarks, with Xi describing Biden as my “old friend”, and the latter reciprocating that both leaders “had never been that formal with another”, suggested that if not friendship, a new equilibrium would be found and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Dr. Roger C. Liu, Associate Professor and Chair, South & South East Asia Studies at FLAME University in Pune and Dr Raymond Kuo, Political Scientist with Rand Corporation and Author of ‘Confronting China’s Grey Zone Strategy’ in analysis with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi on the Joe Biden-Xi Jinping virtual summit.Read More
NEW DELHI: Is the ambush of an Assam Rifles convoy in Manipur’s Churachandpur the prelude to something larger? That’s hard to say, but Lt. Gen. Shokin Chauhan (Retd), former director-general of the Assam Rifles, points to the situation on the ground. Talking to StratNewsGlobal on The Gist show, he said there is chaos in neighbouring […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Solar Industries Ltd, a Nagpur-based explosives and ammunition company, has announced that it has become the first Indian firm to successfully demonstrate prototypes of weaponised drones (Hexacopter) and loitering munitions. The company, already a world leader in packaged explosives and accessories, said in a press release that it is developing an array of […]Read More
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