NEW DELHI: The recent Cambodian elections held on Sunday have sparked international criticism and condemnation. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, claimed a landslide victory with 120 out of 125 parliamentary seats, while the only credible opposition party, the Candlelight Party, was disqualified from contesting the election. The transfer […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Last week Niti Aayog released the latest edition of its Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). It showed that 13.5 crore Indians had escaped poverty in the last five years. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), using the same methodology as the MPI had revealed that India had lifted a staggering 415 million out of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun” is a famous saying credited to the late Chairman Mao, who founded the Chinese People’s Republic in 1949. And it was also Mao’s dictum that the Communist Party must always control the barrel. So how would the so-called mutiny by Russia’s Wagner Group […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s position on the Ukraine conflict has been expressed in many forums, be it the UN, the G20, and bilaterally with our major partners, including the US. Yet, during the recent visit of Robert Habeck, the German Vice-Chancellor and Economic Affairs Minister, to India for a G20 meeting, while answering a leading question […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the world weighed in on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial law, curbing the power of the judiciary to strike down government decisions, even the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah threw in its two bits: Israel was on a “path of collapse, fragmentation, and disappearance,” claimed Hassan Nasrallah, its leader, a trifle optimistically. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Vappala Balachandran, who worked closely with R&AW founder RN Kao, discusses his latest book which looks at how intelligence evolved worldwide from the time of Chanakya and Sun Tzu to the present day, and various lapses and successes.Read More
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visits to the U.S. and France were hugely successful, building on already robust bilateral ties. India has been successful in exploiting opportunities that are opening up in a fast changing multipolar global order, says D. Bala Venkatesh Varma, former Ambassador to Russia. There seems to be a growing […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Last week, Russia bombed the Ukrainian port of Odessa, destroying around 60,000 tons of grain stored for export. It came two days after Russia walked out of the one-year-old Black Sea Grain deal whereby it had agreed not to attack ships carrying Ukrainian grain to overseas destinations, around 33 million tons were exported […]Read More
A month after he disappeared from public view, it was left to China’s state-run news agency Xinhua to make it official. “China’s top legislature voted to appoint Wang Yi as foreign minister. Qin Gang was removed from the post of foreign minister.” That was it, no explanation as to why he was removed, what explained […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There was no explicit mention of geopolitics in the vision document released at the end of Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to India last week but both leaders did discuss the geopolitical situation (vis-à-vis China) just like they do whenever they meet, says Sri Lankan envoy to India Milinda Moragoda. The thrust […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to France took the bilateral strategic ties to a different level. There were several agreements in different areas and both leaders even agreed to adopt a roadmap to set the course for the bilateral relationship till 2047 that will mark 100 years of India-France ties. But some […]Read More
IAF TEZPUR BASE: In the second part of our series, ‘Eastern Front Airpower’, we document 24 hours in the professional life of the air warriors of Indian Air Force Station, Tezpur in the Eastern Air Command. This documentary, filmed on the IAF base in Tezpur and other stations and areas in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh looks at […]Read More
The Qosh Tepa Canal aims to provide Afghan farmers with sufficient water to cultivate their fields, but it has raised many concerns as it draws water from the already drying Amu Darya River. This poses a direct threat to Uzbekistan, as it will contribute to the aridification of the Aral Sea and its water-reliant cotton […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Arab unity can be pretty fickle. Allies and friends fall apart, squabble and get back together again before something else triggers a falling out. A case in point are remarks attributed to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who reportedly told some journalists last December, that the UAE “has stabbed us in the […]Read More
Little under a fortnight ago, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, the apex body guiding India’s marquee tax reform, held its 50th meeting. It took place just after the country celebrated the sixth anniversary of the rollout of the GST, which for the first time economically unified the country. However, some of the decisions […]Read More
Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe is in Delhi on his first visit since taking over as president last year amid economic collapse and political chaos. Addressing an Indian CEO’s forum a few days ago in Colombo, he said, “We need to determine our long-term objectives and aspirations for the next 10 to 15 years. This […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The disruption of global supply chains due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent Ukraine crisis could derail India’s plans to become a net zero nation by 2070. Net zero essentially means achieving zero emissions of greenhouse gases—the main culprit behind climate change—by using clean (non-fossil fuel) energy and removing or absorbing the remaining […]Read More
In less than 10 days, the politburo of the Chinese Communist Party will meet with the economy in focus: it is widely expected to take a slew of measures including injecting more stimulus into the economy to boost confidence and investment. Reform may also figure on the agenda although it’s clear this government’s preference for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan has unveiled a seemingly new look nuclear doctrine, which seeks to close the window opened by India’s strike on a terrorist training camp in Balakot in February 2019. Brig. Arun Sahgal of the Delhi Policy Group think tank, believes the new doctrine reflects the Pakistani military/strategic establishment’s multiple insecurities, from a bankrupt […]Read More
A little over two days since Russia withdrew from the Black Sea Grain deal, that allowed the export of over 30 million tonnes of grain from Ukraine, politics took over. “So the result of Russia’s action today — weaponising food, using it as a tool, as a weapon in its war against Ukraine — will be to […]Read More
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