Three years ago, 20 Indian Soldiers died in a brutal clash with China in the Galwan Valley. Watch this episode of SNG Explains to know what happened. Why Ladakh is so sensitive and what steps India has taken post-Galwan clash to ensure the safety around the LAC.Read More
NEW DELHI: Reports about the breach of the COWIN app has renewed fears about the vulnerability of India’s digital stack. Are our systems secure and regularly updated? Who or what agencies are involved in these attempts to break in and steal data? In this chat on The Gist, Bharat Panchal, specialist on cyber security and […]Read More
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to United States June 21-24, US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken inaugurated the US-India Business Council’s India Ideas Summit at the Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C. June 12, and urged the two nations “to build a free, open, secure, prosperous Indo-Pacific where people, where goods, where […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Ukraine war is now in its second year, and the fighting in Sudan’s capital between the army and a paramilitary force is two months old and spreading to other parts of the country. Yet there is no intervention by the UN, no presence of UN peacekeepers despite a horrific toll in human […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the process to remove ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan from Pakistan’s future political configurations continues unabated, there is considerable brainstorming within the establishment about holding general elections and the transition in between. One of the areas of debate is who will be the interim Prime Minister, acceptable to all including the military, before […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Quad seems to have become the strategic need of the times, and a new one is taking shape. The new grouping, unlike the original Quad involving U.S., Australia, Japan and India, has a pronounced military dimension to it. The New QUAD will be one irritant more for China.Read More
NEW DELHI: Last week, the Indian Navy showcased its maritime capabilities in the Arabian Sea, one that involved two carrier battle groups in the first such operation in over a decade. Two aircraft carriers—INS Vikramaditya and INS Vikrant—operated in the exercise that had the coordinated deployment of more than 30 combat aircraft. A carrier battle […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China is marking the third anniversary of the Galwan clash in eastern Ladakh in its time-honoured manner: portraying it as an achievement that young people should emulate. Meaning that they should be inspired to join the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and to that end, there is extensive use of film and video showing […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Scars of violence take time to heal and the mayhem unleashed on May 9 by Imran Khan’s supporters, who vandalised military installations and stormed the Lahore Corps Commander’s house, remains a gaping wound. The Army is in no mood to forget or forgive, more so in a country that has seen military rule […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On June 15, 2020, Indian and Chinese troops clashed in the Galwan Valley of Eastern Ladakh. Twenty Indian soldiers and an unspecified number of Chinese troops lost their lives in the first such incident involving the two armies along the Line of Actual Control in decades. The Chinese have acknowledged four deaths but […]Read More
Missamari, Assam: In our series, ‘Along The China Front: Commanding The Tawang Heights’, we spoke to Major General Charanjeev Manju, General Officer Commanding, 71 Infantry Division in Missamari in March 2023. On India’s deployments and locations along the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh, Gen Manju tells the StratNews team of Amitabh P. Revi and Rohit Pandita, “We are sitting on dominating places. We are […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Leveraging partnerships to facilitate growth is India’s biggest foreign policy challenge, says External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar. He was responding to a question from StratNewsGlobal, after a special briefing on how Indian foreign policy had evolved over nine years of the Narendra Modi government on Thursday, June 8. “What does the rise of India mean, and how do […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our lives, revolutionizing industries, powering innovations, and transforming the way we interact with technology. Although AI systems have exhibited remarkable capabilities and potential, its advancements come with inherent risks and ethical concerns that need to be addressed.Read More
Last week India released its official growth numbers for the fourth quarter of 2022-23. It was a surprise on the upside. As a result, growth in the last fiscal year was 7.2%, compared to 7% estimated earlier. Coincidentally, in the same week, two global investment banks, Morgan Stanley and Amundi, published independent reports saying that […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Pakistan military top brass has concluded a four-day huddle with a firm resolve to root out ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan’s network that caused the May 9 rebellion against the army, sparing neither the rank and file nor the leaders of the conspiracy. India Narrative has learnt that the military top brass was […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Shangri-La dialogue held annually in Singapore is an opportunity to network with the top defence and military leadership in Asia. So, every defence minister from practically every corner of the world was there except India’s Rajnath Singh. Although Prime Minister Modi addressed the dialogue in June 2018, for some reason India’s top […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive against Russian forces appears to be close at hand with the deputy defence minister confirming “offensive action” in some areas. Just how many troops will be involved is not clear, speculation also about the strength of the foreign fighters in Ukrainian ranks. Kyiv estimated “20,000 people from 52 countries” last […]Read More
“It’s better to go to jail than go to work” “At least allow employees to eat lunch at their leisure.” Strange but true: an employee of the Chinese real estate conglomerate the Wanda Group, was publicly humiliated by his company for going through his mobile phone while having lunch. A picture of him playing on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The visit of US Defense Secretary Austin has cleared the decks for what could be a major leap forward for the India-US relationship, says Arun Singh, former ambassador to Washington. Speaking on The Gist, Ambassador Singh underscored that perhaps for the first time, the US is embarking on a military technology relationship with […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s hard to overstate how little is known about how the Chinese system works; even if you are within the system, it is difficult to know what the top leader thinks, says Joseph Torigian, Assistant Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. Speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale […]Read More
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