How has Kashmir changed after Article 370 that gave J&K special status was abrogated more than four years ago and the state downgraded into two union territories? During his first visit to the Valley after the government’s landmark decision in 2019, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale came back enriched. The security deployment isn’t as […]Read More
A flooded airport, travel delays, submerged streets, traffic chaos and more. The usually bustling city of Dubai was brought to its knees and the heavens opened up. More than a year’s rain in a few hours goes against the norm in the arid region and is bound to create havoc. The city had its worst […]Read More
There’s an unspoken question China’s President Xi is asking: does the US have the stomach for war with China? He’s probably yet to make up his mind but there’s little doubt his maneuvers in the South China Sea, backing Iran as it flexes muscle in the Persian Gulf and support for Russia in Ukraine, are […]Read More
Last week, China renamed 30 places, nearly two-thirds of them being geographic features such as mountains and rivers, in Arunachal Pradesh.Read More
‘Apne mian ko mat jaane do Col Kumar ke saath’ Had it not been for a German expedition wishing to go rafting on the Indus River in North-west India’s Ladakh region in 1975, this book would not have been written! Thanks to that expedition, Col Narinder “Bull” Kumar, India’s most famous military mountaineer came in […]Read More
Next week on Baisakhi, it will be four decades since India launched ‘Operation Meghdoot’ to foil Pakistani designs and gain full control of the Siachen glacier. To date, it remains the Indian Army’s longest deployment, one that continues. A decade ago, a book titled ‘Beyond NJ 9842: The Siachen Saga’ was published. Set on the […]Read More
It’s an academic centre par excellence, rated the No. 1 institution in India for the last eight years in the engineering category. It has the country’s first university-based research park where the industry and academia collaborate to create an innovation ecosystem. Welcome to IIT Madras, which is also the testbed for research and development in some […]Read More
With the Russia-Ukraine war now in its third year, India’s position has been quite nuanced much to the chagrin of the West. While India has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said this is not an ear of war, India has refrained from any overt condemnation of what the West […]Read More
It was this week sixty-five years ago that will remain etched in the minds of Tibetans as a watershed. On March 31, 1959, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, entered India to seek refuge. It was a particularly troublesome month for the Tibetan administration when Chinese troops marched into Tibet and took control. […]Read More
Earlier this month, the defence ministry signed a contract of over ₹8,000 crore with the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for acquisition of 24 Advanced Light Helicopters (ALH) Dhruv Mark III for the Indian Army and the Coast Guard. It demonstrates another significant push in the government’s quest for self-reliance in defence. It also shows renewed […]Read More
The notion that China does not see India as a rival is nonsensical, argues Sumit Ganguly, Professor of Political Science at the Indiana University in Bloomington, who has co-authored a book titled ‘Sino-Indian Rivalry’. Speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale on ‘The Gist’, Prof. Ganguly said China is increasingly concerned about Indian growing […]Read More
Assam Rifles is India’s oldest paramilitary force, which was set up as ‘Cachar Levy’ in 1835 by the British, to defend their commercial interests flowing from the tea gardens in India’s North East. Since then, its role and sphere of operations have undergone a sea change. In this episode of Simply Nitin, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief […]Read More
India’s Cabinet Committee on Security on March 7 approved the project to design and develop the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft more popularly known as AMCA as a fifth-generation, medium weight low observable fighter jet. To be designed and developed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) which functions as a Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) […]Read More
Cellular modules are crucial to a modern economy. They are used in a vast array of industrial applications including energy, logistics, manufacturing, transport, health, security, and payment processing. At home, they feature in cars, smart meters, computers, electric vehicle chargers, and white goods. They monitor and control complex systems remotely. To ensure that such systems […]Read More
On Simply Nitin this week, we look back at a groundbreaking event: India’s strike five years ago on a jihadi camp in Balakot, in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It was in retaliation for the attack on Feb 2019 in Pulwama J&K, on a bus carrying CRPF personnel in which 40 were killed. A […]Read More
The Russia-Ukraine war refuses to wind down, and the West keeps imposing sanctions on Russia-linked entities but human tragedy is piling up. Over a third of Ukraine’s population has fled their homes, reconstruction is getting costlier and the aftereffects of the conflict may last generations. So how does one assess the conflict as it stands […]Read More
Like in any other operational area, there's no scope to let your guard down, as Southern Army Commander Lt Gen AK SinghRead More
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A lot of lessons from the Ukraine, Gaza wars, and the Ladakh standoff with China. In an exclusive interview with Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, Air Chief Marshal V.R. Chaudhuri, the Chief of Air Staff (CAS) dwells on lessons learned from the Russia-Ukraine war, the changing nature of war, and why the Indian Air Force will […]Read More
Why is the Indian Ocean important and what makes the Indian Ocean conference so special that the seventh edition of the annual event which took place in Australia’s Perth on February 9 and 10 saw ministerial representations for 17 countries? External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar too was present. The theme of the conference this year […]Read More
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