NEW DELHI: India’s reconstituted National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) now comprises some exceptional talent drawn from the private sector. Sridhar Vembu, a reputed Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of software development firm Zoho Corporation, now settled in a village in Tamil Nadu, has been nominated to the NSAB that acts as an advisory body to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The U.S. White House declassifying the Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific is “very important and significant since it was supposed to be classified for 30 years, says Taiwan Member of Parliament Wang Ting-yu. “It reveals a layered strategy clearly” and “warns China if it dares to do something stupid (forcibly unify Taiwan), the price will […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Strategic dialogues between nations are by their very nature confidential but Emmanuel Bonne, diplomatic advisor to French President Macron, acknowledged that Thursday’s talks with India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval covered “strategic opportunities and our defence and security relationship”. He elaborated at a webinar organised by the Vivekananda Foundation in Delhi the same […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the wake of a UK court rejecting a US plea for the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, two parallel lines of speculation: one, that a diplomatic row between London and Washington is inevitable since extradition pleas from the US are rarely rejected; and two, that Assange could be pardoned by President […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Before COVID vaccines are ready to be delivered to the people, equally critical are end-to-end unbroken cold chains, from manufacturers through the final mile to vaccination sites. After Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Luxembourg counterpart Xavier Bettel spoke in November, B Medical Systems officials are in the country to set up a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, Ambassador Vivek Katju, India’s Former Envoy to Afghanistan and Dr Torek Farhadi, Former Advisor to President Ashraf Ghani and Ex-President Hamid Karzai discuss what U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khailzad describes as “a significant milestone: A three-page agreement codifing rules and procedures for negotiations (between the Islamic Republic […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Why would the farmers agitation in India stir the conscience of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sitting more than 11,000 km away in Canada? It’s nothing to do with conscience. It’s all about politics and vote banks. Note Trudeau’s careful choice of words. “I would be remiss if I didn’t start by recognising the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Fugitive Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri reportedly died of “natural causes” a month ago. That’s according to Hassan Hassan, a respected American journalist and author of Syrian origin. In a tweet, he said: “The news is making the rounds in close circles. I know the issue with such claims but corroborated it with sources […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Indian peacekeepers did an “excellent job” during riots in Renk, a town in the Upper Nile region of South Sudan, when mobs burnt down an NGO base and threatened to attack a World Food Programme warehouse last month, says David Shearer, the head of UNMISS, the UN Mission in the country. They mobilised […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity while executing connectivity projects, an indirect reference to China’s Belt & Road and CPEC projects that run through territories India claims. Modi was addressing the 20th Summit of the SCO Council of Heads of State on Tuesday, a virtual summit where China’s […]Read More
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