LEH: Air Force Station Leh, home to the legendary Siachen Pioneers since the beginning of Operation Meghdoot in April 1984, has never been as busy as it has been since May. Ever since the standoff began with China in May, the IAF has swiftly deployed its offensive assets to match Chinese mobilisation. Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In a significant diplomatic victory for India at the United Nations (UN), its candidate has been elected to the prestigious Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ)–which controls the purse strings of the UN. Vidisha Maitra, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 2009 batch had been fielded by India for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I can’t forget the picture of two of my colleagues, from the navy and air force, and I walking off the Malé jetty, It was a classic tri-service operation,” says Lt Gen. Vinod Bhatia (Retd), who was the Brigade Major 50(I) Parachute Brigade during Operation Cactus that put down the 1988 coup in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s impatient wait to get the go ahead to develop the crucial East Container Terminal (ECT) in Sri Lanka may be over soon amidst indications that the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government will soon be giving it the green signal. There have been growing Indian anxieties about the ECT as the trilateral Memorandum of Cooperation […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Over 78 per cent of Chileans have voted “to get rid of the last vestige of the Pinochet dictatorship—its charter,” says John W. Bartlett, ‘The Guardian’ correspondent in Santiago. On October 25, the country voted for a 155-member constitutional assembly, which must feature an equal number of men and women elected by the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Armenia and Azerbaijan have been blaming each other for not respecting a ceasefire that was agreed to with the U.S. in a trilateral meeting and kicked in at 08:00 a.m. local time (12:00 a.m. EDT) on October 26, 2020. Leyla Abdullayeva, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, says “Armenian Armed Forces blatantly violated the ceasefire, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: For the first time in 40 years, Seychelles opposition LDS (Linyong Demokratik Seselwa) led by Indian-origin Wavel Ramkalwan has won the presidency. When results were announced on Sunday, Ramkalawan had decisively defeated incumbent president Danny Faure 55% to 43.5% . His victory’s doubly sweet with his party winning a majority in the National […]Read More
PUNE: How does one analyse an international conflict in which the world seems to lose its rationality, traditional alliances, and relationships? India too finds itself on the horns of this dilemma in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which is essentially a fight between Azerbaijan and Armenia. That is the story of the conflict in which most countries […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India invited the Australian Navy this week for the Quad maritime exercises to be held at the end of November along with the American and Japanese navies. The third India-U.S. 2+2 ministerial meeting has also been announced for October 27 in Delhi. American Defence Secretary Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Five days after StratNews Global pointed out erroneous geo-tagging by Twitter to show Ladakh’s capital Leh as part of China, the Government of India has warned the social networking platform that this is unacceptable. In a stern letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT, conveyed the […]Read More
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