Across The ‘Chadar’ Trail on the Zanskar River, Ladakh: An Exclusive Interview with Lt. General Raghu Srinivasan, Director General, Border Roads Organisation (BRO). Don’t Miss ‘The Himalayan Frontier’, Part V on February 2, 2024, at 7 PM IST. The DG speaks to StratNews Global’s Amitabh P. Revi across the ‘Chadar’ Trail on the Zanskar River […]Read More
Amid war and devastation in Gaza, the premier humanitarian agency there UNRWA, is in the middle of an unprecedented crisis, accused by Israel of being complicit in the October 7th Hamas attack. The agency has had to dismiss no less than 9 employees after an investigation, two others are being investigated but the problem doesn’t […]Read More
These modern MQ9B UAVs are capable of conducting long range surveillance missions along the LAC with China and in the Indian OceanRead More
The World Bank recently released its annual tracker on global remittances for 2023. It showed that globally remittances at $669 billion grew higher than forecast. India, like always, was the top recipient with $125 billon—accounting for little under fifth of the global remittances in 2023. According to the World Bank, a distinctive feature of remittances […]Read More
China analyst Kalpit A Mankikar says the rapid militarization of China under President Xi Jinping and the fact that his recent policies have a three-decade timeline indicate that he is planning to invade Taiwan, possibly before his next election slated for late 2027 Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to indulge in some increasingly belligerent […]Read More
India and Australia already share a robust defence relationship but that can be deepened, says Philip Green, Australian High Commissioner to India. We are not only looking for interoperability between the many platforms that we share but we could hope to go beyond interoperability, to interchangeability, the envoy told StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale […]Read More
Domestic political compulsions might force Chinese President Xi Jinping to indulge in some increasingly belligerent steps, including some “adventurism’ on Taiwan “in the next three to five years,” believes Kalpit A Mankikar, Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation and a specialist on China’s domestic politics. Noting that most policies coming out of China since Xi […]Read More
Nobody is speculating on the next meeting between Narendra Modi and Emmanuel Macron, but with six meetings last year alone, there is clearly a lot going on in the India-France relationship, says Arun Kumar Singh, former ambassador to France. Ambassador Singh was on The Gist, talking about President Macron’s recent visit and the many takeaways, […]Read More
The Indian government, led by Home Minister Amit Shah, has recently announced plans to erect a fence along the 1650 km-long India-Myanmar border. This border spans across four Indian states, namely Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, and Mizoram. This proposed fencing project has stirred a significant debate, as it would potentially bring an end to the […]Read More
Amid reports that Israel has offered the Palestinian militant group Hamas a two-month ceasefire in return for the release of all Israeli hostages, 24 Israeli soldiers were killed during operations in the southern and central Gaza Strip, perhaps the heaviest single-day toll of a war now over three months old. Hamas is yet to respond […]Read More
Don’t Miss part IV of our series ‘The Himalayan Frontier’, Strategic Third Axis To Leh, premiering on January 26, 2024. We document India’s infrastructural development in Eastern Ladakh to deal with Beijing’s aggression in the border dispute along the China-occupied Tibet border or the Line of Actual Control. Alternate axes are significant in also dealing with […]Read More
On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a union government plan to provide roof top solar for one crore households. The Pradhan Mantri Suryodaya Yojana seeks to address the electricity needs of households and provide an extra source of revenue by evacuating surplus power to the grid. A few weeks ago, PM Modi had visited […]Read More
A “dangerous separatist”, as China calls William Lai, will be Taiwan’s next president, which means the arsenal that Beijing deployed, including military exercises and propaganda, failed to make a difference. There is a growing body of people in Taiwan who now feel that they have a separate identity which is not identical to that of […]Read More
Last week’s armed exchange between Iran and Pakistan targeting their respective halves of Balochistan was sudden and unexpected. But it is not that they haven’t clashed before in that region, says Tilak Devasher, author of a book on Balochistan and former special director Cabinet Secretariat. Talking on The Gist, Devasher says the Pakistanis have been […]Read More
William Lai’s election as the next Taiwanese president has not gone down well with China that has said he doesn’t represent the choice of the masses. So what does it mean for China-Taiwan relations that are already under considerable strain? China will continue its policy of harassment against Taiwan; coercion and intimidation will be the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s premier defence research body—the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)—which was set up over 60 years ago needs to change the way it operates. That’s what a committee headed by K. VijayRaghavan, former principal scientific advisor to the government, has recommended. So what is wrong with DRDO and what changes has the […]Read More
The India and China Border Dispute and the Pakistan Threat in Ladakh: Don’t Miss part III of our series ‘The Himalayan Frontier’, premiering on January 19, 2024. We document India’s infrastructural push in Eastern Ladakh to deal with Xi Jinping’s aggression in the border dispute along the China-occupied Tibet border or the LAC. Alternate axes […]Read More
In a little over three months from now, William Lai will formally take over as president of Taiwan from incumbent President Tsai ing-Wen. It will be a heady moment for the man who once declared that Taiwan does not need to declare independence as it is already independent, of mainland China! That could be a […]Read More
M Sarwar Hossain is convinced that neither Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina, who returned as Prime Minister for the 4th consecutive term in the January 9 parliamentary elections, nor her main opponent Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, (which boycotted the elections) are fit to rule country. A Lincoln’s Inn Barrister and practicing lawyer […]Read More
Iran is no pushover, a point it has proved through years of US sanctions, economic boycotts and political ostracism. Rather, it has been able to maintain its position in the Persian Gulf and even push back through proxies, like the Houthis in Yemen or Hamas in Gaza or Hezbollah in Lebanon. Ambassador Dilip Sinha, a […]Read More
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