(Editor’s Note: Updated with a nut graph at paragraphs six and seven.) By Deepak Sharma New Delhi: Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter of crude oil, might offer a discount to Indian and other Asian buyers this month as a part of its strategy to ensure full compliance […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: As India firmly deals with an expansionist China on its own, the South Asian country reviewed its global strategic partnership with the United States amid positive noises coming from the world’s most powerful democracy. India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and the US […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: An expansionist China has now picked up a fresh border dispute with Himalayan nation Bhutan in an apparent attempt to target India with whom the Asian giant has been locked in a bitter military conflict eastern Ladakh since May. The problem started in […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: Days after Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani‘s cousin was shot dead in capital Kabul, India today stressed before a group of 20 countries that ending terrorist sanctuaries and safe havens is an essential prerequisite for durable peace in the troubled country. India has had […]
By N. C. Bipindra and Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India and China today achieved a break-through in their Ladakh conflict with the Chinese army soldiers pulling back by nearly two kilometres from their two-month eyeball-to-eyeball positions of confrontation at almost all locations along the de facto borders, except […]
New Delhi: With an expansionist People’s Republic of China (PRC) nibbling at India‘s borders, a group of experts have said that India should have a ‘One Tibet‘ policy and reject the unrealistic ‘One China‘ idea that the Communist Party of China (CCP) keeps floating. At a webinar organised […]
By Ayaskant Das New Delhi: Chinese Communist Party (CCP)and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) use data collected about Indians, and through mobile 5G networks, as a weapon and these technologies are clearly a spying tool for India‘s northern neighbour, according to experts and thinkers on India’s national security. […]
New Delhi: In a surprise move, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited Ladakh, where the Indian Army has been forced into a face-to-face confrontation by the aggressive actions of Chinese People’s Liberation Army troopers, and sent across the message to China that the time for expansionist tendencies […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: Days after banning 59 China Apps over data security, India today rejected the Asian giant’s contention that the move may be against rules of international trade. The June 29 move by India came in response to the Chinese double standards, as it continued […]
New Delhi: India and China military commanders have agreed on “an expeditious, phased, step-wise de-escalation” from the face-off locations along the Ladakh borders after their third round of marathon talks that ended late last night. This agreement was arrived at after a record-breaking over 12-hour talks at Chushul […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: As the world economies, shaken by COVID-19, look to relocate their manufacturing facilities from China, India today urged the member-states of a Bay of Bengal regional group to seize the opportunity to drive the industry shift to the region. “The shock of the […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: To take forward the discussion on de-escalation of military tension at the Ladakh border, India is all set to host a Lieutenant General-rank officer of the Chinese army tomorrow to thrash out further measures for their soldiers to disengage. The meeting of […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India gave a befitting response to China for trying to usurp its territory in eastern Ladakh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said in a stern message to the Asian giant but without naming it, against the backdrop of the face-off between their two […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: Locked in a bitter turf war with China along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, India today reminded the Asian giant not to vitiate border peace if it wanted to grow bilateral relations. The tension in the Galwan Valley has persisted […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: On a day India said it was trying to de-escalate border tension with China in eastern Ladakh, the Asian giant added fuel to fire by repeating its claims over the Galwan Valley, the site of the June 25 bloody brawl in which 20 […]