By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India‘s missile muscle got a boost with its all-weather friend Russia helping the nuclear-armed South Asian giant to catch up in air defence capabilities with its arch rival China. India and China are currently in a military faceoff in the Ladakh region […]
New Delhi: A research study has shown that China has lavishly spent huge sums of money to buy influence in India’s film world, universities, social institutions, research think-tanks, social media, and the tech industry, posing a serious threat to national security and democracy. The 76-page Study Report titled […]
New Delhi: India and the United States today said they will sign a geospatial cooperation agreement tomomrrow that enables sharing of critical satellite communications and data to improve their military interoperability. A statement released by India’s Ministry of Defence after a delegation meeting between Minister of Defence Rajnath […]
New Delhi: India is ready to sign a key geospatial cooperation agreement with the United States later this month that will firmly set their strategic relationship in the Indo-Pacific region, where both are threatened by a common rival in China. India is likely to put a seal of […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated with Australian government’s reaction to the Exercise MALABAR invitation from paragraphs 10 to 14.) New Delhi: The first thought that comes to mind when one hears Australia is joining the trilateral India–United States–Japan maritime exercise later this year: Is QUAD, conceived as a purely diplomatic […]
By Atul Kumar Rare Earth Metals (REMs), a suite of 17 chemical elements from the periodic table, are critically vital for the empowerment of the economic growth, as well as the national security of a nation. Also, this suite of REMs can even influence geopolitics. The most recent […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated on Sep. 11 with additional background information throughout the report, filed originally on Sep. 10.) By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Already interoperable through the annual joint Malabar maritime exercise with Japan, India has expanded its strategic reach in the Indo-Pacific by signing a logistic […]
New Delhi: India needs to instill fear in the minds of Communist China if it has to achieve equilibrium in the bilateral relationship, Indian National Congress leader Dr Abhishek Singhvi said, calling for a comprehensive, aggressive change in India’s policy on China, against the Ladakh conflict backdrop. Advocating […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: China, whose aggression along the Himalayan border in Ladakh as well as in the South China Sea has angered the western powers, is clearly riled at the growing convergence between the United States, India and Australia against the Asian dragon. A day after […]
In the United Nations General Assembly session of 2015, China introduced its vision of a world order called “Community with a Shared Future for Mankind”. The vision document contained a lot of high-principled words such as consultation, dialogue, inclusivity, consensus, and cooperation but was vague and ambiguous on […]
(Editor’s Note: The views are that of the author’s. For the writer’s other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Rajiv Prakash Saxena With one stroke of a pen and $400 billion as long-term investment in Iran, China‘s military deal with Tehran under […]
By Deepak Sharma New Delhi: India’s crude oil import from the United States, the world’s largest producer of hydrocarbon, is set to rise in the future, as the Asia’s third largest economy is looking at diversifying its energy sourcing to meet future challenges. The US, battered by the […]
By Captain Sanjay Prashar Kochi port in Kerala on India’s West coast and Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on the East-end of India were the newest merchant shipping crew change destinations over the last three months. Cargo ship-owners have diverted their vessels to the two […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening global security, health and economy, India and European Union (EU) today agreed to strengthen response capacities, apart from calling for free, transparent and prompt sharing of information on such threats. Of course, they did not directly name China […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: The precarious situation that one of India’s private shipyards finds itself over its debts has put the navy in a quandary over how to proceed with a Rs 20,000-crore ($2.65-billion) tender for building four amphibious warships. One of the options being considered […]
