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 […]
New Delhi: Two years after its commissioning, Indian Navy‘s newest destroyer INS Chennai today validated its arming with the world’s first supersonic cruise missile with a successful test-firing of the Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos. The missile, fired from on board the 7,500-tonne warship, hit its intended surface target […]
In addition to its Constitution and founding principles, a country’s executive leadership primarily sets its larger institutions’ tone. A country’s armed forces, diplomatic corps, legislature, large public sector companies, and the press slowly imbue themselves with the operant thought paradigm working at the core of its governmental apparatus […]
New Delhi: Communist Party of China’s Xi Jinping is a major threat to global peace and the world needs to follow India in fighting his expansionism, an exiled Chinese student leader who had led the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has said. Zhou Fengsuo, the president of Humanitarian China, […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India‘s plans to export its highly successful BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to friendly foreign countries such as Vietnam and Philippines have got a boost, with Russia, the other partner in the joint venture, for the first time saying it is readying its […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: In order to counter China’s influence in the strategic Indian Ocean Region, India today announced a slew of projects in Maldives to deepen its relations with the maritime neighbour. The relationship was not cosy till two years ago. Former Maldives President Abdullah Yameen […]
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 […]
