(Editor’s Note: In arrangement with Defence Research and Studies, a Kochi-based think-tank) By Colonel (Dr) N. K. Chhibber The Great Game conceptualised a policy of “buffer zones between the expansionist forces”, in the instant case Russia and British India. Russian southward expansion was intended to be halted somewhere […]
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 […]
New Delhi: A miffed India today downplayed a provocation from Nepal, made ostensibly at the behest of China, as the Himalayan country approved a map showing parts of Indian territory as its own. The controversy over the map, showing Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura as Nepalese territory amidst a […]