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 […]
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 […]
New Delhi: The United States is negotiating a joint development project for an air-launched drone with India involving both nations’ armed forces and defence research agencies, an American official from the Pentagon has said. At the ‘India Ideas Summit‘ organised by the US-India Business Council yesterday, the official […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today pitched India as one of the most attractive global investment destination and urged American multinational companies and corporate sector to pump in money into key sectors such as defence, aviation, infrastructure, technology, agriculture and other manufacturing industries. Modi […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: The United States Congress has now backed India‘s tough stance against China‘s aggression along the de factor border in eastern Ladakh. Days after US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo slammed China for showing aggression in Ladakh and South China Sea, and backed […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: Imitation is the best form of flattery. And in a first, India is trying to set up a system to manage its energy data, energy modeling and low carbon technologies on the lines of the United States. As part of the India-US Strategic […]
By Captain Sanjay Prashar All shipping crew changes globally may be near normal by Aug. 10. Every one of us has done our bit and we can say proudly that we are doing a good job despite a war called COVID-19 forced upon us. Seafarers, declared as essential […]
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 […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: Global info-tech giant Googlee Inc‘s announcement today it will invest $10 billion in India has come as a major booster to the South Asian country locked in a bitter border face-off with China that also resulted in the ban on 59 Chinese-origin mobile […]
By Ayaskant Das New Delhi: Amidst a rising China that wields power irresponsibly, India and the United States have to strengthen their diplomatic ties whether the Democrats or the Republicans win the presidential elections due in November to reach the White House. This is essential for the both […]
(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 Bhartendu Kumar Singh India‘s national security discourse has traditionally been a consensual project. Alternative voices and perspectives from the opposition leaders and scholars […]
New Delhi: Amidst the two-month military face-off with China, India has quietly armed itself with all 22 Boeing Co. Apache gunships, a powerful weapon-delivery platform now being deployed in eastern Ladakh to showcase Indian intent to fight back. The Apache attack helicopters, designed for all kinds of missions, […]