Lt Gen Prakash Katoch

  During the recent visit of Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda to India in June 2023, India and Nepal signed seven agreements in various fields including trade and commerce, cross-border petroleum pipeline,...

  Western mainstream media has been crying hoarse about Ukraine’s battles against Russian forces, how President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is teaching Russians a bloody lesson, and how the Ukrainian counteroffensive is going to snatch Crimea (base...

  The role played by new technology, including the use of satellites, drones and hypersonic missiles, in the Ukraine war is an example of 21st century warfare. But it also has a mix of 20th...

  As has become the norm in all West-dominated groupings, formal or informal, the recent G7 Foreign Ministers Meet in Tokyo condemned Russia for invading Ukraine, rather than focusing on issues such as economy, energy,...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on March 18 that the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is “very fragile”. He also said substantial progress has been made for disengagement and discussions...

  Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Seymour Hersh has described in detail America’s underwater terrorist act in sabotaging Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines, which also affected the EU economy. This is further substantiated by Jim Rickards, former...

  Delivering a talk at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan recently, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine needs NATO’s continued support for as long as it takes, because if Russian President Vladimir Putin...

  India remains apathetic towards national security. More than 75 years after Independence, we are without a national security strategy though the National Security Advisor (NSA) was tasked in 2019 to define one. Notwithstanding the...

  According to American political scientist Christine Fair, about 80 per cent of aid money that was pumped into Afghanistan during the US-NATO deployment in that country was recycled back into the US. Most of...

  Falconry or hawking is a hunting sport using trained hawks, falcons or eagles to hunt prey and return to its master. There are several styles of hunting that vary between the different types of...

  India's Electronic System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) industry, one of the largest in the world in terms of consumption, reported at US$ 90 billion relied on 65-70 per cent of imports (https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/electronics-manufacturing-gears-up-for-change-but-skill-gap-remains/article6861498.ece). Interestingly, the...

  The DefExpo 2022 (October 18-22) held in Gandhinagar (Gujarat), with the theme ‘Path to Pride’, boosted India’s ‘Make in India, Make for the World’ initiative with more than 300 partnerships,  memorandums of understanding (MoUs),...

  Speculation have been rife in the media, particularly social media, as to whether Xi Jinping the Chinese President has been placed under house arrest by the Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA).  Rumors of a coup...