Opinion

The long-awaited meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House on February 28 escalated into a verbal spat, abruptly suspending negotiations and signing agreements on minerals. The...

Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla recently dropped a bombshell when he suggested that drones will surpass traditional fighter jets which will become obsolete in future warfare. "The future of warfare is going...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a review meeting in Raipur, Chhattisgarh to assess the situation of Naxalism/Left-Wing Extremism (LWE)/CPI (Maoist) on December 16, 2024. He remarked that Naxalism is a challenge to democracy...

The 1960 Indus Waters Treaty has been one of the most enduring and significant water-sharing agreements in the world, governing the allocation and use of the Indus River system between India and Pakistan. On...

US President Donald Trump’s transactional form of politics is waking up Europe from its slumber. At his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference (C-PAC) on February 22, he blamed the previous President Joe...

In a major aviation development, US President Donald Trump has offered India two squadrons of the F-35 stealth fighter. This announcement has created a buzz in the aviation world, with many wondering if India...

The liberal theory in International Relations considers peace to be the sine-qua-non of the present world order. It emphasises peace as a prerequisite for promoting a rules-based international political order. However, such a theoretical...

By now the world should have strapped-up to witness a completely unpredictable and a more dictatorial American foreign policy, dictated by the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump. Coming soon after the preposterous...

President Donald Trump took a diplomatic U-turn by offering to sell F-35 fighter jets to India during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to the United States, which he himself criticised due to...

Global Nuclear Power Play: The line between nuclear deterrence and conventional threshold is increasingly being revisited and becoming blurred in contemporary conflicts. In a world defined by VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) the...

Firm Ideas: The arrival of President Donald Trump in the White House has led to a spate of directives and decisions from the US administration, which has shaken the global geopolitics. The speed and...

The Union Budget for the financial year 2025-26 (FY’26), presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 1 February 2025, provides an outlay of ₹6,81,210.27 crore for the Ministry of Defence (MoD). This represents an...

On February 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman delivered her eighth consecutive budget speech for the Financial Year (FY) 2025-26, which allocated Rs 6.81 lakh crore for the Ministry of Defence (MoD). This fiscal year's...