Opinion

“After the rapid transformations and the excitement of the past few years, the US-India bilateral relationship must now settle down: leaders should focus on strengthening ties by embracing small, concrete opportunities to cooperate rather...

President Xi Jinping returned to China on Wednesday after completing a much hyped three-day visit to Russia, but then without any clarity whether his visit to Moscow, called a ‘journey of peace’ remained successful...

  India - the world’s largest democracy and a civilisational state in the current capacity as the G20 president - is playing a monumental role in not only putting in order a fragmented global order...

Severe Stress The latest figures by Pakistan’s Central Bank on January 27 have foreign reserves falling to the psychological mark of 3 billion USD. It has put Pakistan all at sea, looking to survive with...

  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...

  As the sun rolled down on the western horizon over Yamuna, three C-17 Globe Masters, the strategic heavy lift aircraft of the Indian Air force, landed at Hindon Airbase after a long journey from...

  DRONES AND INDIA – AN ANALYSIS Drones are advanced, automated, unmanned, and remotely-piloted technological assets employed for various commercial and military reasons. Drones are officially named Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs. Those used for combat...

  Human life and institutions are considered to be constantly in a dialectical state. Institutions, empires and socio-political structures emerge, rise and finally wither away. More so in the case of political and cultural theory,...

Tremors are fairly common in Turkey – which happens to be one of most earthquake-prone countries in the world, but the ones on 6 February 2023, proved beyond doubt that nothing is more powerful...

  Accusation and counter accusation between the US and China over the controversial balloon, described as Beijing’s surveillance airship and spotted over northern US sky in the last days of January and early days of...

  At Rs 5,93,538 crore, the total defence outlay for the financial year (FY) 2023-24, including the outlay of Rs 1,38,205 crore for defence pensions, represents a 13.02% year-on-year growth over the current year’s budget...

  The primary, if not the only, expectation the armed forces have from the union budget is that the finance minister will pull a rabbit out of the hat and allocate whatever funds are demanded...

  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...