Opinion

  ‘Prarambh’ a major milestone: On November 18, 2022 at 1130 hrs Indian time the first privately developed rocket named Vikram-S was launched from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) spaceport in Sriharikota. The rocket was...

  It is said that social institutions are dynamic in nature. They are conditioned by various internal and external forces. No country is immune to these changes. Religion and social customs are especially subject to...

  The Middle East and North Africa region is of critical importance not least for India but for the world for several factors. For one the region is one of the most critical sources of...

  The forthcoming six-month-long winter months could pause and slow the movements of the Russian and Ukraine Army– if not permanently stop the war that has killed thousands, displaced millions and destroyed entire cities. Every passing...

  Change is the rule of the world. Nothing remains static; everything is dynamic, for everything changes. This rule perhaps applies best to the realm of global politics. The G20 summit, which is meeting in...

  One China Policy China found its independence during an intense era of socialism, led by Chiang Kai-shek of Kuomintang (KMT). The struggle for independence against Japan was brutal with stigmatised costs on the social fabric. Japan as an imperial...

Opportunity The drone asymmetry-triggered arms race raging in the global defence ecosystem is both a serious threat and an opportunity for India to emerge and dominate. The current global drone geopolitical alignment is definitely...

  The anointment of Xi Jinping, the incumbent president of China, as the general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CCP) and as the head of the Central Military Commission (CMC) in the recently...

  India has one of the largest armed forces in the world, with a strength of over 14.4 lakhs (1.44 million) active personnel, since it has the longest unsettled borders with two nuclear-powered neighbours.   It...

  Foreign policy in today’s age is guided primarily by a combination of realism and pragmatism. This is exactly the case with India. The abstention of India at the United Nations Human Rights Council vote...

  Homo sapiens evolved over time. In the evolutionary process of human history, war has been a crucial feature of their lives. The war happened for various reasons - be it for religion, wealth, race,...

  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...

  For decades Egypt had remained on the margins of India’s engagements with the Middle East. A departure from the heydays of Nehru-Nasser friendship and non-aligned movement (NAM) when the North African nation was the...