On December 6, India and Russia held an annual summit in New Delhi. Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a strong message through this short but significant visit that India is a priority. The visit was...
“….To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill….“
Sun Tzu, ancient Chinese Military thinker
Technology and revolutions in...
The media, especially the ‘paid’ variety is ecstatic over the issue of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSP) which comes up whenever civilian casualties are involved in counter-insurgency operations. The Union Home Minister has...
India and Russia have had historic ties with each other since almost seven decades now. It was the visit of Prime Minister Nehru to Moscow in the year 1955 which set the tone for...
According to a Chinese proverb two tigers cannot stay on a single mountain. This seems to be absolutely fitting with the current Chinese foreign policy. China under Xi Jinping has shed its image of...
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was considered a huge success for all the signatories. The nuclear deal was signed between Iran and “P5+1” nations, namely UK, France, Germany, Russia, China and the...
The sixth plenum of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC aka CCP) ended in mid-November after a 4-day session. There were no surprises in the resolution passed by the...
If the title of this article had said just ‘4G Debate’, readers may be excused if they ignored it thinking it about spectrum auction scams related to underhand dealing no matter which government is...
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
These words indeed hold true for India which is now focusing on becoming self-reliant or what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been repeatedly...
China has the uncanny quality to continue to remain in the news, if not in international news, then, at least in the Indian news. Of late, news about China in the Indian media is...
The terrorist ambush on the Assam Rifles convoy in Churachandpur District of Manipur on November 13, killing five soldiers including Colonel Viplav Tripathi, CO 46 Assam Rifles, his wife and 6-year old son shattered...
The year is 2022. A posse of F-16 jet fighters takes off from the main Pakistan Air Force (PAF) base in Sargodha. Approximately 300 km east, at the Indian Air Force (IAF) base in...
Xi Jingping is the man of the moment and why won’t he be, the National People’s Congress(NPC) - the Chinese ‘parliament’ has recently handed him an unprecedented third term in office, effectively elevating him...