Opinion

  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...

November 16, 2021 was a day of high expectations, for the heads-of-state of two of the largest competitors in the world were to get together, virtually - in a video-call. Presidents Joe Biden and...

  Although Pentagon report presents chilling details on China’s military plans and strategy, in the Indo-Pacific region, against the US, Taiwan and India, there is truth that Beijing is going to be a hegemon which...

Pentagon’s report to the US Congress titled ‘Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China’ 2020 mentions the Galwan clash, standoff in Eastern Ladakh for which Beijing blames India and China’s refusal...

  In recent times there has been a shifting of goal posts by major world powers from other areas of conflict to the Indian and Pacific Ocean. This has largely been due to the Chinese...

  Statecraft and politics is all about making dangerous and risky choices which promotes the betterment of the people and helps in bolstering the popular legitimacy of the state, but it ostensibly appears that Pakistan...

  One of the first policy decisions, impulsive or otherwise, taken by Donald Trump, was to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This, however, did not mean that USA had decided to disregard Asia. On...

Now that the Quad’s Washington Summit is over and Aukus has joined the political lexicon, we can perhaps stop plumbing the media equivalent of the Mariana Trench in Indo-Pacific and let the thought nuclear...

It is ironic that it took the Sino-Indian confrontation in the Himalayan heights, more than 2,000 km from the sea, to bring sharp focus on India’s neglected maritime domain. The Chinese were obviously surprised...

With the geo-political environment in the Indo-Pacific region changing very fast, India and Australia have come together to infuse dynamism in their bilateral defence engagement under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Ongoing defence cooperation between...

  The killing of non-Kashmiri labourers in Kashmir has brought the count of civilians killed by terrorists to at least 11 in a fortnight. The IG Police, Kashmir Range, flashed a message to the ten...