Opinion

  In early June, one of the largest ships of the Iranian Navy, the Kharaj, caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Oman. As of this writing, the circumstances of the ship's burning are...

The Group of Seven (G-7) powerful nations has committed an investment of $40 trillion over the next 10 years in the Blue Dot Network (BDN) to checkmate the $3.7 trillion Belt and Road Initiative...

  India has decided to build six advanced submarines at a cost of Rs. 43,000 crore to boost its Navy’s underwater capacity. The new submarines will be equipped with air-independent propulsion systems enabling them to...

  Atma Nirbharta is a laudable initiative by the Government of India. It is a strong slogan to start the Nation thinking towards self reliance. However, if we take a peep into history, when we...

With the second wave of pandemic playing merry hell with India, there is a deliberate attempt, both within India and outside India, to discredit not only  Modi Government but also undermine India’s national security....

  It has been almost one and half year since the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world upside down as we know it. Homo Sapiens continue to fall, economies struggle to recover and death and...

  At the India-EU summit in early May, French President Emmanuel Macron declared, “India does not need to listen to lectures from anyone about vaccine supplies. India has exported a lot for humanity to many countries.”...

  The violent clash between Israel and Hamas during May 10-21, 2021 has brought back the prolonged Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the forefront of complex issues afflicting West Asia. The Arab Spring and its aftermath had...

Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming, while addressing a press conference in second week of May 2021 at Dhaka warned that Bilateral ties between two countries will be substantially damaged if Bangladesh aligned with...

    On May 22, a MiG-21 Bison jet flown by Squadron Leader Abhinav Choudhary was on a routine training sortie and was returning to Suratgarh when it crashed in a field near Moga, Punjab. In...

  China’s unusual outburst against Bangladesh regarding the Quadrilateral security grouping raised quite a few eyebrows in South Block. This was clearly unprecedented because the Quad countries had recently talked of Quad+ but Bangladesh clearly...

The road not taken Since last few decades, the notion of national security has witnessed a paradigm shift from encompassing exclusive traditional military threats, diversifying into domains like biological& chemical warfare, cyber warfare, and other...

Dating back to the Cold War era, India and the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region have shared special historical, social, political, cultural, and trade ties. Owing to India’s proximity to the erstwhile USSR, the communist...