Opinion

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...

  INTRODUCTION India created history when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its heaviest rocket Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM-3) PSLV on October 23, 2022, carrying 36 satellites and launching them into space successfully. This...

  "Gujarat has the potential to develop as a major defence manufacturing hub in the days to come,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while inaugurating the 12th DefExpo 2022 in Gandhinagar. Gujarat has the right ingredients to...

  The 12th DefExpo at Gandhinagar, Gujarat finally came to an end on October 20, 2022, with 451 Memorandum of Understanding, Transfer of Technology agreements and product launches being signed. These included 345 MoUs, 42 Major...

  The DefExpo 2022 (October 18-22) held in Gandhinagar (Gujarat), with the theme ‘Path to Pride’, boosted India’s ‘Make in India, Make for the World’ initiative with more than 300 partnerships,  memorandums of understanding (MoUs),...

  While India celebrated its annual festivals associated with Diwali, China concluded its twice-a-decade, seven-day festival, known as the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on Sunday, October 23, in Beijing. The CCP...

  "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”, said Napoleon Bonaparte, the French political and military leader. The Russo-Ukraine war is in its eighth month. When the invasion of Ukraine was launched...