Opinion

Significant Expectations As the general budget will be presented in the parliament today, significant expectations are riding on the defence segment. The country has seen some steady growth as far as defence outlay is concerned....

Ahead of the presentation of Union budget in Parliament on February 1, India's defence sector deserves to be in the spotlight due to increased volatility with belligerent neighbours. That apart, the political and military...

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones,” said Albert Einstein. This grim observation was made in the aftermath of...

New Delhi: The three-day visit to India by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was indeed a boost to relations between nations which spawned the oldest civilizations and in contemporary international scenario, Egypt is a...

New Delhi: The 74th Republic Day parade amid much pomp and colour had many firsts to its credit with it being held for the first time at the ceremonial Central Vista avenue, renamed Kartavya...

  Now a day, many nations have embarked on the path of creating a Civil-Military Fusion (CMF).  Basically, dual-use technologies and collaborations lies at the heart of any civil-military confluence. It ensures that civil and...

Democracy can be messy, it can be cacophonic, decision-making can suffer from deadlocks, consensus may be a luxury, people’s will can sometimes appear to be tyrannical to quote De Tocqueville, but despite all these...

It seems as if the pariah of the Arab world, Bashar Al-Assad may soon get a reprieve, as the global and regional powers rally together to forgive him and try to bolster his regime....

Sun Tzu aptly said, “Your enemy’s enemy is your friend.” India and Taiwan have a common neighbour who believes in the expansion of its frontiers by force. India has ignored the existence of Taiwan...

The year 2022 has been quite an eventful year in the diplomatic journey of the world’s sixth-largest economy. To begin with, the year has been dominated by the egregious February 24 Russian invasion of...

  If India starts a war, it will definitely lose - Global Times- a state-sponsored Chinese Communist Party newspaper known for its conspiracy theories, and disinformation predicted in one of its editorials. "New Delhi needs to...

  The year 2022 witnessed path-breaking reforms to equip the Indian Armed forces with state-of-the-art weapons, equipment and technologies to meet future challenges. The focus was to develop a rock-solid, trustworthy and self-reliant domestic defence...

  "You educate a man, you educate a man, you educate a woman, and you educate a generation,” said Brigham Young; unfortunately this aphorism is not at all understood by the Taliban. In a recent...