Opinion

Sino-Indian Military Disengagement in Eastern Ladakh: A Mirror View

After almost eight-nine months of breathing down each other’s neck, the two giants of Asia, India and China, have agreed to disengage militarily in Eastern Ladakh. And on February 10, began the process of...

Deepening Defence Ties in a Changing Global Order

The World is in disarray. Multilateralism at its lowest point and Unilateralism dictating the international discourse especially as the sole hyper power under US President Donald Trump created a paradigm shift with his destabilising...

Atmanirbhar Bharat: Oscillating between Truth and Falsehood

  Great historical progress always happens after major disasters. I believe it’s a high time we start taking these words by President Xi Jinping seriously. It’s been more than a year since the Coronavirus outbreak which...

India Remains Cautious with Military Coup in Myanmar

The February 1 coup in Myanmar leading to the country being taken over by the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Military) and placing under house arrest the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San...

Defence Budget 2021-22: Hardship to Continue

  India’s net defence budget of Rs 4,78,195.62 crore for the Financial Year (FY) 2021-22 is only Rs 6,817.62 crore more than the current FY’s budget estimate (BE). This paltry increase is ironic because the...

India’s Defence Budgeting Strives to Chart a New Course

  Even as Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, unveiled India’s Union Budget for the financial year (FY) 2021-2022 in Parliament on February 1, there was no statement on the allocation of the defence budget, the absence...

What The Military Coup In Myanmar Means For India

Myanmar has once again gone back to rule by military junta, after 10 years of experiment with democracy. The coup took place on 1 February 2021, just a day prior to the swearing in...

Myanmar Military Ruled the Country for Five Decades Stages Coup Once Again

  General Min Aung Hlaing, Commander in Chief of powerful Myanmar army which is also known as Tatmadaw staged a coup on February 1. The army took control of Myanmar, civilian leadership including Aung San...

China Is Slowly But Surely Enslaving Pakistan

Pakistan has been marginalised and sidelined by the world for its activities of harbouring and training terrorists. Pakistan projected itself as the messiah of Islam and protector of the religion in the world and...

Defence Budget 2021-22: Less Bucks Can’t Bring Big Bangs

  The Defence Budget FY 2021-22 has been a damper to national defence with the realities of its inadequacies far outweighing the politically stated positives. Indeed it is well understood that to revive the economy,...

India’s Vaccine Diplomacy

If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it is that global responses are needed to confront diseases that can spread around the world with stunning speed. It is no wonder, then, that the...

It’s Time to Play the Taiwan Card

  The standoff on the Ladakh border between the Indian Army and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) continues amid failing talks and casus belli measures being unleashed by the Chinese regime. While the union government and...

Defence Expenditure and Defence Budget

  Presenting the Union Budget for FY 2020-2021, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made no mention of defence. All she mentioned was "national security is a top priority for the government." She may repeat this while...
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