Shifting Claim Lines of Nepal: Kalapani to Lampiyadhura - A historical perspective
Kali River, name is given to the River that draws its water from various mountainous streams that originate in the neighbourhood of Village Kalapani that is located in NE of State of Uttrakhand. This area is also called the Kali Kumaon Region that has two Valleys namely the Vyas and Dharma Valley, leading to the...
Kabul’s Influence: Strained by Deadly Assaults and Defectors
On February 29, 2020, in Doha, Qatar, U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban leader Mullah Baradar Akhund signed the “Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan.” Touted as a peace agreement with the Taliban, evidence in the months to follow suggests the U.S. confirmed nothing more than a withdrawal deal...
Ladakh Standoff – Keep the Powder Dry
China recently stated that situation at the border is overall stable and controllable. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said both China and India have proper mechanisms and communication channels to resolve the issues through dialogue and consultations. Sun Weidong Chinese ambassador at New Delhi said, China and...
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Shifting Claim Lines of Nepal: Kalapani to Lampiyadhura - A historical perspective
Kali River, name is given to the River that draws its water from various mountainous streams that originate in the neighbourhood of Village Kalapani that is located in NE of State of Uttrakhand. This area is also called the Kali Kumaon Region that has two Valleys namely the Vyas and Dharma Valley, leading to the...
Kabul’s Influence: Strained by Deadly Assaults and Defectors
On February 29, 2020, in Doha, Qatar, U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban leader Mullah Baradar Akhund signed the “Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan.” Touted as a peace agreement with the Taliban, evidence in the months to follow suggests the U.S. confirmed nothing more than a withdrawal deal...
Ladakh Standoff – Keep the Powder Dry
China recently stated that situation at the border is overall stable and controllable. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said both China and India have proper mechanisms and communication channels to resolve the issues through dialogue and consultations. Sun Weidong Chinese ambassador at New Delhi said, China and...
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- Less gratitude, please. How COVID-19 reveals the need for migration reform
- The Kremlin’s disinformation playbook goes to Beijing
- Will India maintain its sovereignty, or be used by the US in its confrontation with China?
ToD - a proposal by Generals or General Managers?
Late Gen Hamid Gul of the Pakistan Army was termed as the father of terror by few western journalists and even a documentary was made on him with this title. He was forced to retire from Pak Army in 1991. Later, in a TV interview, he was asked for the reason, to which he replied, “I was being side-lined by being...
Hypersonic Weapons: A New Threat or Just Another Technology Demonstrator?
One of the most keenly observed weapons system during China’s National Day military parade on 1 October 2019 was the hypersonic glide vehicle. 18 of the sleek, aerodynamically shaped glide vehicles participated in the parade, presenting a whole new weapon system which many have called as a game changer. China has...
India’s War against COVID-19: Impact on Defence and India’s Emergence as a Global Manufacturing Hub
Ever since the outbreak of Coronavirus Pandemic, a plethora of literature has appeared on various aspects of the problem . Adverse impact on business and financial sectors has been analyzed by numerous economists. The latest forecast of India’s GDP growth rate of around 1.9% by the IMF does not paint a good...
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- The Day After: Thoughts on Future Air Defence
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- Indian scientist’s work on nano material paves way for clean energy system requirement in the defence sector
- Former military chief praises India's new citizenship law
- Taiwan’s Defence Innovation on Show
India: Challenges & Opportunities - The War against Terror
India has faced insurgencies and terrorism since independence with the ingress of ‘Razakars’ from Pakistan with an intermix of regulars, reportedly even led by British Officers! The 80’s saw a growth of such acts and post 1984 began the terrorism in Punjab demanding a separate state of Khalistan, 1990 marked the...
Anatomy of Stone Pelting During Encounters in Kashmir
It’s very easy for activists and the intelligentsia who sit safely in the confines of their homes to decry temporary suspension of mobile and internet services in an area where an is encounter going on between terrorists and security forces in J&K. For such ‘concerned’ champions of human rights, these actions is...
JK Domicile Rules: Win-Win for All
The Government of India on 05 August 2019, by abrogating controversial Article 35A of the Constitution of India undid the injustice done to the citizens of India against the spirit of the same Constitution by denying them one of their fundamental rights. This article was inserted in the Indian Constitution through a...
Fully Autonomous Military Systems – Challenges in Development
After the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), few advanced nations are busy in developing and deploying an array of autonomous weapon systems to attain better speed and accuracy. All fatal missions are likely to be undertaken by unmanned systems in future. AI based Tactical Decision Support Systems (TDSS) could...
Far reaching reforms in Defense Production
As a part of PM’s grand initiative to combat COVID and looming economic crisis, the FM has been unveiling a slew of major initiative to resuscitate MSMEs, Power sector, migrant workers, farmers etc. These are essentially intended to provide increased sinews to the “Make in India” initiative, christened...
Hiking FDI in Defence Aimed At Drawing in Active Foreign Participation
Announcing the fourth tranche of the economic package, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman revealed three important government decisions related to defence. These include corporatization of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), hiking Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in defence and banning certain imports where indigenous...
Interviews / Spotlight
Dissecting Tour of Duty
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is reportedly preparing a case for Tour of Duty (ToD) in the Army; one year training...
CPEC and Pakistan’s Great Expectations
Since Islamabad has been bandying the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as the ultimate panacea for all the...
Peoples Land-grab Army (PLA) of China is presently at its element
“Desperate men do desperate things,” these words ring in the ears with regard to the series of misadventures that China is indulging in the critical COVID environment. Apart from its international isolation due to deceit and treachery in management of COVID-19, China is facing an existential crisis on several fronts. Shortage of food for its huge population, falling demand for its industrial...
Xi calls-up Trump amid rising ‘Anti-Americanism’ at home, Experts warn not to rescue the ‘Wolf’
Timing is everything in politics. For President Xi Jinping, timing is everything in diplomacy too. It is not known if Xi is familiar with the famous Pierre Trudeau axiom, which is ‘the essential ingredient of politics is timing’. Given with how much esteem every top Chinese Communist Party leader in the post-Mao Reform era had embraced Henry Kissinger, it is very doubtful general-secretary comrade Jinping has not learnt well his...
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting the Pavilions of the 11th edition of DefExpo2020, at Lucknow, in...
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The Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting the invitees, at the ‘At Home Reception’, on the occasion of...
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The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh flagging off 51st K9 VAJRA-T Gun from L&T Armoured System...
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The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Bipin Rawat along with the Chief of the Army Staff, General...
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The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery in St Petersburg, Russia...
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