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Will WTO be able to carry out pending reforms at the13 Ministerial...
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 November 2023
The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO’s) 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) will take place from 26 to 29 February 2024 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Trade Ministers from across the world...
Constitution@ 74: Quest For Merit & Socio Economic Justice
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 November 2023
Introduction The Indian Constitution is the lengthiest of all written Constitutions of the world. Most of provisions are borrowed from various sources; fundamental rights from US Bill of Rights,...
Counter-Terrorism Operationsin JKUT: Rajouri Presents a big Challenge
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 November 2023
On 22 November 2023, a gun fight ensued between the Jihadi terrorists and the Indian Army in the Bajimaal-Kalakote area of Rajouri district of JKUT. By the time the encounter ended two days...
PM visits HAL facilities, appreciates HAL capabilities
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 November 2023
PM took a sortie in LCA Tejas – an indigenously designed and developed aircraft; became the first Prime Minister of the country to do so PM appreciated the capabilities of indigenously developed...
Defeating Pakistan’s Proxy War in J&K
By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 November 2023
One had expected with onset of winters infiltration of terrorists across the Line of Control [LoC] in J&K would see a temporary pause. However, with the Indian security forces and J&K police...
"Behind Closed Doors: Covert Machinations in the Khalistan Separatist Movement"
By: Dr. Aniruddha Babar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 November 2023
“….This plan envisaged the encouragement of a separatist movement among the Sikhs for an independent state to be called Khalistan. …In 1971, one saw the beginning of a joint covert operation by...
The Xi-Biden Tête-à-Tête
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 November 2023
The outcome of the November 15 meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and the POTUS Joe Biden on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco was on...
Turkey Backed Rebel Groups Pose a Significant Threat in Syria
By: Manish Rai |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 November 2023
The Syrian Democratic Council is the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. SDF controls roughly 25% of Syrian territory and...
636 Days and Counting – Which way the wind Blows now?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 November 2023
Deeply immersed in the Israel-Hamas duel of death destruction and catastrophe that is increasingly showing the ominous signs of spilling over as a larger West Asia war, the erstwhile media...
JeM: The resurgence of Pakistan’s Hydra
By: Aparna Rawal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 November 2023
On November 15th 2023, it was reported, Dilawar Iqbal an important aide of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief, Maulana Masood Azhar and another individual, Mohammed Ubaid Malik were charge sheeted by...
Targeted Killings of Terrorist Facilitators in Pakistan
By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 November 2023
On June 23, 2021, an explosive laden vehicle exploded near the house of Lashkar-e-Taiba [LeT] co-founder and 9/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed located in Johar Town area of Lahore....
Pakistan’s Betrayal of Xinjiang’s Uyghur Muslims
By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 November 2023
On September 27, 2019, while speaking at the annual United Nations General Assembly [UNGA] meet at Geneva, Pakistan’s then Prime Minister Imran Khan passionately spoke on Islamophobia. While his...
India: Never Forget 19 November 1962
By: Col Anil Athale |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 November 2023
19 November 1962 was the darkest day in the history of post-independent India. On that day as the famed 4th Indian Division of the Indian Army disintegrated and abandoned its defences in the...
LTTE and Hamas: Equal Champions of Asymmetric Warfare
By: Dr Punsara Amarasinghe |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 November 2023
The carnage perpetrated by Hamas on the 7th of October by slaughtering more than 1300 Israelis gutted the Israel administration as the whole event exposed the massive pitfalls in the country’s...
Reading Nepal
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 November 2023
As always, India was the first responder in providing relief to Nepal when struck by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake on November 3, which left 157 dead and scores injured. On November 5, India sent...
Cognitive Warfare – The Battlefield of the Future
By: Neeraj Mahajan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 November 2023
The nature of warfare has changed. The human mind is now a new domain of war. So far wars have been fought in five domains namely – air, land, sea, space and cyber – now we have the sixth...
India Should Keep A Sharp Eye On Israel's War
By: Ravi Srivastava |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 November 2023
Reminding 26/11 The Hamas attack on Israel exactly a month back has created an initial disbelief for the depth of preparation and the scale of operation. It did lead to anticipated global...
Crafting India's National Security Strategy: A Multifaceted Approach
By: Dr. Aniruddha Babar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 November 2023
“In the realm of national security, a nation’s survival depends not on idealism but on a clear-eyed assessment of its interests and a readiness to safeguard them with pragmatism and...
Pakistan’s Albatross, its growing insurgency
By: Aparna Rawal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 November 2023
On 7th November, two policemen were killedwhile three others were severely injured in an attack which targeted an Oil and Gas Exploration Company’s camp in Dera IsmailKhan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
The Curious Case of Pakistan’s Mianwali Air Base Terror Attack
By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 November 2023
In its statement on last Saturday’s terrorist attack on the Mianwali Pakistan Air Force [PAF] training base, Pakistan army’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations [ISPR] mentioned that...