IDR Blog
On Dalai Lama, India stops being Defensive
China can keep complaining, but the Dalai Lama is a guest in India, and it is certainly the prerogative of the President to invite him to Rashtrapati Bhavan. The NDA regime is not going to be defensive about the issue. On December 10, President Pranab Mukherjee hosted the first-ever ‘Laureates and Leaders for Children Summit’ at Rashtrapati...
Journey of The Islamic Bomb: Pakistan to Saudi Arabia
Mankind has at its disposal a host of security mechanisms available to it. But the more we try to make the world safer to live in , the more it seems to be slipping into a dark abyss of insecurity. At this point of time we need to be reminded that man-made conflicts have killed more people than natural disasters in the history of mankind.....
New Railway Lines in Tibet
The Tibetan Autonomous Region’s government has been planned more than 20 new highways (included new routes from Lhasa to Nagchu; Dege to Chamdo; Chamdo to Jaka; Lhasa to Shigatse Airport; and Gongkar Airport to Tsethang) to be constructed next year, with a total investment of more than US$ 5 billion. More information has now come out. Loop-line...
Chabahar’s Imperatives to Emerge as Flagship of Iran-India Strategic Partnership
Chabahar Port in Eastern Iran and Gwadar in Western Pakistan, both on the North Arabian Sea littoral have emerged as the latest chess-pieces in the maritime Great Power Game unfolding between India and China in the Indian Ocean. Gwadar at the terminal end of the much-vaunted China -Pakistan Economic Corridor provides China with a much-needed...
Today’s India in not the India of the 1950s
Gen Zhao Zongqi is a rising star of the People’s Liberation Army. He spent most of his military carrier in Tibet where he occupied different posts before being transferred as chief of staff of the Jinan Military Region (MR) in December 2007. Later he commanded the MR where he got promoted to the rank of full general. On February 1, 2016, he...