Articles in Homeland Security
From Policy to Power: Shaping Bangladesh’s Renewable Energy Landscape
By: Md. Abdullah-Al -Mamun | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2024
As Bangladesh continues to develop economically and its population grows (the most densely populated country already), there is an urgent need for a comprehensive energy policy that underscores on...
How to Defend Against the Dubious Kuki-Chin Armed Movement
By: M A Hossain | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Apr , 2024
The Bangladesh government has garnered significant experience in countering insurgency activities in the Chattagram Hill Tracts (CHT). Through operations like “Operation Dabanal,” the Bangladesh...
Contribution of Army Goodwill Schools towards Development of J&K
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Apr , 2024
The contrast couldn’t be more telling. While the people of J&K ushered 2024 with the good news that students of Army Goodwill School in Wuzur, Anantnag had won two gold medals in the...
Operation Meghdoot: India's Conquest of the Siachen Glacier
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Apr , 2024
Operation Meghdoot, a monumental military endeavor launched on April 13, 1984, marks a defining moment in India’s history, epitomizing its unwavering determination to safeguard its territorial...
Boon is Central Rule for Ladakhi Buddhists
By: Hari Om Mahajan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Apr , 2024
The one region which suffered huge socio-economic and political losses after the accession of the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir to Bharat on October 26, 1947 was the Buddhist-dominated Leh...
Jobless Growth in India: Thoughts on Viksit Bharat
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Apr , 2024
Introduction One of the paradoxes of India’s growth story, after economic liberalization was introduced in 1991, has been jobless growth. At its peak during the years 2004-2009, while the...
ISIS and AQIS continue to expand activities in Bangladesh
By: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Mar , 2024
Recently, two top-rung kingpins of Islamist jihadist outfit Islamic State (ISIS) were nabbed by law enforcement agencies in India after they entered the country with a notorious plot of sabotage...
The Question of Sea Security in IR
By: Dr Sudhir Hindwan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2024
The recent induction of MH-60 R Helicopters and deployment of INS Jatayu in the Lakshadweep area by the Indian Navy will strengthen India’s maritime prowess in the Indian Ocean Area and enhance...
Human Security and its Dimensions
By: Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Mar , 2024
The concept of human security is a controversial approach by a certain group of post-Cold War 1.0 academicians (after 1990) for the purpose of redefining and at the same time making broader the...
J&K: Doda Students Reject Religious Polarisation Attempt
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2024
Just the other day, a young Pakistani girl in the city of Lahore went to an eatery wearing a modest dress embellished with the Arabic word ‘halwa’ all over in elegant calligraphy. As this...
India’s War on Terrorism Ecosystem in J&K
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2024
There’s a general misapprehension amongst many that terrorism can be effectively eradicated solely by using the ‘fighting fire with fire’ strategy and killing or apprehending terrorists...
Pakistan's Cross-Border Terrorism
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2024
On 14thFebruary 2024, the Pakistani Rangers violated ceasefire agreement with India, which resulted in crossfire from the Indian Border security Force (BSF) post along the international border...
Remembering Shivaji The Great
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Feb , 2024
“A few distant centuries ago, on a nondescript day I can barely imagine Upon what craggy hilltop, within a dense sunless forest O sovereign Shivaji Lightning-like, across your forehead, there...
Indian Ocean Rim Association Gaining Deeper Significance
By: Ravi Srivastava | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2024
The Indian Ocean is gaining greater importance due to multiple geopolitical developments and competing interests of regional and global powers. With the spike in unsettling actions like piracy...
Hindu-hating anti-Ram Mandir jihadist-terrorist brands UK lawmakers as...
By: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jan , 2024
A jihadist-terrorist asylum-seeker in the United Kingdom, who was earlier expelled from Hungary has recently made a notorious attempt of defaming the British lawmakers by publicly branding them as...
From Digital Divide to Digital Dividend? ASER (Annual Status of Education...
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jan , 2024
Introduction The Right to Education (RTE) in public schools from the age of 6-14 for children of all Indian citizens was made a fundamental right in 2004 through an amendment in the Constitution...
The Republic @ 74: The Quest for Economic Democracy
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2024
Granville Austin, the renowned constitutional expert in his seminal book ‘Working a Democratic Constitution’ considered the Indian Constitution as a seamless web, with three strands that are...
Scindias’ connection with Subahs of Delhi and Lahore: A Saga of Valour and...
By: Arunansh B. Goswami | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jan , 2024
Most of what is now the state of Haryana was part of the Subah of Delhi during the Maratha Empire. Haryana the state itself was constituted on November 1, 1966, as a result of the partition of the...
Why Pak politicians need to study Kashmir history
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jan , 2024
On December 11, 2023, India’s Supreme Court upheld the August 2019 abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and bifurcated the state into...
Emerging Focus on Islands in Pacific
By: Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan | Issue: Vol 38.3, Jul-Sep & 38.4, Oct-Dec 2023 | Date: 08 Jan , 2024
The 21st century is spoken of as the century of the seas. Globalization of trade and commerce and the increasing liberalisation and interlinking of economies towards the end of the last century...