New Delhi: Two years after its commissioning, Indian Navy‘s newest destroyer INS Chennai today validated its arming with the world’s first supersonic cruise missile with a successful test-firing of the Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos. The missile, fired from on board the 7,500-tonne warship, hit its intended surface target […]
New Delhi: India‘s lone submarine builder had a dream-like debut on the stock market today, finishing the opening trading day at Rs 173, a cool 19 per cent above its Initial Public Offering (IPO) price of Rs 145, strongly aided by its above par financial performance over the […]
New Delhi: With an eye on China and Pakistan, India is all set to place an order for 30 armed drones for nearly $3 billion from the United States, in a deal that will be the first for American firm General Atomics from the South Asian giant. Indian-American […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated on Sep. 11 with additional background information throughout the report, filed originally on Sep. 10.) By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Already interoperable through the annual joint Malabar maritime exercise with Japan, India has expanded its strategic reach in the Indo-Pacific by signing a logistic […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: In a strong message to China and Pakistan, India plans to operationalise five more of the French-origin Rafale jets in a squadron in Ambala within the next two months, to boost the air force’s deep strike, strategic capabilities. The five new Rafale […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: As India celebrated its 74th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a strong message for neighbours China and Pakistan that the South Asian nation will not tolerate any challenge to its sovereignty. “From the LoC (Line of Control with Pakistan) to the […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: In order to counter China’s influence in the strategic Indian Ocean Region, India today announced a slew of projects in Maldives to deepen its relations with the maritime neighbour. The relationship was not cosy till two years ago. Former Maldives President Abdullah Yameen […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: In order to push India’s strategic-economic interests in the Indo-Pacific Region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched an ambitious project that will connect the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands with the mainland through an undersea Optic Fibre Cable (OFC). The Indian Ocean Region […]
New Delhi: India needs to instill fear in the minds of Communist China if it has to achieve equilibrium in the bilateral relationship, Indian National Congress leader Dr Abhishek Singhvi said, calling for a comprehensive, aggressive change in India’s policy on China, against the Ladakh conflict backdrop. Advocating […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: China, whose aggression along the Himalayan border in Ladakh as well as in the South China Sea has angered the western powers, is clearly riled at the growing convergence between the United States, India and Australia against the Asian dragon. A day after […]
In the United Nations General Assembly session of 2015, China introduced its vision of a world order called “Community with a Shared Future for Mankind”. The vision document contained a lot of high-principled words such as consultation, dialogue, inclusivity, consensus, and cooperation but was vague and ambiguous on […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: Diplomats from India and China will hold a virtual bilateral meeting on the border question tomorrow to thrash out details of the current disengagement between their militaries following the over 75 days of face-off in Ladakh. Ahead of this meeting, India told China […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: As India firmly deals with an expansionist China on its own, the South Asian country reviewed its global strategic partnership with the United States amid positive noises coming from the world’s most powerful democracy. India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and the US […]
(Editor’s Note: The opinions are that of the writer’s.) By Siddhartha Sharma For over three decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has spread propaganda and pumped corporate earnings, through channel stuffing, to portray China as an economic powerhouse in the region. The CCP’s mendacious propaganda has now tied […]
The loss of nearly 20 Indian Army personnel in the savage attack by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on the night of June 15 is a turning point in India–China relations. As the facts of what transpired at Patrol Point 14 in the Galwan Valley emerged, it became […]
