By N. C. Bipindra Mao Zedong, it is said, was furious over the slights he had received at the Eighth Party Congress (1956 and 1958) – the call for collective leadership, the assertions that China would never have a cult of personality, the removal of Mao’s thought as […]
(Editor’s Note: In arrangement with Defence Research and Studies, a Kochi-based think-tank) By Colonel (Dr) N. K. Chhibber The Great Game conceptualised a policy of “buffer zones between the expansionist forces”, in the instant case Russia and British India. Russian southward expansion was intended to be halted somewhere […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated with Australian government’s reaction to the Exercise MALABAR invitation from paragraphs 10 to 14.) New Delhi: The first thought that comes to mind when one hears Australia is joining the trilateral India–United States–Japan maritime exercise later this year: Is QUAD, conceived as a purely diplomatic […]
In addition to its Constitution and founding principles, a country’s executive leadership primarily sets its larger institutions’ tone. A country’s armed forces, diplomatic corps, legislature, large public sector companies, and the press slowly imbue themselves with the operant thought paradigm working at the core of its governmental apparatus […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Pakistan and China, two of India’s arch rivals, have reached a secret three-year deal to jointly expand potential biological warfare capabilities, including running several research projects related to the deadly agent Anthrax, people familiar with the development said. The Wuhan Institute of […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening global security, health and economy, India and European Union (EU) today agreed to strengthen response capacities, apart from calling for free, transparent and prompt sharing of information on such threats. Of course, they did not directly name China […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: As the world economies, shaken by COVID-19, look to relocate their manufacturing facilities from China, India today urged the member-states of a Bay of Bengal regional group to seize the opportunity to drive the industry shift to the region. “The shock of the […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India gave a befitting response to China for trying to usurp its territory in eastern Ladakh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said in a stern message to the Asian giant but without naming it, against the backdrop of the face-off between their two […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: As world economies count their losses due to COVID-19 impact, leaders from the G20 nations today pledged to inject over $5 trillion into the global economy to counter the ill-effects of the pandemic. At a virtual summit of the leaders through video conferencing, […]
