India successfully held the third Voice of Global South Summit (VOGSS) on 17 August. It carried forward the agenda of the previous two summits, which had fed into the G20 process. The VOGSS remains India's initiative and is not held in conjunction....
Tags : Commentary , India , G20 , Global South , VOGSS
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has hosted the largest-ever International Air Exercise that mainland Asia has seen in over six decades. Participants in the Exercise ‘Tarang Shakti’ (Wave Power)-2024 included ten countries as active participant....
Tags : Article , Indian Air Force , Tarang Shakti , Air power in regional security , Collective approach to creating deterrence , China air power intimidation , India key role consolidating regional air security
India and African countries have long standing ties in the defence realm. Traditionally, training and capacity building, deployment of Indian troops for United Nations Peacekeeping (UNPK) missions have been the main pillars of the India Africa defenc....
Tags : Article , India , China , Rajnath Singh , Africa , Indian Navy , Narendra Modi , Maritime cooperation , Defence Exports , ITEC , Defence Security
July 31 was the casting date for a much-feared escalation in the Middle East as Israeli leadership acknowledged killing of the Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukr (July 30) but keeping enigmatic silence on the killing of the Hamas top leader and negotiator ....
Tags : Commentary , Israel , Gaza , Houthis , Netanyahu , Hezbollah , Biden , Hamas , Ismael Haniyeh
The Kargil war of 1999 was not just a conflict between two traditional rivals but a major direct confrontation between two nuclear powers that had defied global norms by conducting nuclear tests. This saga was catalysed by technological achievements,....
Tags : Commentary , Israel , technology , surveillance , Intelligence , Kargil War
The proposal to construct a railroad from Termez in Uzbekistan to Mzaar-e-Sharif and Kabul in Afghanistan and onwards to Peshawar in Pakistan has been on the drawing boards since 2007. Instability in Afghanistan, lack of political will in Uzbekistan ....
Tags : Commentary , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Uzbekistan , Doha 3 , railroad
The India-Malaysia relationship has come a long way since 2019, when Malaysia’s the then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad ruined the ties with his uncalled-for remark on Kashmir—he said that ‘New Delhi had invaded and occupied Kashmir’. He ha....
Tags : Commentary , Kashmir , Zakir Naik , CAA , Mahathir Mohammad , Anwar Ibrahim
आयुधानामहं वज्रं धेनूनामस्मि कामधुक् प्रजनशाऽस्मि कन्दर्पः सर्पाणामस्मि वासुकिः “Among weapons....
Tags : Commentary , Bharat , data sovereignty , Gaming Industry , itihasa
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is scheduled to convene for a “Summit of the Future” in New York on 22-23 September 2024. The outcome of this meeting of world leaders will be the adoption of a “Pact for the Future”. During the past....
Tags : Commentary , World Health Organization , Covid , UN Security Council , UNGA
For India, the dramatic change of regime in Bangladesh, with Sheikh Hasina having to resign under military pressure and leave the country hastily as the army could not ensure her personal safety, is a serious setback. It can always be debated whet....
Tags : Article , US , Pakistan Army , Bangladesh , Awami League , Sheikh Hasina , BNP , Muhammad Yunus , Jamaat E Islami