It was business as usual for Russia when it struck Ukraine with missiles and UAVs just after President Vladmir Putin bid farewell to President Xi Jinping after their highly publicized three days meeting in Moscow.....
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After the G20 Summit in Bali, India took over the G20 presidency for one year, from December 1, 2022, to November 30, 2023.[1] Indeed, this presidency is an opportunity for India....
Tags : Article , G20 , COVID-19 , Pandemic , Ayurveda , Healthcare , AYUSH , India Africa Collaboration , Traditional Medicine , Alternative Medicine
The plenary sessions of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) -- China's version of a parliament -- and 14th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) -- China's top political advisory body -- that concluded on March 13 were, a....
Tags : Article , China , Xi Jinping , Taiwan , PLA , CPPCC , Two Sessions , Qin Gang
Picking up the Thread- the Premise The recent reports in the open source have stated that in the massive missile strikes on Ukraine between 06-10 Mar 2022, Russia has used ‘new age weapons’, namely the Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missiles....
Tags : Article , Ukraine War , Ukraine-Russia War , Russian weapon deployment
Like many Asian nations, Japan that shares a historically ugly phase of relationship with China, now faces the heat from a muscular China, despite having a robust relationship in the economic domain. China’s ambitions to attain a great power status....
Tags : Article , Senkaku Islands , SIPRI , China threat , Ishigaki Island , collective self defence , Coast Guard intrusions , End of Pacifism in Japan
The contradictions are stark. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has often opined that relations with China are not normal, because India will not agree to any attempt to change the Line of Actual Control (LAC) unilaterally. Stating again ....
Introduction: The Conflict between Rights and Duties Unlike the language of rights that have received great momentum in the contemporary world, the language of duty is seemingly less popular. The notion where rights are met through the f....
Tags : Article , Human Rights , Mahatma Gandhi , Mahabharata , UDHR , Duties
On 21 February 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong launched the first payment linkage between India’s Unified Payment Interface (UPI) and Singapore’s PayNow, which opened a new chapter in cross-border FinTech con....
Tags : Article , India , RBI , Digital India , Singapore , G20 , innovation , Fintech , PayNow , UPI , P2P , MAS , NPCI , P2M , QR , Remittance , VPA
Two strategic groupings – the Quad and AUKUS – are in the news that has caught world’s attention. While the Quad has been for been in existence for some time now, AUKUS is a recent construct. When in September 2021, Australia, the UK and the US....
Tags : Article , South China Sea , Taiwan , Strategic competition , AUKUS , defence spending , Nuclear submarine deal , USS Virginia
(The following is an updated version of Director’s talk on Internal Security given at Defence Services Staff College, Wellington on 06 Mar 2023) Introduction In the holistic concept of national security, internal security is a....
Tags : Article , infiltration , NIA , PFI , CAPFs , Khalistan , NTRO , Drone FICN , Left Wing insurgency , MAC , NATGRID , Northeast insurgency