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Prime Minister Modi's visit to Australia, taking place nearly 30 years after the last Indian Prime Ministerial visit (Rajiv Gandhi in 1986), comes at a critical time for both countries - when strategic equations are being redrawn, creating new Asian security dynamics.

A former Ranji cricketer and writer has suggested regulation of betting through a comprehensive legislation to clean up fixing-scarred cricket. He has also voiced the need for converting the BCCI into a corporate entity along the lines of Cricket Australia.

The Australian presidency of the G20 has witnessed a focus on the fundamentals: trade, tax issues, infrastructure, employment and banking.

India and Australia could align strategic efforts to foil China’s attempts at throwing its weight around the eastern hemisphere

The world is experiencing a crucial shift; a new industrial revolution. This time, the colour is green, and the aim is a cleaner, more livable world for future generations. This industrial revolution will require unprecedented access to critical minerals like graphite, cobalt, lithium, and copper, used for some of the most advanced technologies of our time. Many of these minerals are scattered around the globe, and states that do not have the nat

China’s PLA Air Force (PLAAF) has been aiming to acquire strategic and expeditionary capabilities since the Gulf War in 1991, with President Xi Jinping targeting operational proficiency by 2035. The PLAAF has since made strides in hardware, incorporating fourth-generation and stealth fighters into its fleet. It lags in combat experience, however, as well as in operational tactics, military doctrines, and pilot efficiency, particularly when comp

In March 2023, the foreign ministers of India, Japan, Australia, and the US (that form the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad) announced the establishment of a working group on countering terrorism. While the urgency of counterterrorism cooperation may have arguably faded in political debate in recent years, it remains steady in military-to-military cooperation at the bilateral and multilateral levels. In a fast-changing glo

Cooperation with like-minded countries gives India more space to emerge as a key regional interlocutor

Considering the importance of the Shangri-La Dialogue and India's declared "Look East" policy, the absence of its Defence Minister A.K. Antony was inexplicable. This was especially so because Mr. Antony was scheduled to be in Singapore a day after the meet, en route to Australia.

Given the ground realities - where China's power exceeds ours by orders of magnitude - we need allies. That is where relationships with the US, Japan, ASEAN and Australia come in.

After a decade, officials from India, Japan, Australia and the United States convened in Manila in November 2017 to renew their quadrilateral cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. While the agenda of the quad is still unknown, this paper presents a political-military strategy for the grouping directed at shaping Chinese behaviour in the region. Viewing strategy through the ends-means-ways lens, the paper describes key objectives of dissuasion, deterre

While Australia-Indonesia ties are in limbo, it would make sense to deepen the Australia-India side of the triangle. Here the potential areas for action are maritime domain awareness, naval intelligence sharing, providing access to each other's naval facilities, and working together to improve the capacity of smaller states in the Indian Ocean.

As the army advanced deeper into Mullaithivu to regain other territories under the LTTE control, rumours of Prabhakaran's escape to another country have strongly surfaced. Most believe that he could have either fled via sea to Eritrea, Australia and Myanmar or he may have not been able to flee at all.

Several thousand Tamil refugees have started seeking asylum in Australia and Canada. Both the countries, however, are wary of accepting the asylum seekers for security reasons.

The kidnapping of an American University professor and his Australian colleague in Afghanistan resulted in a failed rescue mission.

Cooperation between the United States, Japan, Australia, and India is here to stay.

The quad -- India, Australia, Japan, and the United States -- should take care to prevent the possible dangers in China's rise from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. It should use the wide menu of options for quadrilateral cooperation to bargain for diplomatic resolution of China's disputes with its neighbours.

Critical minerals have emerged as a vital resource for a state’s national security and strategic calculations. Consequently, like-minded states have attempted to establish alliances for mineral security to mitigate their vulnerability arising from overreliance on a single country, notably China. In the Indo-Pacific, the Quad has taken the initiative to work together on critical minerals. The Quad’s strategy aims to combine available resources

Trust-based partnerships are re-defining the global landscape today and India is moving ahead with a degree of seriousness not seen in recent history.

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad)—comprising Australia, India, Japan and the US—has outlined a collective vision that recognises each country’s peculiarities in their approach to the Indo-Pacific while building upon the areas of convergence. Maritime security will continue to be a key pillar in this vision, although there is a shift towards making the Quad’s objectives more broad-based and relevant to the emerging global geopolit

One must avoid an over-interpretation and an over-assessment of the suspected car bomb explosion outside the Australian Embassy at Jakarta on September 9,2004, which caused the death of nine persons and injuries to over a hundred others, most of them innocent civilians.

India should not lose sight of the fact that it needs strong regional partnerships if the challenge of China’s rise is to be managed effectively.

Australia is back for the second year in a row, underscoring the Quad’s deepening commitment to cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.

As India, Japan, Australia and the United States renew their quadrilateral cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, there are suggestions to expand the ‘Quad’ into a ‘Quad-plus’ grouping to include the countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). This brief argues that the Quad will not have much to offer to ASEAN; it has, in fact, the potential to dilute ASEAN centrality which is the pillar of the regional bloc.  India, too

The group’s big challenge is to define the security dimension of its agenda more robustly even as economic talks get underway

The real story for strong India-Australia relations lies beyond uranium. With one of the world's strongest mining sectors, Australia can help India exploit its own natural resources in an environmentally sustainable way and thereby address one of the major current constraints on India's economic growth.

Xi seems to have overplayed his hand, leading to a significant realignment, resulting in a pushback at a time when his governance style has come under scrutiny

Before the rise of Xi Jinping—before the Beijing Olympics and the South China Sea tensions and the China-India border crisis—the late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had already sensed that a rising China would pose daunting challenges to its neighbours and the regional order. This brief argues that without Abe, there would likely have been no ‘Quad’ grouping joining Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. His re

The changing distribution of power and the Chinese challenge to US primacy demands that countries like India and Australia bear larger responsibility for security. The future of the Indo-Pacific can't be tied solely to the twists and turns of the dynamic between Washington and Beijing.

The US and Japan have decided to opt out of joining the AIIB though many important US allies like Germany, UK, Australia and South Korea have joined the China-led initiative. Strong business groups in Japan, however, worry that they might miss many investment opportunities which could now go to many developed Western countries.

Beijing is not doing as well as it would like us to think. Its economic challenges and isolation have meant it is keener than its put-off partners to achieve some normalcy in ties with other countries.

This new mini-lateral grouping of the US and three of its allies could coordinate actions with the Quad for regional stability

With more nations building their nuclear arsenal, the Indo-Pacific is becoming a high-risk place.

Despite earlier reports that India would actually participate in the Australia-U.S. led military exercise, New Delhi remained an observer of the latest iteration.

साथीच्या आजारादरम्यान ऑनलाइन बाल लैंगिक शोषणाच्या विरुद्ध लढण्यासाठी ऑस्ट्रेलियाचे प्रयत्न इतर राष्ट्रांसाठी एक उदाहरण म्हणून काम करू शकतात.

ऑस्ट्रेलियाचे चीनसंबंधातील सुधारित धोरण म्हणजे चीनकडे झुकणे नव्हे, तर संबंध पुन्हा सुरळीत करणे आहे.

पाणबुड्यांच्या करारावरून ऑस्ट्रेलिया-फ्रान्समधील संघर्षात भारताने ऑस्ट्रेलियाबद्दल आनंद तर फ्रान्सबद्दल सहानुभूती व्यक्त केली आहे.

इंडोनेशियाच्या भागीदारीमध्ये विविधता आणण्याच्या प्रवृत्तीमुळे ऑस्ट्रेलिया-भारत-इंडोनेशिया त्रिपक्षीय परराष्ट्र मंत्र्यांची बैठक शक्य झाली आहे.

ऑस्ट्रेलियाच्या ‘संरक्षणविषयक धोरणात्मक आढावा २०२३’ अहवालात मूलभूत बदल करण्याचे आवाहन करण्यात आले आहे. हे बदल ऑस्ट्रेलियासाठी आवश्यक आहेतच, शिवाय भारत-प्रशांत क्षेत्�

चीनच्या अरेरावीला आळा घालण्यासाठी, भारत-अमेरिका-जपान आणि ऑस्ट्रेलिया हे चार देश पुन्हा एकदा 'QUAD अलायन्स'च्या माध्यमातून एकत्र येताना दिसताहेत.

२००० च्या दशकाच्या सुरुवातीपासून, चीनने श्रीलंकेला दिलेल्या कर्जात झपाट्याने वाढ करण्यात आली आहे. एका अंदाजानुसार सध्या थकीत असलेले कर्ज एकूण कर्ज साठ्याच्या २० टक्क्�

दोन वर्षापूर्वी चीनच्या बेल्ट अँड रोड परिषदेला जगातील प्रमुख देशांनी उत्तम प्रतिसाद दिला होता. पण आता चित्र बदलतेय.

चीन के इस कदम से अमेरिका व ऑस्ट्रेलिया दोनों ही तनाव में आ गए हैं. इस हिंद प्रशांत क्षेत्र में तनाव बढ़ेगा. आखिर चीनी विदेश मंत्री वांग की सोलोमन द्वीप की यात्रा का मकसद क्‍य