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New Delhi just commissioned its first indigenously built major warship. It will need more to challenge Beijing on the high seas.
Under a bilateral agreement water data on the Brahmaputra is shared by China with India on the Brahmaputra, but a weak understanding of hydrology means that the data is coming from the wrong places
Internal security is very much a prerogative of police and efficient policing is needed in order to tackle threats. But for that, the police system ne
Like it or not, the term ‘Indo Pacific’ seems to be a means of including India in the military calculations of US strategy in the Pacific.
If it wants to be a source of regional stability, it must act like one.
While it would cost the public exchequer a bomb, still, time is ripe for India to have a national election fund. Given that India’s current politica
Laying down the rules of the road is a task that should not be left until Space is highly weaponised. Aside from the political and strategic value, India has a huge financial stake given its investments and reliance in this regard.
India is located at such a prime position that it can't miss out the opportunity to be part of the MSR. Both the Marine Silk Road and the continental Silk Road --which is going to connect China with the central Asia -- are going to pass from India's periphery. India could gain a lot from being an active partner to the MSR. And, not joining it may isolate India.
The Quad engaging with IORA will help India to bring the strategic convergences of the two groupings and China’s growing footprint in the region to
Despite 70 years of unremitting and implacable hostility, New Delhi still does not know how to deal with Islamabad.
A country that spends 15 per cent of its Central expenditure on national defence (armed forces and DRDO) and 23 per cent on national security (armed forces and all other security forces like para-military, police) must explain to its citizens as to whether its spending on security is justifiably utilised or not.
As five states in India go to the polls in the coming weeks, it seems the 'silly season' is upon us. We are being saturated with inanities masquerading as "political discourse". The problem, however, is that as these samples of ludicrousness tumble out in a disturbingly steady stream, we actually engage with them in earnestness.
KP Sharma Oli, who is bitterly anti-Indian, is likely to return to the prime minister's office.
Despite having many dysfunctional bureaucratic institutions, no one has questioned the legitimacy of the Election Commission in holding free and fair
With Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa linking the officially-blessed second round of fishers' talks in Colombo, scheduled for 13 March, to the release of all fishers arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy, questions have arisen about the future course.
The new budget does little to advance the very objectives the country has outlined for itself.
Internationalisation of higher education as part of key second generation reform is a long overdue since the country went for the pathbreaking economi
Baghdad can figure in India’s energy calculations more significantly given the geopolitical developments in recent times.
As India tries to shape the global agenda through G20, it needs Bangladesh’s support to translate many of these ideas into action in its neighbourho
Two intertwined territorial contentions remain unresolved between China and Japan in the East China Sea.
China invested more than USD 100 billion overseas last year alone. Its cumulative investments in Myanmar total USD 14.2 billion. The real question is why Chinese investment in India has lagged so far behind. Political mistrust is certainly a large part of the answer.
The international community seems to be caught between a rock and a hard place as coercive tactics to reform the Talibann are proving to be ineffectiv
Depletion of natural capital is an irreversible process and steps to assess and combat this are needed urgently.
India has world class healthcare in urban agglomerations, but public healthcare continues to be overcrowded and underfunded
Indian decision-makers appear to live in splendid isolation and do not recognise the importance of meetings like the Pacific Army Chiefs Conference. These meetings have become more institutionalised and are likely to gain greater momentum.
Does Indian Foreign Policy towards West Asia have to be as fragmented as the region? Probably not. One could start by enunciating a few guidelines that are minimalist; that we are against religious extremism, toppling established states and condemning disproportionate use of force by Israel.
Karachi is burning, once again. There has been a sudden spurt of violence in the city. Killings, bomb attacks and riots have taken a heavy toll during the past month. Sindh Chief Minister Ali Mohammad Maher has been forced to resign. Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali faces criticism for failing to impose law and order.
The rhetoric and the justifications that Radical Islam employs to create willing suicide bombers must be properly understood if this menace is to be tackled effectively
The Indian tendency to muddle through is likely to continue when it comes to counter-insurgency. The distance between the Army and its civilian masters is so gaping that advice, however enriched by experience and reflection, is likely to fall on deaf ears.
A proactive Europe is welcomed by many in the Indo-Pacific, a reality highlighted by a recent ministerial forum focused on cooperation in the region.
The West, often used to a pontificating India of the past, today hears an Indian voice that is capable of articulating a narrative of a responsible stakeholder that is firmly steeped in its own ethos
There is little or no excitement in global capitals over the Sri Lankan presidential polls this time, unlike during the last three elections of 2005,
The US, as always, learned the hard way that it was not or need not be all that dependent on Pakistani cooperation and generosity and Pakistan was probably beginning to realise that it had exaggerated its own importance.
The strength of Jordan has been its acute awareness of its geographical vulnerabilities
Every successful encounter is causing more recruitments — the security establishment is caught between the conundrum: to kill the militants or not.
The government must contemplate taking a few steps to ensure that militants who surrender is not coerced into returning.
Indian law schools need to look at the positive aspects of the legal education systems in the US and UK and integrate them into their indigenous syste
Malala's achievement need not be measured in terms of the Nobel Peace Prize she did not get but in the awakening she can continue to create. For this, she and her kind, all over, need more than just periodic rewards.
Liberalism has given us this modern world which gives primacy to the individual over his community, caste or gender.
Technology solutions for illiterate people are exclusively designed by the formally educated and that is a fundamental problem
These electronic machines have long been punching bags for frustrated political ambitions.
India, which maintains good relations with Iran and has strategic interests in that country, has walked the trapeze wire regarding the issue of its nu
Though India has decided to cut down oil from Iran and thereby, for the time being, might have placated the US, it, however, cannot afford to ignore Iran either - for a myriad of reasons.
Without having to do away with the collegium per se, the new scheme could involve its choice going to Parliament, through the Executive, for a joint committee of both Houses holding public hearings, the American way, before the President appoints the person.
