A discourse on “nationalism” is difficult primarily because a colonised nation’s political psyche tends to be dictated by the population’s desire for...

Power is seldom shared. Absolute power – like the veto right of the Permanent 5 in the United  Nations Security Council (UNSC) – is hoarded with all...

“India continues to be the main source of illicit synthetic drugs.” This statement was included in the Introduction of a Bureau of International...

The growing pre-eminence of the Indian Navy (IN) in what is now called the Indo-Pacific region – at the behest of the US-India strategic partnership –...

The US government had offered India 17 technologies in the first flush of the Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) – concluded between...

In the past 45 days, the Navy has had an exercise with the British navy at Plymouth on the south of Devon in London on the edge of the Atlantic; the...

A preliminary but subtle shift appears to have occurred in India’s handling of Pakistan with New Delhi seeking to couple a direct armed defence...

In a twist to its defence diplomacy, India has consciously uncoupled Australia from the USA, and occasionally Japan and Singapore that undertook the...

Sharif had reportedly said: “The enemy will have to bear <g data-gr-id="28">unbearable</g> <g data-gr-id="29">cost,</g> if...

A meltdown in the Shanghai stock exchange sent shivers down the spine of global markets. But all those Cassandras, especially those in the West, who...

India’s premier security <g data-gr-id="27">think</g> tank, Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)  is rudderless for almost a...

To accommodate PM Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ in Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) circa 2015 – much awaited – Dhirendra Singh Committee report...