During his recent visit to India, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani offered to resume negotiations with India for the development of his country's Farzad-B gas block, after being lukewarm to Indian offers to develop the same for quite some years now....
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) headed by Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met earlier today, for the first time in 2020, to consider a number of new and ongoing proposals for procuring critically needed platforms and equipment for the...
Editor's Note: The United States State Department has of late been making a lot of noise about 'health attacks' of a potentially acoustic nature on 16 of its diplomats in Havana, Cuba. These attacks have apparently taken place over...
“Nothing should be as favourably regarded as intelligence;
Nothing should be as generously rewarded as intelligence;
Nothing should be confidential as the work of intelligence,”
– Sun Tzu
A great book is one that prompts the reader to contemplate its content even after...
The Dalai Lama’s recent weeklong visit to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh has had a rather adverse impact on the flow of diplomatic engagement between India and China. The primary casualty of the visit seems to be the...
In Mid-April 2019, the Bombay Chapter of the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) and the Mechanical Engineering Department of IIT Bombay jointly conducted a two-day symposium on Critical Non-Ferrous Metals: Establishing a Value Chain. Speakers from a number of...
The Department Defence Production (DDP), under India’s Ministry of Defence (MOD), oversees defence manufacturing in India and has direct control over nine defence public sector undertakings (DPSUs) and the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) besides some other entities. In recent...
As part of the World Trade Organization (WTO), India signed the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in 1996. The ITA requires each participant to eliminate customs duties and bind them at zero levels for all products specified in the Agreement....
The manner in which the Nagas organized themselves for mass repatriation from big cities like Delhi, Chennai, Pune etc. during the COVID lockdown bears testament to a deep sense of societal obligation, which is ingrained in their psyche. However,...
India has long sought to maintain an air power advantage over its potential adversaries as a key aspect of its conventional deterrence posture. To get a view of how Indian air power continues to evolve in relation to its...
