The actions of President Abdulla Yameen's administration in the Maldives are emerging as a major new sticking point between India and China in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). Even as the India-led international community wants the situation in the...
India began its super-computing journey with the Param in the 1980s after the United States (US) banned the export of Cray supercomputers and in 2008, ‘EKA’, from Tata’s Computational Research Laboratories, was ranked 9th among global high-power computing (HPC)...
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...
The just concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand had a decided focus on trade and connectivity. Addressing the summit, Indian Prime Minister Modi highlighted the need for assured connectivity and resilient supply chains in the region. As...
Speaking at this morning's opening session of the 3rd Defence-Indian Technical Textile Association (ITTA) meet being held at the Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi, India's Chief of Army Staff, General Bipin Rawat stressed the need for a synergistic 'integration' of...
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....
We are witnessing a deepening of Indo-Egyptian ties as was evident from the recent visit of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to New Delhi as the Chief Guest for India’s 74th Republic Day Parade. To learn more about the...
In a recent order, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MCA) has exempted for a period of a little over 5 months beginning 18 April 2020, the requirements of Rule 15A of the Aircraft Rules, 1937, for beyond visual line...
Whichever way one looks at it, May 2020 appears to be a prelude to a 21st century Chinese invasion of India. To my weary eyes, the situation seems akin to what Nehru and his ‘courtier soldiers’ faced and experienced,...
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....
