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Defence Procurement & Production: A Feel of Fresh Air as the New Year Dawns

Premise A few days into the New Year and thinking of the year gone by, one gets a feel of ‘fresh air’ in the entire stance of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and their attitude towards the entire gamut of defence procurement. A resurgent ....

The Kashmir Files: Much Ado about Honesty

The furore over Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s condemnation of The Kashmir Files may have died down, but it does recall to memory the case of yet another controversial film, Kissa Kursi Ka. Of course, there is hardly any comparison b....

Inapt ‘Perceptions’ and Elusive ‘Peace and Tranquillity’

Dai Bingguo, then State Councillor, Director of the General Offices of Foreign Affairs and the National Security Group of the CCP’s Central Committee and Special Representative (SR) for boundary negotiations with India from 2003 to 2013 had stated ....

AIIMS Cyber-Incident— An ‘e-epidemic’ Situation for Digital Bharat

तावद्भयेषु भेतव्यं यावद्भयमनागतम् । आगतं तु भयं वीक्ष्य प्रहर्तव्यमशङ्कया ॥ “A ....

Longewala December 1971: If it Was Fought as a Unified Theatre Command Battle

Longewala- an Opportunity Lost On 4 December 1971 when Indian forces were advancing into erstwhile East Pakistan, the Pakistanis decided to advance into Rajasthan along Axis Ramgarh – Jaisalmerand beyond. It was past midnight when sixty....

The Significance of Exercise Malabar 2022

The multilateral Malabar Exercise 2022 commenced on 9 November 2022 between the navies of the Quad countries consisting of India, Japan, the US, and Australia and concluded on 15 November 2022. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF hosted the ....

India’s Preparedness in the Digital Milieu

On 04 August 2022, the Cyber Task Force members reviewed some significant developments in India’s digital domain, including Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), FinTech, Blockchain activities, Non-Personal Data (NPD), a proposal for a new Telegraph....

Border Management in India: Methods, Challenges and Opportunities

Genesis The Indian Independence Act of 1947 was finally put in execution on 18 July 1947 giving out the broad details of the partition of British India into the two dominions of India and Pakistan, based on Hindu and Muslim majorities respe....

COP 27: High Stakes, Low Expectations

Introduction The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 27, will take place at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt from 6 to 18 November. The main aim of the conference is to spur action towards achieving the world’s collective climat....

A Perspective on Kashmir Situation: Tunneled View and Wide-Angle Scan

Setting the Panorama While India was in her biggest ‘festival mood’, the Home Minister was in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on a two-day visit to Rajouri and Baramulla. Since the announcement for this visit on 4th and 5th ....

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