2025 ,
Japan’s “nationalisation” of three Senkaku Islands (see Figure 1)—over which China and Taiwan also have contested claims—will not change the status quo of the territory. The purchase of these islands...
Read More
2025 ,
In case of capital procurements by the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, the trial evaluation of the products is carried out by the buyer on a no-cost, no-commitment (NCNC)...
Read More
2025 ,
India-Tajikistan relations received a fresh impetus during the state visit of President Emomali Rahmon to India from 1-4 September 2012. This was President Rahmon’s fifth visit to India, during which...
Read More
2025 ,
Shortly before the fateful US intervention in Iraq that led to the downfall and the eventual execution of the then Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, Brent Scowcroft, who had been the...
Read More
2025 ,
India’s growth prospects are increasingly uncertain, says a respected commentator.1 This was no doubt said before the Government of India (GoI) announced its decision on FDI in retail and 49...
Read More
2025 ,
India-Pakistan foreign minister level talks, held recently in Islamabad (September 7-8, 2012) to review the bilateral process, were significant on two important counts. First, adoption of a long delayed liberalized...
Read More
2025 ,
Xi Jinping, currently the Vice-President of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is missing from action. Xi has not been seen at scheduled public events for quite some time and...
Read More
2025 ,
The Japanese cabinet’s announcement that reserve funds be used to “purchase” three of the five uninhabited islands in the East China Sea (called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese)—...
Read More
2025 ,
India-Sri Lanka relations appear to be reaching a phase of stagnation. While bilateral relations at the political level are still cordial, Colombo does not seem to be interested in or...
Read More
2025 ,
The much-talked about Tamil Nadu factor in India-Sri Lanka relations has come to the fore recently again in the wake of strong reactions of the provincial government to the training...
Read More
