Top commanders of the Armed Forces and the civilian government discussed the concept of a new doctrine at length during the six-day armed forces commanders’ conference held in New Delhi in the month of April 2017. The previous joint doctrine, which was released in 2006, was based on the successful joint operation made during the Kargil War against Pakistan in 1999. Major objectives of the new […]
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn labelled the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill a ministerial ‘power grab’ and ordered his MPs to vote against the Government. The Brexit repeal bill failed to pass. Prime Minister Theresa May managed to avoid defeat in the Commons clash and hailed results as a historic Parliamentary victory that would allow exit negotiations […]
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) conducted a series of missile and nuclear tests in 2017 that demonstrated the country’s ability to launch ballistic missiles beyond its immediate region and suggested that North Korea’s nuclear weapons capability was developing at a faster rate than had been assessed by the U.S. intelligence community. This, coupled with a regular joint U.S.–South Korea […]
The ninth BRICS Summit was held at Xiamen International Conference Center on September 4, 2017,. It was attended by the heads of state or heads of government of the five member states Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. President Xi Jinping chaired the summit. President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, President Michel Temer of Brazil, President Vladimir Putin of Russia […]
Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India. But the state has been an emotional issue to most of the Indians for different reasons. Majority Hindu population sees Jammu and Kashmir as a half complete agenda. Despite claims and understanding that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India, the state still enjoys […]
Right from the time election campaign began in America for the post of President till now, it seems that the US has turned into a “hate land” where racial divisions are being overplayed for political gains and solidarity. President of the US Donald Trump is taken as their president by the white extremist groups and […]
The 12th Group of Twenty (G20) summit was held on 7–8 July 2017, at Hamburg Messe, in the city of Hamburg, Germany. The agenda of summit include wide ranging themes including routine themes like global economic growth, international trade and financial market regulation etc. But the summit as expected focused and deliberated upon the emergent issues and concern of the global fraternity including “issues […]
The Polish crisis is brewing since 2015 and it got momentum as authoritarian politics became a global trend in the following years. Poland, an erstwhile communist country, is relatively new entrant in the European Union and in the list of democratic regimes. The present political crisis is a battle for appointing the judges in the […]
Doklam or Zhoglam also known as Donglang in China, is an area with a plateau and a valley, lying between Tibet’s Chumbi Valley to the north, Bhutan’s Ha Valley to the east and India’s Sikkim state to the west. It has been depicted as part of Bhutan in the Bhutanese maps since 1961, but it is also claimed by China. To date, the dispute has not been […]
The US and its NATO allies are seen as bullies by the Islamic world as well as the countries who follow a different ideology and political system (socialist or communist regimes). Cold war of post Second World War period was the outcome of this colonialist and imperial mindset and the other group led by Russia […]
