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The writer is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. The views expressed here are personal.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and president of opposition National Conference (NC), Farooq Abdullah (Photo: PTI)

Opinion

J&K status: Farooq's line might be wrong, but look at other blunders

It reveals the psyche of self-demeaning and self-defeating sections of the leadership, either suffering from an...

23 Nov 2017 2:02 AM IST

Newly arrived Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and some Bangladeshi sympathizers walk across a makeshift bridge continuing their journey in to camp for refugees in Teknaf, Bangladesh. (Photo: AP)

Opinion

Migrants, refugees... Just look at our history!

India has repeatedly been invaded over ages. In the last 1,000 years alone, as many as 40 major invasions occurred.

13 Nov 2017 12:23 AM IST

Opinion

Give the interlocutor a chance

One would, nevertheless, have condoned or ignored Pakistani malevolence had the violence ceased today.

1 Nov 2017 3:28 AM IST

Seven Navy sailors were missing and at least two, including the captain, were injured after the U.S. destroyer collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan before dawn Saturday, the US Navy and Japanese coast guard reported. (Photo: AP)

Opinion

Japan: Indian Navy's best partner?

Abe's dream to transform his country's self-defence forces into a full-fledged military that can play a proper role in...

25 Oct 2017 12:48 AM IST

On the afternoon on August 28th, India has pulled back all the trespassing personnel, equipment to the Indian side of the boundary, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said. (Photo: File)

Opinion

Some questions that Beijing needs to answer

China often tends to forget it is a people's republic and still in name a Communist nation, though of course it is all...

12 Oct 2017 12:12 AM IST

In this file photo, an Indian Air Forces (IAF) AN-32 transport aircraft releases chaff as it flies past the IAF Day Parade in New Delhi, India. (Photo: AP)

Opinion

IAF at 85, but no indigenous fighter yet

HAL at present produces eight platforms per year, which will go up to 16 from 2019-2020 .

3 Oct 2017 2:22 AM IST

India

Always on a mission: The Marshal that I knew

Safdarjung Airport was still the domestic flight hub of Indian Airlines Corporation, flying its Dakotas, till the early...

21 Sept 2017 2:08 AM IST

Opinion

China trade: Rectify fault lines

The ongoing Sino-Indian trade imbalance is a danger signal.

18 Sept 2017 12:13 AM IST

Opinion

Trump's Afghan war: India must stay out

Why is fighting against Afghan tribals such a fatal attraction?

11 Sept 2017 1:29 AM IST

The incident happened in the first week of June near the Lalten post in the Doka La general area in Sikkim after a face-off between the two forces, which triggered tension along the Sino-Indian frontier, official sources in New Delhi said. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

Opinion

After Doklam, it's time for a new beginning

It was not then a bilateral but a quadrilateral issue, imvolving the British, Tibetans, Chinese and Indians.

4 Sept 2017 12:39 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. (Photo: AP)

Opinion

BRI to Brics: Monopoly vs competition

Brics is the forum of five competing powers, apparent bonding thereof, on the lines of the EU or G-7.

22 Aug 2017 12:48 AM IST

Saudi Aramco, a key exporter to China, is due to list next year, with a potential $100 billion equity sale that is expected to be the worlds largest to date.

Opinion

New China of 21st century is Goebbelsian'

Why has China brazenly and defiantly violated India's sovereignty and territory in connivance with military rulers of...

14 Aug 2017 12:44 AM IST