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Manish Tewari

China is looking to build more military bases in Mozambique or Madagascar in the western Indian Ocean as well. (Representational Image/Twitter)

Manish Tewari | Don’t allow military bases on Indian soil in any form

Is India changing its stance both with regard to military bases in the broader Indo-Pacific region and even on its soil?

24 Sep 2023 12:05 AM

Flags of the G20 members at 'Bharat Mandapam' ahead of the upcoming G20 Summit, at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | Is G-20 just a talk shop, or does it play a useful role?

Will there be a Delhi Declaration and will it have any “deliverables” that make the world a better place to live in?

07 Sep 2023 12:20 AM

The current set of rules grants wide discretionary power to the presiding officers of either House. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | Revive democracy, codify parliamentary privileges

The history of parliamentary privileges can be traced back to the Privileges of Parliament Act passed in 1512.

27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM

The Union government brought the Inter-Services Organization (Command, Control and Discipline) Bill, 2023. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Stealth not good mode for doing theatre commands

The government passed the Inter-Services Organization Bill 2023 in Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha sans any substantive discussion.

13 Aug 2023 12:36 AM

In the current Monsoon Session of Parliament, the government aims to pass the fundamentally flawed Digital Personal Data Protection Bill. (Photo by rawpixel.com Freepik)

Manish Tewari | Build legal framework for intel to safeguard privacy

The snooping saga using the Pegasus spyware is still pending adjudication in the Supreme Court.

30 Jul 2023 12:17 AM

Manish Tewari | Does the anti-defection law silence voice of democracy?

India’s tryst with the anti-defection law commenced post the Fifty-Second Constitutional Amendment Act of 1985.

16 Jul 2023 12:42 AM

The department of defence (DOD) of the federal government of the United States has a budgetary allocation of $2.01 trillion for the fiscal 2023. (Representational Image:DC)

Manish Tewari | India’s Defence Conundrum is Russia Over-Dependence

Russia’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine was again such an unknown

02 Jul 2023 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | The Chinese ascendancy and America’s dilemma

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, is slated to make his visit to Beijing on June 18 just ahead of Modi’s visit to the US.

18 Jun 2023 12:39 AM

Manish Tewari | Why South Asia in dire need of statesmanship

South Asia requires statespersons who can look beyond the horizon to the future that beckons rather than remain stuck in the history

04 Jun 2023 12:22 AM

Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Ladakh sector. (Representational Image)

Manish Tewari | World in churn catalysing new liberal order?

While authoritarian rulers seem to be hell bent on trying to rework the global order on their terms, the pushback is now equally strong

21 May 2023 12:00 AM

Manish Tewari | India lost land at LAC, step up strategic game

As India heads into the 2024 general elections, it will have to be very watchful of its strategic, tactical and territorial interests

07 May 2023 12:00 AM

Atiq Ahmed, his brother Ashraf speak to media, moments before they were shot dead. (ANI)

Manish Tewari | End fake encounters; make an example of Atiq killers

There seems to be an implicit acceptance of these extrajudicial killings which are euphemistically referred to as “encounters”

23 Apr 2023 12:01 AM

One of the companies being looked at is Intellexa, which has recently been at the centre of a snooping scandal in Greece. (Representational Image/Twitter)

Manish Tewari | To protect right to privacy, reform intel agencies first

A report suggests that the Indian govt is willing to spend up to $120 million or around Rs. 1,000 crores to purchase a new spyware

09 Apr 2023 12:05 AM

Indian foreign policy has to move beyond self-congratulatory event management exercises in the rarefied salons of Delhi and actually start doing some heavy lifting for India. (Representational Image/AFP)

Manish Tewari | Can India ever outdo China diplomatically?

Will we ever see our diplomacy undertaking manoeuvres of the kind China has pulled off here?

26 Mar 2023 12:05 AM

File photo of the spot after militants attacked a CRPF convoy in Goripora area of Awantipora town in Pulwama district of J&K. At least 49 CRPF jawans were killed in the attack. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Were India, Pak close to a nuke war after Pulwama?

It is fairly clear that there are no off-ramps when the Indo-Pakistan rivalry goes on an accelerated escalatory spiral

12 Mar 2023 12:00 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: AFP)

Manish Tewari | Has Putin shot himself in the foot over Ukraine?

Ukraine’s independence unfortunately became problematic for the Soviet Union’s successor state Russia from the day go itself.

26 Feb 2023 1:46 AM

United States Air Force shot down a Chinese balloon that had been drifting through US airspace. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | What did the balloon tell China about US?

Why on earth would China fly a balloon into US territory?

12 Feb 2023 12:55 AM

The Supreme Court has chosen to make public its reiterated recommendations with regard to certain judges whose appointments the government has been sitting on for over five years now. (Representational Image)

Manish Tewari | Who should appoint judges?

A joint house judiciary committee must be constituted by bringing about an appropriate Constitutional amendment

28 Jan 2023 12:10 AM

Manish Tewari | Freebies and welfare: Time to define critical difference

Freebies need to be defined clearly and the definition tailored precisely

15 Jan 2023 12:05 AM

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year celebrations begin in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | Peace or ‘permacrisis’: What’s the 2023 mantra?

“Permacrisis” was the Collins Dictionary's word of the year, perhaps unsurprisingly, as we lived through great upheavals

01 Jan 2023 12:00 AM

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