The Philippines becomes the first Indo-Pacific country to declare itself for Beijing On the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, I have long argued that “the small- and medium-sized countries of the...

New Delhi must not waste further energy on a forum that lacks any common basis. Russia needs international platforms to show that the West’s attempts to isolate it are not...

Can we have a proliferation of broadband access through public Wi-Fi networks? What are the issues and challenges? The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India held a public workshop in Bangalore...

Following the Uri Attacks, the 19th SAARC Summit that was due to take place on the 15th and 16th of November has been postponed. India refused to attend the summit,...

The Indian resolve to strike at Pakistani terror camps as a fitting response to Uri attacks and call Pakistan’s bluff demonstrates clearly why Pakistan must learn from military history The...

Pakistan’s military-jihadi complex will need more then the prospect of diplomatic isolation to change its policies. Cyril Almeida’s report reads too good to be true. Facing international isolation—read lack of...

Conventional definitions of war are insufficient in the face of increasing global terror. These definitions must be revisited to provide states with the appropriate means to protect themselves against such acts...

Post-surgical mattersLast night, militants attacked a Border Security Force-Rashtriya Rifles camp in Baramulla, killing one trooper and injuring another. Coming a few days after India announced that it had carried...

by Pranay Kotasthane (@pranaykotas) Summary of an interview I gave to Channel News Asia. The Indian Army claimed that it conducted surgical strikes on terrorist launch pads in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir...

India’s punitive strike across the Line of Control could set a new norm Whatever might be the consequences, it is clear that the Indian Army’s operation across the Line of...

The security in the cities currently is limited in its imagination of city as a series of physical infrastructure. The strongest common link between 9/11 and 26/11 attacks are their...

By Dr. Suma Singh India @70 – as a nation we are celebrating the various facets of the historic seventy years of life as an independent nation. The story however...

Little attention is provided to India’s sea borders which are a huge source of vulnerability. Over the past years, efforts to secure India’s coasts have stepped up but are they...

Statesmanship is about rescuing policy from being hostage to mass hysteria My response to a request for comment from the Times of India: The role of social media in spreading...

The EAS displays few concrete results and this is a problem that is symptomatic of most multilateral institutions in the Asia-Pacific region.  By Hamsini Hariharan (@HamsiniH) The 11th East Asian...

In 2008, the average age of players in the ATP top 10 list was 24.4 years. In 2015, it had risen to 28.9 years

While the introduction of draft Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016, is a welcome step towards plugging the existing regulatory vacuum in the commissioning of surrogacy in India, the provisions spelt out...

BY Anupam Manur (@anupammanur) No democratically elected government with a limited term of office would want to risk negative popularity in the short term for potential benefit in the future,...

The G-20 Summit this weekend will see world leaders descend upon Hangzhou. How much will be accomplished considering the G By Hamsini Hariharan (@HamsiniH) Over the last few months, Chinese...

The ecosystem for implementation of reforms in India is structurally setup to solve acute, visible problems, but not chronic issues that require long-term monitoring. By Akshay Alladi (@akshayalladi) In much...