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Harsh V Pant Recent reports have revealed that there are growing concerns in Nepal about China’s encroachment along their shared border. The Nepalese government has not come out publicly on this issue but it had commissioned a report last year…
Chintamani Mahapatra It is to be seen how the Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and the politically vulnerable American President Biden negotiate a mutually acceptable deal As the Ukraine crisis deepens with Russian recognition of Donetske and Luhansk, two eastern provinces…
Assessing improvements in India’s military capability is difficult, particularly when it comes to the three armed forces securing their requirements in a timely manner. The nature of warfare is experiencing remarkable transformation in the last two decades. In the last few years, highly sophisticated technology and radical new doctrines have evolved. Besides, India’s security dynamics are complicated by numerous threats and difficulties at home and abroad as well. It will necessitate the development of multi-domain skills as well as the execution of all of our operations simultaneously and in shorter time frames. The expansion and modernization of the Indian military have occurred in stages, primarily in response to threatening developments popping up in the surrounding region such as Indo-Pacific theatre, the belligerent posture of the Pakistan-China axis with Pakistan now more eager to exercise its tactical nuke option, and China’s pursuit of ‘string of pearls’ and the evolving global strategic environment prone to dent the perceptions and decisions of India’s strategic community and political elites.
Mukul Asher Introduction Unveiling of India’s Union Budget is the single most substantive economic event of the year. It is an occasion to take stock of the immediate past economic performance, review macroeconomic and fiscal trends and scenarios, and explain…
Mukul Asher The context Global trade in services is an important component of total international trade. In 2019, global exports of services were USD 6.2 trillion (24.5 percent of combined merchandise and services trade) but services exports declined to USD…
The Missing Geo- Political Conversation Anil Trigunayat “Will he invade or he won’t” is the perennial question in the minds of Russia—Ukraine crisis watchers as the USA insists and gives timelines for Russian invasion while Putin and his entourage continue…
The Union Budget 2022-23 was expected to take steps to tackle the problem of inadequacy of demand so that the economy’s rate of growth could be accelerated. This problem has persisted and had led to the rate of growth slowing down in the last four years. In turn, this problem is linked to the growing inequality in the country, which has been highlighted by several recent reports. The latest report is from the non-profit think tank People’s Research on India’s Consumer Economy [PRICE]. It shows not only the aggravation of inequality but also of poverty since 60 per cent at the bottom who were already poor or close to the poverty line lost incomes.