Category International Relations and Strategic Studies

India-Saudi Arabia Evolving Renewable Energy and Investment Partnership 2006-2025

India-Saudi Arabia Evolving Renewable Energy and Investment Partnership 2006-2025

India-Saudi Arabia share a history of deep economic, cultural and strategic ties. In recent decades, these have been strengthened by high-level exchanges and bilateral agreements. Both countries are committed to a relationship that leverages their respective strengths. The Delhi Declaration in 2006 and the Riyadh Declaration in 2010 were two initiatives that built a foundation for cooperation, especially in energy. Since then, the relationship expanded significantly through visits by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, which eventually led to the formation of the Strategic Partnership Council (SPC) in 2019.

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India’s Real Security Lies in Economic Strength, Not Trump’s Words

India has overtaken China as the largest buyer of Russian oil. This is not because the Chinese are running scared of American wrath over their Russian commerce. China is increasingly moving to electricity for transport, with more than half of all new car sales being of electric vehicles and high-speed trains that run on electricity offering viable alternatives to air travel on quite a few routes, and will increasingly buy smaller quantities of oil. China has stepped up its purchases of piped natural gas from Russia.

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Indo-Japan Partnership for Semiconductors: An Assessment of Mutual Objectives and Supply Chain Autonomy

Semiconductors, often used as integrated circuits, transistors, diodes, and microchips, are essential building blocks for the tech sector. Preferably made with silicon, germanium and gallium arsenide, these chips are also used by doping, i.e., modulating the electrical and structural properties for smartphones, radios, TVs, computers, video games, advanced medical equipment, optical sensors, light emitters including solid-state lasers, AI, quantum computing and other technologies integral to the modern human world.

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The Nobel Pursuit of India

India should set a goal of winning at least 10 Nobel Prizes every decade. Viewing development as raising per-capita income — which is the current obsession of government policy, think tanks, business associations and others — isn’t just sterile, but also betrayal of what is sound in India’s own tradition, when it comes to thinking on life’s attainment.

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India-Qatar: Gas Trade and Energy Transition

India and Qatar share historic trade linkages, deep-rooted people-to-people ties and robust multifaceted bilateral relations. Qatar and India established diplomatic relations in the early 1970s. They celebrated 50 years of diplomatic ties in 2023

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