New Delhi: A diplomatic letter from the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, to the president, Droupadi Murmu, has sparked competing interpretations about the nature of India-China rapprochement, with Beijing attempting to downplay what sources describe as...
The breakdown in US-India trade talks reveals fundamental philosophical differences about economic sovereignty.New Delhi: The punitive 50% tariffs imposed by the United States president, Donald Trump, on Indian goods appears to have backfired as...
Sergio Gor.The appointment of 38-year-old Sergio Gor as both US ambassador to India and special envoy for South and Central Asian affairs marks a watershed moment in India-US relations – and not necessarily for the better. As someone who has wi...
A political poster of Narendra Modi in an IAF flying overall.As a veteran military officer who has witnessed three consecutive generations of military tradition, I write with profound concern about two disturbing developments that threaten the instit...
Narendra Modi (L) with Xi Jinping during the October 2024 meeting in Kazan, Russia. (File photo)The arrival of China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, in New Delhi on August 18 for the 24th round of special representatives’ talks on the disput...
S-400 representative photo. (India Sentinels)The thunderous applause that greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day announcement still echoes across the ramparts of the Red Fort, but the reverberations of his words – “...
India Sentinels illustration for representation. Even after almost five years since its launch, the System for Pension Administration (Raksha) or SPARSH – the government’s flagship digital pension platform for defence personnel &ndas...
Fresh BSF officers at their passing-out parade at the BSF Academy, Tekanpur (Gwalior), in December 2024. (Photo: BSF)In my previous analysis of India’s central armed police forces (CAPFs), particularly the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), B...
Map showing India’s east and northeast with neighbouring countries’ locations for perspective. (Map not to scale)In the annals of military strategy, there exists a fundamental principle that nations ignore at their peril: threats, like ti...
Map showing Damak, Nepal; Siliguri Corridor (marked by two thin red lines); Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh; and Gelephu, Bhutan. Also shown is the 2017 India-China standoff site at Doklam. (Google Maps)Pakistan’s military spokesman, Lieutenant General...