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October 7 Hamas raid in Israel: Lessons for India in border guarding
Hamas fighters in Gaza. (File photo)The Hamas cross-border attack on Israel, on October 7, 2023, and successful infiltration by breaching the border wall between Gaza and Israel brings into focus the perils of the routine paradigm of border guarding....
India’s G20 presidency and its key takeaways
The Group of Twenty, commonly known as the G20, has emerged as a critical platform for global economic governance and policy coordination. Comprising the world’s major economies, the G20’s mandate extends beyond just economic matters to e...
Unveiling injustice: Have the armed forces been discriminated against? Hardly any doubt.
Defence minister Rajnath Singh (2R) with the Army chief, Gen Manoj Pande; Air Force chief, ACM Vikram Ram Chaudhari; and the Navy chief, Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar. (Photo: MoD)“Well fought Blue, Red is the Winner.” This situa...
Duality of command in border guarding detrimental to national security
The Assam Rifles is a CAPF under the administrative control of the Union home ministry while its operational control is with the defence ministry. (Photo via special arrangement.)India shares land borders with Afghanistan, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan...
Xi Jinping’s absence at New Delhi G20 summit should mark significant changes in India’s ‘One China’ policy
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, skipped the G20 summit that was held in New Delhi recently. This is something he hasn’t done since taking over the presidency of China, in 2012. Even during the Covid-19 pandemic, he attended the summit virtua...
G20 to Geo20: India’s push for a more inclusive world gains momentum
India’s endeavour to transform the Group of 20, or G20 as it is commonly called, into a more apt “Geo20 (“geo” from “earth”) with its theme “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” (the world is one family) gives a majo...
India-Myanmar border guarding needs a fresh approach
The India-Myanmar border. (Map not to scale.)Kirstjen Nielsen, former secretary of the United States’ homeland security once said: “People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it’s very simple: border security...
Manipur violence is becoming a national security threat, government must act now
Security forces patrolling a road in Manipur’s Bishnupur district. (Photo via Facebook) For Manipur, peace has remained elusive since May 3, the day violent clashes between Meiteis and Kukis started. The cycle of violence continues despite...
Now, Manipur calls for ‘aggressive’ peace posturing
Manipuri women in Chennai during a vigil calling for peace in their state. (Photo via Facebook)The Manipur ethnic violence, which started on May 3, has claimed over 150 lives and displaced more than fifty thousand people, if not more, so far. Althoug...
Manipur crisis will end only if government sheds its parochial vision
Women in Imphal hold a candlelight vigil to end the ethnic violence that has gripped the state since early May. (Photo: Twitter)Manipur is a landlocked state that shares a 398-kilometre international border with Myanmar. The international border is h...Results
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