2021-06-16T16:26:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
In June 2020, PLA troops “surprised” India in the Ladakh sector of the contested LoAC (line of actual control) where the Indian Army lost 20 lives, including that of Colonel Santosh Babu in the Galwan valley. […]
2026-08-23T19:52:24+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
On April 30, Super Galaxy, a huge US military plane, landed in Delhi, bringing oxygen cylinders, hospital equipment and Covid test kits. More flights with aid material are on the way to India. And, thereby hangs a tale. On April 22, Edward Price, the US state department spokesman, was asked [...]
2021-04-27T02:32:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
President Joe Biden has announced that the United States will pull out all its troops from Afghanistan by 11 September. His predecessor Donald Trump had started the process in December 2018, committing to do the same by 1 May this year. […]
2021-04-23T13:47:38+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
As the United States prepares to end its longest war, here is a timeline of the US’s war in Afghanistan […]
2021-04-01T10:06:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
Even as the chicken-and-egg game is being played between the U.S. and Iran on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as to whether Iranian compliance comes first or the lifting of sanctions by the U.S., the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is back on the stage to rescue the [...]
2021-03-23T01:52:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
India’s negotiators ought to be commended for their efforts in ensuring a successful border disengagement at Pangong. […]
2021-03-19T10:31:47+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
Earlier this month, India and the Philippines signed the “Implementing Arrangement” for “procurement of defense material and equipment procurement”. This agreement lays the groundwork for sales of defence systems such as the highly anticipated export of the BrahMos cruise missile, through the government-to-government route. […]
2021-03-12T13:43:14+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
NEW DELHI : In October last year, India’s foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and Army chief Manoj Mukund Naravane teamed up for a visit to a crucial neighbour—Myanmar—that raised eyebrows due to its rarity. The uncommonness of the visit underlined the state of politics in Myanmar—where the military and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her [...]
2021-03-05T04:18:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP and IR|
Indian Prime Ministerand Chinese Presidentmight have had a successful Sino-Indian summit at Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu during 11-12 October. […]
2021-02-25T07:58:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
China is planning to ban exports of technology for refining rare earth minerals. Such a move, if taken, is likely to backfire even more spectacularly than its previous attempts to weaponize the trade in rare earths itself. […]
