2017-02-05T16:28:01+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP and IR|
At the heart of India’s China problem is an Indian inability to size up the Middle Kingdom and the meaning of its spectacular rise and to devise realistic responses to meet the attendant challenges. To be fair, this is not an affliction of New Delhi alone. Successive American administrations have [...]
2017-01-31T03:38:38+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP and IR|
There has been a tectonic shift in the global geopolitical economy, to which powers such as the U.S., China and Russia have responded. However, India is yet to formulate a worldview even as Asia, after a gap of 260 years, is again set to become the centre of the world. [...]
2017-01-31T03:45:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP and IR|
Security is always a work in progress and there is nothing absolutist about it; it is always long-term in outlook. Yet, there are nuances which can be taken stock of, issues which have perhaps long been clamouring for attention but complexities of management have rarely afforded an opportunity to visit [...]
2017-01-31T03:46:24+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP and IR|
January 9 commemorates the day Mahatma Gandhi returned from South Africa in 1915, after honing satyagraha, or peaceful protest, against the colonial and racist regime there. In 2002, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee decided to celebrate it annually by holding events including bestowing [...]
2017-01-31T03:47:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP and IR|
Note :- This is an editorial written by Brahma Chellaney for Livemint. Publishing it without any editorial oversight.You can discuss your views on this in comments section. Do you think what Mr Chellaney is advocating is the right way forward ? Central governments come and go in New Delhi but India’s instinctive [...]
2017-02-14T01:35:38+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP and IR|
Disclaimer :-Please note down the important points and institutions such as BRICS Rating Agency,BRICS Infrastructure Project Development Facility,BRICS Standardisation Research Platform etc that can be helpful to accentuate your answer in exam. Last year at Ufa, Russia, while addressing the BRICS Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had outlined a 10-point [...]
2017-02-14T01:35:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP and IR|
The BRICS-BIMSTEC meeting in Goa this month, that immediately followed the annual India-Russia Summit (also in Goa), capped months of hectic diplomatic activity, during which India pursued a robust, even aggressive, foreign policy. By and large, such activism has served India well — the most evident being the furthering of [...]
2017-02-14T00:32:21+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP and IR|
When Alexander returned from India, he was misled into marching back to Persia through the Makran desert. This is a narrow coastal plain abutting high mountain ranges. Temperatures rise to 50 C during the summer. […]
2017-02-14T00:31:49+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP and IR|
“In a letter to India’s PM, Mohamed bin Zayed expresses thanks for the kind invitation to attend India’s Republic Day celebrations”, adding, in a second tweet: “Our strong relations are deeply rooted in history; our strategic cooperation has increased, driven by our mutual aspirations to develop it.” [...]
2017-02-14T00:13:18+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP and IR|
India has completed agreements for civil nuclear cooperation with 11 countries so far, including the U.S., Russia, Australia, Canada and South Korea, but the upcoming agreement with Japan could be the most significant. […]
