As ‘Guardian’ put it recently, “for democracy to function, you need a civically informed electorate and a fourth estate that functions...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently announced the successful test-firing of a rocket, which shot down one of its live satellites orbiting...
In 1945 Sardar Kavalam Madhava Pannikar, was perhaps the first Indian thinker to state that whoever controlled Indian Ocean, would have India at his...
India is a constitutional democracy and a secular state, as claimed by its citizens, but the existing ground realties reveal the opposite. Its...
Allowing persons in public service to ease out into premature retirement, with full benefits in most cases, without first holding them accountable...
In 1988, a US Navy ship shot down an Iran Air passenger jet in which all 290 passengers perished. The ship’s crew claimed that the aircraft...
PNS/M Ghazi, formerly USS Diablo, was leased to Pakistan Navy in 1964. It was the first submarine to be inducted in South Asia region and it had an...
It was Plato who said, ‘Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something’. General Bipin Rawat,...
While it is Christopher Columbus’ 4,000-mile voyage in 1492 to Bahamas that dominates history books, it is actually the 12,000 miles of voyages of...
In a speech delivered at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, US Defence Secretary James Mattis announced that countering...
Speaking at a book launch, General Ehsanul Haq, the former chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee , warned against India shedding its pretence of...
In days long gone, old sailors used to rotate their heads back and forth to determine wind direction until they could feel it blowing...
Exercise ‘AMAN’-17 has been planned by Pakistan Navy in the North Arabian Sea from 10 to 14 February, 2017. It is a multinational...
Exercise ‘AMAN’-17 has been planned by Pakistan Navy in the North Arabian Sea from 10 to 14 February, 2017. It is a multinational...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s excessive obsession with Kashmir and a strong anti-Muslim streak in his personal chemistry have been...
As the Indian Navy prepares for Golden Jubilee celebrations next year to commemorate induction of its first submarine in 1967, it was struck by a...
In the history of modern warfare, existential threat perceptions and asymmetry in conventional weaponry between adversaries have served as the...
The idea of recognizing a nation state’s special rights over sea space outside territorial limits and calling it Exclusive Economic Zone is a...
The idea of recognizing a nation state’s special rights over sea space outside territorial limits and calling it Exclusive Economic Zone is a...
Piracy at sea with all its lore and literature is not new and is believed to have existed in turbulent periods as early as 14th century BC when sea...
