India's Ministry of Defence formulates policies on matters related to security and defence, and these are enforced by the different services, such as the Air Force, Navy, and Army. It also manages various production facilities for the armed...
The Indo-French Strategic Partnership has turned 25 years old in 2023. It was launched on January 26, 1998, on President Chirac's visit to India, and it represents both countries' desire to enhance their separate strategic independence via ...
The External Affairs Minister visited the Maldives and Sri Lanka from 18 to 20 January to improve India's ties with its critical maritime neighbours in the Indian Ocean Region. Significantly, the Maldives and Sri Lanka have a special positi...
Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe unveiled a strategic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific in 2016 which since 2017 has been propagated as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. With Southeast Asia being at the heart...
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which carries gas from Russia to Europe, has been shut down after multiple leaks were discovered. This pipeline carries natural gas from Russia to the European Union. It supplies about 35% of the gas that the EU ...
In today's world, it is frequently asserted that if a maritime nation seeks to safeguard its national interests, it must first secure its maritime interests. As part of this effort, in India, we saw the release of the Maritime India Vision ...
In the present international order, territorial conflicts are becoming increasingly common. Every day, we hear about territorial disputes between states. These disputes are not confined to control of land, but also control of the water, as ...
Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are dominating the battlefields in combat in the twenty-first century. The current confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, which involved the deployment of drones, has caused both nations to recon...
One of the world’s most geographically separated nations, the Maldives, is becoming more important and playing an essential role in the current geopolitical developments. The Indian Ocean’s centrally placed island republic, which is made up...
During a three-day visit to Vietnam, India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh and his counterpart in the Vietnamese government General Phan Van Giang signed the Joint Vision Statement on India-Vietnam Defence Partnership towards 2030. This...
The article identifies the role of natural gas in fuelling the recent and previous conflicts between Russia and Ukraine. The research tries to make a point by analysing the past events involving Russia and Ukraine since the inception of the...
The Belt and Road initiative, formerly known as “One Belt, One Road”, is also known as the New Silk Road project. it has over 100 participant nations and is a development plan that intends to connect China to Europe.
