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What Beijing’s Growing Polar Silk Road Means to India?

Mayuri Banerjee In its 14th Five Year Plan released in March this year, China has pledged to build a Polar Silk Road (PSR) over the period 2021–2025. Following this declaration, just a few months later in September, the Chinese ice-breaker...

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1 billion Covid-19 jabs: Time for celebrations?

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media The clash of self-congratulatory cymbals is being heard, once again, as India has crossed the mark of 100 crore administered doses of Covid-19 vaccine. The prime minister has stated that...

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Malhama Tactical: Now Jihadists for Hire

Malhama Tactical has paid its core members and purchased arms and necessities using bitcoin and other forms of cryptocurrency, which are non-conventional tactics of finance terrorism for carrying out its objectives Saman Ayesha Kidwai A conglomerate of elite jihadists, referred...

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Indian prisons, media role and the Maharaja

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media While releasing prisoners in view of the Covid-19 pandemic, the high-powered committee mandated by the Supreme Court of India to decongest prisons did not invoke the health vulnerabilities of prisoners...

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AUKUS: The Nuclear Submarine Deal of the New Troika

The nuclear submarine business has overlooked some archaic alarms as far as the nuclear non-proliferation regime is concerned. In India, too, some reports record displeasure over the submarine deal on the grounds that India was denied similar deal in the...

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Congress tussle, Quad issue and the China factor

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media Though the G-23 leaders have not spelt it out clearly, their real target is Rahul Gandhi, who they feel does not have the necessary qualities to lead the party. They...

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The Afghan Quagmire and American Failure

The Taliban after being able to push a superpower out of Afghan soil must have encouraged many other jihadi groups to become confident about their capabilities to fulfil their objectives Manoj Kumar Mishra While the Biden administration has exposed the...

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What is the furor over Golwalkar and Savarkar texts?

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media “Hindutva is a political reality of our times and we need to understand how it works intellectually. Savarkar and Golwalkar are the most significant proponents of this ideology. Without reading...

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Covaxin, online schools and Taliban

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media “India’s swift crossing of the 75 crore vaccine doses landmark has been powered in large part by Covishield contributing about 67 crore of those doses. Armed with new production lines...