On May 7, 2025, between 1:05 and 1:30 a.m. (IST), airstrikes carried out by the Indian Air Force hit nine locations inside Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). It was codenamed Operation Sindoor. Significantly, this is the first time since 1971 that India struck across the international boundary (IB) or the settled and accepted border between India and Pakistan. The […]

The words of American maritime strategist, Alfred Thayer Mahan rings true in contemporary world politics as the Indian Ocean is very active ocean, where many players are contesting to gain maritime influence. The Indian Ocean, recognized as the third-largest ocean in the world, has acquired growing strategic significance in contemporary global affairs. A major factor contributing to this importance is […]

The Trump administration, which had previously displayed a lack of interest in the conflict, then quickly intervened and brokered a ceasefire. “[T]he possession of nuclear weapons may have incentivized risky confrontations that pass just below the ambiguous nuclear threshold.” — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, May 23, 2025. Pakistan did not have to detonate one of its nuclear warheads to shake […]

Rebels fighting against mining and militarisation are outnumbered by more than 40,000 forces deployed in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region. Indian security forces have launched an all-out war against Maoist fighters in Chhattisgarh state, as the federal government aims to “wipe out” long-running armed rebellions in the mineral-rich tribal region of the country. The Karrigatta hills forest, which straddles across Chhattisgarh and […]

Following a terrorist attack in Kashmir, India and Pakistan are heading toward a conflict, with few signs of de-escalation. Following last week’s terrorist attacks in the disputed Kashmir region, India and Pakistan have taken escalatory moves that have placed the two nuclear-armed powers on the verge of conflict. The two exchanged cross border fire, expelled diplomatic personnel, closed land border […]

India’s aerial attacks on Pakistan mark a sharp escalation in tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations following an attack in Kashmir that killed twenty-six tourists and posing a dilemma for U.S. policymakers. Manjari Chatterjee Miller is a senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, and professor of international relations and Munk chair in […]

On May 21, 2025, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Bhagwant Singh aka Manna Bhatti from Akalgarh village in Amritsar district, Punjab, for his alleged involvement in the March 15, 2025, grenade attack on a temple in Amritsar, carried out by operatives affiliated with the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF). According to the NIA, Bhagwant Singh played a key logistical role, […]

On May 21, 2025, in a major tactical blow to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), Nambala Keshava Rao aka Basava Raju aka Ganganna aka Krishna aka Vijay aka Prakash (70), the ‘general secretary’ of the party (the highest executive post), a ‘Politburo member’, ‘Central Committee (CC)’ member, and Central Military Commission (CMC)’ member, was killed along with 26 other […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the Joint Session of the US Congress in June 2016, declared that India had overcome the “hesitations of history”.[1] These long-standing “hesitations” ranged from the US support to Pakistan in the UN Security Council on the Kashmir issue, threats and intimidation in the Bay of Bengal resorted to by the US in 1971 during […]

Maoists: Crippled movement On May 21, 2025, in a major tactical blow to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), Nambala Keshava Rao aka Basava Raju aka Ganganna aka Krishna aka Vijay aka Prakash (70), the ‘general secretary’ of the party (the highest executive post), a ‘Politburo member’, ‘Central Committee (CC)’ member, and Central Military Commission (CMC)’ member, was killed along […]