On January 1, 2023, the dead body of a youth, identified as Sanjay Tati (30), who was killed by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres, was recovered in Bijapur District. The body was found along with a Maoist note written in the local Gondi language which read, “Red salute to the fallen comrades.” Tati, a resident of the Tarem Police […]

The recent drills conducted by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) near the coast of Taiwan are the latest demonstration of Chinese military power. Beijing dubbed it “strike drills” which were conducted close to the seas and airspace of Taiwan. These drills foreshadow an increasing possibility of invasion of the island, which Beijing treats as a renegade entity. Earlier, in August 2022, the […]

On January 1, 2023, jihadi terrorists barged into the home of a Hindu family in the village of Upper Dangri in the district of Rajouri in Jammu & Kashmir, killing four people. The terrorists “first confirmed the identity [religion] of the victims, through their Aadhaar cards” – a national identity card.[1] Twelve hours after the initial attack, the militants followed […]

Concerns have been looming large on the sanctions on Russian oil, which is heading for another major oil shock in the world. Russia is the second biggest exporter of oil in the world, and the EU is the biggest importer of oil from Russia. The EU has prohibited maritime exports of Russian oil and levied price cap of US $60 per barrel in December 2022. These followed suit […]

But will it succeed in persuading the world that India is a perpetrator of terrorism in the region rather than a victim? A flurry of developments over the last week in Pakistan suggest a visible shift in Pakistan’s policy towards India, particularly over the question of New Delhi’s alleged involvement in fueling militancy in the country. Earlier this week, Pakistan’s […]

India had always found Bangladesh by its side when needed. The bilateral security relation had always been reciprocal. Bangladesh has shown its commitment to the security issues of India. Especially the trend started when the prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Came into power. As well as, the credit for a reciprocal security relationship goes to the Prime Minister for […]

China has never concealed its hostility towards India in the last few decades. China initiated war against India in 1962 and is still occupying thousands of kilometres of Indian territory. Pakistan gifted some area in the Pakistan occupied Kashmir to China to spite India and China has gleefully accepted this region as its own, not bothering about India’s protest. After the 1962 war, there […]

On December 8, 2022, a cadre of the Tritiya Sammelan Prastuti Committee (TSPC), a splinter group of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), identified as Raju Yadav alias Raju Ji, was arrested from Patratoli Forest near Nindir village in Latehar District. Yadav, a resident of Chetar village in the Chandwa area of the district, was the ‘area commander’ of the banned outfit […]

On 18 November, the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) launched the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 (DPDPB 2022). Condensed dramatically from over 90 clauses in its previous iteration, DPDPB 2022, with 30 clauses more concise than its predecessors, loses out on a few definitions and outlines, thus, relying on assisted policies and future guidelines to cover these gaps. […]

Beijing’s claim to Arunachal Pradesh is historically untenable but it has geopolitical motives On December 9, China raked up the issue of Arunachal Pradesh, which it calls “Southern Tibet”, by violating the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Tawang sector. In the clash that followed the incursion, 20 Indian soldiers and a much higher number Chinese were reportedly injured. […]