China remains officially agnostic about North Korea’s deployment of troops to help Russia’s war in Ukraine – a dispatch that analysts say holds potential trouble for Pyongyang’s main backer Beijing even as both communist nations share the goal of supporting Vladimir Putin. On Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian repeated the line Beijing has used in the face of […]

Just one week ahead of the annual intergovernmental consultations, the German government published its first strategic document solely focused on its engagement with India. Although not officially labelled a strategy, the paper’s cabinet-level-involvement and clear prioritisation of policy domains make “Focus on India” a comprehensive manual outlining Germany’s planned approach towards India. In laying out Germany’s ideas about the imagined […]

Coming within 48 hours of Omar Abdullah taking oath as Chief Minister of J&K union territory, it’s obvious that Friday’s targeted killing of a 30-year-old migrant labourer by terrorists in the Shopian district of South Kashmir wasn’t coincidental. This dastardly murder was clearly meant to buttress Pakistan’s jaundiced view that despite large voter turnout and peaceful conduct of assembly elections […]

On October 1, 2024, police arrested two Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) operatives, Nitish Kumar aka Nikku Rana and Gurqirat Singh Bedi, in the Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (Mohali) District of Punjab. They were linked to the US-based BKI terrorist Satwinder Singh aka Goldy Brar as well as associated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang in Punjab. The arrest was made in […]

This year marks the 207th birth anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, born into a prominent family with ties to the Mughal court in Delhi on October 17, 1817, and who passed away on March 27, 1898. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan played a pivotal role in the Muslim Renaissance of the Indian subcontinent in the 19th century. His family’s aristocratic […]

The developing world arrived in Kazan, the capital of Republic of Tatarstan, driving by economic transformation proposals backed by the numerical strength of participants to portray their collective weight of influence to boost de-dollarization and a new global financial payment system, design a new mechanism for a long-term economic integration and complex architecture. For much of its significant collective activities […]

The agreement allows the resumption of patrols along the disputed border in the Ladakh region, easing tensions before the BRICS summit. But experts caution against concluding a deeper thaw in ties. India and China have reached a deal to end a military standoff at their disputed frontier, four years after a deadly clash along their border in the western Himalayas […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping recently carried out a review of Rocket Force personnel, with one analyst telling Newsweek Xi’s appearance signals the branch has regained his favor. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force is the custodian of China’s vast arsenal of strategic missiles and its nuclear stockpile. The high-profile inspection follows China’s test-launch last month of an intercontinental ballistic […]

China’s nuclear submarine building programme is running on overdrive.[1] If China maintains its current pace of construction of 4.5 to six nuclear submarines per year for the next couple of decades, the number of nuclear boats in the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) inventory is set to swell substantially. Nuclear submarines are amongst the most complex and maintenance-heavy platforms ever […]

Punjab: BKI – Widening Criminal Networks On October 1, 2024, police arrested two Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) operatives, Nitish Kumar aka Nikku Rana and Gurqirat Singh Bedi, in the Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (Mohali) District of Punjab. They were linked to the US-based BKI terrorist Satwinder Singh aka Goldy Brar as well as associated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang in […]