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TopicDefence spending

Topic: defence spending

India 3rd largest military spender, 50% defence exports go to Myanmar, shows data from SIPRI

Raghav Bikhchandani -
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute says India's defence spending in 2021 was up 0.9% from 2020. Rise comes on back of border tensions and ‘Make in India’ push. 

MoD and IDSA no longer separate. How Manohar Parrikar’s name was added to the think tank

Lt General Prakash Menon -
With the packing of Executive Council with favorites of the establishment, a major source of resistance to defend IDSA’s autonomy could get weakened.

From North Korea to Covid-19 — the major defence issues Joe Biden will face

Peter Martin -
US President-elect Joe Biden will be forced to focus on the military despite his pledge to zero in on fighting coronavirus and healing the battered American economy.

YV Reddy questions Fin Commission mandate on defence funding, K Sujatha Rao on new medical bill

Fiza Jha -
The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Narendra Modi govt can’t increase defence budget. Best it can do is go for reforms

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
Instead of relying on rhetoric to justify inadequate defence budget, government must provide an outline for time-bound national security reforms

This year, the Indian Air Force doesn’t have enough funds to pay for past purchases

Manu Pubby -
The budget allocated is far short of the money the IAF has committed to pay for purchasing aircraft. It will need a mid-year bail out.
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Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

Swasti Rao -
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

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Economy

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

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With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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