India has decided it won’t join any trade deal that has China as a member. But RCEP member nations are likely to sign deal despite Beijing’s belligerence.
Bihar regiment was born out of Bengal Native Infantry, which was raised by East India Company in 1750s. It comprises two groups — colloquially knows as North Biharis and South Biharis.
If a survey was conducted today, Modi would still get most votes as the leader Indians trust to tackle China. But any attempt to hide facts can shake this trust.
The coverage of the India-China standoff in Galwan and actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death by both Hindi and English news channels showed a stark contrast.
India’s approach of problem-solving through understandings between military commanders does nothing to keep China from a Ladakh-like repeat in any other area.
India hasn’t responded to China’s statement even as the external affairs minister, defence minister, CDS Rawat and three service chiefs held an emergency meet.
India must dedicate its efforts to solidify Quad as a serious security alliance and signal to the world that it values its values-based relationship with US above transactional ties.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
Sensible decision. Apart from our confrontation with China another reason is that India as of now is not ready or should I say competitive enough to join RCEP.
Carry out reforms, develop skills of your youth(other than IT related), build physical infrastructure, focus on domestic manufacturing and then open up your economy for a healthy competition.
Without these reforms, RCEP would result in Indian economy being owned by the Japanese, Koreans and the Chinese. Forget being a superpower or a ‘Great power’, India would end up looking like a client state, where our regional politicians would become puppets of major foreign corporations, pretty much like East India company in the 18th century.
We should have woken up 70 years ago.
We had better wake up.
Sensible decision. Apart from our confrontation with China another reason is that India as of now is not ready or should I say competitive enough to join RCEP.
Carry out reforms, develop skills of your youth(other than IT related), build physical infrastructure, focus on domestic manufacturing and then open up your economy for a healthy competition.
Without these reforms, RCEP would result in Indian economy being owned by the Japanese, Koreans and the Chinese. Forget being a superpower or a ‘Great power’, India would end up looking like a client state, where our regional politicians would become puppets of major foreign corporations, pretty much like East India company in the 18th century.