US Ambassador at large for Religious Freedom Samuel D. Brownback said earlier he was looking into NRC issue and Kashmir situation before raising it “in a constructive way”.
Central bank communication now holds as much significance as central bank action. A single clause in a press conference can move markets more than a 25-basis-point adjustment.
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
There is no doubt that we need the Quad in general and the USA in particular for our strategic interest in Indo-Pacific, particularly to protect our interests against China. The ties with USA are therefore moving in the right direction. But we also need Russia, France and Israel for our other defense requirements and we need to maintain strategic autonomy to pick and choose- submarines and missiles from Russia, aircraft from France and drones from Israel etc.
On Afghanistan, Modi can have a deal with Trump for sending our forces there in exchange for support to integrate POK including Gilgit and Baltistan. The major implication for this would be physically cutting off Chinese links with Pakistan and this will be welcomed by both USA and Russia! Modi can offer combination of possibilities- like create a new state of Kashmir (excluding Jammu) under art 370 (original version!) or arrangement like Hong Kong. In fact, India can extend offer this offer to Balochees and Sindhis as well and create a ‘Hind Federation’! Offering a grand trade deal to Trump if he comes back to power in Nov 2020 as a quid pro quo should not be a big price to pay for this treatment of Pakistani migraine!! One immediate benefit of this move will be that Pakistan will become busy with itself rather than creating internal troubles for us and talking about our part of Kashmir.
There is no doubt that we need the Quad in general and the USA in particular for our strategic interest in Indo-Pacific, particularly to protect our interests against China. The ties with USA are therefore moving in the right direction. But we also need Russia, France and Israel for our other defense requirements and we need to maintain strategic autonomy to pick and choose- submarines and missiles from Russia, aircraft from France and drones from Israel etc.
On Afghanistan, Modi can have a deal with Trump for sending our forces there in exchange for support to integrate POK including Gilgit and Baltistan. The major implication for this would be physically cutting off Chinese links with Pakistan and this will be welcomed by both USA and Russia! Modi can offer combination of possibilities- like create a new state of Kashmir (excluding Jammu) under art 370 (original version!) or arrangement like Hong Kong. In fact, India can extend offer this offer to Balochees and Sindhis as well and create a ‘Hind Federation’! Offering a grand trade deal to Trump if he comes back to power in Nov 2020 as a quid pro quo should not be a big price to pay for this treatment of Pakistani migraine!! One immediate benefit of this move will be that Pakistan will become busy with itself rather than creating internal troubles for us and talking about our part of Kashmir.