FT reports on India's preparations to open up nuclear power to the private sector & how its push predates the energy crisis triggered by West Asia conflict.
Rich in natural resources, strategically located between South Asia, Southeast Asia and Indian Ocean, Myanmar has become arena of competing trade, security & connectivity agendas.
Min Aung Hlaing makes his first foreign visit since taking power. Analysts say India's Myanmar policy is driven by security, connectivity, and concerns about China, among others.
India’s policy on Myanmar has been to deal with its Generals and maintain a distance from the country’s insurgent groups and political struggles. This will have to change.
The first bilateral meet between Modi & Yunus is set to take place in Bangkok on the margins of the BIMSTEC leaders summit. Dhaka is set to become chair of the regional grouping.
Hlaing is the subject of Western sanctions and is barred from attending ASEAN summits due to the Myanmar military's failure to implement an agreed peace plan with the bloc.
NSCN-K factions of Yung Aung & Ang Mai at loggerheads over leadership and governance, NNPG leader says '90% of such problems will fade away' with early solution to Naga issue.
Myanmar Hindu Union & India for Myanmar urged Indian govt to reassess ties with military govt, alleged Hindu leaders often find themselves under surveillance in neighbouring country.
In 2023, the world witnessed 40% increase in conflicts since 2020. ThePrint looks at some of the most intense conflicts raging across the world, with help of maps & historical context.
Burma Refugees Committee - Kabaw Valley expresses concern about repatriated people being handed over to Myanmar junta. Manipur govt plans to send 77 people back in the coming days.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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