Countries have now opened military combat roles to women in response to changing attitudes as seen in the case of Kurdish women fighting Islamic State.
Politicians must be made to understand that defence expenditure is like an insurance premium on national security, so defence budget needs to be boosted.
Since the election of President Duterte in the Philippines in May 2016, there has been a state sanctioned crackdown on the drug trade. Police has been accused of actively ordering extrajudicial killings, or ‘rub-outs’.
Set up by Lal bahadur Shastri, the Santhanam Committee's key concern was that corruption, once limited to the lower rungs of the bureaucracy, had now infected the All India Services and political leadership.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
The war in Afghanistan is seventeen years old. Not going well, no end in sight. A fertile ground for such ideas to sprout like weeds. The entire focus, with help from Pakistan and a dialogue sans preconditions with the Taliban, should be on finding a graceful exit.
The war in Afghanistan is seventeen years old. Not going well, no end in sight. A fertile ground for such ideas to sprout like weeds. The entire focus, with help from Pakistan and a dialogue sans preconditions with the Taliban, should be on finding a graceful exit.