PM Modi will travel to Japan on August 30, where he will participate in the 17th annual India-Japan Summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. It will be PM Modi’s 8th visit to this strategically important friend of India. The only countries he has made a large number of visits to are the USA (10),Continue reading “PM Modi Visits Japan – Strategic Congruence of Two Major Asian Countries”
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Calling Pakistan’s S-400 Targeting Bluff
Pakistan‘s claim of destroying India‘s S-400 missile systems kept surfacing sporadically, apparently to satisfy the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) ego and to cover the massive defeat in Op Sindoor, wherein nearly 20 percent of PAF capability was blunted. A Pakistani narrative had to be built because of successful Indian strikes against nine PAF airbases andContinue reading “Calling Pakistan’s S-400 Targeting Bluff”
Pahalgam Attack Global Condemnation – India Unfolding Punishing Response
The gruesome massacre of innocent holiday makers at Pahalgam, killing at least 28 people and injuring several others, has been condemned by all major world leaders including US President Trump and Russian President Putin. Israel has shown solidarity. That it happened at a time when US Vice President JD Vance was in India, indicates theContinue reading “Pahalgam Attack Global Condemnation – India Unfolding Punishing Response”
Mediterranean QUAD: Will India Join 3+1 Grouping To Counter “Islamic NATO”? Can UAE Join In Amid Saudi Rift? OPED
UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is scheduled to visit the Indian capital, New Delhi, amid flaring tensions in the Middle East. In Iran, the United States is mulling an attack on the Islamic Republic amid raging protests in the country and possibly even removing the Supreme Leader, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, from power. TensionsContinue reading “Mediterranean QUAD: Will India Join 3+1 Grouping To Counter “Islamic NATO”? Can UAE Join In Amid Saudi Rift? OPED”