India Needs A National Security Strategy

The National Security Strategy document should flag all major issues concerning security strategy and provide guidelines to concerned departments to work out suitable action plans. Since the global......

Disquiet Over Agnipath In Military Village

'There is uncertainty regarding job opportunities for our children after they serve for just four years under the Agnipath scheme.' IMAGE: The first batch of recruited soldiers under the Agnipath......

Obama announces national security team

US President-elect Barack Obama has named Leon Panetta, a former White House Chief of Staff, to head the Central Intelligence Agency and retired admiral Dennis Blair as the director of the National......

Strategic review of national security management

Unless one is able to convince the serving officers of the need for changes, reforms, new thinking and new concepts and ideas, even the best of task forces would fail to meet the objectives for......

Advice to Modi: Forget Washington, concentrate on New York

If India takes care of the economic investments, then it will open up the space to dampen or circumvent some of the political burdens.C Raja Mohan, who heads the strategic studies programme at the......

'Avoid bottom-fishing in Adani Group shares'

With most Adani Group shares locked in lower-circuit in early Monday morning trade based on news that accounts of three foreign portfolio investors, heavily invested into group companies, were......

The perils of China's slowing economy

The rebalance that China has been aiming for continues to be kicked down the road. Each time there appears to be slowdown, stimulus measures are introduced, which end up exacerbating the investment......

Social security to become a right

The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the Unorganized Sector Workers' Social Security Bill, 2008, incorporating one of the key recommendations of the paliamentary standing committee -- making......