What Are The Aims Of India's Indo-Pacific Policy?

India's historical focus on its continental borders has overshadowed its maritime ambitions, but that is changing quickly, notes Ajai Shukla. IMAGE: The Indian Navy carries out the TROPEX exercise......

Tying with India to help it play broader stabilising role in Indo-Pacific: US

The US will partner with India to help New Delhi play a "broader stabilising role" in the strategic Indo-Pacific region, a senior defence official from the Pentagon has said. The Biden......

Huge 'tsunami' of Covid cases overwhelming global health systems: WHO

A record 9.5 million new COVID-19 cases were reported around the world during the week December 27-January 2, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday, with its chief warning that the......

No tsunami, but 7.8 magnitude quake rattles Japan

A massive earthquake that struck off the Japanese coast Saturday evening does not appear to pose a tsunami threat, but it rattled dwellers in Tokyo and others in the Pacific Rim, where seismic......

How much is Mother Earth worth?

Pricing can help prioritise the best use of conservation efforts and funding Researchers have assigned financial values to some of Earth’s most important natural resources. In 2012,......

Poor monsoon: Minister tells Rediff: 'No need to panic'

'We are not saying we are going to face a drought... We are a doing and performing government. A contingency plan is being prepared,' Science Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan tells Rediff.com Dr Harsh......

Uniting against a tsunami

But for the tsunami, the four Sumatrans whom an Indian coast guard vessel rescued near Great Nicobar's Campbell Bay would have been arrested and thrown into jail. The wrath of wind and wave had......

Malaysian baron eyes Indian skies

AirAsia founder and group CEO Anthony Francis Fernandes has been watching the Indian skies for a long time.Born to a Goan father, with a childhood partially spent in Kolkata -- where he attended La......

Olympics: Sadness in Fukushima after torch relay cancelled

'I think the torch relay is something that's really important for Japan but this time cancellation was unavoidable.' IMAGE: A staff preserves the Olympic flame to the lantern during the 'Flame of......