Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com India’s new Prime Minister made his first escape from the New Delhi government bureaucracy with a June 14 flight to the deck of India’s largest naval vessel, the INS Vikramaditya. Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over the official induction of the “ultra-modern” aircraft carrier, anchored off the coast of Goa. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com On May 26, one historic moment was accompanied by another. Yes, India’s newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in as the new leader of the world’s largest democracy. But the most significant guest of honor witnessing the event was Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of bitter, long […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com NEW DELHI — The division between India-held and Pakistan-held Kashmir ranks with that between North and South Korea as long-running, bloody and dangerous. The two were divided at about the same time — Kashmir in “partition” of the Indian subcontinent that gave birth to Pakistan as a separate […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com NEW DELHI – The United States has to go through a skillfully choreographed diplomatic dance as a prelude to making up with India’s incoming prime minister, Narendra Modi. That’s because Washington refused for more than a decade to grant a visa to Modi for his failure as chief […]
UNITED NATIONS — An expected, if still extraordinary, political tsunami has swept across India as voters elected a nationalist and pro-business political party to lead this country of over a billion people. Riding a wave of voter anger with both ingrained corruption, slowing economic growth and the entitled privilege of the incumbent Congress Party, voters […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — India has reported a Pakistan plot to attack foreign consulates in two Indian cities. Officials have disclosed plans by Pakistani intelligence to attack Israeli and U.S. consulates in India. They reported the arrest of a Sri Lankan who said he had been hired by Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency to monitor […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com Winston Churchill was thinking of his own defeat at the polls after having led Britain through World War II when he uttered one of his more famous quotes, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — India and Israel have concluded an agreement to assemble a ballistic missile defense system. Indian sources said Jerusalem and New Dehli concluded more than two years of negotiations with an agreement in principle to build a BMD system for India. The sources said the system would be designed to protect […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com India joined five other countries in the world on Jan. 21 with the launch for sea trials of an indigenously designed, engineered and operated ballistic missile submarine, the INS Arihant. With the sea trials, India advanced toward its goal of building a nuclear deterrence capability known as the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com India’s longtime low profile in East Asia is ending. The world’s largest democracy is being vigorously courted by virtually all the countries in the volatile and dynamic region. In the past decade, Vietnam, the Philippines and Burma have moved significantly closer to India. But in the last two […]