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India-Vietnam are pushing to broadbase their relations to encompass all possible areas of cooperation and deepen their strategic partnership building on exceptionally close ties since their foundations were laid more than 50 years ago. India’s relations with Vietnam are marked by growing economic and commercial engagement. India is now among ...

United States Ambassador to India, Richard Verma, has said that his nation is looking to make significant contributions to India’s strategic capabilities, such as the anti-surface warfare capabilities of the Indian Navy’s submarine fleet. “In a few weeks the USS Theodore Roosevelt will visit the Indian Ocean to take part ...

The Indian delegation led by Vice Admiral SPS Cheema, visited the US Navy’s state-of-the-art aircraft carrier – PCU Gerald Ford – currently under construction at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia, and received briefs on US Navy management of aircraft carrier programmes. The delegation met with senior Pentagon officials, and toured ...

Two Indian institutes have for the first time made it to the top 200 list of the world’s best universities. The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, has taken the top spot among its Indian counterparts, bagging the 147th rank. The only other Indian institute to make it to the top ...

In BRICS, Brazil has been downgraded to `junk’ and China is battling a growth slowdown. Russia has been the worst-affected by the commodities slump and South Africa’s economy is flirting with contraction. India, on the other hand, is expected to emerge as the world’s fastest growing major economy. Source: ET

The world’s forests have shrunk by three per cent since 1990, an area equivalent to the size of South Africa and India is among the countries who are losing their forest cover faster than others, researchers have warned. The green cover is being more rapidly lost in some of the ...

India and China share over 4,000 km of LAC. China claims approximately 90,000 sq km of territory in Arunachal Pradesh besides 38,000 sq km in Jammu and Kashmir sector. A meeting of local commanders of the armies of India and China has been postponed after the recent face-off between the ...

US Intelligence studies had predicted in 2009 that in the near future China would have a more profound impact on world geopolitical affairs than any other country. This has proven true and we are seeing an increasingly belligerent China, backed by an authoritarian regime, facing off with other countries in different parts ...

India and Thailand vowed to deepen their bilateral defense relationship. India has been attempting to further boost cooperation with Southeast Asian states as part of its “Act East Policy,” a variation on the “Look East Policy” first formulated under Narasimha Rao in 1991. Both sides also agreed that cooperation should ...

Two very important statements from Kevin Andrews, Australia’s foreign minister, and Kevin Rudd, the country’s former prime minister, have opened up the scenario of a newly developing strategic balance in the Indian Ocean and the Asia Pacific regions. The two important things are- India’s growing importance in the region, with ...