OPINION
How deceit was built into China's first aircraft carrier
China's first aircraft carrier Varyag was to be an Admiral Kuznetsov class multi-role aircraft carrier in the Soviet Navy. She was known as Riga when her keel was laid in Nikolayev on December 6, 1985. Launched on December 4, 1988, she was renamed Varyag (Varangian) in late 1990, after the famous 19th century namesake former Soviet cruiser.
There is a buzz around Indian sports
The Olympics is the grandest sporting event, and the way every Indian sportsperson participating has approached it, is a good indicator that India will be a force to reckon with in the future. Analysing performance on the basis of medals won is a fallacy. One has to look at the approach and confidence of all the Indian participants. The attitude is what has changed dramatically.
Taliban takeover of Afghanistan will severely impact India's economic outreach to Central Asia, Eurasia
While bilateral trade between India and Afghanistan crossed the $1.5 billion mark in 2019-20, New Delhi's investments and other development assistance in Afghanistan is estimated at $3 billion. The two countries are connected by air freight corridors -- Kabul, Kandahar, Herat with New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.
Manoj Sinha making a difference in Kashmir's transition
Again, this has to be admitted that there has not been a veritable revolution of development and reconstruction, or a massive employment package for the over 7 lakh unemployed youths and New Delhi has not been able to fully neutralise the decades-old culture of competitive separatism and create a mainstream political alternative to what it used to call 'dynastic politics'.
Why J&K turned its back on stone-pelters & militants seeking govt jobs
"All the field units of CID SB-Kashmir are hereby directed to ensure that during verification related to passports, service and any other verification related to Government services/schemes, the subject's involvement in law & order, stone pelting cases and other crime prejudicial to the security of the State be specifically looked into and same must be corroborated from local Police station records," said the Circular.
The worrisome Chinese space programme
The spectre of a space was between the US and Russia came to an end with signing of the START Treaty in 1991 between the two. However, China has emerged as a country, which pursues a very secretive space programme and may force the mankind in a space war and global dominance.
India's highest number of 4 inter-state border disputes in NE
In the backdrop of the violent border clash between Assam and Mizoram, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai told Parliament on July 27 that there are a total of seven inter-state border disputes at present in the country and four such disputes are in the northeast region. Political commentator and writer Sushanta Talukdar said that the Centre left it to the states to agree on the boundaries leading to inter-state problems.
Cricketers better than others at handling rifts
World Cups, Olympics are such pinnacles of international competition that every sportsperson dreams of achieving success in them. It can take years and years of relentless hard work and dedication to climb this mountain before you earn the honour of raising the national flag atop. Because it is not the simplest and easiest dream to achieve -- we falter. That's when we realise that we have 'failed' in our accomplishment.
Pak's failing stature and ASEAN ambition
A country which has become a synonym for terrorism can only prove to be an embarrassment and disruption for a grouping like ASEAN which faces more urgent challenges of an aggressive China and unprecedented fluidity in global economy. What ASEAN members would do well to remember is that Pakistan has also been consistently labelled as the 'most dangerous place' in the world.
Will Pak prove to be Waterloo for China and its ambitious BRI?
China has no trust on the capability of the Pakistan Armys Special Security Division (SSD) on which Beijing invested massive sums of money in training and in equipping the troops tasked to protect Chinese nationals and properties linked with the multi-billion dollar CPEC project. China has also stopped work at the Dasu Hydropower project in Upper Kohistan area of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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