B Raman

बी रमन की पुस्तक ‘The Kaoboys of R&AW: Down Memory Lane' के अंश का हिंदी अनुवाद 1980, R&AW के लिए एक बुरा साल था। 1968...

Even while holding talks with the US on peace in the Pacific, the Japanese Empire secretly and treacherously planned and carried out massive surprise attacks...

Prime Minister Li Kequiang of China, who took over in March last, is to visit India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany during his first round of...

It is more than two weeks now since a platoon of the PLA of China moved about 19 kms into Indian-claimed territory in Eastern Ladakh...

In an article in rediff.com of December 20, 2010, I had stated as follows: “China, which had never openly questioned the Indian estimate of the...

The continuing (since April 15,2013) Chinese troop intrusion ( about 20 troops) 10 kms into Indian territory near Burthe in the Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO)...

As the US troops prepare to thin themselves out of Afghanistan starting from next year, India has to worry whether 1996 can repeat itself in...

Anti-Muslim rumours projecting Muslims negatively have spread to Rangoon from Meikhtila which has been placed under a State of Emergency following three days of Buddhist-Muslim...

Between 20 and 26 persons are reported to have been killed in three days of violent clashes between Buddhists and Burman Muslims (not Rohingyas) in...

In his first visit abroad as the President of China since assuming office on March 14,2013, Mr.Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit Russia, Tanzania, South...

An over-anxiety on the part of the Government of India to oblige the Italian Government on the issue of the two Italian Marines, who have...

The Shabag movement of Dhaka, which is also referred to as Bangladesh Spring, has been like the Tahrir Square movement of Egypt (2010), a spontaneous...

‘The Hindu” of February 26, 2013, has carried an article  titled “ No Solace In This Quantum of Accountability” written by Samir Saran, Vice-President, and...

Eleven persons are reported to have been killed and over 87 injured in two well-timed explosions in the Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad around 7  PM...

Intelligence agencies have to be accountable to the Executive. Otherwise, there will be no secrecy in their functioning. Without effective secrecy, there cannot be clandestine...

The Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India has been less than honest with the public by trying to convey an impression that...

Tahawur Hussain Rana, of the Chicago cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) and the principal accomplice of David Coleman Headley, has already been sentenced by a...

Media reports emanating from Pakistan’s civilian Government as well as  from the General Headquarters (GHQ) of the Army speak of an on-going review of Pakistan’s...

In all democracies, the public has a right to demonstrate in public in a peaceful manner, but it does not have the right to demonstrate...

If NaMo, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, had been well-advised, instead of raising the issue of Sir Creek, he would have raised the insensitive timing...

The unfortunate cancellation by the Government of Mohammad Waheed of the Maldives of the contract given to a consortium led by the GMR, an Indian...

Start a crash programme for the development of road and telecommunications infrastructure in the entire tribal belt of Central India. The Chinese realised that without effective...

Instances of miscarriage of justice are many in India. Sometimes, such instances arise due to gross negligence by the police in the investigation.Sometimes, due to...

Our national trait for wishful-thinking often worries me. A rationally argued assumption is an important part of strategic thinking, a wishful thought with no rational...

Can the history of our humiliation at the hands of China in 1962 repeat itself? As we approach the 50th anniversary of the humiliation next...

The rumblings from the Tibetan areas of China continue. The more the Chinese suppress, the more the Tibetans protest. The more the Chinese demonise His...

Mr.LiangGuanglie, the Chinese Defence Minister, who is in Sri Lanka since August 29,2012, on an official visit at the head of a 23-member delegation, is...

The Prime Minister, Dr.Manmohan Singh, has gone to Teheran to attend the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. His participation in the summit will provide him...

Intelligence is the collection of information from the real world that could be important for our national security. Counter-intelligence is the technique of preventing our...

What we have been seeing since May, 2012, is a proxy jihad through the Internet and modern means of communications such as the cell phone...

In 1989, widespread demonstrations, some of them leading to violence, broke out in Jammu & Kashmir against the Government of India. That was the time...

On June 24, 2012, about 100 followers of Maulana Fazlullah, a Pakistani Taliban leader who used to operate from the Swat Valley of the Khyber-Pakhtunkwa...

The three-point face saver announced from Washington DC and Islamabad on July 3, 2012, marks a recognition by the US and Pakistan of the strategic...

It is difficult to totally avoid collateral deaths of innocent civilians in counter-insurgency operations, but it is important to take every precaution possible to reduce...

The elected MsP belonging to Aung San SuuKyi’s NationaL League for Democracy (NLD) took their seats as newly elected members of the lower House of...

1962: India suffered a humiliating set-back in the Sino-Indian war. Many believed that the set-back was attributable to the then political, military and intelligence leadership....

I found during my recent interactions in New Delhi that our strategic thinking continues to be largely enchained to ground-based perceptions and that we are...

For over a year now, a strategic debate has been going on in Delhi on future threat scenarios relating to State and non-State actors. Our...

One should avoid over-playing the so-called geo-strategic significance of Saudi counter-terrorism co-operation with India in the wake of the arrest of Zabiuddin Ansari aka Abu...

The Government of India has taken the first important step towards the modernisation of our national security apparatus by commissioning a study of the apparatus...

Individual States can control regional terrorism or insurgency with a limited spread. We have had success stories as in the case of Al Ummah in...

The Maoists have been increasingly resorting to abduction as one of their tactics for cowing down the State and society and for demonstrating their ability...

We don’t need Agni-V, the intermediate range ballistic missile that we successfully tested on April 19, 2012, to give ourselves a deterrent capability against Pakistan....

During a visit to the site of the devastating avalanche near Skardu in Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) on April 18, 2012, which killed about 125 military...

Wang Lijun was the Deputy Director of the Public Security Bureau in Tiefa in the Liaoning province from 1992 to 1995. From 1995 to 2000,...

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has won a landslide victory in bye-elections to the Parliament.It is reported to have won at...

The second Nuclear Security Summit currently being held in Seoul, South Korea, would make a fresh evaluation , inter alia, of the security of nuclear...

All is not yet lost in Afghanistan. The Taliban and its affiliates such as the so-called Haqqani Network are alive and active not only in...

The Tibetan unrest against the repressive policies of the Chinese authorities has spread from the Tibetan areas of Western Sichuan to Qinghai. According to details...

India has been facing the evil of terrorism since 1971 when two members of the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) hijacked an Indian Airlines...