IDSA Comments

The Draft Defence Production Policy 2018, which aims to promote the Make in India initiative in the defence sector and create a world-class arms manufacturing base, faces a number of challenges, which, if left unaddressed, may limit its usefulness.

• Laxman Kumar Behera
• April 04, 2018
• IDSA Comments

The promises contained in the recently released draft are so intertwined that a comprehensive action plan would be required to implement all of them almost simultaneously for achieving the policy objective.

• Amit Cowshish
• April 02, 2018
• IDSA Comments

The Cambridge Analytica episode highlights the need to expedite the process of developing a data protection framework and probably amend the IT Act in accordance with the changing realities of cyberspace.

• Munish Sharma
• March 26, 2018
• IDSA Comments

The UNGGE process is the least bad option to keep open channels and maintain continued focus on securing cyberspace.

• Cherian Samuel
• March 21, 2018
• IDSA Comments

Xi rides the Dragon which is externally formidable but internally fragile. He is aware of the consequences of his policies going awry.

• G.G. Dwivedi
• March 14, 2018
• IDSA Comments

The new system of classifying enterprises based on annual turnover will be more reliable, transparent and objective as the qualifying criteria will be verifiable with reference to the data available in the Goods and Services Tax network.

• Amit Cowshish
• March 13, 2018
• IDSA Comments

King Abdullah II’s forthcoming visit to India represents an opportunity to catapult the relationship to the next higher level in strategic, security, political, energy, trade, investment and economic cooperation.

• Ashok Sajjanhar
• February 26, 2018
• IDSA Comments

China’s launch of a yuan-denominated oil futures exchange will provide it with the opportunity to create an Asian crude oil benchmark and give it more clout in crude pricing and for promoting the yuan as a truly global currency.

• Shebonti Ray Dadwal
• February 22, 2018
• IDSA Comments

Notwithstanding differences on some issues, chiefly, Afghanistan and India’s UNSC aspirations, India and Iran have decided to focus their energies on areas of concurrence such as connectivity and economic cooperation.

• Ashok Sajjanhar
• February 20, 2018
• IDSA Comments

Political instability in the wake of the arrest of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in a corruption case will not portend well for Bangladesh and the region.

• Smruti S. Pattanaik
• February 15, 2018
• IDSA Comments