IDSA Comments

It is essential in the interest of economic development and smooth rehabilitation of the affected people that funds as part of a comprehensive financial package be devolved to the West Bengal Government at the earliest.

• Gautam Sen
• December 29, 2015
• IDSA Comments

India’s defence modernisation presents enormous opportunities for the Japanese defence industry, which until recently concentrated exclusively on the domestic market in order to demonstrate Japan’s commitment to peace.

• Titli Basu
• December 29, 2015
• IDSA Comments

The sustenance of the TAPI project would be contingent upon each side’s ability to accommodate the concerns of different stakeholders in the project. Only time will tell if the projects’ stakeholders can demonstrate such an attitude.

• Sanket Sudhir Kulkarni
• December 23, 2015
• IDSA Comments

It will take just a few deals to be sealed, especially of the co-development/co-production variety, for the present drift in relations being arrested and brought back on an even keel.

• Amit Cowshish
• December 22, 2015
• IDSA Comments

On December 16, ISRO demonstrated its growing capabilities with multiple burn fuel stage/rocket engine. In few years, ISRO is expected to put big primary payloads into different orbits by using a single rocket launcher.

• Ajey Lele
• December 22, 2015
• IDSA Comments

Even faced with the improbability of making much headway on terrorism and Kashmir in the resumed dialogue, it is still important for India to engage with Pakistan.

• Sumita Kumar
• December 22, 2015
• IDSA Comments

Turkey’s unprecedented military action raises two questions: What is the likely impact on its ties with Russia? And, what are the dynamics of a ‘Russia-West’ collaboration over Syria?

• Rajorshi Roy
• December 22, 2015
• IDSA Comments

The inability to portray greater strategic ambition for the Indian Navy renders this document an exercise in smart profile-building rather than one of purposeful image-projection.

• Abhijit Singh
• December 21, 2015
• IDSA Comments

The fact that the developed countries succeeded in making all commitments non-binding makes the Paris Agreement almost toothless.

• Shebonti Ray Dadwal , Satyam Malaviya
• December 18, 2015
• IDSA Comments

Women join Maoist ranks for a variety of reasons: impressionable age, social milieu and circumstances, personal reasons, influence of kin or family and the inspiration of ideology.

• P. V. Ramana
• December 15, 2015
• IDSA Comments