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Russian tanks roll along a street in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Manish Tewari | Putin started Ukraine war, West might just end it

This united Europe like never before much the same way as they had come together to resist Hitler’s blitzkrieg 1939 onwards

22 May 2022 12:25 AM

NewsOn May 1, Labour Day, the administration of the Union Territory of Chandigarh deployed the ubiquitous bulldozer to flatten the homes and hearth of 4,000 working class families in the name of making the City Beautiful slum-free. (Representational Image/PTI)

Manish Tewari | The bulldozer

The use of the bulldozer as a weapon is not new

08 May 2022 12:22 AM

Whatever may be the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has delivered a clear message to all countries who had recessed their nuclear aspirations that, if you forsake your nuclear programmes and make your security hostage to tenuous agreements and conventional deterrence, you wager your future. (Representational Image/ AP)

Manish Tewari | How Ukraine conflict will impact non-proliferation

Even Iran, notwithstanding the decades of negotiations with the West, is still in no mood to give up on the nuclear option

24 Apr 2022 12:38 AM

The war in Ukraine now entering into its seventh week, the Russian leadership would do well to reflect upon the consequences of the Frankenstein they have unleashed. (Representational Image/ AP)

Manish Tewari | India’s duty: Ask Russia to course-correct in Ukraine

The Russians would do well by reflecting upon some aspects of their own history

10 Apr 2022 1:09 AM

The Pakistani officials further accused India of endangering both international and domestic air craft that ostensibly were in close vicinity of the missile. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Manish Tewari | Unguided missile: A case for Indo-Pak N-dialogue

The object in all probability a supersonic missile was in Pakistani airspace for three minutes and forty four seconds before fading away

26 Mar 2022 11:37 PM

The post World War-II rivalry between the United States and the erstwhile USSR inaugurated a Cold War or rather an icy peace in Europe that became the principal battleground of this confrontation that soon enveloped the rest of the world as well. (representataional image/ AFP)

Manish Tewari | How the West obtusely midwifed a world order

The North Atlantic Treaty organisation (Nato) brought into existence in April 1949 with the United States as its fundamental linchpin

13 Mar 2022 1:31 AM

People take part in a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (AP)

Manish Tewari | Gloves off as New Iron Curtain falls on world

In his rather rambling walk through the park of history Vladimir Putin tried to lay out his much flawed case for the aggression on Ukraine

27 Feb 2022 1:43 AM

It is baffling as to why in the business advisory committee meetings the leaders of Opposition in both houses have not jointly and collectively pressed aggressively for a discussion on the border situation qua China. (Representational Image/ AFP)

Manish Tewari | Why Parliament must discuss China

While the Opposition is willing to stall Parliament on every other issue its silence on China is deafening

13 Feb 2022 2:14 AM

India’s savings rate had touched a 15-year-low as gross domestic savings stood at 30.9 per cent of GDP in financial year 2020-21, down from a peak of 34.6 per cent in the financial year 2012-13. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Manish Tewari | Budget 22’s key challenge: Employment generation

Every economy runs on four fundamentals employment, consumption, savings, and investment

30 Jan 2022 1:05 AM

This handout picture taken and released by the Russian Defence Ministry on January 14, 2022 shows Russian troops unboarding a military cargo plane upon landing in Ivanovo after compleeting their mission in Kazakhstan. (AFP)

Manish Tewari | From Russia with love

According to information available in the public space, Russian forces are currently surrounding Ukraine from three sides

17 Jan 2022 2:42 AM

Drones have low Radar Cross Section (RCS), slow speed and a small size lending to its stealth and concealment advantages in battlefields, and thereafter, making it difficult to identify and localise. (Representative Image: ANI)

Manish Tewari | India needs to gear up for battle in world of drones

Today drones have become an important part of military arsenals across the world

02 Jan 2022 1:42 AM

Even more alarming is the human rights situation in Afghanistan with extrajudicial killings becoming the norm rather than the exception. (Representational Image/ AP)

Manish Tewari | Four months on, Taliban’s inner contradictions show

The ignominious exit of the US and the flight of President Ashraf Ghani still remains an enigma wrapped in a riddle and cloaked in a mystery

19 Dec 2021 2:48 AM

Police officer pays tribute to the martyrs at the Police Martyrs Memorial to mark the 13th anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, in Mumbai, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. (PTI)

Manish Tewari | Why 26/11 required a kinetic response

It, however, is a serious matter of discussion as to how Pakistan perceived the policy of strategic restraint

05 Dec 2021 1:15 AM

Both General Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), did not want a federal government to be headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rehman of the predominantly East Pakistan-based Awami League. (Twitter)

Manish Tewari | November 21st, 1971

On March 25, 1971, the West Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight massacring

21 Nov 2021 2:21 AM

It is in this context Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the dominant seat of spiritual Anglo-Saxonism, the Vatican, and India’s participation in the nascent Western Quad need to be analyzed. (AFP)

Manish Tewari | An alliance of civilisations: Can it give India leverage?

In some nations there were regime changes while others descended into the morass of civil war from which they have still not emerged

07 Nov 2021 2:41 AM

In sharp divergence, China has resolved none of its maritime border disputes, with the exception of the Gulf of Tonkin dispute with Vietnam that was partially resolved after protracted negotiations spanning three rounds. Representational Image. (AFP)

Manish Tewari | After China-Bhutan deal, India requires fresh eyes

Doklam plateau. Both the Chumbi valley and the Siliguri Corridor in West Bengal are key tactical chokepoints

24 Oct 2021 2:56 AM

US President Joe Biden participates is a virtual press conference on national security with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the East Room of the White House. (Photo: AFP/File)

Manish Tewari | AUKUS is the Asian Nato; should India revisit NAM?

The moot point remains, why did the US and, by extension, the UK, undercut their Nato partner France in this manner?

10 Oct 2021 8:45 AM

The total cost of war over the span of 20 years has been 2.3 trillion US dollars. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | Why the US capitulated to Taliban in Afghanistan

Why did the United States after investing humungous amounts of blood and treasure in Afghanistan cut and run in this manner?

26 Sep 2021 2:12 AM

The Supreme Court in A.K. Gopalan v. Nordeen, 1969, held that a publication which is made after the “arrest” of a person amounts to contempt if it is biased to the suspect. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | Social media lynch mobs subverting course of justice

Till the time the highest court has not spoken the above dictum remains the gold standard of both criminal and civil law

12 Sep 2021 2:59 AM

Such is the strategic importance attached to rare earths that President Xi Jinping has made it a habit to flex China’s Trade Muscle by visiting to Rare Earths Hub, mining sites and plants frequently. (Twitter)

Manish Tewari | The rare earth metal race: How India lost it to China

China currently controls nearly 90 per cent of the world’s REE mining and refinement and forms the bedrock of its global supply chain

29 Aug 2021 1:38 AM

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