NEW DELHI: The Raisina Dialogue, MEA’s flagship foreign policy and international affairs conference, has climbed up the global popularity charts and is now ranked fourth in the world, overtaking the global event it set out to emulate five years ago.
Observer Research Foundation (ORF) which collaborates with the foreign office to produce Raisina Dialogue has been ranked 20th among 174 top think tanks worldwide, and eighth among non-US bodies, says the annual ranking report.
The 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Programme (TTCSP) of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania is regarded as the definitive ranking system for think tanks globally, on a variety of metrics.
46177
5 DETERRENCE NEEDED: India must secure the disputed areas before the snow melts and PLA movements become easier across the LAC. PTI
Lt Gen DS Hooda (retd)
Former Northern Army Commander
The standoff at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh is set to continue through the winter. There is minimal possibility of any significant military moves during the winter months, and it has been reported that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has already moved 10,000 soldiers from depth areas back to their permanent garrisons in Xinjiang and Tibet military regions. The Indian Army, even if it wishes to, will find it more difficult to pull out soldiers. With the roads to Ladakh closed, both the moving out of troops and their re-induction in an emergency, is extremely difficult.
NEW DELHI: A day after a low-intensity blast near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi, several sections of the Indian media on Saturday accused Iran of staging the attack in the capital.
On Friday, a small bomb exploded nearly 50 meters from the Israeli Embassy located in a high-security zone and not far from the prime minister’s residence damaging nearby cars but causing no injuries. Simultaneously, a letter recovered from the site termed the incident a “trailer.”
Media reports say that an envelope found at the blast site “revealed the Iranian connection to the blast” as their targets were Israeli installations in India.