The internet has become the primary medium of communication in the era of globalization, which is highly dominated by the information and communication technologies. The internet – network of networks – deals with massive data which is transmitted over secure as well as insecure channels and media. The security requirement of data is determined by the value or importance of data.
Competition for Hydropower in the Himalayan Region: The Complex Regional Scenario
The ISIS – Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, previously called al-Qaeda in Iraq under the leadership of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi and currently called the Islamic state (after declaring Iraq a ‘Caliphate’) – has become a major non-state player in the conflict in Iraq as well as Syria. The organisation, which has its origins in Iraq, had shifted its base of operations to Syria when the civil war began in the country to oust the Assad regime.
Wang Yi’s India Visit: China Revitalizing its Engagement with India
The much touted US pivot/re-balance to the Asia-Pacific has drawn considerable flak of late. From the Syrian chemical weapons use to Russia’s revanchism, the questioning of America’s leadership has seen the pivot naysayers become louder. President Obama has firmly recognized the limits of American power.
Bleeding Security: Vulnerabilities in Protocols, Standards and Software
It has been little more than two months that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come to power in New Delhi after defeating the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government that governed India for ten years.
India and the US Re-balance to the Asia-Pacific
With 2014 marked as the Chinese New Year of the Horse, India and China have galloped together into taking new strides in their bilateral relations.
India-Israel Defence Cooperation and the Modi-led Government
China is about to operationalise a 1 GigaWatt (GW) nuclear power reactor at Karachi in Pakistan, highly-placed sources within the scientific community warn. Two more are in the pipeline in Karachi and three more in other parts of the country. This represents a quantum leap from the much smaller reactors hitherto supplied by Beijing to Islamabad, and is also the first time that such advanced technology has been demonstrated globally.
Future Weapon Technology-Directed Energy Weapons
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been trying to promote Yunnan as a gateway to both South and Southeast Asia for nearly two decades now, in order to bring in much needed investment for developing its south-western hinterland, covering more than 60 percent of its total landmass. With an area of 394,000 square kilometres, Yunnan shares 4.1 percent of the PRC’s landmass and is its eighth largest province.
The Sino-Indian Border Talks and its Implications for Bilateral Relations
A passage or a corridor is that geographical entity which represents a connection between two or more places. In international relations, a corridor becomes significant not merely because of the places it links but also because of the relative location where it is situated. Hence corridors demand and deserve a lot more attention than just those places that it attempts to unite. However, very often instead of focussing on the significance of the corridor, value is given to those two or more regions which are linked with the help of the former.
China Gifts Pakistan Mega Nuclear Power Plants
More than half-a-century ago, in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet to take refuge in India after the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Prior to the signing of the Agreement on Trade between Tibet Autonomous Region and India in 1954, India had acknowledged Tibet’s de facto independence’. However, subsequently, India modified its position on Tibet by recognising Chinese suzerainty over Tibet.