Blended Ideology

If you are failing to prepare then you are preparing to fail... Faced with the prospect of having to confront nuclear-armed China and Pakistan, with both of which it had fought wars over unresolved territorial disputes, India conducted a series of nuclear tests at Pokhran, Rajasthan, on May 11 and 13, 1998, and declared itself a state armed with nuclear weapons. Before crossing the nuclear Rubicon, India had sought but had been denied international guarantees that nuclear weapons would not be used against it. As India was not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, the country did not violate any treaty obligations. It is well accepted in India that nuclear weapons are political weapons and not weapons of warfighting and that their sole purpose is to deter the use and threat of use of nuclear weapons by India’s adversaries. This was reflected in a statement made by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in Parliament in May 1998...

If you are failing to prepare then you are preparing to fail... MoU signed between India and Sweden in Rail Sector A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)  has been signed on15.02.2016 between Ministry of  Railways and the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation of the Kingdom of Sweden on Technical Cooperation in Rail Sector. MoU was signed by Mr. Girish Pillai, Adviser / Infrastructure on behalf of  Ministry of Railways and Mr. Oscar Stenstrom, State Secretary on behalf of Swedish government. Following cooperation areas are identified in the MoU: 1. Benchmark Railways policy development, regulations, organization and specific characteristics for each country. 2. Exchange of knowledge, technical expertise, innovation, technology, sustainable solutions and research. 3. Other cooperation projects agreed between the participants, such as, tilting coaches/trains, capacity allocation (time tabling) and optimisation of maintenance and improved freight/combination traffic. 4. Train...

If you are failing to prepare then you are preparing to fail... Initiatives in SE Asia Source: By Salman Haidar: The Statesman Look East’ was a slogan before it became a policy. The idea was shaped when PV Narasimha Rao decided to journey to South Korea on what was the first visit by an Indian PM to that country. The Asian Tigers were by now rampant and had made themselves a force in the international economy while India was only cautiously emerging from relative isolation. China loomed to the East and had tended to block the view in that direction, so that the cluster of dynamic countries to the South-east received less attention than was warranted. Japan, of course, was the economic super power with which India had already established extensive dealings. Rao’s journey became a starting point for a new set of relationships between India and the countries lying to its east. Much has happened since those early days and India’s ties with eastern Asia have become immeasurably richer and...