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THE unveiling of an imposing statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 8 at India Gate in New Delhi was a historic event. It was the right decision, taken after years of vacillation on how to use the vacant canopy where British monarch King George V’s st
Being a low-cost option and easily available, utilisation of these aerial/sub-surface platforms for sinister purposes by terrorist groups such as intelligence collection, weapon/explosives delivery and targeted attacks have become an imminent danger and challenge for security agencies worldwide,? he said at the 2nd High-Level Conference of the Head of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of the Member States in the General Assembly. The possibility of the use of weaponised drones for terrorist purposes against strategic and commercial assets calls for serious attention by the member states. We have witnessed terrorists using UAS to smuggle weapons across borders, Kaumudi said, according to his statement issued by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN.
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Vappala Balachandran
Former Special Secy, Cabinet Secretariat
History has never seen India being so universally pitied upon as now, as our Covid death toll has crossed 2 lakh. A national daily reported that this month alone, Covid has claimed over 35,000 lives so far, including more than 18,000 in one week (April 21-27). This figure has surpassed the previous record of 33,230 deaths, reported in September 2020.
It hurts our national pride when other countries pity us for the way our healthcare system crumbled from March this year onwards due to the shortage of vaccines and oxygen. That this has happened after our government proudly declared early in 2021 to have overcome the problem has surprised other countries. Their sympathy is on seeing the way people are dying all over India when indications had come even last year that India would face a second, if not a third wave, of this pandemic.
682 Global Trends-2040: The US and China will influence global dynamics, forcing other states to accept âstarker choicesâ. Reuters
Vappala Balachandran
Former Special Secy, Cabinet Secretariat
Global Trends-2040, released by the US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on April 8, is the seventh in the series starting with the first report in 1997 which was a 15-year global strategic security projection till 2010.
In 1996, the US government asked its civilian intelligence and analysis body, the National Intelligence Council (NIC), to conduct periodical studies on the emerging global trends that might affect its strategic security. This was in the background of a smug feeling that had emerged even within its intelligence community that the role of the US as the supreme global leader was unchallenged after the end of the Cold War with the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991.