Flydubai FZ1073: The Threat Was Already in the Cockpit
Key Takeaways Flydubai flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 Max 8 flying Dubai–Tel Aviv on 30 September 2026, was diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after the…
Geopolitics
Strait of Hormuz Reopening and Trump’s Strike Threat
Key Takeaways Crude flows through the Strait of Hormuz have returned to prewar levels — a seven-day average of 13.5 million barrels a day as…
Hormuz Ship-to-Ship Transfers: The Gulf’s Oil Workaround
Key Takeaways More than 70 percent of the crude that crossed the Strait of Hormuz in August changed tankers offshore, in ship-to-ship transfers protected by…
Iran War Stock Market Impact: Sensex’s Rs 9 Lakh Crore Week
Key Takeaways President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, then denied reports — carried by Axios and…
Rajnath Singh’s Strategic Autonomy Pledge Echoes Modi at SCO
Defence · Geopolitics The Eastern Strategist · 27 September 2026 · By Abhishek Kumar Defence ministers rarely need to clarify that their country isn’t planning…
Pakistan’s Three-Front Crisis: Kabul, Balochistan, IMF
Pakistan’s three-front crisis crested in a single week of September 2026: air strikes into Afghanistan, an intensifying two-insurgency war in Balochistan, and an IMF review…
Ethiopia Civil War BRICS: Rebel Alliance Declares War in Ten Days
On 12 September 2026, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sat across from Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, discussing defence procurement, critical minerals…
Tariffs, Rare Earths and the 10 November Clock — The Eastern Strategist
The staging in Washington will suggest harmony; the substance is whether the Trump-Xi summit can keep a fragile truce alive past 10 November — the…
Strait of Hormuz Oil Disruption: The Asymmetric Naval Choke Point Threatening Global Energy and India’s Strategic Reserve
A 39-kilometre naval bottleneck controls a fifth of the world’s petroleum. As war-risk insurance premiums spike and asymmetric naval swarms challenge the Strait of Hormuz,…
The 140-Article BRICS New Delhi Declaration: How the 18th Summit Rewrites Non-Dollar Trade & Mineral Corridors
Global Economy · Multilateral Geopolitics From bilateral currency rails and institutional cross-border clearing to sovereign critical mineral pacts, India’s chairship steers the expanded 10-member bloc…
New Delhi Declaration 2026: India’s Tariff-Proofing Consensus at BRICS
While multilateral declarations dominated the 18th BRICS Summit headlines, bilateral breakthroughs with Russia, Malaysia, Ethiopia, and the UAE created tangible momentum for India’s defence ecosystem—unlocking…
BRICS Logistics Framework: India’s Trade De-Risking Strategy
Negotiated under India’s fourth presidency ahead of the New Delhi Summit, the BRICS logistics framework represents a fundamental recalibration of Global South trade, shifting the…
The 2030 Stealth Void: Why Putin Is Weaponising the Su-57 India Pitch
The renewed Su-57 India pitch orchestrated by the Kremlin ahead of the 2026 BRICS Summit in New Delhi is neither routine diplomatic choreography nor a…
Bays, Not Peninsulas: The Geography Reshaping India’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
Importance of Bays and Peninsular in the Indo-Pacific Strategy| The Eastern Strategist As it is understood that the Indo-Pacific chessboard is larger and more complex…
Saudi Arabia Spent 45 Years Building an Escape Route From Hormuz. Yemen Just Shut That Too.
In 1981, as tankers burned in the Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War, Saudi Arabia’s oil planners made a quiet bet. They built a 1,200-kilometre pipeline…
The Next Indo-Pacific Contest Won’t Be Fought. It Will Be Responded To
Indian Army Disaster Response: India’s Strategic Edge Geopolitics · Defence Analysis Indian Army disaster response — from Operation Brahma to theatre commands and Quad logistics…
Why Altitude, Not the Enemy, Has Been India’s Toughest Adversary Since Kargil
Kargil to Operation Sindoor: India’s Defence Leap Twenty-five years separate the Bofors gun from the BrahMos missile. Both fought the same mountain. TES Brief Kargil…
Two Chokepoints, One War: Why Trump Is Weighing a “Massive Attack” as Hormuz Diplomacy Collapses
Iran has rejected a US ceasefire proposal carried by Iraq’s prime minister, retaliated with drone strikes on American-linked sites in Bahrain and Jordan, and President…
Who Are the Houthis? How Yemen’s Rebels Became a Global Threat to Oil Markets and Red Sea Shipping
Key Takeaways From Local Insurgents to Regional Power: Once viewed as a marginal religious revival movement in northern Yemen, the Houthis have evolved into a…
The Great Rebalancing: Why the World’s Centre of Gravity Is Moving East
On 16 December 1971, India recorded one of the most decisive military victories of the Cold War. The surrender of Pakistani forces in Dhaka created…
The Ocean That Will Decide the Century
Why the waters between Africa and Australia matter more than most people realise For most of history, empires were built and broken on land. Armies…
Africa Is No Longer Waiting to Be Defined by Others
Demographics, minerals, digital infrastructure and a crowded field of external partners are turning the continent into an independent actor in a multipolar world For decades,…
When the Rains Fail, It Is Not Just Farmers Who Worry
India’s relationship with its monsoon has always been intimate and anxious. Too little rain and crops wither, prices climb, and rural distress ripples through the…
India Isn’t Blinking on the Trade Deal. Washington Should Pay Attention.
New Delhi has grown tired of being told it is dragging its feet. As another pause settles over India-US trade Deal negotiations, Indian officials are…
The Hormuz Toll: How the Strait of Hormuz Affects Global Oil Trade
For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has quietly carried one of the world’s greatest strategic burdens. Around one-fifth of globally traded crude oil passes through…
The Next Fight in Artificial Intelligence Is Over Price, Not Power
Analysis | Emerging Technologies 11 July 2026 For much of the past three years, the contest among artificial intelligence developers has been framed around a…
Hasina Signals December Return to Bangladesh, Setting Up Test of Dhaka’s Post-Uprising Order
News Analysis | South Asia 11 July 2026 New Delhi: Sheikh Hasina, the former Bangladesh prime minister who has lived in exile in India since…
Israel Eyes India for Iron Dome Missile Production: Here’s Why It Matters
Israel Eyes India for Iron Dome Missile Production Israeli defence major Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is reportedly exploring plans to manufacture Tamir interceptor missiles—the backbone…
Iran News: Trump Keeps Talks Alive as India Moves to Shield Economy From Strait of Hormuz Risks
Market is Watching Iran News as Fresh military exchanges, new U.S. sanctions and continued diplomatic contacts between Washington and Tehran have kept the Strait of…
From Europe to the Pacific: Modi’s Strategic Arc Is Reshaping India’s Maritime Century
Published: July 2026 Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest diplomatic tour has produced images that naturally dominate headlines. A ceremonial welcome in Jakarta, an address to…