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FCRA Amendments: Bharat Strengthens Its Shield Against Opaque Foreign Funding

The Government of Bharat has significantly strengthened the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) framework through a fresh set of amendments aimed at enhancing transparency, accountability and oversight of foreign...

Two Standards, One Region: Saudi Enrichment, Iran and Israel’s Nuclear Dilemma

On 19 February 2026, the Trump administration formally notified the U.S. Congress of its intention to pursue a...

From Odesa to Oman: The Lethal Cost to Neutral Merchant Mariners

The Anatomy of a High-Seas TragedyThe lethal targeting of the bulk carrier MV Golden Leo off Odesa, by...

Delhi’s New Police Chief: Reading the Strategic Signals in an Age of Hybrid Warfare

Appointments at the highest levels of the national security architecture are rarely routine administrative exercises. More often than...

Beyond ISRO: An Analysis of India’s First Private Orbital Satellite Launch

The Strategic Arrival The successful orbital insertion of the Vikram-1 rocket under Mission Aagaman yesterday (18 July 2026),...
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Israeli Gas, IMEC and the New Energy Chessboard of West Asia

Why the Eastern Mediterranean May Become Bharat’s Next Strategic Energy FrontierHistory often hides its most profound transformations beneath the surface. Sometimes literally.For decades, the...

The Gulf, Hormuz & the Oil Game — What It Means for Bharat

Some time ago, in my earlier analysis in The Goa Chronicle, I had written about the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz, describing...

The Economics of War: How Conflict Reshapes Power, Markets, and the Global Defence Industry

War has always been more than the clash of armies. Behind every battlefield lies a vast economic machinery, factories humming with production, supply chains...

Oil, War, and the World’s Nerve Centre: Why the Next Energy Shock Could Reshape Global Power

On any ordinary morning, somewhere in the vast blue expanse between the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, a line of giant oil tankers...

Bangladesh After the Faultlines: Can Foreign Policy Hold the Republic Together?

When I wrote in Goa Chronicle about the emerging faultlines within Bangladesh, the argument was not alarmist. It was diagnostic. Bangladesh was not collapsing,...

The Unbroken Delta: Bangladesh, Strategic Signalling and the Question of Fracture

It began with a sentence.When Muhammad Yunus recently referred to the “Seven Sisters” of India in the same breath as Nepal and Bhutan, it...
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