This column has maintained that India's most immediate energy security challenge is its exposure to oil price volatility and not Chinese oil companies buying up hydrocarbon assets around the world.

Coal India's inability to increase coal production to keep pace with the demand coming from the power sector is giving opportunity for wagging tongues from the entire crony-capitalist 'reformers' to ask for opening the doors of the coal sector.

Once the northern sea route from Europe to China becomes active, the strategic balance between the Indian and Arctic Oceans could change.

At the Obama- Xi talks, there has been some movement forward on the so-far intractable issue of Hydroflurocarbon (HFCs) emissions.

The National electronic Governance Plan (NeGP) has more or less got all the right ingredients. It just needs to be mixed in the right proportions.

Privatised electricity distribution in Delhi completed ten years last June. Now an important question which we have to ask time and again is,

India's apprehensions about Taliban are far from reality. The US experience will ensure that Afghanistan can never again become a training area or launch pad for fundamentalist forces. Drones and the vast array of other options available to the US preclude this.

The India-Japan partnership has matured into an important component of the new security and economic architecture of the Indo-Pacific region. For a long time, the partnership was centered on economic matters.

Japanese ODA has eased the burden of borrowing in the Indian market. Moreover, with the Japanese economy still struggling to induce growth, investments in India offer an avenue to earn interest income.