The Director-General of the #NationalMaritimeFoundation, Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, along with Capt RS Sawan, Senior Fellow, #NMF, held a meeting with V Adm Ignacio Villanueva Serrano, the Operational Commander of Operation ATALANTA and Capt Fabrizio Falzi, (EU DA in Delhi). The discussion centered upon the optimum manner of enhancing #EU–#India #maritimesecurity cooperation within the remit […]
Mr Chemi Rigzin, Research Associate at the @nmfindia, participated in the China Chronicles Series organised by @orfonline. The high-level dialogue unpacked the strategic pulse of the upcoming #2025Lianghui, analysing the transition from the 14th to the 15th Five-Year Plan. Analysts underscored #China’s aim to reshape the global order — where #economic power must now be […]
The #NationalMaritimeFoundation had an engaging discussion with Dr Wongi Choe, professor at the Department of #AsiaPacificStudies and Head of the Centre for #ASEANIndiaStudies, Korea National Diplomatic Academy. From the NMF, Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan (Director-General), Commodore Manish Sinha (Executive Director), and Ms Arijita Sinha Roy (Junior Research Associate) exchanged views with Dr Choe, revisiting key […]
DG: Meghayan-25 Symposium- Moderate Panel Discussion in Session-3: “Closing the Early Warning Gap Together: Enhancing Maritime Security and Coordination” [NSB] Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Retd), Director-General, #NationalMaritimeFoundation, moderated a key session at #Meghayan25—the Meteorological and Oceanological Seminar—titled “Closing the Early Warning Gap Together: Enhancing Maritime Security and Coordination.”
William Dalrymple. Bloomsbury Publishing (London), 2024. 479 pages, ISBN: HB: 978-1-4088-6441-8, Rs 999 (Hardback) “The Golden Road—” has been authored by the esteemed British historian, William Dalrymple, who is widely recognised for his contribution to scholarship on South Asian history. In this book, Dalrymple essentially focuses upon a certain phenomenon that spanned roughly a millennium […]
Rear Admiral Monty Khanna (Retd) – ‘Dabolim Diaries’ Issue No 13 dated 11 Apr 2025 China’s tryst with the Antarctic was led by Guo Kun, a graduate of the PLA Military Institute of Engineering, Harbin. While working at the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), in the early 1980s, he was appointed as Director of the newly […]
Strengthening Indo-French Maritime Synergies! The National Maritime Foundation was honoured to welcome the delegation from the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI). The esteemed delegation—comprising Dr Marc Julienne (Director), Ms Céline Pajon, Mr John Seaman, Ms Sylvia Malinbaum, and Ms Isabelle Saint-Mézard—was briefed by Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan (Director General, NMF) on India’s maritime imperatives […]
The National Maritime Foundation (NMF) hosted Mr Nico Lange, Senior Fellow at the Munich Security Conference @munsecconf, and the Centre for European Policy Analysis @cepaorg, accompanied by Mr Adrian Haack, Director of @kasinindia, and Mr Ashish Gupta (Head of Programme, KAS India). VAdm Pradeep Chauhan (Director-General, NMF), delivered a compelling presentation on #Indian #Maritime Imperatives […]
The National Maritime Foundation was honoured to host, for the first time, Mr Thorsten Benner (Director, Global Public Policy Institute – GPPi) and Mr Jakob Hensing (Researcher, GPPi), for an engaging discussion on the protection of critical maritime infrastructure—ranging from undersea cables to pipelines—and the role of emerging technologies in the maritime domain. Commodore Manish […]
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The National Maritime Foundation was honoured to host the French delegation comprising Colonel Emmanuel Peltriaux (Defence Attaché), Commander Bui (Naval Attaché), and Mr Ilan Gasser (Intern at the Embassy of France in India). Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan (Director General, NMF), Commodore Manish Sinha (Executive Director, NMF), and Ms Saaz Lahiri (Research Associate) engaged in a […]
The fifth of April of each year is commemorated as National Maritime Day and seeks to draw global attention to issues principally related to the multiple facets of mercantile shipping and fishing. This article seeks to draw the attention of its readers to a somewhat lesser-known phenomenon that is nevertheless intimately related to the mercantile […]