Nasrallah was a terrorist ideologue, not a saint

October 1, 2024

In one of the most daring anti-terror operations the world has ever seen, Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu wiped out the entire top leadership of the Hezbollah, including Hassan Nasrallah, the terrorist body’s secretary general, last Friday, on 27 February. However much the efforts to normalise and legitimize Nasrallah as a...

People’s participation gives J&K election legitimacy

September 19, 2024

Jammu and Kashmir saw enthusiastic participation by voters in the first phase of the Assembly elections on Wednesday. The voting percentage, at the time of writing, was over 58% and may cross 60% once all the numbers come in. This is quite remarkable given the low participation by voters in...

Rahul must understand the importance of being LoP

September 12, 2024

Now that Rahul Gandhi is the Leader of the Opposition, because of his party winning 99 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, it was expected that he would have understood the gravitas of his position. Being LoP comes with a degree of responsibility, where the least that the leader concerned...

Support for Hamas’ Death Cult must End

September 10, 2024

As the international chorus demanding a ceasefire in Gaza rises, we are being told that it is Benjamin Netanyahu who is erecting roadblocks to peace by wanting to retain control of the Philadelphi corridor between Gaza and Egypt. He is also being accused of wanting to set up checkpoints along...

What made IC-814 filmmaker distort facts?

September 5, 2024

In the absence of proper scholarship on relatively recent events of national importance, there often exists an information void which needs to be filled, primarily to inform or remind the people of the prices this country has paid to preserve its sovereignty and integrity, as well as to put on...

Mob Rule in Bangladesh threatens its Existence

September 3, 2024

The latest news from Bangladesh is that the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus will review the MoUs Sheikh Hasina signed as Prime Minister with India, and will cancel the ones that it feels are not in Bangladesh’s interest. While this is a move to pander to the anti-India jihadis...

Can India help Russia, Ukraine make peace?

August 22, 2024

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Ukraine this week. This will be the first visit to Ukraine by an Indian Prime Minister in almost 30 years and, hence, PM Modi’s first visit to that country after the Russian invasion of 24 February 2022. As Ukraine’s war with Russia continues, the...

The U.S. is seeking compliance from India

August 20, 2024

In an extraordinary interview to The Daily Guardian’s sister newspaper, The Sunday Guardian, Nikhil Gupta, the man who is at the centre of the alleged assassination attempt on Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil, spoke of his innocence and how attempts were being made to frame him in...

RG Kar Incident Shakes The Entire Nation

August 15, 2024

The brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has caused nationwide outrage not just because of the heinous nature of the crime, the barbarity involved, and the alleged attempts to cover up the crime, but also because it has touched...

What next for Bangladesh?

August 13, 2024

What next for Bangladesh, what next for India-Bangladesh relations, now that the leader India considered to be a “friend”, has been thrown out in a “military” coup, carried out under the approving eyes of the great democracies of the West, specifically the United States? Nobel Laureate Dr Mohammed Yunus, a...