ISIS-like horror stories from Sandeshkhali

February 15, 2024

Nadia Murad, a human rights activist originally from Iraq, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for “efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”. Murad, who is of Yazidi ethnicity, a religious minority in Iraq, was captured by ISIS terrorists along...

Return of Indians from Qatar is proof of India’s global heft

February 13, 2024

The news of the release of eight former Indian Navy personnel by Qatar is an immensely positive development. Seven of the eight men have returned home early on Monday morning, while the eighth too will follow suit after some legal technicalities are taken care of. The seven Indians who returned...

Is the U.S. undermining the Quad?

February 8, 2024

There won’t be a Quad summit in the foreseeable future, not in 2024 at least. The summit will take place after the US Presidential election in November this year, so effectively in 2025, only after a new US President assumes office in January that year. This was disclosed by the...

Time to Repair Inter-Community Relations

February 6, 2024

Voices are rising from within the Muslim community about the need to repair relations with Hindus, by shedding the centuries-old inter-community bitterness that was aggravated by the demolition of the Babri Masjid. The latest such voice of sanity belongs to the chief of Kerala’s Indian Union Muslim League, Panakkad Syed...

Pak murders democracy while the U.S. watches

February 1, 2024

Former Pakistan Prime Minister and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were given 14 years in prison on Wednesday in the Toshakhana case, in which they are being accused of retaining and even selling the gifts given by foreign governments when Khan was Prime Minister. Both have been barred from holding any...

Muizzu joins the Sino-Wahhabi alliance

January 30, 2024

Mohamed Muizzu, the President of the Maldives, has been claiming that his country’s sovereignty is being violated by India’s so-called military presence on its soil of 77 personnel operating a couple of Dornier aircraft for humanitarian purposes. However, now he is not even pretending to be the head of a...

Question mark on future of I.N.D.I.A bloc

January 25, 2024

Has the death knell of the I.N.D.I Alliance been sounded? Not that the alliance was in ship-shape even otherwise, but then on Wednesday, Mamata Banerjee shoved it towards a possible painful end by declaring that she would go it alone in West Bengal in the Lok Sabha elections. She thus...

This nation thrives, this civilisation continues

January 23, 2024

Bharat, that is India, is truly blessed to have witnessed a once in a lifetime event on Monday—the consecration ceremony of the Ram Lalla idol at the newly built grand Ram temple in Ayodhya. It was a moment where a deep wound inflicted on a civilisation was finally healed, after...

Poverty reduction gathers pace in India

January 18, 2024

Niti Aayog’s latest national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report tells the story of a nation rising. It’s a story of inclusive growth, where the poor and the marginalised are becoming a part of India’s development trajectory. The work towards poverty reduction has gathered pace in the last decade, with 24.82...

The Taiwanese stand up to China, elect DPP

January 16, 2024

The people of Taiwan have spoken, and how—by handing the incumbent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) a third consecutive term to rule their nation. The DPP is pro-independence from China, much to Beijing’s unhappiness. China, which claims Taiwan as Chinese territory, had warned Taiwan’s voters that if DPP returned to power...