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BRICS: India’s moment of multilateral glory | Watch

Former Indian Ambassador Anil Trigunayat speaks to Joyeeta Basu, Editor, The Sunday Guardian, broadly on three related issues—restoration of border patrolling by India and China in the area between Demchok and Depsang in Ladakh, along the Line of Actual Control; how this “normalization” comes in the background of the...

Global South in focus, PM Modi heads for BRICS Summit

Kazan, Russia: The overarching agenda of India at the BRICS Summit in Russia’s Kazan will be to manage the expansion of the grouping in a manner conducive to the interests of the Global South. With the future of BRICS emerging as an arena of contest and power play, Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to the Russian city of Kazan to participate in the 16th summit of the plurilateral grouping, which is expected to add at least 10 countries as partners in the expanded BRICS. It is fitting that BRICS 2.0 will be consolidated in Russia, which hosted the first summit...

Major diplomatic confrontation with U.S. averted at last minute

New Delhi: The US and Canadian agencies have missed that IFS officers do not get involved in any intelligence activity. Their service rules prohibit them from doing so. The recent actions...

Pannun and the shadows: US is trying to decipher India’s covert operations

PANAJI, GOA: The recent addition of Vikas Yadav to the FBI’s Wanted List has become a subject of intrigue and speculation, primarily because the alleged target in the case, Gurpatwant...

Mamata administration’s targeting of YouTubers backfires

Kolkata: ‘Almost every YouTuber, who has been critical of the Mamata Banerjee government, has been slapped with police cases on frivolous and trumped up charges.’ Over the past five years, as the news of the alleged corrupt practices during Mamata Banerjee’s government started hitting the headlines, the government and the...

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Justin Trudeau, stop dancing with extremists

Canada with Trudeau as PM has been moving within the orbit of the Sino-Wahhabi lobby. When he was Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau made sure his country was among the first western countries to recognize the PRC in 1970. On October 11, 1973, he made a state visit to...

Priyanka debut could energise the cadre

There are a lot of expectations from Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who shall be making her electoral debut from the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, which goes to polls on November 13th. The seat had fallen vacant after Rahul Gandhi retained Rae Bareli while giving up...

Janus-faced nature of Trudeau’s politics

It is clear that Trudeau looks after his political constituencies, including minority communities more than he cares about indigenous people of Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to have become...

Leaders dissemble for political survival

The public who consume untruths are mostly ignorant. They acquire information on a catastrophe and causes for that from media. People in public life, political persons in particular, are not expected...

India-Canada relations fall prey to Trudeau’s quest for self-interest

Once lauded for its freedom, openness, and progressive values, Canada, under Justin Trudeau, has become its own antithesis. The recent allegations made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau against India smacks of the arrogance that the Western countries have all...

Military modernisation is Taiwan’s need

Taiwan must first increase its defence budget. Current spending, which amounts to roughly 2% of the nation’s GDP, is...

India’s strategic frenemy

The Indian government is accountable to the people of India, and should not feel obligated to adhere to rules...

Do not turn friends into foes

Multiple reports across several years have appeared that claim members of the Biden family are tied to China as a consequence of their financial interests. In the case of US President Joe Biden, such...

Indian intelligence is not just about IB and R&AW anymore

The last ten years have witnessed an unprecedented evolution in India’s intelligence machinery. Over the past decade, the contours of India’s intelligence apparatus have dramatically expanded. What was once viewed predominantly through the lens of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and...

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9 Years of Transformation: A Supplement

NEP-2020 is just what India’s education system needs

In the third decade of the 21st century, humanity faces unprecedented pace of change in practically every sector of human activity and endeavour. There are great advances in ICT and AI, there are also daunting and threatening concerns that threaten the very existence of life on the planet earth. ...

Indigenisation of Indian defence industry is the way to thrive

  istory bears testimony to the fact that all nations with strong military industrial set up had developed a strong military force, resulting in a strong and vibrant foreign policy. It was the military industrial set of Germany which enabled it to launch its offensive practically...

A silent revolution in the water sector

As we mark the ninth anniversary of the Narendra Modi government, one of the biggest achievements which has not hogged the limelight has been its work in the water sector...

9 Years of the Modi Economy: Stellar on most counts

MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE India’s economy (as measured by real GDP) has been the fastest-growing among the world’s 20 largest economies for 7 of the past 9 years. And those were the only...

India’s FDI rush: Past tense, present perfect

India’s much envied tag of a “hot destination” in the context of its appeal as a country to do business with and invest in, has preferably less to do now with the lure of quick money parked in India...

Prospects for agriculture bright with higher govt spending, farm exports

Indian agriculture may have been weathering a series of storms over the past one year, including a heatwave in...

UNDER MODI GOVT, India beats the world in medical infrastructure

With the term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi entering its 9th year, the effect of his government’s healthcare policies...

Modi government’s foreign policy has been transformative

As a result of the Narendra Modi government’s transformative foreign policy India today is no longer a supplicant in...

Accomplishing the ‘impossible’, the Modi way

Among contemporary politicians, few have the longevity in office that Narendra Modi does. Before nine years as Prime Minister,...

2019: The year that India regained its morality

Historical atrocities coupled with the passage of time allow moral inequities to creep into the fabric of society where...

Modi’s Kartavya Path eclipses Lutyens’ Delhi

On 28 May, the ninth anniversary of Narendra Modi’s regime Delhi is slated to begin on an auspicious note—the...

Nine years of committed development, innovation

The Narendra Modi government has proved that nothing is impossible if the intention is pure and determination is firm,...

The Fourth Battle of Panipat beckons Prime Minister Modi

Haryana is the site of some of the most consequential battles in the long history of India, including that...

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Ignored Living Heritage of Jammu Shivaliks

A wake-up call for policymakers and historians. Grandmother whom we called Bobo in Dogri had a massive badi (open hillside)...

Mahishaa

So You are done with the celebrations they organized for You? The pandhals, the poojas the mass incantations the fruits, flowers and incense, The bhog...

Tarun Tahiliani’s latest collection, Tasva, embodies the festive vibe

With the festive season upon us in full stride, everyone is on the lookout for standout sartorial choices to...

Jodhpur RIFF returns to Mehrangarh fort with 280 musicians...

Under the radiant full moon of Sharad Purnima, Jodhpur RIFF is returning to the Mehrangarh Fort, bringing together over...

ITC’s Avartana comes to the north with southern...

New Delhi: At its heart, ITC Maurya’s just-opened restaurant, Avartana is about elevating Southern Indian food to a fine...