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A propaganda war between Russia and West over Ukraine

President Zelenskyy claims that thousands of Russian soldiers have been killed and Ukrainian forces have destroyed scores of Russian tanks,...

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Economic prospects for India in 2022

The prospect of a high-end semiconductor industry being established in India is most encouraging. Pledges from large business houses are...

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Cryptocurrency: Its time has come

Ten odd years since Bitcoin, the best known of the cryptocurrencies started in 2009, Indians own 60% of the world’s...

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A richer India will be a safer India

India’s own gradual ascendancy into a leading economy has sharpened rivalries. Money, money, money/Always sunny/In the rich man’s world ABBA...

People recite the party oath in front of a screen shown Chinese President Xi Jinping during an event marking the 100th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China at the Memorial of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Sh

Red China’s pandemic crime will wreck Xi’s ambitions

Assuming the US report says Covid-19 is a Chinese-made virus developed at the WIV that deliberately combined bat viruses with...

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A toolkit for those who are Woke

Being Woke is to stay resolute and undeterred. Knowing that a passed over order is mourning its shocking irrelevance. The...

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Parties cannot divide castes and piggyback on minorities anymore

The deliberately engendered mistrust, even the so-called lack of ‘identity politics’ bragged about by Bengali Communists, has been pushed aside....

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Ramp up defence production facilities to join the top three

If India buys 12% of the world’s arms exports by value, but exports just 0.17% of it, there is a...

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Splittism is nightmare of the Red Emperor

Lately, some retired Chinese generals want Xi to change course. They want him to stop the aggression on the borders...

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Intensifying conflict with China is not WWIII

Xi Jinping has mistaken surreptitious land grabs over the years as conquest. And now after the thrashing his forces received...

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No equivalence between U.S. riots, Hong Kong situation

CCP is on a planned mission to subjugate and destroy Hong Kong.   “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, my...

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Infiltrator vote banks under threat from CAA, NPR, NRC

What could not be done by democratic means is being attempted via cooked up and ultimately illegal protest.   Speech...

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Economy is down: Bring back primacy of cash

The job of government is to facilitate growth in the economy, not make the whole country swim upstream, however laudable...

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Gear changing from a soft power to a hard one

It is backed by wherewithal including economic power, military prowess, formal and informal alliances etc.   Bill Clinton administration staffer...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman holds budget papers as she leaves her office to present the federal Budget in Parliament in New Delhi, on Friday. REUTERS

Budget 2019: Infrastructure stays the ticket to ride

FM’s Budget speech covered an enormous amount of ground while being audaciously low on specifics and timelines. But it was...

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Land of a thousand winks

The new populism, inclusive of a higher profile in foreign affairs, defence purchases, infrastructure development, farming sops, might well stretch...

Roads are being widened between Ghazipur and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.

Build it and they will come

India, with its self-image and identity itself in transit, is clearly not doing enough to exploit its opportunities. Its preference...

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Straight bat Modi 2.0 will drive hard for a ‘New India’

His vision puts national self-interest first—an India no longer divorced from the Bharatvarsha it sprang from.   Despite the name-calling...

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Competitive poverty alleviation is the ticket

Is the electorate mature enough to see through the short-term benefits of doles?   Will the proposed Nyuntam Aay Yojana...

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Modi gets results from a Kong-strength foreign policy

India has earned the respect of the world afresh. This has resulted in global responsiveness to India’s concerns.   External...

New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi briefs media persons ahead of the Budget Session 2019-20 of Parliament, in New Delhi on Jan 31, 2019. Also seen Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal and Vijay Goel. (Photo: IA

Bench-strength crucial for delivery for Modi 2.0

Size and quality of political access pool is important. There is a need to induct people based on executive merit....

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers prayer at the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu

PM Modi must deliver on Hindutva, Ram temple

He needs to reassert a commitment to the BJP’s core beliefs. This will greatly encourage the Hindu masses.   Whenever,...

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Have big powers voted Modi into a second term already?

Modi has acquired the stature of a man of destiny globally, and is still very popular at home. He appears...

New Delhi: Congress activists stage a demonstration against the Central Government over Rafale deal in New Delhi on Nov 2, 2018. (Photo: IANS)

Has Opposition peaked too soon?

Its attempts to form a Mahagatbandhan suffers from a lack of conviction, and an agenda beyond ousting Modi.   The...