Tories take a right turn and threat updates from MI5

Conspiracy theories are rife about an over-confident...

Pesticide recall, falling prices hit Punjab farmers

As KRBL handles the recall, Punjab farmers...

Congress keeps faltering against BJP in North

The BJP’s leadership, strategies, and public support...

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‘Israeli attack on Iran imminent, with US coordination’

New Delhi: Hezbollah was planning to launch ‘Conquer the Galilee’, which would have been an October 7, 2023 Hamas-like attack on Israeli civilians, only...

Dodging a ballistic missile and other stories: An Israel diary

Tel Aviv/New Delhi: Nightlife is busy. Eateries are overflowing. But the yellow ribbons and posters saying ‘Bring Them Home Now’ are ubiquitous. The reference...

‘UNRWA’s other name is Hamas’

Tel Aviv/New Delhi: UNRWA has failed spectacularly to rehabilitate the Palestinian ‘refugees’, whose numbers have been increasing since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The involvement of...

The death road to Be’eri in Israel’s Gaza Envelope

Gaza Envelope/New Delhi: 'If they think we will go away from here, we will not,’ say Hamas attack survivors. Route 232 has a new name....

Nasrallah’s death a blow to haters of Jewish people

Tel Aviv/New Delhi: Israeli government officials are clear about the objective of the newly-launched Operation Northern Arrows—to ensure that the civilians in the north get...

‘China’s is the hand behind Hamas attack on Israel’

NEW DELHI: The evidence of PRC green-signalling Hamas’ attack on Israel goes beyond the circumstantial. Massive quantities of Chinese arms, ammunition, military grade communication and...

India shouldn’t give China a free pass at SCO or BRICS

Last week saw India, the incumbent president of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), hold the summit of heads of states and governments virtually. At...

PM’s outreach to the Pasmandas

The Prime Minister made certain important statements during his interaction with his party workers on Tuesday in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal. His answers to questions...

‘G-20 presidency will prove India can provide responsible global leadership’

We have emerged as a dynamic country, mostly because we have a dynamic approach to policymaking, which is different from what almost every other...

It comes naturally: Sharjah’s tryst with conservation

Sharjah, one of the seven emirates that comprise the United Arab Emirates, is making immense efforts towards the conservation of the fragile ecosystem of...

Fish, rice and more in Sharjah

Who would have thought that fish and rice would be a staple for Emiratis in Sharjah? Sharjah, one of the seven emirates that comprise...

Emirati days: A visit to Sharjah

The cultural capital of UAE is known for its art installations, and art and culture festivals the year round. Flanked by the Arabian Gulf on...

NYT’s coverage of India is almost Orientalist: Ashley Rindsberg

‘The New York Times did not cover the Holocaust. They published six front page articles in six years, about history’s most horrendous and heinous...

It’s a tropical paradise at the Emerald, Maldives

Around 40 minutes of seaplane ride from Maldives’ Velana international airport takes one to the quaintly named Fasmendhoo Island on the Raa Atoll. A...

Kagi, Maldives, an island of solitude and wellness

In the middle of the Indian Ocean, about an hour’s speedboat ride from Maldives’ Velana international airport is located the tiny white jewel known...

Garcetti and China: Unease over Biden’s ambassador pick for India

New Delhi: Eric Garcetti, the mayor of Los Angeles, is an illustrious man. A star in the Democratic Party, he is close to US President...

‘Maldives is open for tourism and a safe haven for travellers’

‘Maldives was granted the “Safe Travel” stamp by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and Velana International Airport received the health accreditation ahead...

True blue ocean: A Maldives diary

Maldives has a one-island one-resort concept. The islands are private and secluded, with arrivals from outside limited to guests for whom arriving with Covid...

As China lashes out, everyone has to be concerned: Gordon Chang

New Delhi: Only “a few people in senior Communist Party circles truly know what is behind China’s new aggressiveness, what is now known as...

Caught between India and China, Lanka worries about blowback

Sources close to Sri Lanka’s power centre say that the way the political scenario is evolving in their country should make India wary.   New...

Chup chap kamal chhap: How Mamata’s citadel came under siege

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha election results from West Bengal are more a story of Trinamool Congress’ stunning downfall than of Bharatiya Janata Party’s...

Vishwanath Corridor will be ready by June 2021: CEO of Kashi temple trust

‘We have paid every single person who has been shifted out of this place, including the illegal encroachers.’   Varanasi: In the heart of the ancient...

Last mile delivery in Varanasi: A diary

If government for the poor is the avowed aim of the PM, there is no doubt that it is also helping him carve out...

Modi’s Varanasi sun rises in East UP

BJP is banking on Varanasi, which is Purvanchal’s religious, cultural and commercial nerve centre, to do well in the region.   Varanasi: Varanasi is star-struck, love-struck...

Politics is about chemistry, which is in favour of BJP: Manoj Sinha

‘I hope all sections of society vote for development. Much work has been done by the Modi government for the poor, the farmers and...

Development puts up a stiff challenge to caste in Ghazipur

Like elsewhere in Varanasi’s vicinity, road building activities are going on everywhere in Ghazipur.   Ghazipur: On the eastern fringes of Uttar Pradesh, where the state...

Assam worries if dying fires of identity politics stoked again

CAB has given rise to fears among Assam’s indigenous population of becoming a minority in their own land.   Guwahati / New Delhi: The Citizenship Amendment...

CAB not an issue, development is, so BJP will sweep: Assam Minister

‘Congress is playing a double game. Rahul Gandhi or Congress party is saying something different in Brahmaputra Valley and something different in Barak Valley.’   Guwahati:...

BJP facing CAB headwinds in Assam

But for its insistence on pursuing the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), BJP would have swept Assam, easily. Now it is working hard to win...

Song and dance and smartphones, an Assam diary

The most vocal supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Guwahati invariably turned out to be migrants either from Uttar Pradesh or from Bihar.   Guwahati:...

Khilonjiya issue bothers educated Gauhati

Thanks to BJP’s CAB move, Upamanyu Hazarika is getting some traction among Gauhati’s educated elite, making BJP’s harshest critics and opponents hopeful.   Guwahati: Guwahati, or...

Bengal gears up for Mamata Didi vs Uncle Modi in sullen silence

Kolkata/New Delhi: Something is going on in Bengal. In silence, in hushed tones, in drawing room discussions, face to face chats, through WhatsApp forwards—far...

Voices from the ground: A Telangana election diary

The young state will hold its first ever Assembly elections on 7 December.   HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI:   LAND WOES IN -VEMULAGHAT Around 90 km from Hyderabad, in the...

Naidu’s plan is to make KCR part of the Congress-TDP front: BJP

‘KCR laid a trap right from day one, and knowingly or unknowingly BJP went into it. The trap was to be friendly with the...

We will win a minimum of 80 seats: TRS

‘The CM’s welfare schemes have benefited 1.5 crore people.’   HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: In Telangana, even rivals of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) admit in private that they...

We will get 60-plus seats on our own: Congress

‘Congress is a grand old party. We have experienced leaders. Saying that Congress is being remotely controlled by Chandrababu Naidu, is completely false.’   HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: Congress...

Perception battles reality in Telangana

HYDERABAD: The run-up to the Telangana Assembly elections is turning out to be a battle of perceptions, much before the actual battle is fought,...

State of Despair: A Bengal Diary

Bengal has discovered the shortcut to happiness: long leaves and non-stop festivities.   Bengal is worried. In almost every second conversation in the state, a latent...

Lies, damned lies and perception

Thomson Reuters Foundation damns India in a poll based on perceptions, and not on data.   Who would have thought that the venerable Thomson Reuters Foundation...

Lies, damned lies and perception

Thomson Reuters Foundation damns India in a poll based on perceptions, and not on data.   Who would have thought that the venerable Thomson Reuters Foundation...

Lies, damned lies and perception

Thomson Reuters Foundation damns India in a poll based on perceptions, and not on data.   Who would have thought that the venerable Thomson Reuters Foundation...

Lingayat votes alone will not decide a government: Settar

‘The clash between Lingayats and Veerasaivas is bound to aggravate. The rivalry between the mathas representing these sections is also likely to intensify, but...

Iraq receives $30 billion pledge for reconstruction, India ready to help

The international community got together in Kuwait this week, at the initiative of the Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, to pledge...

Gujarat was not about Rahul or Congress, it was about BJP vs BJP

Now that paeans have been sung to Rahul Gandhi’s “moral victory” in Gujarat, it’s time to do a quick check of what the Assembly...

Gujarat was not about Rahul or Congress, it was about BJP vs BJP

Now that paeans have been sung to Rahul Gandhi’s “moral victory” in Gujarat, it’s time to do a quick check of what the Assembly...

Gujarat was not about Rahul or Congress, it was about BJP vs BJP

Now that paeans have been sung to Rahul Gandhi’s “moral victory” in Gujarat, it’s time to do a quick check of what the Assembly...

BJP confident OBCs have blunted Hardik factor in Gujarat

Information coming from Gujarat suggests that there may have been a massive consolidation of OBC (Other Backward Classes) votes in favour of the Bharatiya...

‘Think 2019, don’t delay reforming GST’

The twin measures of demonetisation and Goods and Services Tax have dealt a blow to trade in Gujarat, particularly to the jewellery and textile...

Congress has messed up second phase ticket distribution: Shankarsinh Vaghela

Former Gujarat Chief Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela, who quit the Congress earlier this year and resigned from the state Assembly, has formed a new party,...

Modi-powered BJP gears up for tough Gujarat contest

Gujarat appears to have developed into a contest between the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Congress, ahead of the 9 and 14...

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