The unlikely heroes of India’s electric vehicles revolution

Ten years ago, India’s streets were filled...

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

Once lauded for its freedom, openness, and...

Military modernisation is Taiwan’s need

Taiwan must first increase its defence budget....

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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...

Development is supreme, not caste

Once again, exit polls have failed to be an accurate predictor of the results of an election. They forecast a drubbing for the BJP...

Never again another Holocaust

It was unknown until now that Mehbooba Mufti had such an overflow of emotion towards the recently killed leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. Perhaps...

Contrast PoK with rest of Kashmir

As has been said, in a democracy, it is the ballot which should determine governance options and not the bullet. In Jammu & Kashmir,...

India must aim High in Tech

In the early 1990s, while Dell was sniffing around in a leafy, laidback city in Karnataka named Bangalore, a news item by John Ward...

EDITORIAL: Resolve the impasse over Philadelphi corridor

As suggested by the present writer on X (a platform that has been transformed at great cost by Elon Musk from what it was,...

Last chance for Mamata Banerjee

Bengal and the Bengali people are among the most precious of jewels within the firmament of India, which is a Union of States. India...

President Zelenskyy, please heed PM Modi

In the United States, partisan politics has reached a possibly unprecedented low point where partisan politics is concerned. Unconcerned about the fact that he...

When pushed down, get back up

We are a nation of 1.4 billion. Nothing is beyond our potential to achieve. Look at Narendra Damodardas Modi. He was born in a...

Harris must reverse downslide in India-US relations

Not just Hunter Biden but other members of President Joe Biden’s family have repeatedly been accused of being overly chummy with Ukraine and China....

India can bring Peace to Russia and Ukraine

Since it began raging on 24 February 2022 with the entry of Russian military personnel into Ukraine, the war has proceeded in a manner...

Jaishankar gives a reality check to Wang Yi

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met his PRC counterpart Wang Yi for the second time in a month on the sidelines of the 17th...

War on narcotics good news for India

Home Minister Amit Shah has announced a war on narcotics traffickers, and this is a welcome step. The use of narcotics by sections of...

NATO unable to act as Asia’s security provider

Among the more questionable actions of the Biden administration has been the manner in which the White House is seeking to expand the functioning...

Boris Johnson succeeds in humiliating Rishi Sunak

From the time when his nominee Liz Truss was ousted from the Prime Ministership and replaced by Rishi Sunak in October 2022, Boris Johnson...

Modi 3.0 firmly on track towards success

It ought not to have come as a surprise that Om Birla was nominated by the NDA led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to...

India indispensable to G7 in Indo-Pacific

Statements and writings emanating from influential strategists of the G7 emphasize about how important it is to retain western global primacy, remarks that several...

Voters are the deciders in democracy

Had the 2024 Lok Sabha election results gone the way predicted by some of the more erroneous exit polls and the BJP garnered close...

Essence of Secularism is Inclusivity

There are no exceptions where the practice of secularism is concerned, in case the term is properly rather than misleadingly applied. Should what took...

Kashmir chooses Ballot over Bullet

A precondition for the success of a democracy is that political parties that accept and work in accordance with democratic principles should be making...

Democracy is Advancing in India

More than 900 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections that are being held in seven phases,...

U.S. protestors seek to kneecap the IDF, Afghan style

In 2021, President Joe Biden kneecapped the Afghan National Army by chopping off all logistical assistance to it, even as he withdrew US forces...

The Calvary of Donald J. Trump

In an irony of sorts, among the numerous criminal charges filed against Donald John Trump is that he indulged in election interference. Judging by...

Elections will decide India’s future

By 4 June, the results of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections are almost certainly going to become public knowledge. Over 900 million eligible voters...

Gaza shows the Dangers of Extremism

Ever since Hamas executed or imprisoned whoever stood in political opposition to them in Gaza by 2007, it instituted a regime of learning designed...

Katchatheevu: Much ado about something

From the time the Viceroy of India, Lord Louis Mountbatten, was beseeched by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Council of Ministers to continue...

African-Americans deserve a better deal

A glance at Mary Trump shows the bloodline she shares with Donald J. Trump. The former and possibly next President of the United States,...

COUNTRY RANKINGS AS FARCE

Very recently, a “global institute” outlined an index which purported to show the “levels of happiness” in multiple countries. The results were comic. The...

Protection of minorities is no crime

It was decades ago when this columnist came across Mamata Banerjee. He was impressed by her forthright demeanour and simple attire, by the fact...

Post-extremist Gaza has a golden future

Hamas is a terror organisation whose multi-millionaire leaders and multi-billionaire backers reside in comfort in Qatar and other locations, while ordinary people throughout Gaza...

Angrez ko Hatao , Angrezi ko Nahin

Sri Lanka and Pakistan are examples of countries linked in the past to India that decided that once the British left, so should the...

Being Economical with the Truth

The editor of the Economist, Zanny Beddoes, has mourned the resilience of the Russian side since the 24 February 2022 invasion of Donetsk and...

Navy keeps the sea lanes safe

After more than a half-century of neglect, during the past decade, the importance of the Indian Navy has been acknowledged in matters of policy....

Biden remains fixated on Cold War 1.0

Volodymyr Zelenskyy won the Ukrainian Presidential elections on a platform of peace. Donetsk, Crimea and Lugansk had separated from the rest of Ukraine in...

Kashi, Mathura and Ayodhya

Sabka saath, sabka vikas. Sabka prayas. Vikas and Virasat. Such are among the tenets of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and they serve as guideposts...

Modi demonstrates Leadership in Action

Prime Minister Narendra Modi dreamt of the Ram Mandir arising in the very location that was the birthplace of Lord Rama, and during his...

‘Make in India’ makes the country safe

From the 1950s until the 1990s, mistrust of the private sector as an entirety (as distinct from favoured elements of it) restrained India from...

President Muizzu, don’t impoverish the Maldives

Policy needs to be made through reason rather than through emotion and prejudice. Whatever the cause, President Mohamed Muizzu of the Maldives appears to...

The Wonder that is Bharat that is India

It is difficult to understand why there is so much fear within a section of the academic community to the teaching of the entire...

Shri Ram belongs to all humanity

Satyen Pitroda, known as Sam to his friends, had during the Prime Ministership of Rajiv Gandhi made several contributions to the telecom sector in...

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