So, the Congress high command has spoken. Randeep Surjewala, the party’s designated fireman, rushed in to douse the flames and announced with finality that there will be no change at the top. Siddaramaiah stays Chief Minister. This notwithstanding, the HC ordered a CBI probe into the Vallmiki Corporation scam, in which Siddaramaiah got a clean…
The mask of democracy in Pakistan is slipping—fast. With General Asim Munir now emerging as the de facto ruler, backed by a puppet coalition led by Shehbaz Sharif, Islamabad’s fragile civilian façade stands exposed. This isn’t just Pakistan’s familiar military overreach. This is the clearest indication yet that the country is hurtling toward a thinly…
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Indian astronaut Shubanshu Shukla aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, it wasn’t just a ceremonial gesture. It was a reaffirmation of a national ambition—India’s determined march towards becoming a global space power. His words weren’t hollow optics; they were filled with vision, purpose, and a call…
In 1976, during the dark days of the Emergency, Indira Gandhi’s regime smuggled two loaded words— “secular” and “socialist”—into the Preamble of the Indian Constitution through the 42nd Amendment. It wasn’t just a cosmetic change. It was a calculated move to distort India’s civilizational identity, weaponize the Constitution for vote-bank politics, and suppress the majority…
That New Bharat won’t sign silence on terrorism was loud and clear at the just-concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in China. In a rare but resolute act of diplomatic defiance, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh refused to sign the joint communique at the SCO Defence Ministers’ conclave. Why? Because the document deliberately omitted any…
In a watershed moment for India’s ambitions in human space exploration, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Air Force has embarked on a 14-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the multinational Axiom-4 mission. This isn’t merely another lift-off—it’s a leap for India’s aspirations to become a full-fledged human spaceflight…
By re-inducting a tainted former cricketer to assist in the affairs of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), the Telangana High Court has stirred not just eyebrows but fundamental concerns about institutional memory, judicial consistency, and the larger principles of natural justice. The renaming of Vanka Pratap—whose record is already marred by disqualification in a conflict-of-interest…
Once the world’s highest recognition for peace, the Nobel Peace Prize is now a tarnished relic of its former self—confused, compromised, and increasingly irrelevant. What was once a beacon of neutrality and moral clarity has devolved into a cocktail of virtue-signaling, corporate pandering, and geopolitical gamesmanship. The rot set in quite visibly with the 2009…
Once again, the Narendra Modi government has demonstrated what efficient governance and resolute leadership look like in times of global crisis. As the spectre of full-scale war looms large in West Asia—with the United States formally joining Israel in striking Iranian nuclear sites—India wasted no time in securing the lives of its citizens trapped in…
There was a time not too long ago when Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) was mocked as a bloated, slow-moving behemoth. It was dubbed irrelevant in an era where private sector players—some politically favoured—were thought to hold the key to India’s defence and aerospace future. The same HAL is now writing a bold new chapter in…
