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There’s a reason former US President Donald Trump enjoys more goodwill in India than he often does in his own country. It’s not just because he once called Prime Minister Narendra Modi “a tough negotiator.” It’s because Trump, unlike many others in the Western elite, recognized early on that Modi is not just another Third…
In a region fraught with history, hostility, and high-stakes diplomacy, ceasefires are never merely military decisions—they are geopolitical statements. The recently proposed ceasefire between India and Pakistan, reportedly brokered at the level of the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs), was less a diplomatic breakthrough than a product of Pakistan’s desperation and U.S. meddling. It…
It’s Day 4 of a war that Pakistan neither anticipated nor can afford. The Indian armed forces, operating with strategic clarity and unflinching precision, have launched a series of targeted strikes that have left Pakistan’s military infrastructure in tatters. Major airstrips—including one perilously close to the Pakistani Army and ISI headquarters—have been reduced to rubble….
The myth of Pakistan’s military parity with India is crumbling spectacularly, and in full global view. In what can only be described as one of the most decisive displays of military dominance in the subcontinent’s history, India has not only retaliated against cross-border terror attacks but has taken the fight deep into enemy territory. Pakistan,…
When Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy declared that the state was bankrupt, he wasn’t joking. In fact, he seemed to revel in the rare political act of public self-pity—more fit for a stand-up routine than a Chief Minister’s address. On the eve of a potential strike by TSRTC unions, Revanth took the stage not…
By striking deep inside Pakistan under Operation Sindhoor, India has once again demonstrated that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, bold decisions are not just possible—they are inevitable. The targeted assaults on terror camps belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), operating with impunity under the patronage of Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar, caught the…
When the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) convenes an emergency meeting and its outcome is not vague diplomatic jargon but pointed questions—like whether Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind the Pahalgam terror attack, you know something has shifted. At long last, the UNSC appears to have called Pakistan’s bluff. The closed-door 90-minute session, held at Pakistan’s behest, ended…
At a time when India is preparing a decisive response to Pakistan after the ISI-sponsored Pahalgam terror attack, the Centre must not ignore an equally dangerous threat festering within its borders. West Bengal, under Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC), has become a hotspot of lawlessness, minority appeasement, and administrative collapse. Also, demographic changes are taking…
Seventy-eight years of Independence, and here we are: still begging, bargaining, and brawling over caste-based reservations. You’d think after nearly eight decades, the nation would have moved from “upliftment” to empowerment. But no—the Congress, that grand old party of grander old ideas, is now flirting with the idea of 42% reservation for Backward Communities alone….
Can there be a more absurd, crude joke than the recent statement made by former Bangladeshi Major General (Retd) A.L.M. Fazlur Rahman? In a bizarre outburst, Rahman—once aligned with Bangladesh’s interim administration—claimed that if India were to attack Pakistan, Bangladesh would invite China to occupy seven of India’s northeastern states. Let’s be clear: this isn’t…
