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There is a growing and dangerous trend in Indian media: giving oxygen to every bizarre claim made by two leaders who thrive on misinformation—Donald Trump and Rahul Gandhi. One is the US President, Donald Trump’s desperate for relevance; the other, the forever-in-waiting crown prince of the Nehru–Gandhi dynasty, Rahul Gandhi. Both repeatedly peddle falsehoods, hoping…
Sportsmanship is the backbone of global sport. And when one nation repeatedly tramples on basic etiquette, decorum, and respect for the game, it becomes an international embarrassment that demands firm action. Today, that rogue actor is unmistakably Pakistan — more specifically, Mohsin Naqvi, Pakistan’s former Interior Minister, current PCB chairman, and by default Chairman of…
Last week witnessed a wave of bold assertions on social media claiming that the Union Home Ministry, under Amit Shah, has quietly executed 18 sweeping decisions in Jammu & Kashmir within just ten days. If true, these moves would represent a seismic shift in power dynamics, governance structures, and even the region’s demographic architecture. Yet…
When Donald Trump declared that Kirana Hills in Pakistan was poised for fresh nuclear tests, it wasn’t a moment of strategic clarity—it was a spectacle of confusion, fear-mongering, and hypocrisy. What exactly is he trying to achieve? And whom is he trying to scare? Trump insists that Pakistan is about to conduct underground nuclear tests….
In the run-up to the crucial Jubilee Hills bypoll, Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has chosen a deeply controversial political script — questioning the Indian Army’s recent Operation Sindoor, a successful counter-terror action across the border that the nation widely saluted. Linking national security with local electoral arithmetic is dangerous territory. But to many…
For decades, the politics of the Telugu states were a closed club — dominated by regional satraps and sustained by welfare populism and caste arithmetic. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), once dismissed as a northern import, has now stormed into this once impregnable arena, changing the tone, texture, and trajectory of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana…
It’s election season again — that time when suddenly every political party discovers the existence of “minorities.” And by minorities, of course, they mean only one community — Muslims. The rest, like Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, or Parsis, might as well be invisible. Their votes apparently don’t come in bulk or swing margins. Political mathematics,…
Why Bihar’s Minority Math May Seal NDA’s Fate — Not INDIA’s As Bihar heads toward its crucial assembly polls, all eyes are on the state’s most unpredictable vote bank — the 18% Muslim electorate. The battle lines are drawn, alliances are firm, and the question echoing through Patna’s humid air is deceptively simple: Who’ll split…
Pakistan is visibly rattled. India’s announcement of Exercise Trishul — a large-scale tri-service military operation off the Gujarat coast and in the sensitive Sir Creek sector — has triggered unease in Islamabad at a time when the country is grappling with multiple crises on its own soil. For India, the drill is routine strategic preparedness….
When the news broke that a Delhi High Court judge’s residence had turned into a vault of burnt currency, India didn’t just see a fire—it saw the moral decay of an institution once revered as the last bastion of integrity. Instead of ordering a police investigation, the Chief Justice of India chose an “internal inquiry”….
