On America’s 249th birthday on 4 July 2025 President Donald Trump signed his signature bill that he called One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB or OBBA) into law with an ideological focus on a sweeping scale to make it the most consequential legislative package globally with impact on economic, environmental, healthcare, geopolitical, defence, energy and technology…
In a landmark achievement, scientists at IIT-Delhi and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) demonstrated quantum communication over a distance of more than 1 km via a Free Space Optical (FSO) link. Why is this milestone so important to India? I write this article on the popular demand of our readers to explain the significance…
The Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon-9 rocket lifted off majestically from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre today, 25 June 2025, at 12:01 IST with four crew onboard. While this is a small step for ISRO, it is a giant leap for Bharat because the SpaceX Dragon…
Despite the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi exposing his lie on a ceasefire claim in the Sindoor operation, President Trump continues to take credit for brokering peace between India and Pakistan, averting a nuclear war, an effort worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. In a tweet today, the 21 June 2025, he lamented the lack…
Most of the wars are fought over territorial disputes between two neighbouring countries, and a few were fought in the past because of the hegemonic attitude of either an individual (WWII) or countries (Cold War era) with the intention to dominate the world. The Iran-Israel war belongs to neither of them, nor is a war…
Los Angeles (LA) is burning today, not by the Californian wildfires but by the fire ignited by protesters in the streets by torching vehicles, attacking police, putting road blockades, and hoisting flags of different countries and burning the American flag. The fire erupted because of the high-handedness of Marines and National Guards deployed by President…
The inevitable has happened. An inconvenient friendship between the most powerful man in the world, Donald Trump, and the richest man, Elon Musk, lasted for seven months and turned them into bitter foes in a short period. That the relationship lasted this long, in itself, is surprising. They both seem to have believed that they…
It took just 72 hours to bring Pakistan to its knees begging for a ceasefire in Operation Sindoor that was launched by India in the early hours on 7 May 2025. Kudos to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving such an apt name to the operation to avenge the inhuman and heinous act of the…
The response of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to teach Pakistan a lesson is a deviation from his direct-action approach of “Gar mein gus ke mare gein”. This time he has changed his strategy that combines the virtues of both Chanakya and Sun Tzu. The former was a scholar, philosopher, and a royal advisor to Chandragupta…
Vox populi, vox Dei, meaning the voice of the people is the voice of God, is a Latin phrase that tells us that the real power lies with the people in a constitutional democracy where the rule of law prevails. Today, we are witnessing a tug-of-war between the three pillars of democracy – the legislature,…
