So, India did not boycott Pakistan. Shocking, isn’t it? After weeks of TV anchors foaming at the mouth, hashtags trending like monsoon floods, and boycott warriors demanding blood instead of bat, Suryakumar Yadav’s men quietly walked onto the ground in Dubai, played their cricket, and handed Pakistan a thrashing that will sting longer than any…
Houston: President Donald Trump has decried immigration policy forged under his predecessor, Joe Biden, in the wake of the brutal beheading of an Indian-origin motel manager in Dallas, allegedly by an undocumented Cuban immigrant with a prior criminal record. Posting on Truth, his social media platform, Trump called the attacker an “Illegal Alien” who should…
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the three-day Combined Commanders’ Conference (CCC) of the armed forces at the Eastern Command headquarters here on Monday. The conference is the apex brainstorming forum of the armed forces, bringing together the nation’s top civil and military leadership to exchange views at the conceptual and strategic levels, a…
The Nobel Peace Prize was conceived to honour leaders who genuinely contribute to global harmony. But if ever a new category were to be created—a “Nobel Liar Prize”—no one would deserve it more than former US President Donald Trump. His record is not of ending wars or fostering peace, but of manufacturing lies, double standards,…
He is a freelance commentator and writer on politics, economy and security, with a special focus on China’s economy, and has held senior positions in government and industry. But show him the faintest whiff of Hinduism, Hindutva, or a certain shade from the orange end of the colour palette, and he goes ballistic. I have…
Dubai: What happens when one of the world’s most politically charged and intense sporting contests is played under the cloud of lingering hostility? Sunday’s India-Pakistan Asia Cup cricket match provided the answers. A seven-wicket win for India ended on a hard-edged note as their players refused the customary handshake with their counterparts from Pakistan after…
Dubai: Kuldeep Yadav’s craft and Axar Patel’s discipline was way beyond comprehension for a clueless group of Pakistani batters as India displayed absolute dominance to register a convincing seven-wicket victory in a lopsided Asia Cup match here on Sunday. Despite calls for boycotting the match from certain quarters as a mark of protest for the…
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Kolkata on Sunday evening on a two-day visit, during which he will inaugurate the 16th Combined Commanders’ Conference. This is Modi’s second visit to the state in less than a month. West Bengal is scheduled to go to the polls early next year. At the airport, the PM…
For more than a year, Manipur has stood wounded—its society scarred by the ethnic clashes between hill tribes and plains people, its politics in shambles after the resignation of a duly elected BJP government, and its image badly bruised. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally set foot in Imphal this week, it was not just…
For more than eleven years, Telangana’s cricketers have been left stranded—caught between the rot of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) reluctance to enforce its own constitutional order. It is time this denial ends. Telangana’s players deserve a clear pathway, and the Telangana Cricket Association (TCA)…
