Imagine a nation that waits to be split apart as if to be shared amoungst the winners as the spoils of a war. The wolves are already at work. Syria just had its moment of purge with President Bashar Al Assad fleeing after rebels took over Damascus on December 8, 2024 following the Israel Hamas […]
Consular officials attacked in Canada’s Hindu temple, India says won’t be deterred
Toronto/New Delhi: In a latest development in the increasing acrimonious Canada India relations, triggered by Trudeau, violent clashes erupted on Sunday during a visit by Indian consular officials to a Hindu temple in Brampton, a Toronto suburb. Footage shared on social media shows groups of demonstrators, including supporters of Khalistan and others waving India’s national […]
India China should speak in one voice; welcome talks but no role: Russian Envoy Denis Alipov
New Delhi: After the BRICS Summit in Kazan on October 22-24, 2024, Ambassador of Russian Federation to India, Denis Alipov said, ‘We have welcomed the meeting between leaders of India & China in Kazan,’ and that Russia has played no role in organizing the meeting. He said, ‘Russia has always wished that India and China […]
India Canada relations nosedive with ‘Person of Interest’ allegations, Diplomats shunted
New Delhi: In a riveting development in the last 24 hours on October 14, relations between India and Canada plummeted a new low. The row between New Delhi and Ottawa over the allegations by Canada over the killing of Nijjar, a Canada based Khalistani terrorist, have been flying since 2023 when Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau […]
What brings Maldives Muizzu to New Delhi now
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu’s efforts to reset ties with India, despite his earlier China-leaning rhetoric, reflects a change of heart or seems to be so. While Muizzu’s electoral campaign emphasized reducing India’s influence, his latest decision to engage closely with India as president highlights the geopolitical and economic realities facing the Maldives validating that in […]
The dynamics of a Bangladesh upside down
India’s neighborhood presently is rather fragmented. After Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, Bangladesh is the third neighbor witnessing a regime change ridden with violence and unrest, with similar playbook. A popular uprising against an unpopular leader, followed by his/her fleeing, mobs taking over the Palace/Parliament spaces, loot, vandalize and destroy public property, with security forces no […]
Indians misled into Russian Army services; Swiss Peace summit a tamasha: Russian Charge de Affairs Roman Babushkin
In the follow up of PM Modi’s Russia visit on the 8-9 July, Charge d’ Affaires of Russia in India, Roman Babushkin addressing media called the visit ‘historic and game changing’. He said that the world was watching it and it was a significant event between “two independent global powers.”
Farmers 2.0, Shahrukh and Putin, a blockbuster week
The farmers have marched back to Delhi with their demands, for which they sat on roads leading to the national capital with their tractors coverted into cabins for close 13 months in 2020-21 in the chilling months of winter. The protest is to nudge the govt to fulfill their demands of which making MSP legal, […]
A La Lakshdweep vs Maldives
I may or may not be a Modi die hard fan but the recent India Maldives episode has made me sit up , dust my hands, adjusted my collars and say, ‘Yeh mera India, I love my India’. A social media post of PM Modi in Lakshadweep has turned the neighbor called Maldives, a hyper […]
For Maldives under Muizzu..India or China, choose it will have to
The swearing in of Muizzu as President of Maldives is yet a turning of another leaf as much for India Maldives relations as for regional strategic dynamics. Indian former minister Kiren Rijuju who attended the ceremony as rep of Modi government was told in no uncertain terms that Indian Defense personnel should move out of […]