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 […]
Independence OR Fear
As we wish Happy Independence Day this year, are we really happy! I am afraid I am not. Rather I join the anger of the doctors protesting on streets across the nation for what happened to the young lady doctor at RG Kar Government hospital in Kolkata on the night of August 9. Another horrific […]
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 […]
The churn in Indian Politics
There have always been times in history when politics has been seen standing at vantage points. Elections 2024 was one of them. Interestingly the maths in Parliament and Indian politics had an element of paradox. The descendence of Modi and BJP with a near half way majority of 240 seats in Lok Sabha and the ascendence of Rahul Gandhi and Congress with 99 seats, up from its lowest number a decade back, was hope inducing. The last 10 years, Modi ruled as a despot with socialist narrative and a capitalist approach. Everything was Modified. Schemes, government programmes, media, even Stadiums.
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.”
The murky road to Election 2024, full 10 years
The verdict of 2024 election by the people of our great country was a one that will be remembered in history for reasons that were born from a decade of experiments, misadventures, lies, polarization, selling false promises and reducing a whole nation to becoming a nation of one man worship to the level of insanity […]
Let people exert a free choice, fairly, Mr Prime Minister
When the Prime Minister of the country starts spewing hate speeches in his rallies, when he talks of mangal sutras in danger and household cash being distributed to infiltrators, (god knows where he has got it from), when he starts giving selective interviews to media outlets (ref to not a single Press Conference in 10 […]