Japan should be urged to reveal the truth about its own citizens. The unhappiness of Netaji’s family is justified On 18 August 1945, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose (b. 23 January 1897) walked out of the gates of history to become India’s most enduring mystery. In subsequent decades, India’s most … Read More
A huge scandal – Babus and corrupt scientists ruling the roost Seed multinationals are so confident that they can ‘manage’ the Indian political class that, for over a decade now, they have got ‘committed scientists’ in Indian public institutions to work on Genetically Modified seeds in several food crops, including … Read More
The whereabouts of India’s controversial Islamist preacher, Zakir Naik, have become a test case of the Muslim world’s commitment to anti-terrorism in deeds, not words. Wanted by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai for his alleged role in a terror case, Naik, last spotted in Malaysia where … Read More
Has the Government of India looked at all the aspects of introducing GM Mustard? The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has put its organisational weight behind the protection of native seeds and protested attempts by vested interests for hasty introduction of GM Mustard, which has the potential to damage in perpetuity … Read More
Trump trains guns at Iran, terrorism and completely ignores Pakistan The sensational events of 11 September 2001 for the first time awakened the United States and the West to India’s lonely decades-long fight against Islamist terror, which menace has only grown since. India, however, found only a mention among victims … Read More
Critics are savaging the Pakistani defence strategy A new legal team is now being considered on priority basis Two successive Indian victories in the ‘Kulbhushan Jadhav’ case at the International Court of Justice have put immense pressure on Islamabad to disregard the verdict following domestic consternation over the defeat. Having … Read More
By signing CPEC, is Pakistan signing away its freedom to China? Will the elite of Pakistan take a cut and sign anything? Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif may have received an exceptionally warm welcome when he arrived in Beijing on May 13, 2017 for the Border Road Initiative (BRI) summit, … Read More
The order of the seven judge bench of the Supreme Court, gagging media coverage of any comments by Justice C.S. Karnan of the Calcutta High Court is inadequate to spare the blushes of the august court which felt driven to sentence a sitting judge to six months imprisonment for contempt … Read More
Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi are in a blue funk, unable to explain their illegal takeover of the assets of the National Herald Group in 2012, by transferring its shares to a company, Young India, in which they control 76 per cent stake. Briefly, … Read More
Although Indian national Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, tried and sentenced to death by a Pakistan military court on April 10, 2017 for allegedly being an Indian spy in Balochistan, has won a temporary reprieve with the intervention of the International Court of Justice, the road ahead is treacherous. Islamabad has … Read More
