In the last quarter of 2025, Afghanistan’s Taliban regime performed a political backflip and raced to repair and strengthen strategic and economic ties with India. By far the most stunning overture came from Industry and Commerce Minister Nooruddin Azizi who urged the Afghan Hindu and Sikh community which had fled … Read More
अभिव्यक्ति की स्वतंत्रता के नाम पर किसी भी तरह की मनमानी स्वीकार्य नहीं हो सकती। याद रहे कि भड़काऊ, कपटपूर्ण और उकसाने वाली बातों पर प्रतिबंध ही सभ्यता की आधारशिला है। ऐसे प्रतिबंध नागरिकों के मानवाधिकारों के संरक्षण के लिए अनिवार्य हैं और राष्ट्रीय संप्रभुता की नींव भी इन्हीं पर … Read More
The author argues that the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s cadaverous regime is inching towards an ignominious end, driven partly by its illegitimacy, partly by EU-NATO elites’ desire to continue the war, but above all by its unsustainable corruption Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s cadaverous regime is inching towards an ignominious end, … Read More
The author argues that the renewed debate on lowering the age of consent represents not progress but regression – a farcical replay of a tragic historical issue. In his essay, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx observed, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce”. Marx was … Read More
एसएमई मालिकों में लगभग आधी संख्या महिला उद्यमियों की है। इसके विपरीत तालिबान शासन अपनी महिला आबादी को लगभग पूरी तरह से शक्तिहीन करने को उचित ठहराने के लिए शरिया का हवाला देता है। सऊदी अरब ने भी कुरान और सुन्नाह (पैगंबर मुहम्मद की परंपराओं) को देश का संविधान घोषित … Read More
On a surface view, the appearance of posters stating: ‘I❤️M’ seemed harmless, even innocuous. But when, on September 28, Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahali, Imam Eidgah, Qazi Lucknow and executive member of the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board, criticised the development, deeper introspection seemed necessary. Sometime towards the end of … Read More
The Riyadh-Islamabad security pact, possibly including Pakistan’s nuclear umbrella, is a White House-backed signal to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to control his aggression in the Gulf region. The invitation to other Gulf countries to join the alliance decisively completes Islamabad’s tilt towards its western neighbours as originally envisaged by … Read More
श्रीनगर की प्रसिद्ध हज़रतबल दरगाह के जीर्णोद्धार पट्टिका पर राष्ट्रीय प्रतीक की उपस्थिति ने ईद-ए-मिलाद (पैगंबर का जन्मदिन, 5 सितंबर) पर मस्जिद जाने वाले कश्मीरी मुसलमानों में आक्रोश भड़का दिया और अशोक चक्र को निशाना बनाकर तोड़फोड़ की घटना ने पूरे देश की भावनाओं को ठेस पहुंचाई। यह मुद्दा इस्लाम … Read More
The author argues that as Cold War 2.0 deepens, Trump seems to favour some of the alignments of the post-World War II era; however, he disapproves of the European Union and is undermining the consolidated NATO-centric Western bloc of Cold War days. New Delhi has received the news of the … Read More
Amidst allegations of voter manipulation and institutional capture, Bihar emerges as the flashpoint in a deeper conflict testing Bharat’s democratic resolve, raising fears of orchestrated unrest with long-term national consequences The core issue, as Rahul Gandhi said on January 15, 2025, at the inauguration of the Congress’ new headquarters, Indira … Read More
