The failure of the Crisis Management Group (CMG) headed by Cabinet secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha, to spring into action after terrorists attacked the Pathankot Air Base in the wee hours of January 2, and to make its presence known and felt in the succeeding four days that it took the … Read More
The Bharatiya Janata Party must utilise the opening provided by the deterioration in Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s health, which caused him to be rushed to the capital’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences before he could install daughter Mehbooba Mufti as successor, to rework the unequal … Read More
It would be an incorrect analysis to see Modi’s surprise visit to Pakistan entirely from the prism of ties between India and Pakistan. It was also prompted by international developments affecting India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s apparently impromptu visit to Lahore on Christmas day is readily explained by the need … Read More
Within 72 hours, soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns from an official visit to Russia, Union Finance Minister and Information & Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley will have to submit his resignation from the Union Cabinet. Jaitley’s position – already sticky after the Prime Minister was perceived as hinting that … Read More
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi’s attempt to portray a court summons in a case of dubious takeover of the properties of a public limited company has failed the first test of sycophancy. The cloying media acolytes and intellectuals who spared no effort to promote the Amethi … Read More
The Paris climate change conference overcame a decade of international failure to conclude with a pledge from all 195 nations present that each would lower greenhouse gas emissions to help stave off global warming that is threatening the future of the planet. The agreement was a miracle after the collapse … Read More
Some Jain temples and institutions were peremptorily razed to the ground and Jain saints summarily evicted from the historic Bhadragiri Hills in Bagalkote district of central Karnataka on December 2, on grounds of alleged encroachment of government land, even though the area is renowned as a major pilgrimage centre of … Read More
The 450-year-old Grand Trunk Road linking Kolkata with Kabul exemplifies the connectivity – and security – that once bound India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in a web of economic prosperity, and underlines the imperative for land access and united action against terrorism for regional stability and development. Terrorism being the greatest … Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious global warming initiative, International Solar Alliance (ISA), aimed at sharply curtailing the world’s carbon footprint, received a triumphal boost with French President Francois Hollande joining hands with India to mobilise $1trillion worth of investment to develop solar power worldwide, by 2030, with focus on tropical … Read More
Instead of reaching out to Russia after unjustifiably downing one of its planes on the Syrian border, Turkey rushed to the Nato with its side of the story. It’s obvious that Ankara wants to settle scores with Moscow The downing of a Russian Su-24 warplane that ostensibly made a 17-second … Read More
