India is in discussions with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the potential sale of its advanced defence systems, including the supersonic BrahMos cruise missile, according to sources familiar with the matter. The talks, which have not been previously reported, are in the early stages but are progressing quickly, with both sides also exploring the […]
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Limits of India’s Strategic Elevation
For the last several years, India’s ruling elite and its cheerleaders in the strategic community sold one grand idea to the world: that India was no longer merely a South Asian state, but the central pillar of a new Indo-Pacific order. Washington, especially during Trump’s first term, appeared willing to indulge this imagination. The renaming […]
India’s Cockroach Party supporters bang plates to call for education minister’s resignation
Supporters of India´s viral Cockroach Janta Party banged steel plates with spoons in a protest Saturday to demand the resignation of the education minister over allegations of examination irregularities and repeated paper leaks. The protest near Parliament in New Delhi by hundreds of students and young supporters of the nascent movement added to the pressure […]
India: 59 people fall ill after eating street food, hospitalised
MUMBAI: At least 59 people were hospitalised after falling sick from eating contaminated street food sold at a roadside stall in the city of Bhiwandi in India’s Maharashtra state, local media reported on Friday. According to reports, the affected individuals consumed food from a street vendor the previous day before developing symptoms of food […]
The Weaponisation of Rivers and Water by India (Part I)
Somewhere in the upper reaches of the Chenab, beyond the snowfields of Lahaul-Spiti, engineers are drilling an 8.7-kilometre tunnel through a Himalayan mountain. When completed, it will silently redirect water that has flowed toward Pakistan for millions of years, channelling it instead into India’s Beas River system – away from the fields of Pakistani Punjab, […]
Meloni ‘Instagram duo’ remark to Modi goes viral
PARIS: A light-hearted exchange between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the G7 summit in France has gone viral on social media, drawing widespread attention from users around the world. The interaction took place ahead of the official group photograph of world leaders attending the summit. As the two […]
Bangladesh protests questioning of PM adviser in India
Bangladesh has formally protests to India after a senior adviser to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman was reportedly detained and questioned for several hours upon arrival at New Delhi’s international airport, adding fresh strain to already sensitive relations between the neighbouring countries. According to Bangladeshi officials, government strategy adviser Zahed Ur Rahman travelled to India to […]
Unreliable India: Deal or Double Game?
India’s foreign policy has long been marketed as “strategic autonomy.” However, deal with Ukraine has now exposed that slogan as calculated opportunism. While New Delhi continues to benefit from Russian oil, weapons, spares and strategic goodwill, it is quietly expanding defence cooperation with Moscow’s battlefield adversary Ukraine. India’s defense ties and technology exchanges with Ukraine […]
IWT violations by India put markhor under danger of extinction
As dawn breaks over the rugged mountains of Dasu in Upper Kohistan, a lone Kashmiri markhor carefully navigates a rocky cliff overlooking a valley carved by centuries of flowing water of River Indus. The endangered wild goat, famed for its majestic spiral horns and remarkable agility, has long depended on the freshwater streams and alpine […]
Edgbaston Ready for Pakistan–India Women’s T20 World Cup Clash as £46m Redevelopment Transforms Iconic Venue
One of England’s most historic cricket venues, Edgbaston Stadium, is preparing to host a blockbuster ICC Women’s T20 World Cup encounter between Pakistan and India, while simultaneously undergoing a landmark £46 million redevelopment project aimed at reshaping its future. The redevelopment is part of a long-term masterplan designed to transform Edgbaston into a year-round destination […]