We will destroy India if it dares to impose war on us. Pakistan army is fully prepared to answer any misadventure of India,” said Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif In a fresh anti-India tirade, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has threatened to use nuclear weapons in case of war with India, saying his country has not made atomic device to display in a showcase. “We will destroy India if it […]

I am sure by now all of you must have read the transcript of Sushma Swaraj’s speech at the UN and even posted your comments on the huge big social network.  I feel the most important element that she highlighted was, “We will not be able to win against terrorism by making specious distinctions between your problems and mine, between terrorists who attack you and those who attack me. For […]

Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton took part in the first US presidential debate at Hofstra University on New York state’s Long Island. It is the first of three planned presidential debates. On creating and bringing back jobs Hillary Clinton took the first debate question from moderator Lester Holt, who asked about her plan to create better jobs for American workers. Clinton responded with her standard campaign promise […]

In the aftermath of the Uri attacks a lot of column space has been devoted on whether India should abrogate the 56-year old Indus Water Treaty. Some have even raised concerns about the potential fallout from China if indeed India annuls the treaty, the possible impact on India’s revenue and the like. So as the Prime Minister gets set to review the treaty, it’s often being seen as Modi’s vehicle […]

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, speaking on the Uri terror attack in which 18 soldiers were killed, conceded today that “something may have gone wrong”. He also asserted that he would “take steps to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.” “Obviously something must have been wrong…although I will not go into details of it. Obviously it’s a very sensitive matter. When something goes wrong, while you try to correct it you […]

The recent protests in Bangalore over the Cauvery water sharing brings to focus some deep set issues about the water crisis and sharing policies that have been chalked out thus far. More often than not water sharing in our country is a major political agenda, be it the Cauvery dispute, the Teesta issue or water dispute on the north western border states. But the fact is we need a long […]

“Personally pained at the developments,” he says. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday appealed for calm in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu following widespread violence in Karnataka and few incidents in Tamil Nadu on Monday after the Supreme Court refused to freeze its order to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. Mr. Modi said he was “personally pained at the developments.” “Violence cannot provide a solution to any problem. In a […]

One person was killed and three others were injured in police firing in Bengaluru as the Cauvery water dispute took a violent turn on Monday following a Supreme Court order to Karnataka to release 12,000 cusecs of water from the river to Tamil Nadu till September 20. The court had, on September 5, ordered the state to release 15,000 cusecs a day By late night, curfew was imposed in 16 […]

When 67-year-old Vatal Nagaraj takes to the streets, he turns every conceivable item — donkeys, commodes, vegetables, fire lamps, cattle, vehicles, footwear — into political expression. His talent for curating grounds for protest could give an inferiority complex to most activists. As leader of the Kannada Para Okkoota, a federation of pro-Kannada organisations, Nagaraj has called for a state-wide bandh on 9th September. Nagaraj called this particular bandh after the […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a swipe at Pakistan on Monday, telling leaders of the world’s top economies that they must isolate and sanction the “one single nation in South Asia” that is spreading “agents of terror” in the region. Without naming India’s nuclear-armed foe, Modi told the concluding session of a G20 summit that his government appreciated the steps to combat the financing of terrorism, which was being used […]