Pakistan has expressed “serious concern” over India’s controversial draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, based on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, but experts say there is no merit in the claim.    As per an official release, Pakistan’s foreign affairs ministry said they have sent letters to the United Nations Secretary General and the President of the UN Security Council expressing “serious concerns” over Indian government’s efforts to introduce the […]

Whether you are a Modi bhakt or Modi hater, it goes without saying that it is hard to ignore the two years of Modi Government. I will not go into the nitty gritty of complicated survey and sentiment of investors. But as a common citizen of this country I would say that these two years have highlighted many facets of my country that I never thought was possible. I get […]

Islamic State (ISIS) recruits in India wanted to take advantage of the student movement that broke out in several cities after the arrest of JNU student union president Kanhaiya Kumar. On February 19, when Kanhaiya was in Tihar jail on sedition charges and students of several universities were holding demonstrations demanding his release, ISIS’s Ahmad Ali asked 19-year-old Ashiq Ahmad alias Raja of Hooghly, West Bengal, to infiltrate the movement […]

Presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump walked back on his threat to ban Muslims from entering the United States as he walked up Capitol Hill in Washington DC on Thursday to meet the party establishment and old guard that has deep reservations about his insurgent candidature, his inchoate statements, and his indeterminate ideology. Trump said in a radio interview on Wednesday that his repeated assertion about banning Muslims from coming […]

A day after the Uttarakhand Assembly floor test, in which Congress emerged as the winner, the central government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it will revoke President’s rule in the hill state. Appearing on behalf of the Centre, Attorney General told the apex court that it has been proved that former chief minister and Congress leader Harish Rawat has proved majority on the floor of the House. After […]

Fresh on the heels of the AugustaWestland VVIP Chopper deal/scam there are two other defence deal that is making the rounds. The similarity starts with the fact that even these two were signed during the Congress led UPA regime and BJP Govt is now probing the terms, authenticity and purpose of the deal. This probe has been ordered even as the Govt and the Opposition Congress party are engaged in […]

Sounding a word of caution to students on education loans, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Saturday said they should not fall prey to ‘unscrupulous schools’ which leave them with high debt and “useless degrees”. Observing that education at high quality research universities will remain expensive in near future, he said efforts should be made to make degrees affordable to all deserving students. One part of the solution is student loans, […]

With Donald Trump emerging as the Republican party’s most likely nominee for the U.S. presidency, we take a look at some of the controversies that his remarks generated during his campaign trail. Being in the running for the top job in the country doesn’t seem to have held him back from speaking his mind; the 69-year-old billionaire has been an equal-opportunity offender on the campaign trail, making inflammatory comments about […]

Pakistan’s snooping agency ISI is spying on Indian security forces using malwares through mobile gaming and music applications such as Top Gun, mpjunkie, vdjunky, talking frog, the government said on Tuesday. Responding to a question in Lok Sabha, minister of state for home affairs, Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary also said Pakistan’s spy agency was making efforts to trap ex-servicemen in the garb of providing job opportunities and financial aid for spying. “There […]

Here’s the most interesting details, including a total payment of 44 million euros (around Rs 330 crore at today’s exchange rates), of the most mysterious character in the VVIP chopper deal, which now has Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress hurling accusations at each other. Christian Michel, a British businessman, was paid millions of dollars by AgustaWestland. A large portion of the money paid by AgustaWestland to Michel is “completely disproportionate” […]