Maneesh Pandeya

Kamala Harris adds ‘diversity colour’ to Biden campaign

August 13, 2020

US politics made history in 2008 when the Democratic Party declared Barack Obama a presidential candidate. On Tuesday, Obama’s then running mate and Vice President Joe Biden selected Indian-origin California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate this fall, which the US mainstream media, the African and Indian-American media have...

China is a trump card for President Trump in November elections

August 11, 2020

President Donald Trump is fighting the battle of his lifetime. His political fortunes, which have been on the slide since the Covid-19 outbreak as the US became the mostaffected nation in the world, are witnessing interesting twists of late. Interestingly, there are some favourable trends emerging for Trump. If some...

India must up its game in neighbourhood

August 8, 2020

India’s growing global stature is giving sleepless nights to its neighbours, hence some occasional disturbances to rattle New Delhi’s calm is natural. After Nepal raised the map row with India, threatening New Delhi’s long-standing diplomatic ties with the Himalayan nation, now it is Pakistan’s turn to prick India. On Friday,...

Lord Ram all set to take Times Square by storm

August 5, 2020

Setting the Indian media abuzz and keeping the coronavirus off primetime debates with the upcoming Ayodhya revelry on Thursday, Lord Ram is ready to take New York City’s iconic Times Square by storm. Indian-Americans and followers of India’s religious and spiritual offerings have been ecstatic. The giant billboards of Times...

India must skill its youth on a priority basis

July 31, 2020

India needs to get skilled at tapping skills at a young age for the right market demand. Hundreds of foreign companies, including over 200 firms from the United States (as reported in the media), are planning to set up their manufacturing bases and are ready to invest heavily in India...

Time to build a stronger bridge between New Delhi & Seoul

July 30, 2020

India’s diplomatic and strategic influence is rising in East Asia and in the Pacific region beyond Japan and Australia. Call it a new diplomatic order compelled out of the coronavirus pandemic and the new shifting alignments due to many nations reconsidering their ties with China, India seems to have generated...

Time for honest and innovative lockdown

July 21, 2020

Is this the time to go back to strict lockdown again? The argument may sound absurd and unwarranted for many raising the bogey of livelihoods, migrant misery and economic slump. But, this is a harsh reality staring us and for those who are not ready to see the reality, which...

India invites U.S. to invest in energy under ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ mission

July 18, 2020

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi was laying the strong pitch for “Aatmanirbhar Bharat” (self-reliant India) to the UN and gave an outline of the efforts made by India to fight the coronavirus pandemic, simultaneously around the same time on Friday evening, India and the US were finalising a comprehensive energy...

Beijing needs to improve its relations with neighbours

July 17, 2020

Beijing and Washington, already at loggerheads over rising trade rifts to human rights issues in Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang, resulting in the US sanctions against Chinese officials, are not ready to mend fences. Particularly the US administration, currently facing the presidential election heat, will not mend ties with China...

India falters on Covid after a good start

July 16, 2020

Coronavirus took nearly three months to affect 400,000 humans worldwide, but in just one week the world reported more than 400,000 cases. In India too, the situation was well under control till six weeks back, thanks to strict lockdown measures initiated by the Central and state governments. Today, it is...

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