Opinion

BBC GETS EXPOSED AS A FAKE FACTORY

24 Jan 2023 06:54 AM IST

India’s rise on the world stage under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is causing some serious heartburn in many quarters, as well as the prospect of Mr Modi coming back to power in the 2024 general elections. This is one way of explaining the motivation behind the hitjob done by the

Remembering The Ranis on this Republic Day

24 Jan 2023 06:53 AM IST

As this year’s Republic Day approaches, an important birthday approaches just a few days earlier which the nation will also celebrate. In 2022, it was decided that henceforth, Republic Day celebrations should commence from 23 January onwards so that Subhash Chandra Bose’s birthday could be celebrated as well. This year

BBC’s sin stands exposed

24 Jan 2023 06:52 AM IST

What more can one expect from a broadcasting organisation that was set up against the backdrop of promoting colonialism and neo-colonialism to ensure that the United Kingdom’s voice was upper most in the newly shaping global order. At a time when India has already left the UK far behind, there

PM Modi’s tryst with Make-in-India vaccine

23 Jan 2023 07:01 AM IST

As covid stuck and in the absence of any vaccine or therapeutic solutions, India had to lock down the nation in line with rest of the world. This allowed the Governments to focus on solution instead managing of the crisis. After a long wait, we finally got two Indian vaccine

Manpreet Badal’s move to BJP pre-empts possible tie-up with Akalis

23 Jan 2023 06:51 AM IST

Former Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal’s shift to the Bharatiya Janata Party from the Congress last week has a lot of political significance. It is evident that the BJP has decided to go it alone in the border state and Manpreet’s move certainly shall pre-empt a possible tie up

Why India did not allow Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine

23 Jan 2023 06:44 AM IST

Pfizer never came to India. Pfizer applied for clearance for its vaccine in 2020. Indian regulators demanded a local safety and immunogenicity study. Such bridging studies are the common world over. All other foreign vaccine makers had conducted similar studies in India. But Pfizer refused to do a local trial.

Pakistan’s efforts to make Kashmir the core issue is unacceptable

21 Jan 2023 07:03 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s recent offer to hold talks with India to help improve relations between the two neighbours, both nuclear powers, is something which needs to be viewed seriously. Soon after Sharif spoke about a proximity dialogue between Islamabad and New Delhi with the United Arab Emirates facilitating

Western supremacy over Indian system of knowledge

21 Jan 2023 07:02 AM IST

Our indigenous systems of education, medicine and law have been considered supreme over a period of time when we deal with the epistemological renaissance of the Indian Civilization compared to the recently evolved notions of the Western epistemology. India has become a colonial baby born to the East and the

Will there be a global war?

21 Jan 2023 06:59 AM IST

Will it be a global war? There is ever a greater risk of it given the hostile atmosphere, especially between China and Russia on one hand, versus US and its allies? What might history teach us along with current trends about whether millions (more) are going to be slaughtered from

UNSC MOVE ON MAKKI VINDICATES INDIA’S STAND THAT PAKISTAN IS TERROR EPICENTRE

20 Jan 2023 07:16 AM IST

In what has come as a result of India’s hard diplomacy and tough negotiations, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) listed Pakistan based terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist under its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee, which is also known as the UNSC 1267 Committee. The listing

The psychology of why drivers fail to stop after an accident

20 Jan 2023 07:15 AM IST

The recent hit-and-run cases made me recall another case. Dr Kapoor (not his real name) was an eminent professor and his driver one day narrated how in the night when they were returning from some function at 2:00 am, they hit a scooterist and they fled the scene, though they

India needs to work on its trade deficit with China

20 Jan 2023 07:13 AM IST

Ever since India’s independence, China has posed as a major challenge to India’s internal security. Knowing China’s expansionist agenda and “Five Fingers” policy in the fifties, why the then Indian government misled the Indian public with the hollow slogan of “Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai’, remains a significant question. China has always