By R C Saldi “Kaun Banega Pradhan Mantri”, (who will become the Prime Minister) is the question rocking Nepal with political parties no wiser on government formation after three days of intense parleys. Time is running out. Nepal Congress and its new ally Maoist Centre must crack the puzzle before Read more ………
Dr GVG Krishnamurthy, former Election Commissioner of India, passed away on Wednesday, April 14 due to age related ill-ness. He was 86. He had been unwell in recent months particularly after a fall at his Kausambi residence. GVG as he was popularly known, Krishna Murthy was a lawyer by Read more ………
By Rayala Rama Chandraiah* Contrary to popular perception, there are 18000 worlds with life, said Meher Baba in one of his discourses delivered shortly after he declared that he is the Avatar of the Age at a sleepy village in the backward Bundelkhand in the 1950s. He elaborated on the Read more ………
The Biden era has begun in the United States of America. The incoming 46th President has made a slew of promises while assuring the Americans and the world at large that he would grapple with the issues left behind by his predecessor, who, while masquerading as the new age messiah Read more ………
On 21 July 2020, a senior journalist, Matiullah Jan, who is known for his outspoken views, was abducted from outside a school where his wife worked as a teacher in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. Footage from two CCTV cameras showed a dozen persons in plain clothes and a few armed persons Read more ………
Kathmandu’s sovereignty concerns are genuine and deserve better treatment from India. In reality, like Kathmandu does not want to compromise its sovereignty for India’s national security, New Delhi would be unwilling to compromise its national security for Nepal’s strategic autonomy. Beijing’s security apprehensions regarding Indian meddling in Tibet casts shadows Read more ………
Pakistan’s powerful generals have for decades cited political corruption as a leading problem in the country that justified the toppling of governments through repeated coups and the military’s manipulation of power. But a recent report about the vast family business of a former army general who is a senior government Read more ………
Anybody who is anyone in the ruling BJP, most of the real and fake leading lights of Indian journalism, an assortment of liberal and left intellectuals, all have rushed to the defence of the Republic TV chief editor cum co-founder, Arnab Goswami, after his arrest in connection with a case Read more ………
A recently-published FDI paper that examined some of the implications of the Israeli-UAE détente noted that Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Mr Shah Mehmood Qureshi, took a hard line against Saudi Arabia when he felt that Riyadh had failed to comply with his request to convene a Council of Foreign Ministers of Read more ………
*Nawaz Sharif’s attack against the Army and Imran Khan has elicited strong responses from them. ** This is not the first time that three-time PM has had strained ties with the army ***Nawaz had hit out at the Army earlier too but his tone now more aggressive. *** Voices within Read more ………
India and the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states share a very strong historical relationship that has endured to this day. Their bilateral trade for 2018-2019 was US$121.34 billion ($170 billion) and remittances sent home to India by expatriate Indian workers in the GCC, of whom there are around 7.6 Read more ………
