Iran has put a second sea gate on the table. After months of squeezing the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran now says it may “activate” the Bab el-Mandeb Strait too. The headlines call it a blockade. It is not one yet. That gap between threat and act is the whole story,...
K. Annamalai has quit the BJP. On June 2, 2026, the former Tamil Nadu BJP chief met party president Nitin Nabin and organisation secretary B.L. Santhosh in Delhi and conveyed his decision. He asked for a clean, friendly split. The leadership tried to keep him. Reports say they even offered...
Most Indians may never have heard of China’s remote Hami desert region in Xinjiang. Yet what is being built there could have long-term implications for India’s security and strategic future. At first glance, this is primarily a US-China story. Two global powers are adjusting their nuclear deterrence strategies and preparing...
A viral claim, a convicted rioter, and what it tells us about America’s culture war in 2025 A video is going viral across social media. In it, a man stands at a public podium in Texas and declares that Hindus and Muslims have come to America to eradicate Christianity. Many...
Let’s be honest about what is happening this weekend. America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has flown all the way to India. He visited Kolkata, took a tour of the Taj Mahal in Agra, walked through the palaces of Jaipur, and is now in New Delhi for a...
There are moments in political history when a single stupid sentence by a powerful man creates the exact enemy he feared. India just had one of those moments. And the ruling establishment, true to form, is making it worse with every panicked move it makes. The Judge, The Remark, The...
There is a particular kind of fraud that is far more dangerous than an outright liar. It is the half-truth teller — the one who picks real facts, frames them with real emotion, and then quietly buries everything that doesn’t fit the narrative. Dhruv Rathee has built a 20-million-subscriber empire...
You wake up every morning, go to work, file your ITR honestly, and watch 30 percent of your income disappear before it even hits your account. Meanwhile, the farmer-turned-politician sitting on 40 acres of “agricultural land” in Lutyens’ Delhi pays zero income tax. The BCCI earns over Rs 13,000 crore...
Pakistan is not supposed to do this. That is the honest first reaction. The country that has spent seven decades scrubbing its pre-Partition identity clean — renaming streets, demolishing temples, burying the cosmopolitan Lahore that once existed — has just done something that will make many Indians do a double...
The Helle Lyng episode is not about Modi. It is about what happens when inconvenient questions find no answer and an uncomfortable mirror. It started with nine words shouted across a hall in Oslo. During a joint press statement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr...
