The Sunday Guardian
OVER 12,000 KILLED IN IRAN, WEST TURNING BLIND EYE: SHIRIN EBADI
Over 12,000 people have lost their lives in the violent crackdown by Iranian authorities over the last two weeks. Internet services have been blocked and voices of dissent have been muzzled ruthlessly. While the world watches in horror and reacts with...
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INDIA REVAMPS CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS TO CORRECT SINDOOR LAPSES
The Union government has begun a sweeping revamp of its information network, openly acknowledging that India’s crisis communications machinery failed to project a timely and coherent narrative after Operation Sindoor in May 2025, even though the...
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TRUMP IGNITES THE FUSE FOR GLOBAL CONFLICT
By launching a full scale assault on Venezuela in the early hours of January 3, US President Donald Trump has lit the fuse for a war he will find difficult to contain. It was clear from the start of his initially verbal and thereafter kinetic attacks...
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BANGLADESH HINDUS FEAR GENOCIDAL ATTACKS AHEAD OF FEBRUARY ELECTION
Ever since trouble has broken out in Bangladesh over the killing of a former Islamist student leader Osman Hadi by unknown assailants, Bangladeshi Hindus have been living in fear. In the crosshairs of Islamist ire, which has been spiralling into...
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MODI’S QUIET VETTING DELIVERS NITIN NABIN AS BJP CHIEF
The selection of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s new president, 45-year-old Nitin Nabin, was the outcome of a tightly structured analytical exercise spread over three months, in which the leadership decided at the outset that the party would be headed by...
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NEW DIGITAL TOOLS TRANSFORM INDIA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT MATRIX
India’s law enforcement landscape is undergoing one of the most significant technological shifts in its history. Across central and state agencies, investigators are quietly adopting a new generation of digital tools that can interpret information at a...
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‘PUTIN’S INDIA VISIT WAS ABOUT CONTINUITY, NOT RESETTING OF TIES’
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India served as a steady reaffirmation of India-russia ties, not a historic turning point, according to diplomats. Discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Russian President included sensitive...
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MODI-PUTIN SUMMIT A WIN-WIN FOR EU AND TRUMP-VANCE
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in New Delhi just days from now. Such a meeting of longtime friends is not a snub to the European Union (EU) and the United States, but could have the potential of helping...
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INDIA-U.S. RELATIONS ENTER A PHASE OF STRUCTURED STABILISATION
Recent developments across defence, trade, diplomacy and people-to-people engagement suggest that India and the United States are entering a phase of structured stabilisation, as both sides recalibrate their partnership towards long-term strategic...
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PRESIDENT TRUMP NEARING THE FREE FALL PRECIPICE
What would you call the leader of a country who has no compunction in giving a trillion dollars of tax breaks for the very rich, while denying a few billions for better healthcare for the economically disadvantaged? What would you call an individual...
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TERROR NETWORK RESURFACES UNDER ISI’S BENIGN WATCH
Masood Azhar, the founder of Jaishe-mohammed and a long-time asset of Pakistan’s military establishment, including the Inter-services Intelligence (ISI), has re-emerged in public view after years of silence. His speeches and audio messages, now...
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INDIA WORKING WITH REGIONAL NAVIES FOR STABILITY OF INDO-PACIFIC: NAVY VICE CHIEF
Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, AVSM, NM, who assumed charge as the 47th Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (VCNS), the second highest post of the Indian Navy, in August this year, spoke to The Sunday Guardian exclusively on the constructive role that the...
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NDA PICKS UP PACE IN BIHAR AS MAHAGATHBANDHAN FALTERS
What was initially seen as the toughest electoral battle for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar in recent times has taken an unexpected turn. In the early stages of poll preparations, it was the Grand Alliance—led by the Rashtriya Janata...
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INDIA’S QUIET COMEBACK IN KABUL CHANGES REGIONAL DYNAMICS
Aday after India announced the upgrade of its technical mission in Kabul to a full-fledged embassy, signalling its first formal diplomatic re-engagement with Afghanistan’s Taliban administration since 2021, officials and regional observers said the...
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WHO WILL BLINK FIRST, TRUMP OR THE DEMOCRATS?
The shutting down of parts of the US government for two months in 2017 proved a political liability for President Donald Trump, who lost the 2020 Presidential polls to Joe Biden. However, this time around, Trump has no intention of fighting for a...
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CLOSE PARTNERSHIP WITH INDIA VITAL FOR U.S. GLOBAL SECURITY
Lead negotiator Piyush Goyal appears to have returned to New Delhi with the outline of what the United States expects of a trade deal. Were a deal to take place, that would go a long way in setting back India-us ties on the constructive track they were...
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UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP, ‘FOREVER WARS’ ARE LASTING FOREVER
Among the many promises made by Donald J. Trump when he was seeking to defeat Kamala Harris in the 2024 US Presidential polls was that he would end “forever wars”. These were wars that have lasted for years and which during the campaign were ongoing...
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THE U.S. PUSHING INDIA TO MAKE CRIPPLING CONCESSIONS
Although US President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and tariff actions have been projected as a major threat to India’s trade and attributed to India’s “protectionism”, the underlying push from Washington has been about securing greater access for US...
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NEW DELHI PIVOTS SEAMLESSLY AMID PRESSURE FROM D.C.
In the last four months, starting May, the various arms of the government—specifically the Ministries of External Affairs, Defence, Commerce and Trade, the Cabinet Secretariat, and the Prime Minister’s Office—have been working in battle mode,...
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TRUMP-PUTIN SUMMIT COULD SIGNAL ERA OF PEACE SOUGHT BY INDIA
Their reactions to the Putin-trump summit in Alaska provide further confirmation of the fact that it is President Zelenskyy and his partners in Europe who are behind the self-defeating proposal to damage India-us ties severely through unprecedented...
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INDIA POISED TO CONVERT TARIFF THREAT INTO SELF-RELIANCE
Work has already begun on further unlocking the potential of the immensity of talent in India in diverse fields. The economic crisis that came to a head during the period when V.P. Singh was Prime Minister of India in 1989-90 was the catalyst behind...
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ALLIES CONCERNED ABOUT INEXPLICABLE CHANGES IN U.S. POLICY
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has just returned from a very productive visit to the UK and the Maldives. In the UK, the new FTA (described by Prime Minister Keir Starmer as the most important trade deal the UK has signed since Brexit, the formal break...
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GULF EMERGES AS INDIA’S MOST IMPORTANT STRATEGIC PARTNER
When BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in May 2014, some foreign policy observers—both domestic and international—warned that India’s traditionally close ties with the Gulf nations might fray under a government led by a...
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PM MODI ENTERS WAR MODE IN BATTLE AGAINST CORRUPTION
After a careful review of the overall situation as it has developed over the years, and determined to make Modi 3.0 an outstanding success in terms of delivering prosperity to the people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is understood to be in War Mode in...
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POLICY OF PM MODI SCRIPTED TO SECURE THE INDO-PACIFIC
Firm direction and the setting up of guardrails to prevent mishaps have become clearly visible in the foreign policy designed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ably articulated by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. The 10-year Us-india defence...
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MAMDANI NEEDS TO ABANDON MUNIR MODEL TO SERVE NYC
Judging by several of his public utterances, prospective US mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani seems more in the ideological mould of “Field Marshal” Asim Munir than he does anyone in India. President Trump has spoken of Mamdani as a “communist”,...
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MUNIR GETS IMMUNITY THROUGH TRUMP-LINKED CRYPTO PACT
On 14 March 2025, the Government of Pakistan launched the Pakistan Crypto Council (PCC), an entity created ostensibly to regulate and promote the country’s digital asset infrastructure. The PCC was established directly under the Ministry of Finance,...
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CHAMPION OF GLOBAL SOUTH, PM MODI ATTENDS G7 SUMMIT
Under PM Mark Carney, thankfully very different from Justin Trudeau, the Canadian government has sent an invite to PM Narendra Modi to attend the G7 Summit at a picturesque mountain location in that scenic country. The invite, inter alia, underscores...
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XI SENSING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHINA IN TRUMP-MUSK CLASH
After a long spell of frustration at the numerous pinpricks that have been suffered as a consequence of tough measures by the Trump administration against China, CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping is sensing an opportunity in the public and vitriolic...
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AFTER SIX YEARS IN UK JAIL, NIRAV MODI’S RETURN TO INDIA IS IMMINENT
Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi has lost his final legal challenge against extradition to India, with the UK High Court on 17 May 2025 ruling that his removal to face trial in India would not violate his human rights. The decision, handed down by...
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PAK INTERNAL DOCUMENTS SHOW IAF HIT KEY INFRA IN AIR BASES
The series of air strikes by the Indian Air Force under Operation Sindoor appears to have inflicted targeted damage across multiple Pakistani air bases, disrupting a mix of command and communication infrastructure, power systems, and digital networks....
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REAL DONALD TRUMP, PLEASE RETURN AND FAST
Out of the blue, the President of the US, who as Commander-in-chief directs policy, swerved off course and moved in a direction opposed to the interests of the United States, the country he has been elected by its voters to safeguard. As a consequence,...
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OP SINDOOR MUST ENSURE FREEDOM FOR PAKISTANIS
Operation Sindoor has to accomplish its purpose of ensuring that the terror machine of the Pakistan military be operational only at the peril of Pakistan. And the cloud that Beijing through Rawalpindi has lifted, so that investments transferred from...
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PAK ARMY GRAPPLES WITH FEAR OF INDIAN RETALIATION
Internal communications intercepted by Indian officials along the Line of Control (LOC) reveal that the Pakistan army, gripped by fear of, is scrambling to reinforce its defences after the recent terror attack in Pahalgam. According to Indian military...
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INDIA’S OCTOBER 7 MOMENT: ISI’S ‘SOUTHERN STRATEGY’ FOR PAHALGAM REVEALED
Like Hamas leaders before their October 7 2023, assault on Israel, General Asim Munir, the Chief of the Pakistan Army, deliberately fanned sectarian flames to galvanise extremist factions just days ahead of the Pahalgam terror attack. Gen Munir stood...
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STABILITY OVER STARDOM: BJP OVERHAUL SETS STAGE FOR MISSION 2029
The Bharatiya Janata Party is undergoing a major organizational overhaul, with critical inputs from three key entities—the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Home Minister Amit Shah— shaping its philosophy of the past,...
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TRUMP SET ON WINNING THE TRADE WAR AGAINST CHINA
President Trump of the US, as does Prime Minister Modi of India, understands that the world is witnessing a seismic shift that will have grave consequences. Which is why they are the target of the lead protagonist of the new situation, China under the...
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A MODI REVOLUTION IN INDIA’S RELATIONS WITH SMALLER NATIONS
The five-day India visit by the President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, commemorating the completion of 76 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries, underscored the broader vision behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to engage with...
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UKRAINE NEEDS TO HEED PM MODI’S APRIL 2022 PEACE APPEAL
As early as April 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had publicly called for peace in Ukraine. It was clear from the absence of a rebuttal that President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation was open to such a call. Had President Volodymyr...
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U.S. JOURNALIST’S OCI WAS CANCELLED FOR VIOLATING RULES
A Us-based journalist for news agency Reuters, Raphael Satter, whose Overseas Indian Citizenship (OCI) card was cancelled by Government of India, leading to him filing a case at the Delhi High Court, had openly violated the OCI card holders’ rules that...
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UK USES ‘HUMAN RIGHTS’ CARD TO BLOCK BHANDARI EXTRADITION
The UK High Court has blocked the extradition of arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari, who fled to London in 2016, despite affirming that his alleged financial crimes met the criteria for extradition. The decision, delivered on 28 February, cited “severe”...
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K-GROUP EXTREMISTS GET A FREE RUN IN THE UK
Whatmaywellhave turned out to be an attack on the life of External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar outside the premises of the Royal Institute of International Affairs was met by the usual course of token action by the London Metropolitan Police, which...
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PM LAUNCHES NEWSX WORLD, CELEBRATES ‘INDOVATION’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday showcased India’s growing global influence, emphasising its strides in innovation and organisational excellence. The PM was speaking at the two-day NXT global forum in New Delhi where he launched “Newsx World,”...
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EXTERNAL EFFORTS TO REMOVE PM MODI COME INTO SHARP FOCUS
Ever since he assumed the office of Prime Minister of India in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been the target of a systematic effort to undermine him and weaken his hold over the people of India. Now the factual contours of such efforts are...
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India secures US agreement to extradite wanted gangsters
India is likely to see multiple high profile extraditions of wanted criminals from the United States in the coming months, including those on the wanted list that India’s National Investigation Agency had shared earlier with officials in Washington. A...
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AAP SWEPT OUT OF POWER IN DELHI BY BJP, KEJRIWAL LOSES SEAT
For the first time in its 12-year history and after three Assembly elections, the Aam Aadmi Party will sit in the opposition, with Delhi voters reducing it to just 22 seats, down from the 62 it secured in the 2020 polls. The AAP’S expectation— that...
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ON BUDGET DAY, THE MODI REVOLUTION COMES INTO FULL VIEW
The difficulty in understanding the depth and range of the Modi Transformation of India is that the enormous volume of substantive changes that the Prime Minister of India is responsible for resembles an iceberg. Much of it has been hidden under the...
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REFORMS MOVE INTO THE FAST LANE IN MODI 3.0
2025-29 will witness a speeding up of the reform process across several sectors. Major changes in the tax structure are under discussion so as to make the burden of taxation lighter and less onerous in terms of regulatory requirements. Legacy anomalies...
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TRUMP EMERGING AS THE RONALD REAGAN OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Sometimes it happens when an individual considered personally close to a leader may actually turn out to be a foe where some of his advice is concerned. President Yoon Suk-yeol of the Republic of Korea,...
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PAKISTAN DESCENDING INTO CHAOS, DANGER OF CROSS-BORDER INFLUX
Internal reports of security agencies in Pakistan are giving a grim picture of the situation in the country. The high-handed approach of the Pakistan army towards the Taliban regime that came back to power in 2021 courtesy the Biden pullout from...
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BIDEN LEAVING THE U.S. PRESIDENCY WITH AN UNWELCOME BANG
When law enforcement agencies find themselves unable to track the sources that nurtured and activated terrorist impulses in an individual who committed a terror attack involving multiple casualties, they fall back on the claim that it was a “lone wolf”...
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SINO-WAHHABI LOBBY SEEKS FLARE-UP OF NATO-RUSSIA CONFLICT
The Sino-wahhabi lobby has been working overtime after the November 6 victory of Donald J. Trump in the US Presidential polls. The effort is to ensure an intensification of the ongoing conflict between NATO and the Russian Federation that had been...
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SETTING FIRE TO COUNTRIES, XI PONDERS HIS TAIWAN OPTIONS
Entities within China, who are privy to some of the discussions within the top tier of the Chinese Communist Party, say that as 2027 approaches, CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping is getting anxious about his prospects for securing a fourth term. Given...
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SINO-WAHHABI GROUPS ATTACK MODI, TRUMP, ISHIBA AND YOON
In the 2024 Lok Sabha (LS) polls, despite a meticulously planned effort spanning multiple time zones, the BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi escaped from the 220-minus LS seats that had been the 2024 LS target of the Sino-wahhabi lobby since the...
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EFFORTS AT DERAILING PM MODI AND THE INDIA STORY FAIL YET AGAIN
Anti-modi elements across time zones failed during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in their efforts at denying a third term to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by sustained efforts at keeping the BJP seat tally to 220 or lower, a figure forecast as the peak of...
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The US must help ensure peace in Taiwan Strait
The United States has a vital strategic interest in maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. As China continues to employ grey-zone tactics to coerce Taiwan, it is imperative that the Trump administration takes decisive action to raise the...
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BCCI PAID HEED TO PAK ALLIES’ WARNING AGAINST TRAVEL
While the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is attributing “political reasons” to the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI’S) decision not to send the Indian cricket team to Pakistan to participate in the Champions Trophy scheduled for February and...
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CANADA’S $500 MILLION DRUG BUST EXPOSES KHALISTANIS’ GANG TIES
The bust of a Canadian “super-lab” used for mass drug production, along with the arrest of suspect Gaganpreet Randhawa, has underscored the vast reach of drug networks in Canada and the extensive criminal infrastructure supporting drug manufacturing...
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BHARATIYAS, RESIST EFFORTS AT DIVISION AND UNITE: PM MODI
October 31, 1984 was the day Prime Minister Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was assassinated in her official residence by two of her bodyguards. Subsequently, the capital city of India witnessed what could only be described as an organised pogrom targeting...
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ISRAEL SENDS OUT A WARNING SIGNAL TO IRAN
Israel carried out precise, and controlled, airstrikes on Iran’s military installations on the intervening night of 25-26 October, during Sabbath, the day of rest for the Jewish people. The message was clear—that it was capable of carrying out such...
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GLOBAL SOUTH IN FOCUS, PM MODI HEADS FOR BRICS SUMMIT
With the future of BRICS emerging as an arena of contest and power play, Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to the Russian city of Kazan to participate in the 16th summit of the plurilateral grouping, which is expected to add at least 10 countries as...
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PM MODI SCRIPTING A WIN-WIN POLICY IN SOUTHERN ASIA
While China has been seeking to break the fundamentally strong ties between India and its South Asian neighbours, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, assisted by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, has ensured the failure of such an effort by the PRC....
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CABINET APPROVES NMEO OILSEEDS FOR SELF-RELIANCE
In a significant move, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday approved the National Mission on Edible Oils-oilseeds (Nmeo-oilseeds), an initiative aimed at boosting domestic oilseed production and achieving self-reliance...
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NASRALLAH’S DEATH A BLOW TO HATERS OF JEWISH PEOPLE
Chutzpah is a Jewish word. Like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or not, it takes a lot of chutzpah— audacity, guts, cheek, boldness—to launch a verbal attack on the United Nations, which has been insisting on a ceasefire with the Hezbollah,...
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WITH FUTURE AS AGENDA, PM IN U.S. FOR UN SUMMIT, QUAD
It’s a once-in-a-generation moment for the United Nations as it hosts the Summit of the Future on 22-23 September, a landmark gathering of world leaders that will define not only the future trajectory of this global body, but also of the world at...
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PRESSURE MOUNTS IN U.S. FOR RECALL OF ENVOY ERIC GARCETTI
The continuity of US Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, has come under dark clouds after instances of condoning sexual harassment at the workplace, evasion of accountability, and likely perjury to secure his ambassadorship have been alleged by an...
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