PM Narendra Modi’s video message described the “vision of connectivity” with Sri Lanka that goes beyond the boat. It includes digital payments, fintech, and a joint energy grid.
India was so confident about Ibrahim Solih and to decapitate Abdulla Yameen’s pro-China agenda that it forgot to take the others along in the Maldives.
Indian govts over the decades have complained about Canada’s lackadaisical approach to terrorism. A commission of inquiry into the 1985 Kanishka terror attack was announced only in 2006.
There is no question that the G20 summit is already a feather in Modi’s cap – it doesn’t matter that Russia's Putin and China's Xi won’t be turning up for the mega event.
Xi Jinping thinks the Asian value of saving face only applies to big powers like China – India need not bother. But he must know that two can play this game.
Modi realises that the political problems in neighbouring countries have to be smoothened out if profit-making has to be taken to its logical conclusion.
For India, the strategic ripples are significant. The immediate concern is Pakistan’s diplomatic gain as it embeds itself deeper into the defence framework of the Middle East.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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