While diplomats talk numbers and protocol, legislators tell stories. One persuades the head, the other moves the heart. Our Parliament could be the world’s best conflict-prevention tool.
Members shared their experience with the prime minister, with the Centre having already praised the work of the seven delegations comprising over 50 people, mostly current MPs.
Tough receptions in Malaysia & Colombia to favourable responses across other nations, Indian leaders faced diverse challenges during their outreach after India-Pakistan conflict.
Shinde’s remarks came in response to Gandhi’s claim that Modi ‘surrendered’ before Trump and agreed to cessation of hostilities between India & Pakistan in aftermath of Op Sindoor.
An incentive system for Indian diplomats that is based on validation through recognition ‘back home’ would lead to a preference for spectacle over substance.
The group, led by DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi met members of the Spanish Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Vice President Antonio Gutierrez Limones & Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares.
Pawan Khera makes it clear that party leadership had taken umbrage to remarks, shares a Manmohan Singh statement that Congress-led UPA govt too had carried out surgical strikes.
This confrontation looks subcontracted—escalation to re-establish Pakistan's indispensability to outside capitals while squeezing Afghanistan back under an old paradigm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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