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.
Tough receptions in Malaysia & Colombia to favourable responses across other nations, Indian leaders faced diverse challenges during their outreach after India-Pakistan conflict.
An incentive system for Indian diplomats that is based on validation through recognition ‘back home’ would lead to a preference for spectacle over substance.
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.
3 delegations briefed so far to visit UAE, Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Greece, Slovenia, Latvia, Russia.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
The caveat being that the West does not equate the lives of people living in developing countries with those in their own, even if these are lost in acts of terrorism. Consider how differently they respond to loss of precious civilian lives in Ukraine and Gaza. It is only now, after almost three months of stoppage of food and water that France, Britain and Canada are speaking up.
The caveat being that the West does not equate the lives of people living in developing countries with those in their own, even if these are lost in acts of terrorism. Consider how differently they respond to loss of precious civilian lives in Ukraine and Gaza. It is only now, after almost three months of stoppage of food and water that France, Britain and Canada are speaking up.