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In Delhi for AI Summit, Dutch PM Schoof calls for global collaboration on AI, minus US & China

Dick Schoof also held bilateral with PM Modi on margins of AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi. He said dutch firms such as ASML are keen to invest in India.

Geert Wilders’ grip on Dutch far-Right loosens

Ingrid Coenradie’s JA21 emerges as a force to reckon with after Wednesday’s election.

Dutch right-wing govt installed as Wilders’ shadow looms large

Far-Right anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders will not be part of govt but hardliners from his party will be part of coalition cabinet led by unelected career civil servant Dick Schoof.

US rapper Nicki Minaj held at Amsterdam airport for possession of soft drugs, says report

Dutch military police confirmed a 41-year-old American woman had been held for possession of soft drugs Saturday. Police, however, did not identify the suspect.

Anti-women proverbs from around the world—garden trespassed by cattle; decent ones stay at home

At the first Cleveringa lecture in India, Dutch author Mineke Schipper spoke about the historical subjugation of women reflected in the origin myths and proverbs around the world.

Dutch parties meet to begin difficult, lengthy process of coalition after Wilders’ shock poll win

Geert Wilders’ election win led to protests in several cities. Muslim organisations said they were worried about their treatment under a possible Wilders government.

Anti-Islam, far-Right populist, Nupur Sharma supporter—Geert Wilders leads Netherlands’ largest party

Wilders has called for the Netherlands' to exit EU, ban mosques & Quran. First elected in 1998, he has been a member of Dutch house of representatives since 2002. 

At least one killed, several injured after ship carrying 3,000 cars blazes off Dutch coast

The fire began on Tuesday night on the 199-metre Panama-registered Fremantle Highway, which was en route from Germany to Egypt, forcing several crew members to jump overboard.

Mumbai meets Van Gogh 360—’lovely’, ‘gimmicky’, ‘underwhelming’, ‘powerpoint’

Van Gogh 360° is an immersive 3D exhibition of 300 paintings of the 19th century Dutch artist that has made its India debut with its first stop in Mumbai.

How the early Europeans perceived the Indian subcontinent

Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires 1500-1800 is a rich experience for its detailed source of information and analysis.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.