Trump lamented that he ‘won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do’. Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 will only begin in October this year.
FATF statement comes amidst India’s renewed diplomatic push to have Pakistan re-included in grey list in light of its role in Pahalgam terrorist attack that claimed 26 lives.
Return to hyphenation is dreaded because our successive govts have laboured for three decades to rid us of what we see as the equivalence big powers used to draw between us and Pakistan. Three things follow.
The Chinese use Pakistan as a cheap instrument to triangulate India between them. It is safer to presume that the Chinese now see Pakistan as an extension of their Western Theatre Command.
Islamabad knows it cannot take Kashmir by force, and yet it persists in waging a war without an end. To give up the conflict would mean giving up the idea on which the project of Pakistan rests.
Even though the Indian Army had repeatedly war-gamed attacks by Pakistan since at least 1956, Lieutenant General Harbaksh Singh said the Pakistani offensive in 1965 caught it completely off-guard.
After CDS Gen Chauhan admitted to loss of IAF assets during Op Sindoor, Congress president Kharge says Modi on election blitz, hiding behind bravery of armed forces.
In interview with Bloomberg TV, CDS terms Pakistan’s claim it shot down 6 IAF aircraft ‘absolutely incorrect’; tells Reuters IAF ‘flew all types of aircraft with all types of ordinances on 10 May’.
Asim Munir locked up Imran Khan, had his handmaiden parliament give himself an extended tenure. But the additional jingle of that fifth star will not change facts on the ground.
Speaking at inaugural plenary of CII Annual Business Summit, Singh also underlines role of homegrown defence systems during and in aftermath of Operation Sindoor.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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