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Move to India or trust Taliban? Kabul’s Sikhs in doubt, 2 months after IS attack on gurudwara

The 18 June attack has made many in the already-dwindling community want to leave Afghanistan. But the Taliban realises that treating Sikh-Hindu community well may help relations with India.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the IS leader known for barbaric executions & love for football

In 2010, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Next year, he led a revolt in Syria leading to the germination of ISIS.

Khalistani extremism listed alongside al Qaeda, IS in Canada terror threat list

This is a first for the Justin Trudeau administration, which has often drawn censure from India for allegedly courting Khalistani radicals.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.