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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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No one should force India into joining a battle that isn’t ours. Strategic autonomy is crucial

Perhaps it is time for the US to address India’s concerns. Rather than pointing fingers at India, it should practise what it preaches.

‘Iran will not respond to US pressure,’ says Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian

Pezeshkian also highlighted his country’s friendship with China, Russia and reiterated that Iran would expand ties with neighbours and engage with Europe.

US picking a fight with ICC over Israel isn’t superpower behaviour. It’s embarrassing

The US' objection to ICC pronouncements against Israel is understandable. But its threat to sanction the Hague-based court isn't.

Russia has a window to exploit & defeat Ukraine. Otherwise, it will get sucked into endless war

While it has now become a battle of industrial capacities, at a fundamental level, it remains a battle of nerves.

Eric Garcetti’s red-line remark is unreasonable. Exposes US double standards on security

The US should stop marking red lines and draw a longer line of cooperative framework.

How US charmed Bombay with jazz—and left Indians feeling Americans were their blood brothers

Did the agenda work in India? Fifty years later, fans still remember the warmth and excitement of jazz, as the audience at an IIC talk proved.

Would Amarnath Ghosh get sympathy if he was a CEO, not dancer? Just shows Indians’ apathy

It was the Ravi Shankars and Zakir Hussains, who pioneered Indian 'soft power' on the world stage long before our managerial class took up top jobs in Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Why Trump’s threat to NATO can force Europe to rethink its nuclear defence

The world that emerges from the Second Cold War will have little resemblance to the one we inherited from its first iteration.

US military claims to strike two Houthi anti-ship missiles aimed at Red Sea

Since US started striking Houthi military sites in Yemen on 11 January, Pentagon says it has destroyed or degraded over 25 missile launch and deployment facilities and more than 20 missiles.

Delhi-Dhaka ties up for debate. Are they best friends or will Chinese red line write them off

The discussion at Delhi's IIC was all about the legitimacy of the upcoming Bangladesh polls, US & India's position on Dhaka politics, and what Chinese influence means.

On Camera

From ‘Jai Kisan’ to CVC, Shastri walked the talk. But corruption proved harder to root out

Set up by Lal bahadur Shastri, the Santhanam Committee's key concern was that corruption, once limited to the lower rungs of the bureaucracy, had now infected the All India Services and political leadership.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.